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To: Strict9; dinodino; Fresh Wind; ansel12; AbolishCSEU; Getready; dp0622
I have done a lot of reading recently about transgender. This article titled Gender Ideology Run Amok by Abigail Shrier comes to mind for this case.

"Prior to 2012, in fact, there was no scientific literature on gender dysphoria arising in teenage girls. Dr. Lisa Littman, then a Brown University public health researcher, used the phrase “rapid onset gender dysphoria” to refer to the subsequent sudden spike in transgender identification among teenage girls with no childhood history of gender dysphoria."

"This spike is not unique to America—we see it across the Western world. To offer just one statistic, there has been a decade-to-decade increase of over 4,400 percent in the number of teenage girls seeking treatment at the United Kingdom’s national gender clinic. Across the West, teen girls are now the leading demographic claiming to have gender dysphoria."

"What is behind this is social contagion—the spread of ideas, emotions, and behaviors through peer influence, one more instance of teenage girls sharing and spreading their pain. There is a long history of social contagion with this demographic—anorexia and bulimia are also spread this way. And we know that teen girls today are in the midst of the worst mental health crisis on record, with the highest rates of anxiety, self-harm, and clinical depression."

63 posted on 02/19/2025 8:41:57 AM PST by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: Retain Mike

There is a reason that advertisers and cult leaders and the cultural fad/celebrity industries, etc., make their existence off the female sex.


65 posted on 02/19/2025 8:45:20 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Retain Mike

Put them all to work on Amish farms. Problem solved.


81 posted on 02/19/2025 9:56:42 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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