But even WPATH don't promote rushing people into treatment! It's quite clear, even just reading the sections on children in that nifty 260-page document from them, that they are promoting careful assessment.
There are also recommendations such as that health care providers: "Are able to identify co-existing mental health or other psychosocial concerns and distinguish these from gender dysphoria, incongruence, and diversity. ...assessment is best provided by an HCP who possesses some expertise in mental health in order to identify conditions that can be mistaken for gender incongruence. Such conditions are rare and, when present, are often psychological in nature."
This is the organization that you're characterizing as both responsible and scientific.
Standards-setting global organization links to a disturbing site hosting written child pornography in its guidebook.
They are neither. They are, at best, paraphyllic degenerates advocating for the advancement of their own perverse fantasies. They are not objective, or scientific, they are fanatical and highly biased. They sourced a website that hosts written child porn fiction as a source material. I don't know why anyone in the medical field would be dumb enough to not consider their recommendations highly suspicious....but I'd guess they probably have enough funding and support from pharmaceutical and biomedical companies to exert a lot of pressure on national healthcare organizations.
These people should stay far away from children. They shouldn't have any say in medical treatment or care. They try to bolster the extremely low quality research they provide with sheer quantity....and that's not how science works. A pile of garbage research doesn't suddenly become legitimate once it's stacked up high enough.
The overwhelmingly obvious evidence that they aren't being honest, let alone helpful or concerned about children....is the underlying lie of the need for these medical interventions. The reality is....
1. Children and teens under 18 have consistently throughout decades of records been the age group with the lowest suicide rate of any age group. There exists no evidence of an epidemic of trans youth suicide. Indeed, the very few instances of suicide in this group rarely have any consistent patterns by which we could find any underlying causes....if we were to consider it a problem at all.
2. The threat to trans lives is an old trope of trans activists that has a history of being either wildly exaggerated or completely fabricated. No record of trans people existed as part of homicide records. This did not stop activists from claiming, years ago, they were at a very abnormally high risk for being victims of murder. They produced their own statistics, by combing news articles, and when compared with the best scientific understanding of their population size....they were found to be amongst the least likely to be murdered per capita. Somewhere between white people and asians if I recall correctly.
3. Opportunity for advancement of their agenda was seen in the removal of homosexuality from the DSM and arguments fabricated about gender identity being similar to sexual orientation convinced others to support their removal from the DSM as well. This was successful, and I doubt those responsible had realized what they had done.
4. Now no longer a mental disorder....they could argue for their own treatment. Essentially a self diagnosis and treatment. Unfortunately, the science didn't support children who presented with gender dysphoria were innately trans, which prevented them from gaining cheap medical care through insurance (as these were now elective procedures) and likewise, a choice of lifestyle would not be grounds for safety from discrimination.
5. The answer was then simple....claim children were born trans, and as such, they were at risk for suicide in a world that innately rejected them. This allows for the condition to be considered immutable and worthy of protection from discrimination....and the assumption of suicidal behavior created a medical necessity that insurance companies could now spread the costs of care onto their entire clientele. No need for evidence....call any who disagree or hesitate to support a bigot.
Unfortunately, this didn't result in some great wave of children identifying as trans....so indoctrination into exploring this possibility and rewarding children who chose it with praise, attention, and even power over adults who refused to indulge this induced narcissistic fantasy was pushed first in higher academia (where it's unlikely to face any criticism) and now into preschool....where children can be indoctrinated and pushed towards a series of irreversible treatments.
I don't think this group cares about children now....nor have they ever....except as a means of advancing their own selfish and indulgent demands. The majority of demands relate to "passing" as being unable to block puberty or use the restrooms of their choice would inevitably give them away to romantic partners. Amongst these activists, you'll find a high number who believe that they do not need to reveal their trans identity to a partner prior to a sexual encounter....leaving a solid explanation for why feminists have solidly broken from them. Lesbians aren't into penises. The hard-core radical feminist is more often gay than in the past....and doesn't want to involve themselves in romantic relationships with trans women. Thus the "terf" split in feminism began. Unfortunately, they lack the gigantic financial backing of the medical community that will gladly abandon ethics for the opportunity of big money from a growing base of lifelong treatments. They have allowed the activists to essentially write in their own guidelines for care....which are absurdly far from any normal medical guidelines. We don't believe children can consent to the sort of purely elective and cosmetic treatment for children who aren't capable of understanding the long term implications of the choices they've been encouraged to make. This is political fodder for the left since it has moved to an identity politics approach (and one that places a premium on claims of victimhood). They lack no rights, nor do they deserve special considerations. They have rather callously pursued their own vain self interests, ruthlessly attacked any academics or professionals who disagree, and ostracize and humiliate detransitioners into silence or isolation.
I don't dislike trans people in the least. Trans activists however, are the equivalent of racial supremacists who are willing to victimize children while being blatantly dishonest about their motives and methods. I think the only reasonable reaction to deny every request or demand they make....and scorn their political allies for the foolishness of their support. They have no right to demand anything in education that benefits them but not the students. Indeed, most of what they want appears detrimental to children. Since they've began this campaign we've seen an extremely rare increase in childhood suicide....and they seem related to confused or mentally impaired children walking down the path of transgenderism and regretting it. They seem to believe they were at least partially at fault for giving their consent.
That's perhaps the most revealing position of the trans activists. We hear frequently that children can consent to unnecessary and permanent disfigurement before they can even comprehend what they've lost. They believe this so strongly, they blame the child who later realizes they made a catastrophic mistake. Yet when it comes to their own sexual encounters....they don't believe they are required to disclose the reality of their genitalia and anyone who rejects them as a result is branded a bigot (as if their consent was never a necessity for the encounter). Children are responsible for lifelong medical care by reason of consent given before puberty....they aren't obligated to inform potential sexual partners of their actual genitalia despite the elaborate process of passing as something they are not. I see this as not exactly tantamount to rape....but certainly sexual assault. I would bet money that if we were to only pass a law making such deception a fegglony sexual assault carry a minimum mandatory measured in years....we'd see their swift retreat of many of the political issues they've prioritized. I don't think they'll care about restrooms one bit after that.