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

My DC is a teacher and has never come across it. Not a private school but in a smart commuter village in the NE where the majority of parents are well off and low deprivation. ADHD and autism, on the other hand, seem prevalent. I feel like ADHD is less of a middle class thing.

From experience (DD is in her 20s and is on a waiting list for reconstructive surgery on her knee), it's because limping is seen as somebody has hurt themselves and struggling means they're putting the effort in, whereas using a stick is seen as being disabled, not trying hard enough without assistance and the user is therefore lazy.

Unless they're male. Then it's always assumed to be due to an injury.

https://www.them.us/story/jeffrey-epstein-robert-trivers-transgender-research-emails

Lots more if you Google.

You might want to check that before being quite so condescending. NHS England’s own policy allowed cross-sex hormones for 16 and 17-year-olds, and puberty blockers were also prescribed to under-18s. NHS England itself describes cross-sex hormones as being given “as part of a medical transition”.
You can certainly argue about terminology or whether those treatments should have been available, but “under-18s have never been allowed to medically transition” is simply not factually correct.

Under 18s have never been allowed to medically transition. Please don’t opine on something you know nothing about.

This is a lie. Prescription of puberty blockers for gender incongruence is illegal in the UK & cross sex hormones for under 18s are forbidden on the NHS but there are private providers either UK based or overseas who will do anything for money supply testosterone or oestrogen etc to under 18s.

How do we know a kid is ‘genuinely’ trans? We simply don’t. There’s no test. No definitive criteria. It’s just ‘a feeling’. Sadly, that idea has taken root and instead of accepting gender non conforming kids as they are, we’ve given in to the idea that they can change ‘gender’. They can’t, and to mislead kids in this way is both cruel and damaging.

You aren’t replying to me but you do realise the NHS was issuing cross sex hormones to 16 and 17 year olds?

Yes, I have my issues with Jolie but she handled that well. As did Pitt, apparently.

Back in the 90s, I know she had a relationship with Jenny Shizimu (masculine model who has never transitioned) so I wonder if that might be part of the reason she was able (unlike so many Hollywood stars) to compute that tomboy doesn't equal boy. At the same time, Shiloh seemed most tomboyish before the peak, so maybe that's also why.

Why would Epstein et al want to push trans?

It’s one of those conditions that you can’t test for.

You absolutely can test for POTS. Proper diagnosis of POTS requires a tilt table test where the patient lies on a flat bed that's tilted upwards so their heart rate can be monitored.

Yes, Julie Bindel had a really sad article on Blackpool.

https://unherd.com/2023/01/blackpools-forsaken-children/

Because they have disabilities. Of course, queen misogynist Kathleen Stock has declared it a social contagion because she really, really hates young women and cannot possibly conceive that they can think for themselves.

Woah. Same shit, different decade. That reminded me of Meryn Cadell's I Been Redeemed --

Let it be known that I was fairly young and the indoctrination was very strong. It was in my homeroom class every day where I heard about livin' in torment if I didn't walk with Jesus.

Old Satan's mad, but I'm so glad
'cause he lost another soul that he thought he had
Old Satan's mad, but I'm so glad

It was a public school, with the science teacher hardly the right place, but who was to tell? Would you go home and tell your atheist parents, and risk the wrath of God?

A lot of left wing papers have written on the Epstein files, though I agree they were awful on the trans issue (Observer and Morning Star better).
Do the Epstein files mention trans?? Didn't know that- do you have a link?

Under 18s have never been allowed to medically transition. Please don’t opine on something you know nothing about.

Why?! 😬

I wonder what percentage it was?? There was a lot of really worrying stuff, and still is, but I think overall the numbers probably were tiny in proportion to the number of children in the UK.

There are still a lot of transgender people around, I work at a uni and we have quite a lot (maybe around 100) on campus. I have no issue aside from the very aggressive extreme ones (usually male who have transitioned to female) who insist they are biologically a woman now while trampling all over women’s rights and spaces at the same time.

i think the trans kid "trend" as you call it is very understandable when young people are fed very narrow views of what a woman or man should be and they think, well maybe i'm not like that, and then somebody is offering another view of what might be real then maybe they'll explore that.

all pretty simple really, but I'm sure jeremy clarkson thinks otherwise

Yes, dh said to me viewing some of the Pride, “Why are they all disabled?” What I don’t know is do they throw the stick in the cupboard when they get home, or do they genuinely believe there is something wrong with them?

The pots thing is a bit of a racket. If anyone has seen the documentary “Crash”, the accused (or her lawyers) settled on (handily diagnosed) pots as being the reason for the fatal car crash. It’s one of those conditions that you can’t test for.

I hope it is waning. I think the COVID kids were hardest hit. My youngest was too young to be online much and I assume her peers were too and it does seem there are fewer trans identified kids in her year.
She is the one child out of the three who I have been able to be completely open with about my feelings on the matter and in general she is the one most likely to have opinions slightly outside the 'norm' for their generation on other topics" "Don't tell my brothers but I think".....

i have a 22 year old DD with arthritis in her knees - she uses a stick sometimes but not always.

She gets much more offers of help when she isn't using the stick than when she does - maybe people are beginning to think it's a fashion choice? Whereas when she's just limping they don't assume she's faking that.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKfIBmLT-9A/

When I was at school in the 80s there was a subset of “different” girls who all hung together. They found God - but in an extremely performative way, not just being quiet churchgoers. Maybe today they are those weird Green Christian women you see with “Refugees Welcome” signs (whilst having no intention of receiving any themselves).

I expect if they had been at school now they would all have been enticed by the non-binary stuff.