I didn't say kids need to be told that all the time and for all reasons.
Didn't mean to imply you did. Society in general, absolutely, seems to just go to different extremes and generally act as retarded as possible.
Just when they're acting up and bringing the drama while trying to "find themselves". I get that kids need to be taught to regulate their emotions, but some of those emotions need to be met with equal and opposite emotions.
Emotional regulation involves both sharing your own and listening to other people, not just one or the other, and certainly not "hide that shit or we punish you." That makes them fucked up.
"You think you're not what you were born as? And you think emotional blackmail will get me to believe that? Then what after that? Threaten to self-delete every time you don't get what you want?"
That ain't enough for troonshine. If it was a manipulative kid coming up with it whole cloth, the original gender vampire back in the 90s, sure. The problem is they believe it's real, to them that's like "coming out" or your race or you religion or whatever the fuck. They believe it, and, their teachers and society at large is reinforcing it. It's a big lie they don't know is a lie yet. Kids are dumb, kids do shit like that, like believe in santa claus and shit.
Gentle parenting isn't going to quiet that shit. Not when you have a whole world telling kids that their parents are old and outdated, and the glorious new religion of self-discovery is where a fabulous new person, praise and accolades await. Parents who know that this is wrong have practically the whole unregulated world to fight.
I don't really know what gentle parenting is, and I don't care to carry its water.
I am going to say that you need to build trust and try to explain why society is drinking koolaid. Trying to explain that it's a big lie, and not fall into a trap that will make you look like a curmudgeon who is out of touch - one of the common ways to head off criticism of the gender cult - is going to work.
You also touched on the real reason people knowingly troon. Praise, accolades, mattering, or at least feeling like it. If your kid's depressed and miserable, that's a risk factor!
I know someone who when his girly-girl daughter came home claiming to be "non-binary", he and his wife started homeschooling and guess what? No more non-binary. There are some snakes that you have to cut the head off of, immediately and decisively.
1) Good
2) I want to see a study showing how genderbullshit varies across what schools kids go to now
3) I'm going to say good again, goddamn, I feel a little better. Thank you.