thanks for jumping in on this clunky and cumbersome article. Your last sentence is the issue in a nutshell as far as I can see. I could probably paraphrase about 1000 words of that article as that sentence...

The thing for me isn't that people form unbalanced conclusions when young - that has to be expected. It's the way they are reacted to and responded to that determines whether long term wellness or long term unwellness is the result. This applies to all aspects of mental health. I remember when I was working in mental health seeing that the core difference between escalation and potential 'kick off' was how the first responders to a situation behaved. Those people, and their insight, determined whether things settled or got worse.

In the case of gender, it is no different as far as I can see. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts