Ending the worst medical scandal in the history of modern medicine (which you blandly call child transition) is a good thing. This experiment never should have started. In the 1990s, when the Dutch noticed that men who undergo sex-trait modification interventions were dissatisfied with the results because they didn’t pass as women, they should have hung up their hats and accepted that their experiment on adults was a failure. But instead, they turned their attention to kids. That is a crime so great that if there is a hell, I hope there is a special place reserved for those monsters. Julia, you and I get along, which is remarkable, all things considered, and I do not condone any of the abuse you have to put up with. As someone who has endured relentless abuse from trans activists for years, much of it about my appearance, for the simple crime of saying women are female, might I suggest you just tune it out? I don’t read any abusive comments anymore. They don’t even register. The modern trans rights movement is the single worst thing that ever happened to people who identify as transgender. It has turned women like me, who would once have politely gone along with pronouns and the pretense of transwomen are women, into hardline defenders of language and spaces. Now, men who identify as women are not welcome in a single space dedicated for women, and as long as there is even so much as a residual memory of this rights movement, that is not going to change. Too much damage has been done. There is too much bitterness. There’s no solution. But if transgender people are angry about how things have turned out, the answer is not to point the finger at women and ask them to be kind. The “Be Kind” ship sailed years ago. In fact, it didn’t sail. Trans activists firebombed it, and all that remains are its ashes. If men who identify as women are upset that their lives are now more difficult, take it up with trans activists. Take it up with the likes of Fae Johnstone who wanted women who describe reality so vilified they don’t dare speak. Take it up with every trans activist who has ever sent a rape threat or death threat to a woman because she dared say that there’s no such thing as a lesbian with a penis. Take it up with the trans activists who have got women fired, destroyed their careers, targeted their families, doxxed their children, all for the crime of saying men are not women. For your hypothetical 10-year-old, here’s what the mother needs to hear: He cannot transition as a child because that is a medical atrocity. He will never be a woman, and if he chooses to modify his secondary sex characteristics as an adult, his life will be shorter, and much much harder. Society will never see him as a woman. He will never be welcome in women’s spaces. He will reduce his dating pool to almost zero. She should tell him that once upon a time, society may have been more tolerant of his decision to present as a woman, but the most aggressive, vicious, destructive “civil rights movement” of all time ruined any possibility of that. His mother needs to understand all of this, and she needs to do everything in her power to dissuade her child from taking that path.