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[quote=Anonymous]Read this and thought this crowd would find it interesting:

From this article summarizing a reddit AMA on trans issues.
http://www.teenvogue.com/story/reddit-transgender-ama-busts-myths#intcid=dt-recirc-cral1

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QUESTION: Now that the LGBT community has become more main stream and accepted, are you seeing more children and teens come in who may not actually be trans but rather are trying to fit in or find some way to find an identity?

Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, Children’s Hospital L.A.: What is true is that unpacking the gender binary is becoming increasingly popular, because I think youth recognize that it is not adequate for deeper human existence. Gender roles are largely archaic in many regards. SO are youth experimenting with gender bending? Yes, absolutely. But they are not in distress. They are bending in solidarity with a movement to dismantle an obsolete set of gender rules, and stand in solidarity with their trans friends and the community. There are distinct differences in these youth. They are not likely to stick a needle in their body every week to be trendy. There is no reward for being trans. I can't get adolescents to finish ten days of antibiotics. It is so critical to differentiate between distress and social change.
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I find Dr. Olson-Kennedy's insight: "I can't get adolescents to finish ten days of antibiotics" particularly compelling. 
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