Online they are told their discomfort at puberty (their self-consciousness, their body hatred) is evidence of gender dysphoria; soon they become genuinely and intensely dysphoric because now they have a label on which they can fixate and this fixation strengthens the feelings./2
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Something similar happens with suicidality. If you tell a kid they’ll commit suicide if they can’t transition, soon enough they’ll be ruminating about suicide./3
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Why can’t the therapists & journos who talk about suicide and “trans kids” in the same breath see they are creating a self-fulfilling prophesy? Their own fucking rhetoric breeds the suicidal feelings./4
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