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Currently, we have no way of knowing whether or not a dysphoric kid will grow up to be trans. We hand them over to pro-affirmation clinicians and hope for the best. I mean, it’s not as if HRT is irreversible. 4/8
Ever notice how remarkably similar gender dysphoria is to the average teenaged experience? As a teen, did you dislike your body? Feel uncomfortable with your looks? Struggle with insecurity? Feel unsure of who you were? Defy gender norms? Suffer from depression or anxiety? 5/8
Normal instances of kid’s play (dress-up), can be exaggerated and used as proof of one’s transness. A tomboy who disliked girly things suddenly *hated* being female. Trivial non-conforming traits, once not given a second thought, are now “proof” you’ve been trans all along. 6/8
I believe the soaring number of dysphoric girls is not due to an increase in awareness and acceptance of trans people – but that an increase in awareness and acceptance of trans people is *causing* soaring numbers of girls to identify as trans. 7/8
Why are so many girls now “realizing” they’re trans? Before widespread internet access, boys outnumbered girls at gender clinics. A coincidence? Or insecure, gender non-conforming and, often, gay girls feeling they *must* be trans because they’re not like “normal” girls? 8/8
So many “friends” on social media, yet research shows teens and adults are lonelier and more isolated than any time before. Suicide rates are frightening.
Yes. And quite a few more. Luckily, I had no-one around me suggesting I might be happier if I bound my breasts, identified as a saucepan lid, or attempted to have non-binary bisexual fetishistic sex with a guinea pig. Because I MIGHT just have gone for it. *strange little girl*
All of those things you mentioned. And more, including suffering the pain of dysfunctional family and divorce. I am a female INTJ, rarest Meyers Brigg personality type. I could’ve easily been convinced my pain was gender disorder, had it been a thing.
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