knew a family that was very libral. I belonged to the same writers group. she took in to her home a girl that was sexually abused and claiming to be estranged from her family and transgender. the lady began to volunteer for a lgbt group as a mentor. suddenly her daughters were trans, lesbian and one claimed to be asexual....This was all social pressure and trying to get moms attention who was to busy being a libral activist. Anyone who fallows my comments when ever there is posting about this issue knows my sister came out as trans almost 12 years ago so this is not me just spouting off out of hatred. I love my sister though It troubles me that she wants to identify as a man... this is a Mental illness brought on by sevral sources including the one mentioned social pressure. lucky for any parent that is dealing with it happening with there child. If it is social pressure it will disappear if you don’t indulge it.For those where it is not a biological manifestation of something wrong with the organic brain it will go away. if you indulge and allow hormone replacement you risk messing up the child even more.
Similar situation. I have an acquaintance whose 15 year old son was pretty normal by all measures. Then she had a daughter who was diagnosed as severely autistic at age three. Obviously mom had to devote a lot of time to the autistic child so all of a sudden at age 18 the older boy comes out as trans. Tells everyone he has always considered himself a girl. This of course gets mom’s attention, and he becomes a center of attention again. Instead of growing up a becoming a productive young man who might have been a great help to his mother he goes into full look at me mode. And yes there is no father in the home.