Abigail Shrier wrote a book about the sharp spike in young girls who suddenly identified as transgender, so the book was briefly banned by Target (we thought book bans were bad), and ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio said “stopping the circulation of this book and these ideas is 100% a hill I will die on.” (Again, we thought book bans were bad.) Shrier implied there was social contagion at work.
And now we have teachers telling first-graders that doctors make a guess at a baby’s sex when it’s born, but sometimes the doctor gets it wrong. A second-grade teacher said on TikTok that her entire class changed their pronouns when she said they could pick their own. A Boston Children’s Hospital psychologist claims that kids know they’re transgender in the womb. Our president makes it a point to celebrate Trans Day of Visibility each year.
So imagine our shock that kids are coming out as transgender and nonbinary earlier and earlier.
Transgender and nonbinary young people are coming out at younger ages, a national LGBTQ youth advocacy group found, with one in 10 having come out before age 13.https://t.co/ZB5IGplCRS
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) April 10, 2023
Marc Ramirez reports:
Transgender and nonbinary young people are coming out at younger ages, a national LGBTQ youth advocacy group found, with 1 in 10 having come out before age 13.
But despite greater acceptance of LGBTQ people in the U.S., coming out for younger people can mean earlier vulnerability to harassment, discrimination and violence in addition to higher risk of suicide.
“These findings speak to the impossible duality that transgender and nonbinary young people are dealing with,” said Jonah DeChants, senior researcher for the Trevor Project, a suicide prevention agency focused on LGBTQ youths. “Visibility and understanding of trans people are at an all-time high – and yet, at the same time, they are witnessing a historic wave of anti-trans political attacks that target their very existence.”
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So an LGBTQ advocacy group found that the very existence of trans minors is under attack.
A political advocacy group published a report that confirms their position. Seems legit…
— Steve Bentley (@SuaSponteSteve) April 10, 2023
The grooming is working.
— Pebo (@Pebo4Real) April 10, 2023
Of course an advocacy group wants kids to come out but that's not remotely reality. Stop telling children who are impressionable that they're something they may not be by having them make life altering changes to their bodies. This is all so gross to impose on children.
— Scott Coleman (@bandphan) April 10, 2023
Social media contagion
— Red Dot in a Blue Dot in a Red State (@reddotaustintx) April 10, 2023
Groomers (parents/teachers/social media) have been working overtime. It's a social contagion that results in irreversible disfigurement, life-long dependence on drugs, and in many cases, sterility. Why would you ever do this to a minor?
The winner? Big pharma.
— 🐾 Suzy 🐾 (@scout_nj) April 10, 2023
Ever wonder if taking humans at their most vulnerable stage when they're trying to figure out where they fit in in this world and often feeling like the answer is nowhere, and providing a group that allows immediate/unquestioning acceptance might be giving some false positives?
— infidelicious (@9mmwhiskeyshots) April 10, 2023
"It's not happening, but it's good that it is"
— Aardwolf (@Aardwolfy) April 10, 2023
Complete social contagion
— Joe🇺🇸 (@sreatslarebil) April 10, 2023
This is a social media driven phenomenon. Time to talk about restricting social media use by minors.
— Scootman (@TNBarBq) April 10, 2023
We told you last year about the “TERF” mom who refused to affirm her daughter’s new gender and cut her off from social media. She didn’t commit suicide; she decided she was a girl after all.
Good thing kids that age aren’t impressionable.
— b strange (@bebe_strange) April 10, 2023
We are not better off today for this
— Cranky_Yankee (@CrankyYankee7) April 10, 2023
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‘TERF’ mom getting savaged for not ‘affirming’ her daughter’s new gender but removing her from the contagion https://t.co/rJhtLN1xxY
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 8, 2022
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