Children should not ever be reassigned, as their personality and identity is not yet formed, they could flip to cis in a few years and ironically end up with gender dysphoria because of reassignment.
Two points in response:
1. Contrary to common FUD, children
aren't reassigned under current transition protocols. The treatment for transgender children is to allow
social transition, and in the mid-teen years only
fully reversible hormonal intervention in the form of puberty blockers. And even there, the protocol takes a very conservative approach and recommends that psychologists force the child to go through puberty to "at least" Tanner Stage 2 and
confirming that they are experiencing severe gender dysphoria before allowing blockers to be prescribed.
2. The studies that seemingly validated the idea that transgender children have a high rate of "desistance", which underlies the "need" to be cautious about minor transitioning, were invalid. Even the research group that produced those studies now admits this and has completely altered its position based on follow-up studies.
To make a long story short, the original study committed a fundamental logic error by defining "desistance" based on the percent of all children
who were referred to one specific gender clinic by their parents who transitioned at the same clinic later on. This means that the study counted as "desisting": 1) all children who simply "could not be located" for the follow-up study, 2) all children whose parents declined to participate in the follow-up study, and 3) all children who
never actually identified as transgender at all, but whose parents referred them to the clinic for what the
parents felt was "non gender traditional" behavior.
When the same research group did a follow-on study using the exact same data, but only considered children who
actually expressed a transgender identity, they found that the "desistance" rate for such children was essentially nil and they concluded that self-identification as a child was in fact an accurate predictor for going through with successful transition later in life. In other words, parents shouldn't assume a child is trans based on their child simply demonstrating curiosity about gender identity and social roles, but when a child
persistently and insistently states that their gender is something other than their birth assignment, that is a reliable indicator.
Yeah, he's talking out of his ass. Transitioning has positive outcomes as a treatment for gender dysphoria, and as such is the commonly accepted treatment.
Transitioning is the
only treatment with a track record of successful patient outcomes for trans people, and as such has been for several decades the
only treatment endorsed by medical and psychological professionals at large. As in, it is the on-the-record professional consensus from both the American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association, independently of each other.
There is literally no group that endorses "reparative" non-transition therapy for transgender patients other than ideologically associated ones which argue that transitioning is unacceptable
regardless of the scientific and medical record.