How many minor transitions do you know ow

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t they just be effeminate males or more masculine females? Wear what you want, do the activities you want? Date who you want? What causes the leap from this to trans?

social contagion.

but like someone posted above, what or who is driving the social contagion? where did it originate?

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I know a lot. Male to female. Female to male. And teens who say they are nonbinary.

But I am a high school teacher in an affluent school. There are significantly more in the upper grades than in 9th and 10th. IMHO it is a phase for many of these teens. I currently do not know any 9th graders and know a shocking amount of seniors.

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None.

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Just wanted to say that I posted earlier about a young trans girl I know, but I only know because her mom is one of my best friends. She transitioned before kindergarten, so none of her friends, teachers, etc. know that she was born a boy. Virginia allows gender to be changed on a birth certificate and her parents have done that.

Just to say, you may know transgender children without being aware.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why can’t they just be effeminate males or more masculine females? Wear what you want, do the activities you want? Date who you want? What causes the leap from this to trans?

No profit can be made for embracing your true self.

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I know one FTM trans teen and one human-to-furry trans child.

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Anonymous wrote:Just wanted to say that I posted earlier about a young trans girl I know, but I only know because her mom is one of my best friends. She transitioned before kindergarten, so none of her friends, teachers, etc. know that she was born a boy. Virginia allows gender to be changed on a birth certificate and her parents have done that.

Just to say, you may know transgender children without being aware.

This is interesting… changing the birth certificate seems odd, since it seems that’s about sex (ie, physical characteristics) vs gender.

I would imagine that people not even knowing you are trans would be the eventual goal for most/all trans people, right? It wouldn’t be obvious in a child before puberty unless they join a swim team or something, but harder to conceal from puberty on.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t they just be effeminate males or more masculine females? Wear what you want, do the activities you want? Date who you want? What causes the leap from this to trans?

social contagion.

but like someone posted above, what or who is driving the social contagion? where did it originate?

Hm, whatever could it be that is the root that is driving this? It is a real mystery.




https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22005209/

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Anonymous wrote:Just wanted to say that I posted earlier about a young trans girl I know, but I only know because her mom is one of my best friends. She transitioned before kindergarten, so none of her friends, teachers, etc. know that she was born a boy. Virginia allows gender to be changed on a birth certificate and her parents have done that.

Just to say, you may know transgender children without being aware.

What if this child decides they are gender fluid, or would like to be male?

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Zero

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Anonymous wrote:Absolutely there is social contagion going on. What the left fails to understand/accept is that it’s not as simple as “trans people are not hurting you so why do you care?” That argument fails to acknowledge the tremendous power of influence. Kids think this is cool or different and that they need to transition because they are special or whatever. Terrible lack of judgement from the left on this issue that might very well have cost this country its democracy.

Agree with this completely. I’m as liberal and open-hearted as they come and I am so furious that our country is going down for this.

I absolutely think all humans should identify as they wish and I love them for it. I also think parents and medical professionals have an absolute duty to act in the best interests of children, and in this case not allow/impose medical treatments that will permanently a child’s body. We all get one body in this life and it’s up to us, as adults, to ensure children reach the actual age of consent so THEY ALL have a fighting chance to make their own informed decisions about what happens to their bodies in the long run.

And before I get reamed - I am solely referring to medical interventions, such as puberty blockers or surgeries. Parents and the medical community should absolutely support their gender identity-questioning children in all the many other ways that don’t inflict permanent medical change.

Finally - I think it’s atrocious how this administration and its too-many supporters are treating transgender individuals. Absolutely appalling. But I think it’s equally appalling that it took this for the far left to finally get held to task.

This is already the standard. Children are not getting irreversible interventions.

The age for surgery and hormone therapy is 18.

Puberty blockers are complete reversible - you stop them and puberty starts. They have been used on cis children for decades for other medical reasons.

I’m not sure that’s true. I know a sophomore in high school who has had a mastectomy. I do know that his family supports him so he had their consent.

I think you mean she/her. Or ought to.

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Our family probably knows 10 kids, but our kids go to a liberal independent school. I wonder why there are so many more female-to-male transitions vs. the other way around. That's always bothered me.

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Anonymous wrote:Our family probably knows 10 kids, but our kids go to a liberal independent school. I wonder why there are so many more female-to-male transitions vs. the other way around. That's always bothered me.

I think the reason is obvious. I think I would have been susceptible to this as a child, so I'm glad this "option" wasn't available. I've had a double mastectomy and am on hormone therapy due to cancer, and I would be opposed to allowing my child to do it. My friend has a FTM trans child and I know she'd like to get the child into surgery. But these hormone blockers and surgeries are very serious and cause a lifetime of issues. Should be avoided if at all possible.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why can’t they just be effeminate males or more masculine females? Wear what you want, do the activities you want? Date who you want? What causes the leap from this to trans?

social contagion.

but like someone posted above, what or who is driving the social contagion? where did it originate?

This is an interesting read on the topic and the money behind it.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/billionaire-family-pushing-synthetic-sex-identities-ssi-pritzkers

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A few, and one is a minor who had top surgery at 15.