The Tik Tok Tic and the Politicization of Medical Care

American Thinker ^ | 27 Oct, 2021 | Thomas Buckley

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When it comes to transgenderism, our medical establishment ignores all the rules it normally applies to other ailments that are trendy among teens.

How far has the influence of “influencers” gone?

Very far gone, it seems.

Recently a new phenomenon has cropped up, that of people—mostly teen girls—developing various tics akin to Tourette’s Syndrome after watching people on Tik Tok who actually have (or claim to have) the malady.

Interestingly, the reaction to the situation has been surprisingly reasonable and very unlike the reaction to another trend that is also quite possibly linked to social media: the recent surge in claims of gender dysphoria.

This is not the first time “social contagion” situations involving young women (and men, but to a far lesser extent) have arisen. From the Salem witch trials to more recent episodes in upstate New York (again, a movement disorder that spread through a relatively limited locale) to the hiccupping girls of Danvers, Mass. only a few years ago, incidents of social contagion or mass psychogenic illness or memeticism (various names are used) have been widely documented.

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WHAT HAVE WE BECOME???