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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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To: Robert DeLong

Dude looks like a lady.


41 posted on 11/18/2022 8:28:48 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Red Badger

If the put the retard into an asylum at age 6 maybe she would be normal by now... It is a she right?? I got kinda confused by the 3rd paragraph...


42 posted on 11/18/2022 8:30:07 AM PST by sit-rep ( )
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To: BobL

Speaking of hating Russia, did you know that grift’s official colors are blue and yellow?


43 posted on 11/18/2022 8:31:42 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: sit-rep

Yes, born a she.......................


44 posted on 11/18/2022 8:40:22 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Robert DeLong

A lot of drugs and thugs will advance her fantasies.


45 posted on 11/18/2022 9:08:54 AM PST by Jumper ( )
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To: grobdriver; FamiliarFace

Since they relocated from Florida to the oil refinery town, I assume there was a father involved.


46 posted on 11/18/2022 9:30:44 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Other than the fad and grooming aspect of all this nonsense, I have always held the belief that this garbage is happening with these fools because of perceived rejection by the opposite sex which leads to little to no self-esteem. They then take the easy way out, which they eventually find is not so easy and regret it.


47 posted on 11/18/2022 9:56:14 AM PST by jpp113
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To: metmom

I apologize for sending this long post, but what you wrote got me started thinking through the topic, and it was hard to stop. Probably not worth reading.

The sex/gender thing has creeped even into the animal rescue world, where we have to “sex” the new arrivals, then track and house them accordingly. I’ve noticed that a female volunteer sets up speadsheets of animal data with the heading “gender” instead of “sex”. At first I found this amusing, as an example of how language and ideas cross-contaminate. But animals expose the falsity of the modern “gender” construct.

Like humans, cats and dogs are physically one sex or the other. They can be spayed or neutered, but their DNA doesn’t change. They have no sense of self, and certainly no “gender” in the way the leftist nutters define it. Male and female critters have distinctly different behavior patterns that derive from individual and species survival strategies. No one teaches them this, or imposes it on them via culture, colonialism, or patriarchy. Humans often
project fantasies onto animals, but that does not change what the animals are themselves.

Humans do have a sense of self, and that is precisely where “gender” is found. Human self-perception is maleable, subjective, inaccurate, both conscious and subconscious, and heavily influenced by language, culture, emotion, hormones, peer pressure/group dynamics, and the projections of others. The Leftists’ conceit is to confuse the subjective nature of “gender” with physical reality, with tragic results.

The current wave of gender disphoria is a matter of culturally created psychosis, usually started by mothers with an agenda, then reinforced by social media. How anyone can treat this as anything but a psychiatric problem is beyond me.


48 posted on 11/18/2022 2:00:45 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: Red Badger

I remember when i wanted to be a woman, though , it probably had to do with the fact that my neighbor was molesting me when i was 3-4 years old.(not his fault, he always told me his dad said it was okay) I can see more girls wanting to be male instead,, take a look at all the cult magazines and marketing using the female,, that is daunting, even scary,, i just hope what they have run away from because something looks/feels easier hasn’t run them into something that will make matters so much more worse later on in their life (20+% commit suicide). And they even reassure our poor children that they are being brave from running from something they are afraid of,, so sad. IMO, Drugs and surgery don’t fix these mental issues, psycho therapy does.


49 posted on 11/18/2022 2:29:49 PM PST by Callnote (Solid state is the way to go!)
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To: Chewbarkah

That was a good post.

Thanks.


50 posted on 11/18/2022 3:22:44 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Robert DeLong
She still looks like a girl to me...

That's because the individual you pictured has "detransitioned" back to her natural sex, female. Sadly, she had her breasts removed as a young teen due to this money-making scheme of therapists and surgeons.

According to this article and many like it,

... Big Tech and large corporations are intent on silencing critical voices of transgender ideology because there is big money in the "gender industry," referencing The 11th Hour Blog, a website where the revenue streams fueling transgender ideology worldwide have been traced and documented. 

51 posted on 11/18/2022 3:47:45 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free... Galatians 5:1 )
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To: TexasFreeper2009
If the girl is REALLY ugly (like this one) they may believe life would be easier as an ugly man than an ugly woman.

That girl may not have been "REALLY ugly" if her parents and "doctors" hadn't colluded in giving her testosterone for four years prior to her trying to claw her way back to her natural female sex.

52 posted on 11/18/2022 3:56:24 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free... Galatians 5:1 )
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To: Albion Wilde
That explains. I did a quick look, but didn't see that mentioned. I was wondering if that was the case. she should have listened to her mother. However, her mother's only real help with her daughter was saying she shouldn't get her breasts removed. But she made a big mistake not dealing with the problem when it cropped up. She should have told her she is a woman, and should have taken her to a parachutist, but some of them are the problem also.

Thanks for telling me why she looks like a woman. 🙂

53 posted on 11/18/2022 4:50:52 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: C210N

There’s much truth in that meme.

This whole trans thing is doing nothing more than reinforcing gender stereotypes.

For all the screeching a few years ago about gender stereotypes and raising kids to be gender neutral, now it’s gone full bore on making gender dependent on external criteria, such as interests.

A girl who likes “boy” things like sports and hunting? She must be a boy inside.

A boy who likes to cook and play with dolls, he must be a girl inside.


54 posted on 11/18/2022 5:15:35 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Robert DeLong
You are on target pointing out the parents who are enablers; although in many areas of the country and especially in Canada, parents who refuse to affirm their child's gender delusions are punished in the courts, or have their child taken away.

Confident, effective parenting has to start very early, even before conception in the choice of a partner and the founding of a solid marriage. Unfortunately, many of today's parents are completly unequipped with the proper knowledge and attitudes.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. —Proverbs 22:6

55 posted on 11/18/2022 5:19:47 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free... Galatians 5:1 )
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To: hinckley buzzard

I was taught In graduate school it is both cruel and dangerous to participate in someone’s delusions.


56 posted on 11/18/2022 7:43:49 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Red Badger

Notice how they have to twist the language into knots to even discuss this 💩.


57 posted on 11/18/2022 7:45:08 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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