Posted on 10/09/2024 8:25:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A study released this week states that 3 percent of American high schoolers now identify as “transgender.”
The survey published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday found that in addition to the 3.3 percent of high schoolers who think they are “trans,” another 2.2 percent are questioning their gender identity.
Teenagers who indicated that they are transgender or questioning their gender identity experienced higher levels of bullying at school, the survey found. The survey included more than 20,000 high school students from public and private schools across the country. The 2023 study was the first to ask the question surrounding transgender identity.
In the survey, around one in four transgender students said they’d attempted suicide in the past year. This was compared to 11 percent of “cisgender” girls and 5 percent of “cisgender” boys (via The New York Times):
Roughly 70 percent of transgender and questioning students reported feeling persistent sadness or hopelessness for a period of more than two weeks in the past year, compared with half of cisgender girls and 26 percent of cisgender boys. Ten percent of transgender students reported receiving medical treatment from a doctor or nurse for a suicide attempt in the past year, compared with 2.6 percent of cisgender girls and 1 percent of cisgender boys.
Transgender students were also much more likely to experience bullying and isolation at school. Just 37 percent of these students reported feeling close to others at school, versus 62 percent of boys and about half of girls. And they were five times as likely to report having unstable housing in the past month.
“We have 5 percent of young people in the country who, because of the way they identify around their gender, are stigmatized, bullied, made to feel unsafe, feel disconnected at school and consequently have poorer mental health and higher risk for suicide than their cisgender peers,” said Kathleen Ethier, the director of C.D.C.’s adolescent and school health division, said, according to the Times.
“That’s just heartbreaking,” Ethier added.
In 2022, a study conducted by researchers at UCLA’s Williams Institute claimed that 0.5 percent of all American adults, 1.3 million people, and about 300,000 youth 13 to 17 years old identify as transgender, which Townhall covered.
Despite this, pro-transgender advocates claim time and time again that social contagion and gender ideology curriculum do not play a part in these numbers, which are growing rapidly.
And 99% of them are faggot boys.
I was a MAN…trapped in the body of…a MAN!
Eh, I suppose that’s not very interesting these days.
For 9 months, I was a boy trapped inside a woman’s body ...
when the abnormal becomes the normal as an excuse as to “why do I feel different”, then of course the numbers are up.
This BS is being programmed into young minds that are fully developed. It will take PARENTS in a constant state of de-programming to produce normal, adjusted kids. In this society, that is going to be extremely hard.
It’’s a sad testament to the awful mental health state of American youth.
All the cool kids are doing it.
Sort of like smoking in the 50’s.
Hmm, let’s see. You can be normal, with all that normal teen life entails. Or you can be trans and receive tons of positive attention on social media for being “so brave” while also getting away with sexual harassment and assault if that’s your thing. Gee, I wonder why more teens are identifying as trans.
Kids are being taught that they should be unhappy about what they are, by psychopaths.
“Was”? Past tense? What are you today, an iguana?
That’s shocking! You should have your genitalia removed and you’ll feel right as rain. Nothing like a good mutlitation to fix ya right up.
I am a lesbian trapped in man’s body...
Yea, back in the day, didn’t really work for me. But it is funny.
So was I.
As in the days of Noah..
They followed their own Lusts.
Intense social pressure from above and still only 3%.
Well, congratulations. You’ve made it cool to be trans. Most are undoubtedly attention seekers, but come on people! This isn’t real, and we know it. What happened to parents in America to make them go along with such nonsense?
(when the abnormal becomes the normal as an excuse as to “why do I feel different”,)
I know a couple of these people - and have worked around others
I can’t hardly talk to them because they’re so fragile - I’m not certain that any of them can be reached
A gas station ⛽⛽⛽ I go to, was there yesterday for the first time in awhile.
About 4-5 there was this really cute redhead but she was dating a “transgender” who was “becoming a man” - I tried to talk to her but no the hormones were going to accomplish the goal she was certain of it.
I met this person, obviously a divorced woman with kids but the testosterone was causing her to grow facial hair.
Complicating the situation was that the cute redhead had a father that had turned gay and she was alright with that too.
Just ... wow
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