I was having dinner with a childhood friend (also an immigrant) a few weeks ago. She’s a female and about as liberal a person that I know. She was telling me about her stepson, who decided a couple of years ago that he was trans, and being a good progressive couple, she and her husband immediately sought to get the boy some help. Thankfully that help did not come in the form of gender reassignment surgery – something that British psychiatrist Bob Winters has recently described as “one of the darkest chapters in medicine.”