To Whom It May Concern:

I am deeply concerned by the current trend of transgenderism among children.

As a natural part of their development, children will often explore behaviors of the opposite sex even as they settle into that which biology has predetermined.  Throughout puberty, their bodies are learning how to regulate changing hormones.  Meanwhile their cerebral cortexes, are continuing to form, often well into their 20s; therefore they are not yet able to exercise the impeccable judgement needed before doing something so very drastic, irreversible and potentially life-threatening.

Add to that peer pressure, the unrealistic and narcissistic world of entertainment, social media, not to mention adult activists, some of whom are teachers taking advantage of their power differentials to inculcate their trustees with counter- factual information--and therein lies a potential for massive child abuse.  

This is no time to encourage an xy child to make the irreversible decision to mutilate his developing psyche and body into appearing to be xx, and vice-versa.  This ghastly social experiment destroys human dignity.  It's one thing for kids to be intrigued by transgenderism and for adults to engage in it.  It's another thing for adults to enable or even coerce it among vulnerable children, as in the case of the Oregon teacher who is being sued for foisting her transgenderist ideology on a second grade boy who simply needed bathroom accomodations due to a completely unrelated diagnosis and, in fact, repeatedly stated to the teacher he had no wish to be a girl.  

This has to stop.