you do not know everything for freaking sure. IT IS your job to guild and love and protect. 
But please tell me how you're ignoring the people that actually live through this? Actually know what your child is going through? 
How do you expect to do anything for them when you don't even have a map?
We keep on saying and saying and saying no your children are not allowed to get surgeries or take hormones you have to be of age. The only thing they are doing is dressing up in asking you to respect them. Do you understand that? Respect?
It is your job to be there for them, it is your job to love them and understand them no matter what. You do not get to pick and choose. They are going to grow up to be their own person. Emphasis on the own. They are not your little mini me's. 
So freaking sick of you people acting like LGBT with something that came about in the sixties. We've been around for thousands of years. We're the oldest form of Faith there is. If this were a science study, it would