You can really only alleviate it by embracing the gender identity and doing what needs to be done to assuage gender dysphoria, which often involves a social transition at the least and sometimes taking hormones and surgery.

That's not true though is it.

Because plenty of studies show that a significant portion of those who experience gender dysphoria essentially 'grow out of it' as they go through puberty. So it can be alleviated in some cases simply by doing absolutely nothing.

Yet, for some reason, those who go on puberty blockers seem to transition at a rate of 100%.

This means that we have two distinct possibilities:

1. Psychology can perfectly determine which dysphorics will need to transition and which will grow out of it through puberty and only prescribe blockers to the first group.

2. There exists a complex system in which the process of blocking puberty creates a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I can assure you that the first situation is not the case. Hell, only 15.8% GID cases actually persist through puberty. We can't even diagnose depression with anywhere near 100% accuracy, in some cases people who have been depressed for decades and been through many different treatments and doctors are then later rediagnosed and successfully treated for a different disorder.

The very idea that transgenderism is diagnosable to 100% accuracy is far to good to be true, when things are far to good to be true, you go back and rerun your numbers to find the problem. Nothing is psychology is 100% accurate. Fuck,very, very few things in any medical field are even close to 100%.

Which is of course where you correctly define the issue:

These studies are no longer considered ethical or permissible to do. Because people died. Trying to change a person's gender can be lethal.

This is the problem. We cannot know for certain why something things happen, because the only way to test them is to engage in experiments which are horrific, both morally and ethically.

However, that doesn't mean that question can't be asked, or even answered, indirectly. Yet this is not happening. The questions are instead shut down, avoided, and those who dare mention the fact are ridiculed and their careers often crushed.

Basically the problem isn't that questions can't be answered. It's that the questions are not allowed. The questions here are really: why is the transition rate after puberty blockers 100% when GID depersists in over 80% of sufferers? Because it's lunacy to think that we can diagnose transgenderism to a complete medical certainty without any kind of biomarker or even a strong understanding of what it is.

The ethics aren't the issue here. It's politics.

You would no longer have and mental disorder. The distress is gone.

I'm sure that there is a segment of the populace who genuinely are transgender. For them, transitioning is likely to be the only solution. What I don't agree with is taking children, chucking them on puberty blockers which results in 100% of them transition even though 80% ought to desist following puberty.

The most logical explanation for that difference is simple: the social, environmental and chemical changes force the child to transition. Whether they are okay with the transition after the fact is completely irrelevant. Right now, we are treating children and inducing massive physical and psychological changes in them without understanding at all what they are suffering from.