Posted on 09/23/2022 7:20:06 AM PDT by karpov
The number of young Americans who describe themselves as “transgender” has exploded over the past decade, increasing by a factor of 20 to 40, according to gender clinic referral data and a recent Williams Institute report based on surveys by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Why? Jody Herman, author of the report, calls that a “bewildering question.” Clinical psychologist Erica Anderson tweeted that the surge “defies explanation. . . . Something is going on that we don’t yet understand.”
The two leading explanations are greater social acceptance and social contagion. Both are likely contributing factors, but I think the main reason is simpler. It comes down to a change in terminology.
Until recently, the term “transsexual” referred to people with a cross-sex identity, a desire to be the opposite sex or even a diagnosis of gender dysphoria. “Transgender,” the favored term now, is far broader. It encompasses mere nonconformity with rigid traditional sex roles. If you’re a tomboy or a feminine boy—if your expression or behavior is different from what is “typically associated” with your sex based on “traditional expectations”—you’re transgender. No wonder so many young people think they need medical help to “correct” their sex.
This idea is propagated by important scientific and medical organizations:
• Planned Parenthood provides services to transgender patients at all its locations, and in 2020 described itself as America’s “second largest provider of gender affirming hormone care.” Its website defines “gender” as “a social and legal status, and set of expectations from society, about behaviors, characteristics, and thoughts” and asserts that “it’s more about how you’re expected to act, because of your sex.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
It’s the new tattoo. Or, the act of being different/original just like everyone else.
Remember when people maybe had one tattoo..then in a matter of a decade it seems 1 in 10 people are covered in body tatts.
They promote their behavior in order to achieve easier access TO MOLEST YOUR CHILDREN.
Johnny the Walrus lives!
The cabal is changing their DNA and they have been doing it for centuries.
What you state is simple and true. But to state that truth on university campuses will get one in trouble with the Title IX office and human resources.
What a shame. Tomboys grow up to be excellent women. Ask any man married to a former tomboy. And now they’re to be made into psychologically damaged sexual perverts. We deserve destruction.
Clinical psychologist Erica Anderson tweeted that the surge “defies explanation. . . . Something is going on that we don’t yet understand.”
1. A significant new income source for the Medical, Psychiatric and Pharma cartels
2. Population control - render many young people infertile
3. Creation of a new pool of “broken” people (both mentally and physically) who will become wards of the State — and will vote accordingly.
4. Due to #2 & #3, provide justification for even more Third World immigration
Well I guess if this fad had been around when I was growing up I would have been labeled a “transgender.” I remember complaining to my dad I wanted to be a boy, he replied “well, you’re not one but it’s perfectly ok for you to like the same things boys do.” That’s because I was into wearing jeans, playing sports, playing outside, and my favorite toys were my Lionel train set and my collection of Hot Wheels toys. Until I got married, the majority of my close friends were always boys. But you know what- I am completely comfortable with myself as a woman too. I still like to play in the mud, but I don’t mind cleaning up and putting on a dress :0)
By their reckoning, Ellie Mae Clampett would be “transgender” .
A girl I knew all the way through school was a tomboy. I wasn’t terribly surprised when a few years ago I found out she is a lesbian. She is still a woman, not a transgender. The same for a very effeminate guy who always hung out with girls as his friends and who was one of the early AIDS fatalities. He was still a man, not a transgender.
I received academic retribution for my pro-life views in 1974 and am now retired and comfortable.
What about Peppermint Patty?
Yes, exactly:
“We are unique!”
**Tomboys grow up to be excellent women. Ask any man married to a former tomboy.***
Absolutely true! I married one and had 49 years of bliss till she passed away!
Other than the general perverts that want to pervert children...follow the money, there’s an entire industry that see a HUGE growth market and they’re salivating for new customers.
If they can normalize this then every single child that isn’t “obviously” masculine or feminine is a potential candidate and a cash cow.
This is pure evil. There’s of course an intersection between the industry and the perverts too, which is a total abomination.
Whoa, even back in ‘74 they were in a position to bully. Well, back then the pro-abortion types had the momentum.
My mother was a former nurse and worked with pro-lifers in that era. On my about page is a pic of her thanking President Ronald Reagan for his pro-life work.
Peppermint Patty is playing forever now, on that great softball diamond in Heaven...
Or bass’tball. Depending on what season it is.
Her little sister Jody is now on her way to Boston for a little nip’n tuck, though.
With the logic of today’s Dims, Rosie the Riveter should have had a coming out party. LOL
Roping mere “non-conforming” behavior (tomboys; girls who are into sports; women with careers in construction; etc.) into the transgender column is just a ploy to normalize deviancy. Some “tomboys” or sissy boys are gay, some might have gender dysphoria, but the overwhelming majority of these are heterosexuals who grow out of it IF LEFT ALONE. They are NOT transsexuals. The author gets around to that at the end.
Isn’t this a matter of radicals, primarily deviants, who want to validate themselves by doing things to “non-conforming” children to assure they join the ranks of the permanently deviant? This should be considered a crime, with laws strictly forbidding preying upon children. Parents need to be on the lookout to protect their kids from this phenomenon.
I have heard some speculation about her. I guess if Schulz were still around and drawing, he would be pressured to draw facial hair on her.
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