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

Fair enough.

He has built a life being 'a trans elder' though based on that back history from GIDS. It is very concerning that this man has put himself in a position where he counsels 'young people' on transition.

What was just as alarming or more alarming, is what he would tell teenagers or 'young people' about not disclosing their sex category to potential sex partners. I do believe he was in those roles and clearly had no fucking idea about safeguarding children or vulnerable people.

Re trans kids - before this was even a "thing", my DC had a boy in his reception class who adored wearing dresses. His parents and teachers were completely fine with it (mostly ignoring it tbh), he was an ordinary looking boy but as soon as he arrived at school he would head for a dressing up corner, put on a princess dress and wear it all day. All kids just took it as a completely normal thing (as kids do). Then, at home time, would take it off and go home. His family moved away but I wonder what he is doing now. Was he trans? He never said he was a girl, he just loved dresses.

<a class="break-all" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240530001446/www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/scottish-doctors-approved-breast-removal-for-51-trans-teenagers-qvkmz8r2c" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20240530001446/www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/scottish-doctors-approved-breast-removal-for-51-trans-teenagers-qvkmz8r2c

'More than fifty transgender boys under the age of 18 have been approved for double mastectomies'.

This included girls as young as 15. They were sent to England to have the procedure.

Yes, they were funding the white supremacists with money they had been given to fight racism. They also persuaded white supremacists who wanted to leave, to stay.

Kathleen Stock on the walking stick trend:

archive.ph/2026.08.06-141250/www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/young-women-walking-sticks-gen-z-disability-2ssv95mws#selection-1809.92-1809.93

Reception kids are tiny. One of my sons loved dress up at that age - Bob the builder, buzz lightyear, captain America, tutus, witches, princesses. All out meant was a was a small child who enjoyed imaginative play.
It was when let toys be toys and let clothes be clothes were both a thing.

I have no issue with genuine trans people- the two older adults i have met were just normal everyday people. No unusual clothes, it wasn't a big deal, they seemed pretty content and just wanted to be included without a fuss.

Whereas the trans young people I know are all AuDHD, all have severe mental health issues, all wear really way out clothes that draw as much attention as possible and all have a range of non specific medical concerns/disabilities. They are also all high social media users and seem to have identities formed only about their trans and disability needs, getting a huge amount of positive feedback from total strangers online. Sharing how unwell they are. How the world is against them etc. It is really sad as there doesn't seem to be any parenting attempt to balance these views.

Did you not read the original post? OP clearly states they don’t have social media.

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.

Thankyou for clarifying

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.

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”?

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 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.

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.

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.

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!

Definitely think this is part of it.

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.

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

What???

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

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?

And he was reception age.