Breitbart:
A new study that has drawn criticism from transgender activists finds most teens “come out” as transgender after belonging to a peer group in which multiple friends identify as trans.
Additionally, the study shows most young people announcing they are transgendered have already been identified with at least one mental health disorder.
In the study – published at PLoS ONE – that focused on teens who are predominantly female, Lisa Littman, an assistant professor of behavioral and social sciences at Brown University, found 87 percent of the young people were reported by their parents to have “come out” as trans after increased time spent on social media and the Internet and after “cluster outbreaks” of gender dysphoria among their groups of friends. Most of the teens who ultimately identified as transgender also showed increased popularity with peer groups afterward.
Of the teens whose parents participated in the study, 62.5% had been diagnosed with at least one mental health disorder prior to the onset of their gender dysphoria. In 36.8% of the teens’ friendship groups, the majority of the members “came out” as transgendered.
A good friend has a daughter who was “diagnosed” by her Grade 4 teacher as a transgendered male. The daughter is almost 14 now and her parents have her on puberty blocking drugs (cost of $ 500/month).Her mother has even had her legal doc’s (birth certificate, passport) changed to read male. To me, she will always be “XX”. I think when she comes off the puberty blocking drugs at about 20, there will be “holy hell” to pay.
Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit. Who would have ever thunk that.
We should come to a simple agreement that removing or modifying a body part in the name of vanity is in itself a mental disorder. It makes those mental health percentages real easy to calculate. 100%.
and “I am too ugly and stupid to date the opposite sex……..lets switch teams…….”
I was right! Stay away from those people. Queer is contagious!
A goal of leftism is to destroy the family.
And of course, the “Trans Activists “ are critical of the scientific study. This is like the whole “born gay” bullshit. Here it is 2018 and after at least 40 years of trying, they still haven’t found a genetic or biological cause for homosexuality. Every homosexual I have known (not many) was molested as a child or had some other psychosexual trauma in their life.
And of course they will shut down this study. Funny how Leftist can cite any study, no matter how obscure (like the sexual habits of gay penguins in captivity) but when a well documented study that contradicts their views comes out, the only thing they want to do is suppress it. The Left: fake news, fake science.
“Peer pressure” – – Yeah, the fake created pressure of white boys being demonized for being white, male, and naturally heterosexual. Sue every school district that pushes this diabolical agenda that screws up kids.
Mental illness linked to Gender dysfunction! Wow, who would have thought!
So we need a professional to tell us this it’s obvious living in Orlando I have known many and dang near every one was an emotional and mentally unstable .when will there be help for their sanity instead of pushing them further down the rabbit hole.
Postmodernism. Undermine every facet of societal norms. Everything is a “social construct.” Bull.
You take upset kids who are struggling in life because their parents aren’t raising them well and combine that with the nihilism that results from the undercurrent of atheism in the culture and these kids are looking for some sort of escape. Transgenderism is their attempt to leave their existential pain behind. Sorry Joe/Josephine it aint gonna work.