Worth pulling this out, for a sec. Are eating disorders and self-cutting concentrated in girls? Yes. But alcohol/drug abuse and suicide is concentrated in boys, and we don't whip those out as an example of how weak minded and easily led to self harm boys are.https://twitter.com/e_urq/status/1371811366382764040 …
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Boys tend to be given a much longer leash, so troubled boys go out and find alcohol and drugs. Troubled girls, who are more often on a tight leash, find ways to act out their emotional pain without leaving home.
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I'm using "girls" and "boys" here, without specifying whether I mean cis or not. With trans youth, it's complicated. Factors like a long/short leash and peer group in our AGAB pull one way, desire to emulate ways of being fucked up associated w/ our true gender pulls the other.
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