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[quote=Anonymous]   I would say take a deep breath and relax.  The key in the above survey is that they are mixing transgender and "gender nonconforming."  The latter concept was something no one spoke about in those terms in the past, but has always been around.  Don't mean to be crude, but the I suspect many young lesbian women of the "butch" variety or what we used to call effeminant men may now consider themselves gender non-conforming.  And given how young people throw around concepts, I suspect many teens who see themselves as having both masculine and feminine traits - as no doubt many (if not most) people could identify if they thought about and articulated it - now say they identify as non-binary or gender non-conforming.  I dated a girl 30 years ago who used to say in many ways she wished she were a boy and thought she had more in common with boys - but she certainly never actually elected to live as a boy.  But today, if she were 19, she might call herself gender non-conforming.  The statistic in the study that I didn't see is the break down of that 12 percent between trans and non-binary.  The cultural explosion - and confusion - is more about the non-binary.

I note also that I previously read 22:22's post wrong. She wasn't arguing brain scans can be used to diagnose being trans, but she was arguing that they can be used to help rule it out.  I'm not sure if the science is there yet either, but that is an important distinction I wanted to acknowledge. [/quote]

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