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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve been harmed by therapy. It’s a profession with a lot of quacks, no quality control, and no accountability. And if it goes wrong they always blame the patient.[/quote]

It was an online therapist during Covid who put the idea into my kid’s head that transgenderism might fix everything. Out of nowhere.[/quote]
This happened to my son, too. He has OCD, with scrupulosity and gender focused anxiety, all exacerbated by puberty and the pandemic. He wondered aloud if he could be trans and she jumped right on it. Told him it was a big breakthrough, encouraged him to visit numerous gender affirming websites, etc. Interestingly, his anxiety and OCD symptoms increased. It was an elaborate extrication process getting him away from that quack. 1.5 years later, his OCD is well managed and he is 100% certain he is male and is comfortable and happy with that fact.[/quote]

How did he get to the point where he had OCD with “scrupulously and gender focused anxiety” in the first place? Hmm? Why was he wondering about being trans in the first place? What were you doing or not doing at home that led to that?[/quote]

DP. Are you kidding me? It seems like half of my teen’s friends have gender focused anxiety (and at least one has OCD as well). This is ridiculously common these days. Has nothing to do with what parents are or aren’t doing at home.[/quote]

Yeah, no. I don’t know a single teen or tween who is confused. Sound like you run a weird household and run in some weird circles. [/quote]
You must live in a conservative area. There are 2 non binary, 1 transgender teens and a 40 yo male neighbor who now wears makeup and dresses. This is in Silver Spring. No one bats an eye at any of it. If my kid started that, my first thought would be she's following the trend. [/quote]

+1 My kid is in an arts-focused program in an urban school district and the weird ones would be those who don’t have some sort of gender-based anxiety.[/quote]

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