This excellent piece is two years old, but is a mother lode of research and criticism. Every word is worth reading.
"Suppressing the puberty of a child in order to make other children and adults more comfortable with that child’s “gender expression” must not be understood as a victory for human rights. The fight against gender stereotyping and the abolition of sex-based social roles is derailed by these celebrations of “gender identity.” Further, pathologizing gender non-conformity is the opposite of freeing women and girls from the shackles of compulsory femininity. For that reason, feminists especially have every reason to take up this fight on her behalf, regardless of what we agree or disagree on around what “gender identity” in adults might mean. This impacts all girls and women, lesbians and gay men. If the concept that there are correct and incorrect bodies vis a vis “gender” gains significant medical support, no one outside the stereotypical gender expression will escape unharmed.“
”…None of what is described here seems to matter to the trans* activists who are forcing this issue. They are using this moment to push rhetoric to normalize their own preferences (which happen to perfectly match society’s conservative adherence to gender roles), use families that receive state-funded medical care to promote a political agenda that normalizes and standardizes insurance payments for trans-related conditions, and to put people to sleep (how much energy does the average person have for this issue, after all).“