This essayist writes:  Children change their minds every day.  They want to be fire fighters, doctors, football players, parents, gardeners.  They want to look like this friend on Monday and that friend on Tuesday.  They want straight hair, curls, long hair, short hair, no hair.  Enter transgender guides, recruiters, groomers and outright pedophiles--new charming adults on the outside of the family, who affect the pose of friendship and true caring, and thus imply to the child (or state it overtly) that there is a whole other world, right now, which the child can enter...

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