Are less teens identifying as Trans now?

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Anonymous wrote:Y’all realize how dumb you sound, right? Boys with long hair = “social contagion.” “Damn hippies!” Right? Women and girls wanting equal rights and equal pay = “social contagion.” Black students and parents wanting to desegregate schools = “social contagion.”

That is how ignorant and intolerant you sound. Like the parents of the 50s, 60s, 70s. Watch out! Rock music, SOCIAL CONTAGION!

Exactly.

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

This. While I have kids just shy of middle school age I also have a lot of nieces and nephews and friends with kids in middle and high school. This specifically has become a topic of conversation especially among the moms and daughters -- the idea that being a girl or woman who plays sports or doesn't like wearing dresses or makeup does not mean you are trans or a lesbian or really anything at all except that you have a normal and common personal preference.

It's not about intolerance of trans people but more about teaching kids not to be reductive about this stuff. It's basically similar to when we were kids and boys got called gay for being in any way sensitive (or even kind) or liking ANYTHING associated with women and girls -- caregiving and cooking and being tidy etc. And yes girls would get called "d**e" for being into sports or not dressing in very feminine ways. It was stupid then and it's stupid now.

Some people really are trans or non-binary but it's possible to be cisgender and still not perform your gender in a traditional way. And also especially when you are young it's not unusual to experiment with gender expression -- I went through a big tomboy phase in high school (which my traditional Catholic mom definitely fretted meant I was gay) and as an adult I do still like menswear a lot but I wear makeup and have very feminine hair. And I'm. straight and cisgendered. It can take time to figure out what feels authentically like you. I think jumping to labels like trans and non-binary during that experimental phase only makes sense for some people while most need to keep things less defined.

Not everyone is you. Just because you were a tomboy doesn’t mean that kids today aren’t trans.

There is a huge cost to outing yourself. You make yourself the target of an entire (hostile) political party. People aren’t just doing it for fun.

Tweens are on the Internet but they aren't on DCUM or Truth Social. They are not aware of being the target of one (actually two) entire political party. Their social calculus is much younger than that.

They absolutely know that Republicans are coming after them.

Have you met a 7th grader? Most couldn’t name 3 politicians who aren’t running for president.