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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I 'm sorry, but WTF is going on with our society? I find this statistic startling and very concerning:

12 % of millennials said they identify as transgender or gender non-conforming. This is double the amount of Generation X-ers who say they same.

You can read about it here: 
https://www.indy100.com/article/fifth-millennials-identify-survey-lgbtq-glaad-queer-7660741

All of these kids are NOT trans, but they are very confused. When did this happen? How did this happen?

Why isn't the press reporting on this? All I hear about are bathrooms, Jazz Jennings, and Bruce Jenner. This is the real story.[/quote]

Sure, there is a story there about more youth identifying as gender non-conforming and it is worthy of good journalism.  But with all due respect, there is much more out there publically than just bathrooms and Bruce Jenner in the media. The truth is that much has been reported for more than a decade -- and the straight, typically gendered (cisgendered) world  largely ignored it until celebrities got involved.  I wish it weren't the case, but that happens with so many other issues too.   Here is the U.S. Department of Justice's web site on sexual violence against transgender people.  https://www.ovc.gov/pubs/forge/sexual_numbers.html.  The Southern Poverty Law Center did a piece on violence against trans people in Washington DC as far back as 2003 -- citing stories in the Washington Post.  https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2003/violence-engulfs-transgender-population-dc.  The crisis was reported in the Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aj-walkley/2014-transgender-violence_b_5298554.html.  If there hasn't been enough media on the problem it may be because there were no authoritative, government, national surveys.   Indeed, the first such government survey about gay people was just recently conducted, and respondents had not option to indicate if they were transgender.  https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/12/health/gay-lesbian-teenagers-violence.html?_r=0  Who knows if that failure may have skewed the results of this survey.   News stories indicate the first such government survey of trans people may take place in 2017.

The old adage, "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater" comes to mind. There are real people out there folks who are suffering -- real kids -- and they have been long ignored.  I don't like the media making being transgender into what seems to be the latest fad,  it isn't.  Even with increased acceptance, I still don't think one will find many boys  long known to be such willing to put on a dress and march into junior high or high school day after day, year after year, because it seems "cool."  And I would say the same about natal girls /trans boys.  That is a rough road to travel -- even now.

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