Originally a comment by Artymorty on Historians will.

Did you stop for a minute to really think about what exactly “trans” IS? There’s no question that you love your child. Isn’t that all the more reason to look long and hard at what’s going on with your child, no matter how frightening it may seem to look directly at it?

I’ll tell you what trans is NOT: it is not some innate state of being. “Being trans” is not like being gay, which is inborn. “Transness” is not something anyone is born with. Your child was not born “trans” and your child is not fated to “be trans” for the rest of their days. Transness is an idea in people’s heads, and it’s one that causes very real emotional distress. But it is nevertheless still just an idea in people’s heads. (Gayness is not. Gayness can be materially measured and studied via numerous methods.)

There have never been people anytime in history who exhibit the symptoms that young “trans people” have begun exhibiting in our current culture, right after social media came to prominence. You can prove this to yourself by simply looking at your own high school yearbook. Anyone over age 40 can do the same. This isn’t because some vast subset of the human population has up until practically yesterday suffered and died in some kind of transgender closet, with all of those deaths being somehow magically erased from any and all logs of history. It’s because until the idea that it’s possible to have been “born in the wrong body” was planted in people’s minds and then advertised 24/7 on social media, virtually nobody thought to be distressed about it before. That’s what’s called a social contagion.

Whatever your child is experiencing, they are experiencing it entirely because of ideas they were exposed to in their cultural environment. (I say “they” so as not to offend, but it sounds like you have a daughter who is in denial about her sex, because she is confused about the concept of sex, because a subculture has emerged on the Internet whose adherents set out to make everyone confused about the concept of sex. And because she is in distress about the sexist social ideas that are laden on women and girls by our sexist society.)

There are no trans kids. Only kids confused about sex. Read this essay about it, if you’re interested.