State of Tuesday: A SOCIAL CONTAGION EXPOSED
What happened to all the trans kids?
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What happened to all the trans kids?
A SOCIAL CONTAGION EXPOSED
It seems like the most contentious assertion of the transgender debate is actually true.
At least, according to recently released data.
Five years ago, in 2020, Abigail Shrier published a book titled “Irreversible Damage” about the transgender craze seemingly gripping the youngest generations and all the fallout as a result, including “irreversible” surgical and chemical treatments. In it, she cobbled together what little data she had access to on the burgeoning phenomenon, along with some extremely compelling anecdotal evidence from parents.
The most controversial semi-conclusion Shrier drew was that transgenderism was a form of “social contagion.” That so-called “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria” was a result of an explosion of social pressures. Rampant social media use, psychologists aggressively “affirming” even a hint of gender confusion, along with a hefty dose of social credit if one suddenly identified as “non-binary” or “transgender” all acted in tandem to artificially inflate and incentivize kids claiming the new identity.
In other words, transgenderism was a teenage fad, except monumentally more damaging than wearing JNCO jeans for a year in middle school.
Jean Twenge, a San Diego State psychology professor specializing in generational differences, released statistically significant survey numbers tracking the identity’s sudden drop-off among 18 to 22-year-olds born after 2002.
It should be noted that the absolute peak of the transgender fad occurred during a time when we had pulled children from school and stuck them in front of screens full-time. Government-imposed lockdowns surely forced even more children into the kinds of corners of the internet that deeply wanted to see their deranged worldview … affirmed … by the actions of innocent children.
Twenge’s data is compelling. It shows an absolute plummeting in the rate of “non-binary” and “transgender” identity.
Ben Ryan, a prominent independent reporter and skeptic of transgender medicine, drew the following conclusion.
“The decline in such identities in younger Americans raises important questions about the future of the field of pediatric gender medicine,” he wrote on X, “and the question of whether these identities are at least partially driven by social influences, as opposed to immutable, inborn traits.”
To unpack those two ideas for you, first he’s saying that the literal industry of medicine that sprang up to treat these kids with surgeries and drugs is under threat of collapsing. That’s true, and we should watch their reactions closely.
Secondly, he says the Alphabet community’s idea that these trans kids were simply a representation of some underlying and fixed biological reality that suddenly felt comfortable to come out is essentially bunk.
Globally, 51 of every 100 births are male. That is a fixed biological reality.
No such distinction exists for transgender kids if it’s actually a choice, a contagion, or a costume one puts on for social clout.
The propaganda campaign is crumbling.
Now, what’s left is to measure the cost that the lie wrought on tens of thousands of innocent kids.
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