There is a lot to unpack from this one sentence, and not enough space to debate it. I think you will agree that adults have been controlling, or trying to control children's lives in all its aspects for centuries, and that for some this is endemic in capitalist societies as well as dictatorships. It may be a good thing to both warn children of the dangers of drink and drugs, and use the law to make it hard for children to access them, but with sex the battlefield is littered with the corpses of good intentions, and bad ones. Indeed, so fraught with dangers is sexuality in children most people prefer not to talk about it, while those who do, either are paedophiles or concerned with it, on the basis that there can be no 'natural' interest in child sexuality, if it involves an adult, and I think most people would agree with this.
Whether or not the interest in trans issues is new or old, I think we can at least agree that social media, which did not exist when I was a child, has and is having a significant impact on the lives young people lead, through the availability of information and images, some of which may worry parents, and cause anxiety in young people as they are uncensored, or censored, or manipulated -perhaps crucially, untrustworthy. One need only think of the material that denies the effectiveness of vaccines to get a perspective on the anarchy of ideas out there.
All I suggest is that we have been here before, whether it is the arguments from the 1930s and later, of
Wilhelm Reich, or the controversy over
The Little Red School Book of the 1970s, and the current maintenance mostly by elderly white men, of a code of morals that is intended to protect children, often from the sins they have themselves committed in their past, with repression and dictatorship the mode of governance on such things.
I don't have an answer that is satisfactory, other than that medical procedures that cannot be reversed need to be carefully considered before being adopted, while the concern for the anxieties being expressed by the child may need more than drugs and prosthetics, while responsibility in social media cannot be effectively legislated and is the wild card in this topic.
The godfather of the sexual revolution? | BPS
The Little Red Schoolbook - Wikipedia