Is the trans kids trend over? Aibu to wonder what happened to the kids caught up in it in the 2010s?

I'm Spanish. The NB movement has fortunately made very little progress there, despite repeated attempts from the left, because Spanish has grammatical gender – pronouns, nouns but also adjectives all are masculine or feminine. So you have to use made-up forms for all that.

E.g. "los niños" means "the boys". "Las niñas" means "the girls". A former Minister gave a speech talking about "les niñes" (a made-up form in Spanish) to refer to so-called trans and non-gender-conforming children, and we're still laughing about it. It makes the ridiculousness of it self-evident.

You've seen the boys section of clothes shops. Wall to wall Boring Beige. Dresses in school dressing up boxes tend not to be ordinary dresses- they're extra-colourful and extra-sparkly dresses. It's no surprise that small children are drawn to them, especially if their normal clothes are all shades of sludge. Perhaps he'll grow up to be a fashion designer, or like that tailor who makes all his own clothes and dresses entirely in 18th century fashions. Or an artist. Or perhaps he's just a child who likes sparkly things and will grow out of it.

Non binary is more of a trend where I live. The key look is short hair but after that, any colour is acceptable, and any style. Pronouns are they/ them. If teaching, the kids are to call them Teacher instead of Miss/ Mrs/ Ms. Most of the non binary individuals I've come across are in their early to mid 20s.

There was a mtf trans kid in the same year as one of my DDs (now 30). I saw this person (definitely dressed in masculine clothes) very much the worse for wear/ drugs begging on a train a few months ago. This was a kid who had mh issues even as a 10 year old. Very sad.

I know so many trans people, which considering the apparently tiny percentage of trans people, and my not very wide social circle, is quite amazing. My family member - autistic. My child's partner - autistic. A friends 3 (yes, 3!) children - autistic. Another friends 2 children- autistic. Another friends child - autistic. Plus many teens that are friends with children of my friends. Autistic.

I see a theme here. How better to get a a group you finally fit into than declaring yourself autistic and spouting the script to everyone. All these parents say the same thing, repeated from what their children have told them, repeated from what I've read over and over online.

I'm autistic myself, never been gender conforming, alway struggled to find a group to fit into. My God, would I have done the same thing as a teen? Quite probably.

I just can't imagine agreeing with my child (or multiple children) that their body isn't perfect, and is wrong, and must be damaged with drugs and surgery. My children are perfect as they are in my eyes, that is their authentic self. Anything that make your remove or add body parts is not authentic.

I really hope this phase is over. And it is a phase. Because I only know teenagers and old men that are trans. Despite the claim that just as many middle aged women are suddenly declaring themselves trans I have seen no evidence for this. You'd think I'd know loads, having been to a girls school, but we're all still boring actual women.

But, could it be that children who are from non middle class or non white backgrounds find it harder to open up to family?

It would be amusing if all the few hundred individuals with this condition got together and signed an open letter asking not to be lumped in under the trans umbrella please, wouldn't it.

After all, how do you change from one sex to the other if you are already both? (Which, I know, they are not, but it seems the quickest way to put it.)

This disorder is a) staggeringly rare and b) not about having both types of genitals, but genital tissue from the opposite reproductive pathway.

None of these individuals have anything close to two sets of functioning genitalia and the dominant reproductive pathway is still discernible - that is to say they are all either male or female.

Quite what that has to do with identifying as trans is anyone’s guess as there seems to be no over represention in trans identifying individuals.

And he was reception age.

This video was really interesting viewing

https://x.com/StandingforXX/status/2081280475855823006

It's a total eye opener.

Just WHY are the number of disabled people in trans population over represented here?

But it was always a dress, and he did not pretend he was a princess! He just wore dresses.

What???

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

Ive been saying all along 9/10 its an autism/neurodiverse thing. Take Carrie and David Grants kids, three of their children are 'trans' and you guessed it all three have autism.

Definitely think this is part of it.

I get your point but the huge and rapid rise was in young girls identifying as boys - seeing as there is no evidence of any (?) mature women in their 50’s and 60’s deciding to identify as men ( as compared to the numbers of mature men, who have often been married with children , deciding they are women) , I think we can draw our conclusions about social contagion as opposed to re- closeting!

Haha... I have two of them! They are not allowed social media nor do they have constant interactions with total strangers online trying to push agendas on them.

Autistic children are far more likely to be dragged into extremist views of various types so need far more monitoring and support.

Within that article was a link to another on the subject of de-diagnosing ADHD.
https://archive.ph/By6fu

People who were diagnosed as children and found it closed doors, limited careers. I've often thought it must put employers off but here it's clear that certain careers wouldn't accept anyone with such a "diagnosis". Perfectly normal as adults having a revision of the original diagnosis and it removed from their medical records. Seems similar to de-trans.

A cautionary read for those who are pursuing a label as adults.

I would hope that the fad is indeed over, but I worry because the puberty blocker trial is still going ahead. I would also hope that as a society we ensure that those young people get the medical and psychological help that they need once they've decided to detransition. We can't just pretend nothing happened or no one was harmed.

Children in care of the state were amongst the first cohort of children to be cynically targeted by transactivists back in the day, along with social care staff, in children's homes and foster carers.

Children alienated from their families for all sorts of reasons were of course hugely vulnerable to notion that they could reinvent themselves as the opposite sex with social workers & others who work with them unthinkingly supporting the idea.
Julie Bindel wrote about how this played out in Blackpool which has a significant population of children in care

https://juliebindel.substack.com/p/why-do-so-many-girls-in-blackpool

I’m guessing you have no direct experience of parenting a young person with AuDHD and severe mental health issues and “trying to balance these views”?

Even if numbers are declining, that's not necessarily evidence that it was a fad. Trans activists would see it as evidence of young people choosing to stay closeted in an increasingly hostile environment.

Thankyou for clarifying

That's an extraordinary generalisation!!

All the trans kids I know have their two parents at home, normal families, brothers, sisters, grandparents etc. There is however a high incidence of neurodiversity in this cohort.