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Anonymous wrote:It's not random, but they could be influencing each other or be the type to get carried away with social trends. Highly religious families are very conformist - they just conform to a different time. Their kids or grandkids conform to current times.

My take is that there is an enormous amount of conversation about sexual identity. My son's grade has sixteen kids who identify as trans and are constantly using new names and new pronouns. I think it's great we are more socially accepting and discuss sexual identity aloud. Who knows what is experimentation versus what is genetic, as long as we love our children and support them in becoming confident adults.

Definitely a huge social contagion component in middle school and high school. Particularly in more left-leaning areas where parents bend over backward to be so open minded that their brains are about to fall out. To the point where “trust the science” is replaced by “trust your feelings of whether or not your preferences fit a setereotype”

Keep in mind a lot of teenage girls are dealing with Tate-and-porn-addled teenage boys who have been taught by social media to treat women terribly, and they’re noping out. Misogyny is a big attraction killer.

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Anonymous wrote:I've wondered also. One friend has 4 kids, none are straight. One Trans, two gay, one bi. Another has 3 kids, none are straight.

So is the trans kid attracted to the same gender with which he or she identifies? Because I assume you do know that you can be both trans and straight, right?

Trans+straight=gay

Huh?

The point is that gender identity and sexual attraction are two different things. If we’re going to have a conversation, it’s better not to be ignorant.

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Anonymous wrote:I've wondered also. One friend has 4 kids, none are straight. One Trans, two gay, one bi. Another has 3 kids, none are straight.

So is the trans kid attracted to the same gender with which he or she identifies? Because I assume you do know that you can be both trans and straight, right?

Trans+straight=gay

Anonymous wrote:I've wondered also. One friend has 4 kids, none are straight. One Trans, two gay, one bi. Another has 3 kids, none are straight.

So is the trans kid attracted to the same gender with which he or she identifies? Because I assume you do know that you can be both trans and straight, right?

Anonymous wrote:Humans are also being more exposed to hormones in water and food. They are finding intersex fish, in polluted rivers, with both male and female organs, due to estrogen mimicking compounds. Humans are exposed, maybe at lower doses, but there are a lot of hormone mimicking compounds out there.

So, if this is a big factor, and I think it could be, it would be causing movement in one direction (feminization). So this could cause more males to become less masculine and possibly identify as gay or trans-feminine. It is unlikely to be causing more masculine females. Not sure how the science would work on that.

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Anonymous wrote:It's not random, but they could be influencing each other or be the type to get carried away with social trends. Highly religious families are very conformist - they just conform to a different time. Their kids or grandkids conform to current times.

My take is that there is an enormous amount of conversation about sexual identity. My son's grade has sixteen kids who identify as trans and are constantly using new names and new pronouns. I think it's great we are more socially accepting and discuss sexual identity aloud. Who knows what is experimentation versus what is genetic, as long as we love our children and support them in becoming confident adults.

Definitely a huge social contagion component in middle school and high school. Particularly in more left-leaning areas where parents bend over backward to be so open minded that their brains are about to fall out. To the point where “trust the science” is replaced by “trust your feelings of whether or not your preferences fit a setereotype”

+1000

Definitely a genetic component. On my mom’s side, I’ve got:
Aunt 1 - has two daughters, one is a suspected lesbian (not out), other daughter has two daughters who are both lesbians
Uncle - One child is trans female, other is suspected gay (not out)
Mom - three daughters, one of which is suspected lesbian (not out-to us at least, my parents are VERY religious).

Anonymous wrote:I think it's a trend, possibly rebellion against a religious upbringing.

Yes.

Fad.

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Anonymous wrote:It's not random, but they could be influencing each other or be the type to get carried away with social trends. Highly religious families are very conformist - they just conform to a different time. Their kids or grandkids conform to current times.

My take is that there is an enormous amount of conversation about sexual identity. My son's grade has sixteen kids who identify as trans and are constantly using new names and new pronouns. I think it's great we are more socially accepting and discuss sexual identity aloud. Who knows what is experimentation versus what is genetic, as long as we love our children and support them in becoming confident adults.

Definitely a huge social contagion component in middle school and high school. Particularly in more left-leaning areas where parents bend over backward to be so open minded that their brains are about to fall out. To the point where “trust the science” is replaced by “trust your feelings of whether or not your preferences fit a setereotype”

Anonymous wrote:Def a genetic component. We still do not know much about human evolution, but I suspect this is part of it.

If you’re going to take an evolutionary tact then wouldn’t identifying as one who will not reproduce (by virtue of not being paired with opposite sex) be classified as ANTI-evolutionary?
After all, scientifically speaking, being queer does not do anything to perpetuate the species.

Anonymous wrote:Humans are also being more exposed to hormones in water and food. They are finding intersex fish, in polluted rivers, with both male and female organs, due to estrogen mimicking compounds. Humans are exposed, maybe at lower doses, but there are a lot of hormone mimicking compounds out there.

BINGO.

13 cousins among the kids in our family and 2 gay boys and 1 lesbian.

Lately I have begun wondering if my dad was actually gay and his father as well. My mom was also best friends with our neighbor who later left her husband and married a woman so there are things to wonder about there. My father was pressured by his family into marrying my mother after they dated for ten years. Everybody was very Catholic. She told me she never wanted to get marry and have children and would have been fine if she hadn’t. (Great thing to hear as a child.)

. I had a gay cousin as well. My brother claims he is straight but he sure wasn’t in college! He married at 34 due to social pressure.

So 2/6 in my generation and 3/13 in the subsequent generation if you look at cousins. Appears to be a pattern, appears to be passed down. Mostly among the men.

Anonymous wrote:It's not random, but they could be influencing each other or be the type to get carried away with social trends. Highly religious families are very conformist - they just conform to a different time. Their kids or grandkids conform to current times.

My take is that there is an enormous amount of conversation about sexual identity. My son's grade has sixteen kids who identify as trans and are constantly using new names and new pronouns. I think it's great we are more socially accepting and discuss sexual identity aloud. Who knows what is experimentation versus what is genetic, as long as we love our children and support them in becoming confident adults.

I think it's a trend, possibly rebellion against a religious upbringing.

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Anonymous wrote:Were they being groomed by religious figures? It's quite common for children who were sexually abused to find "alternative" sexuality more comfortable.

This is not true.

It's actually far more common than you think. Many children were abused by various religious leaders at different religious organizations. Their insidious behaviors affected those children for the rest of their lives. Please don't discount the lived experiences of abused children at the hands of your religious leaders.

You don’t know jack shit

Are you trying to deny that religious leaders molested and raped children? I'm confused at your point, if there is one. Perhaps it is you that "don't know jack shit", but I'm guessing you couldn't articulate a clarification if requested anyways.

You are claiming a causal connection to being gay. You have not attempted to provided data for that claim.

I'm glad a pp decided to do the bare minimum of googling that you apparently cannot. I don't need to provide data to back anything up, it's a known phenom. Feel free to do your own research if you're interested.