Algorithms picked up a massive increase the use of the word weird as a response to the Olympic opening ceremony. The media have appropriated the word and redirected it against conservatism. All that is natural must be pathologized. All that is pathological must be normalised.

The Medico-Legal 'Making' of 'The Transgender Child'

Thirty years ago, the transgender child would have made no sense to the general public, nor to young people. Today, children and adolescents declare themselves transgender, the National Health Service diagnoses 'gender dysphoria', and laws and policy are developed which uphold young people's 'choice' to transition and to authorize stages at which medical intervention is permissible and desirable. The figure of the 'transgender child' presumed by medicine and law is not a naturally occurring category of person external to medical diagnosis and legal protection. Medicine and law construct the 'transgender child' rather than that the 'transgender child' exists independently of medico-legal discourse. The ethical issue of whether the child and young person can 'consent' to social and medical transition goes beyond legal assessment of whether a person under 16 years has the mental capacity to consent, understand to what s/he is consenting, and can express independent wishes. It shifts to examination of the recent making of 'the transgender child' through the complex of power/knowledge/ethics of medicine and the law of which the child can have no knowledge but within which its own desires are both constrained and incited.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31867633/

"Changing a child’s name and pronouns is "not a neutral act," a report from the British National Health Service concluded last year. "It is an active intervention" whose long-term effects are unclear. A running theme in the trainings is that transgender people’s high rates of mental illness are due solely to a lack of acceptance. Mental illness is the cause of the transgenderism. So acceptance is completely the opposite of a correct response. And by blaming all mental health problems on oppression, the minority stress theory discourages doctors from investigating the root cause of anxiety or depression. Lawyers will always advise hospitals to take the most legally defensive course of action. In practice, that means deferring to the network of civil rights groups that will sue them."