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Progressivism, Sexuality, and Mental Illness: Is contemporary liberal-left culture producing greater mental distress?
Quillette ^ | June 14, 2022 | Eric Kaufmann

Posted on 06/15/2022 6:21:47 AM PDT by karpov

Will America be entirely gay in a few generations? Will everyone be mentally ill? It would appear so from a straight-line extrapolation of the stunning rise in both LGBT identification and mental illness among young Americans.

Let’s begin with trends in sexual orientation among young people. A recent Gallup survey found that: “Roughly 21% of Generation Z Americans who have reached adulthood—those born between 1997 and 2003—identify as LGBT. That is nearly double the proportion of millennials who do so, while the gap widens even further when compared with older generations.” Abigail Shrier, meanwhile, reports a 1,000-fold increase in trans identification. Reactions to these trends have varied. Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks they indicate that there will be no straight people in a few generations; Bill Maher lampoons the increase as a rebellious fad; and progressives celebrate the rise as an electoral boon for the Democrats. Other liberals view the rise as the product of increasing toleration, similar to left-handedness, in which identification increases as stigmas are lifted and people come out of the closet.

Of these responses, Maher’s is closest to the target. A granular look at survey data on same-sex behaviour and LGBT identity shows that identification is increasingly diverging from behaviour. More importantly, those who adopt an LGBT identity but display conventionally heterosexual behaviour are a growing and distinct group, who lean strongly to the left politically and experience considerably greater mental health problems than the rest of the population.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Politics
KEYWORDS: lgbt; mentalillness; trans; transgender

1 posted on 06/15/2022 6:21:47 AM PDT by karpov
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To: karpov

Of course! This is the goal for control.

Gaslighting is now a serious “art form.”


2 posted on 06/15/2022 6:27:24 AM PDT by Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey ("I have an open mind ... just not so open that my brain falls out onto the floor!!")
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Is this a trick question?


3 posted on 06/15/2022 6:30:16 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: karpov

Does the sun rise in the morning?


4 posted on 06/15/2022 6:35:10 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher )
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To: karpov

Social contagion among children and immature adolescents. What is especially malignant is the collusion on the part of social institutions and media at large. That is a new phenomenon that has not happened before. While many young fools will grow out of it and quietly return to sanity one by one, for many it will lead to irreversible physical harm through surgery and chemical devastation and will not end well.


5 posted on 06/15/2022 6:47:00 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative)
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To: karpov

What does it mean to have a reprobate mind?

https://www.gotquestions.org/reprobate-mind.html


6 posted on 06/15/2022 7:05:53 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: karpov

Who cares! They are just not going to procreate and that’s a good thing!


7 posted on 06/15/2022 7:15:57 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: karpov

Yes, and deliberately so.


8 posted on 06/15/2022 7:16:37 AM PDT by MortMan (You better bring yours, when you come to take mine. - Creed Fisher)
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To: karpov

“It would appear so from a straight-line extrapolation...”

That’s why you don’t do straight-line extrapolations based on fads.


9 posted on 06/15/2022 8:11:45 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: karpov

DUH


10 posted on 06/15/2022 8:12:47 AM PDT by goodnesswins (....pervert Biden & O Cabal are destroying America, as planned. )
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To: karpov

Easy.

Yes.

Yes, it does.


11 posted on 06/15/2022 8:41:36 AM PDT by unlearner (Si vis pacem, para bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.)
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To: Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey

Does the Pope Sh!t in the Vatican?


12 posted on 06/15/2022 8:54:43 AM PDT by spincaster
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To: spincaster
I am Roman.

Franciscus has a lot of bad smells these days in The Vatican.

The Biological Solution cannot come quick enough.

Restore Your Roman church, My King. Help us rid the weak and/or evil men currently "in charge." May She be able to lead again like She has been charged to do.

13 posted on 06/15/2022 10:26:18 AM PDT by Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey ("I have an open mind ... just not so open that my brain falls out onto the floor!!")
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To: spincaster; hinckley buzzard; karpov
Does the Pope Pretend-esident Sh!t in the Vatican?

Yes he did. I suspect the demon that resides in him couldn't resist the opportunity.

Maher's right - it's a current trend among the youth who see the freaks getting so much deferential treatment so feel they're missing the bandwagon. Fortunately there's signs that the very young are rebelling against the multi-gender twaddle they're being subjected too by their grade school indoctrinators.

14 posted on 06/15/2022 12:51:51 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Honored to be considered dishonorable by Assistant Democrat Cheney.)
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