Are less teens identifying as Trans now?

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting. There were SO many in our district when the kids came back after COVID. I have heard of fewer kids this year.

Right after the shutdown was the peak for us too.

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Fewer

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Anonymous wrote:Does it matter to you, as a teacher, and fellow human?

Social contagions that lead to mass medical interventions and pharmacological dependence matter. They affect us all.

I am really heartened to read this!! It’s better for the g a y kids, the incredibly tiny amount of kids who are truly T r a n s which is a fraction of what we have seen, and for the straight kids forced to be tolerant of this farce.

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Anonymous wrote:Less are open about it due to bullying

Why would there be more bullying about it now?

I’m not saying there’s more bullying. It seems like less people coming forward now because they are afraid to tell anyone for fear of being bullied ‘like the others.’ It seems like it’s more accepted to be gay but trans is a fad or farce that should just go away? I don’t understand.

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Anonymous wrote:Girls are realizing tomboys aren’t actually boys.

Bingo. Good thing they didn’t irreparably alter their bodies during that “fad.”

No dog in this fight but I believe there is some truth to this from what I'm seeing every day with DD's crew. They are 13, 14, 15. There are plenty of tomboys. They don't realize that this is older than even Josephine March called herself "Jo". It's not that special. They pick out and identify with traditional boy names, and I think that is enough to free them, so to speak.

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My 12yo girl is what used to be considered a tomboy and still is by some people. I think it’s a harmful term though because we’re still labeling certain things as for boys. Why does having short hair, wearing basketball shorts and enjoying football mean you’re a Tomboy? She’s a girl who likes those things. Anyone can like those things. The word tomboy needs to go away.

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As an educator I am seeing this too. There were definitely elements of social contagion to the phenomenon.

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Anonymous wrote:Less are open about it due to bullying

Why would there be more bullying about it now?

Because some adults have loudly declared that bullying trans kids is acceptable.

See, eg, the rhetoric of Ron DeSantis and the oxymoronic Moms for Liberty. See how some parents have carried on at school boards.

To be clear, there has never been some significant proportion of our population that’s trans. It’s such a huge deviation from the norm. To the degree you had a few teens identifying this way, that was largely about trying on identities, as teens do, and the parental freak outs to this normal teen behavior by and large was toxic and disproportionate. But it went a message.

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Anonymous wrote:Does it matter to you, as a teacher, and fellow human?

Social contagions that lead to mass medical interventions and pharmacological dependence matter. They affect us all.

I am really heartened to read this!! It’s better for the g a y kids, the incredibly tiny amount of kids who are truly T r a n s which is a fraction of what we have seen, and for the straight kids forced to be tolerant of this farce.

“Forced to be tolerant” thanks so much for showing your true colors. The limits of your compassion for those who are doing no harm to others are so revealing.

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Anonymous wrote:Does it matter to you, as a teacher, and fellow human?

Social contagions that lead to mass medical interventions and pharmacological dependence matter. They affect us all.

I am really heartened to read this!! It’s better for the g a y kids, the incredibly tiny amount of kids who are truly T r a n s which is a fraction of what we have seen, and for the straight kids forced to be tolerant of this farce.

“Straight kids forced to be tolerant of this farce”

Poor straight kids! How hard it must have been to not make snide comments and bite their tongues from the clearly IMPORTANT judgements they had in their heads.

Look, I have a dd that went through this stage in 7th grade and is now out of it. I also didn’t suspect it would last. And yes I know some of it is due to social contagion. But please don’t pretend that it had anything at all to do with straight kids.

At my kids’ middle and high school they don’t bully because of 🏳️‍🌈 stuff. They just accept it and move on. Maybe you should, too? It has nothing to do with you.

[Anonymous]

Another parent whose girl went through this right after the shutdown. Thank goodness the social contagion has died down.

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Anonymous wrote:My 12yo girl is what used to be considered a tomboy and still is by some people. I think it’s a harmful term though because we’re still labeling certain things as for boys. Why does having short hair, wearing basketball shorts and enjoying football mean you’re a Tomboy? She’s a girl who likes those things. Anyone can like those things. The word tomboy needs to go away.

It is noticeable though that people often embrace and accept and root for girls who do things labeled as for boys. People are more apt to belittle boys who might want to grow their hair long, play with barbies, enjoy Frozen

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Anonymous wrote:I teach middle school and this is the first year in close to the past 10 years that I don’t have any students requesting to go by a pronoun or name that doesn’t align with their biological sex. Other teachers at my school have said the same thing. Is this part of an overall trend or just a fluke at my school?

There are still quite a few at our middle school but I agree that it feels like fewer than even just a few years ago. But even then, it was obviously that many of them were just going through a phase or trying to fit in with the alt crowd. It’s almost like the new version of Goth - the girls who are just trying to be whatever is the opposite of the mainstream girls. (At our school it’s more girls doing this than boys.)

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Anonymous wrote:My 12yo girl is what used to be considered a tomboy and still is by some people. I think it’s a harmful term though because we’re still labeling certain things as for boys. Why does having short hair, wearing basketball shorts and enjoying football mean you’re a Tomboy? She’s a girl who likes those things. Anyone can like those things. The word tomboy needs to go away.

It is noticeable though that people often embrace and accept and root for girls who do things labeled as for boys. People are more apt to belittle boys who might want to grow their hair long, play with barbies, enjoy Frozen

Yes because we prize boy things and think that girl things are frivolous and lesser.

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