Posted on 02/05/2018 11:39:02 PM PST by Zakeet
Far more U.S. teens than previously thought are transgender or identify themselves using other nontraditional gender terms, with many rejecting the idea that girl and boy are the only options, new research suggests.
The study looked at students in ninth and 11th grade and estimated that nearly 3 percent are transgender or gender nonconforming, meaning they don't always self-identify as the sex they were assigned at birth.
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The study is an analysis of a 2016 statewide survey of almost 81,000 Minnesota teens.
Nearly 2,200 identified as transgender or gender nonconforming. The study found that these kids reported worse mental and physical health than other kids, echoing results seen in previous research.
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The study was published Monday in Pediatrics.
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Dr. Daniel Shumer, a specialist in transgender medicine at the University of Michigan, wrote in an accompanying opinion article in Pediatrics that the study supports other research suggesting that earlier counts of the trans population "have been underestimated by orders of magnitude." He said that the higher numbers should serve as a lesson to schools and physicians to abandon limited views of gender.
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How many self identified as space aliens?
I was so combative as s youth, I would have loved playing games with these people.
This nonsense will end after the girls volleyball team becomes entirely made up of boys that win the state championship.
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How many of the kids answered Transgender just to eff with the outcome and be funny?
The authors certainly have a firm grasp on the obvious. That's quite unique for liberal mainstream 'journalists'.
Worse mental health? Duh! They're nuts. Girls who think they're boys, boys who think they're girls are nuts.
Related to Chuck the Schmuck, or that wretched female Amy?
Sorry. Its classroom teachers. They want every little boy to be a good little girl.
Sorry ... my wife is a teacher. So is my sister. And sister in law. It’s not teachers. It’s leftist agendas being fed to school administrators.
I do actually think plastics may well play a huge part in our neurological problem epidemics. I think these liquidy plastics may well be a top suspect. Gender and fertility and genitalia problems definitely might result in a stew of bpa etc.
One of the scariest stats is how many (most) young womens unused wombs test positive for bisphenol a.
Very few kids are eating laundry detergent.
There is an epidemic of obvious neurological issues in our population, among old and new humans.
RE gender and orientation, normal kids are pretty clear from a very young age. Im a boy, l am comfortable in my skin being a boy, I am attracted to girls. So many kids today feel profoundly uncomfortable with their outer gender, their brain identifying with the opposite one. And there have always been gays, maybe today there are more gays, meaning that there is epigenetic (environmental) influence during the prenatal window when gender and sexual orientation is created.
I remember how in Jr. High School (early 70s) there were quite a few kids who had actually done it and were still doing it, but now looking back on it they might have feelings of regret.
This example youre giving doesnt show any neurological damage or pathology. Of course people have sexual feelings too young for the social aspects of sex, and some make that mistake or are driven into the mistake by trusted adults. That is a different subject.
My wife is a teacher, her sisters (2) also. My sister in law was a teacher for 40 years. I think I know as much as you about them. They are happy to see the classroom filled with medicated students behaving politely and do everything they can to iron out boyishness in the boys. Wake up and smell the coffee. I didn’t invent this problem. Look up “chickification.”
So your wife, her sisters and your sister in law all welcome transgender indoctrination into their classrooms? Wow ... that’s sad. My wife does not. Nor does my sister. Or my sister in law.
They actively promote this deviancy and mental illness in movies, tv, schools and even the government is guilty of it. Then they wonder why is there more? They do exactly the same thing for homosexuality. Liberals are predators and children/those that are weak minded are their prey.
Another retard. Your wife must have brought home some mental illness you caught if you read into my post that the teachers in my family conveyed anything about transgender acceptance.
And, that explains why you do not know of the social movement of enormous proportions that I described.
Is your wife mentally challenged also?
Go f yourself.
Yep, a few years ago it was Bisexual Goths, now it's bathroom switching trannys propogated by the gay teachers.
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