Brendan O'Neill: There's No Such Thing As A Trans Kid

This stuff really is almost entirely a creation of the cultural left. 

As one of my colleagues is wont to remind me, this is one kind of case in which the term 'social construction' may be apt: somebody makes up the idea, gerrymanders a theory of it, then society convinces people that that's what they are. In case you doubt that:

The number of kids being referred to the NHS’s gender-service unit has risen by 2,500 per cent over the past nine years. It is reported that autistic children are particularly prone to reinterpret their confusions through the gender lens, the more it becomes socially sanctioned to do so. Young teenage girls are binding their breasts in the belief that they are really boys; young boys are increasingly being allowed to turn up to school in girls’ clothes; and more teens are being prescribed drugs that hold back puberty, that essential, natural progression to adulthood.