Gender ideology campaigner Chris Elston has hit out at the diagnosis of gender dysphoric children and said that "there is always something else going on" when the children are diagnosed.
Gender dysphoria is a term that describes a sense of unease that a person may have because of a mismatch between their biological sex and their gender identity.
The campaigner explained that he feels that "distress about one's sex exists" but he would attribute the stress to other factors, including autism and abuse.
Speaking to GB News, he said: "Distress about one's sex exists, but honestly in almost all of these cases, it's not real gender dysphoria if that's even a thing.
Chris Elston said that the problems can be attributed to other things
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"This used to be called gender identity disorder, I would even say that's not a thing either because we don't have gender identities. We have personalities.
"But what we do have in life is problems and these kids, when you look at what's going on, many of them have suffered sexual abuse and trauma and other sorts of abuse. Many of them are in state care.
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"A huge percentage of these kids are on the autism spectrum. There's always something else going on. On average, these kids have several mental health comorbidities, and we're not treating any of those.
"We're treating genders as if that's the source of all their underlying problems.
"We need to get away from that and just find out what's really going on with these kids and just help them and give them time to grow up."
Elston explained that the issue is important to him because he is a father of two girls and "kids are coming to harm across the world."
The transgender debate in the US has continued to grow across America GETTYWhen asked by host Patrick Christys whether he believes that "doctors are experimenting on children", he said: "They are, but not even because in an actual experiment, there are control groups. There are guidelines that you are following, there are objectives and there is a follow-up.
"There is none of that with this. In fact, Doctor Hilary Cass when she tried to follow up on this found that there was no data.
He added: "Really, you can't even call this an experiment it is just butchery of children."
This comes as US President Joe Biden sparked controversy on Easter Sunday and was accused of failing to mark the Christian holiday and instead recognised Transgender Day of Visibility.
Elston is a father of two
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The President said transgender people "deserve and are entitled to the same rights and freedoms as every other American."
When asked if the threat of cancellation "stops people saying what everyone knows to be common sense", Elston said cancel culture is "certainly a part" of the transgender debate.
Elston also claimed that the "entire left" is "being taken over by radicals" who are pushing gender ideologies into the party debates.