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

@MoonDancer1 indeed I can’t imagine being in my 20’s, when most YP want to date and find a life partner and having to deal with joint pain, being incontinent,with loss of fertility and with sexual problems like painful vulva or inability to orgasm…all of which are side effects for young women who have been down the route of puberty blockers and /or testosterone . The teens and 20’s are absolutely crucial times to build up your bone density so we will have a generation of women with osteoporosis at a young age in the future . It’s bad enough dealing with the symptoms of loss of oestrogen as a menopausal woman!

I love that you're apparently disgusted by your daughter having body hair, but not by the fact you let her down by not having her neurodivergence assessed and diagnosed at an earlier age 😂

It's over. Thank God.

Now everyone's moved on to being special via ADHD diagnoses.

I saw a teenage girl walking around Saundersfoot in the hot sunshine the other week. She clearly indentifies as a cat 🤣

When DS was in year 8 there were a whole group of girls (bio) in his class who were trans, non binary etc, all in the same friendship group. The school put provisions in for them, changed names on the register etc. One of the group left and by year 11 they had all quietly dropped the male names/pronouns etc. I dread to think what would have happened to them if their clear social contagion has been indulged further. They are all be about 18 now. How horrifying that women in their 20 have brittle bones. What will become off then in 20-30 years? All the celebs and politicians who have championed this would have slunk away and moved onto the next omnicause and pretended it was nothing to do with them and these people will be left disabled and infertile.

In the USA ( we tend to follow behind USA trends) the peak for trans/NB identities amongst college students was apparently 2022/2023 and is falling since then. Hopefully as we regain our collective sanity - particularly in education and healthcare settings- we will have fewer children being pushed onto the route of harmful hormones and mutilating surgery, Unfortunately we still lack the resources to provide children with effective mental health care so there is still a crisis of children not having their needs met. https://thenewamerican.com/us/culture/transgenderism-declining-among-college-students-study/

I know someone FTM who has just graduated from uni (22) who is autistic. They have quite a few friends at uni who are also autistic and are trans (FTM). Sadly they have already started taking testosterone unbeknown to parents while at uni. I do think it’s so common for autistic young people who feel they don’t fit in to go this route and I think it’s only going to cause them more problems down the line.

My mind set is that I don't care what others think, so I wasn't bothered when people piled on me for my it's a stupid trend views.
It's the sheep mentality that would be laughable if it wasn't so stupid and inane.
There are a lot of messed up kids as a result of this stupidity and some parents who are abusive for encouraging it.

Calm down 😂 where did I say it wasn’t. Point proven

I fear it’s still going strong but pray it ends before my DD starts university in a couple of years. She is lesbian and autistic and so far hasn’t been captured by trans ideology. She does have one ftm trans friend who seems to be very dedicated. We live in a very poor diverse area. One of the few positives is that the mainly conservative religious population would kick off if the school came on strong with trans ideology. I think it’s still strong in middle class areas.

Raging about what? Raging about young people who were caught up in this mess? Raging about people who are now regretting getting surgery/puberty blockers?
You do know that because they raged they shed light on this issue? I would suggest that the raging was a very very good thing..

I think its a huge indication of it being a trend, rather than anything else: as I said, my son's school doesn't have many trans children, maybe one or two in the Y10-11 but none in younger years. The reason - I think because of the catchment most of the kids are from North African, Turkish and Albanian families and its simply never been a "thing" among them. The only trans kids are white middle class children - English or west Europe.

Unfortunately I know of one person (ftm )who had top surgery as soon as they turned 18. They are now detransitioning and about to have implants surgery and in a relationship with a male... we all tried to get them to just wait before doing anything irreversible.. whilst accepting of them in all other areas.
They won't talk about it now..
And yes they are autistic.

That dreadful father transitioned that poor child to pay his own bills. The mother just sat back and let it happen, happy as long as she had her designers items Shameful.

I think we will see lots of kids in vlogging families speaking up soon about what they were made to do and I hope Eduardo is one of them.

A lot of people have had their livelihoods, reputations and in some cases, their sanity, for essentially saying the same thing.

Such an insidious ideology and just deeply worrying how quickly people and organisations were swept up in such an absurd and unscientific premise just to be seen to be “right on”.

Could you expand on this. Truly shocked.

My dc has one (actually several) of those.

she does use a wheelchair.

there’s a trend for blinging up disability stuff - wheelchairs, sticks etc. her last wheelchair was purple

What do you mean they get their own room or animal??

It was a ‘fashion’. I certainly know of one who declared herself trans because - I am quite sure - it was a) fashionable and b) she knew it would piss her parents off.

Of course she was a spoilt, entitled little madam anyway.

I do feel for the kids who have been on cross sex hormones and even have been castrated or had mastectomies before they reached adulthood. Child abuse and mutilation, pure and simple.

It's definitely not over. Working in social work I see a good number come through the doors though of course none of them are on puberty blockers which is a very positive change. My DSD is teetering on the cusp, wearing trans colours as well as the rainbow and the bi colours, she has a pin badge on her school bag saying she/they but so far has not said anything to us. She goes to one of the worst schools in Brighton for this shit and it's still trendy there within a certain demographic (autistic, socially awkward and/or genuinely LGB)

I've had blue hair for decades and very much straight thanks😆