I disagree with your interpretation. Parents hating their kids don't care what's happening to them, the OP obviously cares, otherwise she wouldn't be writing that article. As for LGBT+, that's unlikely as well, here's a quote: "he isn’t gay: in fact, he has a girlfriend".
I'm not a child psychologist, I don't know these people, and I don't have a strong opinion on that particular topic.
But I do have a strong opinion on the following. I don't want Facebook, or anyone at all for that matter, to globally police content on the internets. With great power comes great responsibility. Social media have been abusing their power for years, yet they bear zero responsibility, lacking transparency, and implemented no ways to appeal.
If you don't understand the language it's easy to see how you miss it, but stuff like this is pure hate. It's based on lies. It's pushing a narrative ("my kid isn't really trans, it's just a fad pushed on him by the trans agenda") when the reality is that kid is too scared to come out to their parents; trans healthcare is a fucking joke; and society hates trans people and spends considerable time and money making their lives harder.
> adults on the internet were grooming vulnerable kids
This combines a decades old trope (LGBT+ people are predatory child abusers) with a more modern attempt to deny access to trans healthcare (trans kids are mentally ill and lack capacity to make decisions). The article develops that mentally ill point here:
> A lot of the young men calling themselves transgender have autism, ADHD, OCD or Asperger syndrome. Parents have sometimes known about these conditions for many years. But gender clinics aren’t interested in pursuing therapies which might actually help these kids understand why they feel the way they do. It’s the only field of medicine where you’re not allowed to talk about comorbidities or other treatments. This is the medical scandal of the century.
...and it combines it with a lie about treatment. Care for transgender children very much spends time with psychological assessment to question whether the child actually is trans.
She goes on to lie about affirmation:
> there’s nothing but affirmation
Here she's making the claim that affirmation is a pathway to puberty blockers, then cross sex hormones and surgery. That's untrue. An important part of healthcare is to explore fully the child's ideas around gender, and the way you do that is with affirmation -- they then trust the healthcare team and open up about what they think and why they think it.
> I have spent all of the lockdown researching transgenderism
Here's a handy hint: anyone using the term transgenderism is an anti-trans bigot.
All the anti-trans people posting links to HN can never post something from WHO or CDC or WPATH or American Academy of Pediatrics -- it's always some blog post that's unsourced to anything credible and full of disinfo.
I'm not a child psychologist, I don't know these people, and I don't have a strong opinion on that particular topic.
But I do have a strong opinion on the following. I don't want Facebook, or anyone at all for that matter, to globally police content on the internets. With great power comes great responsibility. Social media have been abusing their power for years, yet they bear zero responsibility, lacking transparency, and implemented no ways to appeal.