A growing number of children are being targeted by the trans industry. The numbers are exploding: in Austria, within just a few years, the number of so-called "gender identity disorder" diagnoses among children and adolescents—especially girls—has increased tenfold. More and more minors are undergoing hormone treatments or even surgical procedures, which have serious consequences for their health. In Austria, the legal age for purchasing and consuming alcohol is 16, and smoking is prohibited under 18. However, young people can decide to change their gender identity almost as early as childhood, the international V4NA news agency reported.

In 2011, there were only four women under the age of 25 who identified as male and therefore underwent gender reassignment surgery and breast amputation. By 2023, this number had risen to 128. Many later regretted their decision.
Questioning Gender Identity to Become Punishable
Parents and psychologists were shocked by a new bill that the SPO and NEOS want to push through parliament in June. According to the draft, questioning a person's self-declared gender identity—that is, how they identify or feel in terms of gender—would become a punishable offence. Psychological help in such cases would no longer be acceptable under the bill. Thus, exploring or resolving mental and emotional causes, or offering therapy, would not be considered viable solutions. Instead, only hormone treatments and surgeries would be permitted—even in cases where the young person may be suffering from depression or bullying, and this is what causes their inner conflict that leads to gender identity crisis.
According to a report by Exxpress, Viennese psychiatrist Bettina Reiter warned in an interview with Serius TV that in the future, any doctor who does not treat children seeking gender transition with procedures aimed strictly at gender reassignment could face prosecution—just like parents who try to dissuade their child from transitioning or want to protect them from surgery and gender reassignment.