Ok so

The side effects are things that can happen, any medicine has them, of course they aren't a good thing, but unless you're against any kind of medical treatment, you should understand that the benefits are sometimes worth the risk. Also, side effects such as inferitlity and sexual incompetence are issues only if the subject turns out not to be transgender, which is extremely rare for people who experience gender dysphoria

I wasn't specifically talking to you when saying not to believe in people like Walsh, this subreddit is r/Teenagers, and it is therefore full of really young people, who tend to buy into anything said by a random guy who sounds confident and uses complicated words. Shapiro is an idiot, I mentioned him because the "What is a woman" documentary is produced by The Daily Wire, whose founder is Ben himself

My point about detransitioning isn't speculation at all

In a 2015 survey of nearly 28,000 people conducted by the U.S.-based National Center for Transgender Equality, only 8 percent of respondents reported detransitioning, and 62 percent of those people said they only detransitioned temporarily. The most common reason for detransitioning, according to the survey, was pressure from a parent, while only 0.4 percent of respondents said they detransitioned after realizing transitioning wasn’t right for them.

I'm not american, so I don't know how living as a transgender person is there, but I think the support