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A gender imbalance emerges among trans teens seeking treatment
Reuters ^ | November 18, 2022 | By MICHELLE CONLIN, ROBIN RESPAUT and CHAD TERHUNE

Posted on 11/18/2022 5:52:33 AM PST by Red Badger

Ayear after moving to Bridge City, Texas, 8-year-old Samuel Kulovitz thought his life couldn’t get any worse. He had made no friends in the swampy oil refinery town and spent most of his time in his family’s mobile home. He missed Florida and playing on the beach there with other children.

But life did get worse. He hit puberty. For Kulovitz, who was assigned female at birth, “growing into being a young woman horrified me,” he said. “I kept crying and crying, and I didn’t know why I didn’t like it.”

Then, at age 11, Kulovitz started venturing onto social media. There, he came across a cosplayer on Tumblr who said he realized he was a transgender boy from the euphoria he felt while dressed as the hero of an online comic. Kulovitz was transfixed. “I kept asking myself, ‘Why do you want to look like him?’” he told Reuters. In the online community where Kulovitz spent more and more time, he adopted the pronouns “he” and “him,” and he liked it.

When his mother learned of his transgender identity, she was supportive and enrolled him in therapy. He was diagnosed at age 12 with gender dysphoria, the distress that comes from identifying as a gender different from the one assigned at birth.

Two and a half years later, Kulovitz started on the hormone testosterone. He was thrilled as he grew facial and chest hair, his voice dropped, and his menstrual periods stopped.

Still, his breasts were a constant source of distress, and his body ached from wearing a chest binder. “I always thought, ‘I wish I could get rid of them,’ ” Kulovitz said.

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1 posted on 11/18/2022 5:52:33 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
Adolescents assigned female at birth initiate transgender care 2.5 to 7.1 times more frequently than those assigned male at birth, according to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health ...

IOW, we need more BOYS to cut off their wangs.....................

2 posted on 11/18/2022 5:55:55 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
The question, for some, is whether peer groups and online media may be influencing some of these patients to pursue medical transition, with potentially irreversible side effects, at a time in their lives when their identities are often in flux.

Gosh. Could it be true?

3 posted on 11/18/2022 5:57:36 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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To: Red Badger

There’s just no EQUITY in this cold, cruel world.


4 posted on 11/18/2022 5:58:32 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker!)
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To: Red Badger
We've had racial quotas, now the left may putsch for gender quotas.

Forced busing of kids into surgical units!


5 posted on 11/18/2022 6:01:40 AM PST by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: Red Badger

I thought males were evil oppressors. So why do so many girls want to join them?


6 posted on 11/18/2022 6:04:31 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: Red Badger

“…Kulovitz, who was assigned female at birth…”

When writers (or therapists) say things like this with a straight face, it is called “colluding with the pathology.” It is a violation of professional ethics.

But then, when was the last time anyone ever heard a discussion of ethics in the public domain?


7 posted on 11/18/2022 6:04:45 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative)
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To: Red Badger
When his mother learned of his transgender identity, she was supportive and enrolled him in therapy.

I think I see the problem.
Mom is not a supporter, she's an enabler.

P.S. - What did this young lady's father have to say on the matter?

8 posted on 11/18/2022 6:05:53 AM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: Red Badger
assigned female at birth

No reason to read further.

9 posted on 11/18/2022 6:07:21 AM PST by mykroar (what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how. - J0eStalin)
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To: Red Badger

If gender is not real how could there be an imbalance?


10 posted on 11/18/2022 6:08:46 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: Red Badger
She still looks like a girl to me:


11 posted on 11/18/2022 6:09:33 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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What I see is in the past few days we have had a lot of articles suggesting that some caution may be needed in this area. This seems to be forming a foundation for a radical change in how the left views all this transitioning.

They are getting ahead of the tsunami of condemnation that is heading their way. Because that is coming...

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12 posted on 11/18/2022 6:15:19 AM PST by Chicory
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To: Red Badger
For Kulovitz, who was assigned female at birth,

Nobody is “assigned” their sex at birth as if they were born anatomically neutral and someone picks their sex at random.

The doctor looks and states the obvious.

13 posted on 11/18/2022 6:17:18 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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“who was assigned female at birth”

Reminds me of the terminology of the Soviet Union where people would be ‘assigned’ to a certain job or a certain apartment. But even the Soviets never went this far (except maybe for Olympic athletes), and now Russia doesn’t put up with any of this crap (which is why the Left hates them so much).


14 posted on 11/18/2022 6:21:44 AM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 22 degrees, burrr!)
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To: Altura Ct.
Gender is real. But it has to be used in the correct context to be real. Gender is a literary and speaking term. There are three genders Feminine [she, hers],Masculine [He, his] Neutral [them, those, its]. One writes or speaks in one of the three genders. There are two sexes [male, female]. One is born either male or female. God made them. Today the fools have substituted the word gender for the term sex. And by the events taking place, the fools are in control. It was not always this way. Sane people knew the difference between gender and sex.
15 posted on 11/18/2022 6:22:23 AM PST by sport
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Could it be that our society puts so much pressure on girls to make them think they have to be willowy thin, and have a “beautiful face?” But not all are, and the rejection by so many boys causes them to start imagining that maybe they aren’t girls. I have put the word “beautiful” in quotes because we are talking here about outward cosmetic beauty, not the real beauty that comes from within.

Have you noticed that you never see a “beautiful” girl wanting to transition. It seems to be those that the world considers overweight, homely, awkward.


16 posted on 11/18/2022 6:26:42 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: Robert DeLong

I think I get this.

If the girl is REALLY ugly (like this one) they may believe life would be easier as an ugly man than an ugly woman.


17 posted on 11/18/2022 6:27:23 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Red Badger

How big of a,”DUH” can be posted here?

I don’t know about the other female Freepers here, but I hated my body during puberty (still kinda do, considering it tried to kill me), and I think most girls generally feel this way. My tomboyish nature, heavy weight and social ostracization from my peers (being bullied) means that I would have definitely fallen into this category if I were a young teen or preteen now.

Kids at this age seek conformity as of their lives depend on it, and until this trend slows, it’ll continue to be a problem. All they have to do in order to fit in is create a fantasy identity and they have instant adoration (”You’re so brave!”, etc.). It’s sick.


18 posted on 11/18/2022 6:28:00 AM PST by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: Red Badger

Mental illness is the new normal.


19 posted on 11/18/2022 6:32:27 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████.)
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Tacrolimus1mg,
I totally agree with you. You better said what I was trying to say in my post #17.


20 posted on 11/18/2022 6:33:25 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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