This is worse precisely because of the reasons transphobia is bad. This poor boy has been forced - by a medical professional, no less - into a place on the gender plane that is different to the one that he identifies as. The psychological effects of that are horrifying, and the physiological effects are potentially permanent.
There's nothing wrong with being trans and going through HRT so long as you do it with full and knowing consent. You do that because you feel deeply dysphoric about the gap between the body you've been forced into and your true identity, but it's not without cost. To force both the cost and dysphoria onto someone is, again, truly abhorrent.
>This poor boy has been forced - by a medical professional, no less - into a place on the gender plane that is different to the one that he identifies as.
Where are you getting this intent from? I don't see anything in the article to suggest this was the doctor's goal.
It may well not have been the objective, but that was the rather unsurprising result. Depraved indifference; behaviour that can lead to criminal liability.
There's nothing wrong with being trans and going through HRT so long as you do it with full and knowing consent. You do that because you feel deeply dysphoric about the gap between the body you've been forced into and your true identity, but it's not without cost. To force both the cost and dysphoria onto someone is, again, truly abhorrent.