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There's more trans people nowadays because it is more accepted

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itssunnyyay · 21/03/2022 15:03

Thoughts?

I was with a friend of mine at the weekend who is a primary teacher and she mentioned that there are 2 kids in year 5 at her school who are trans, one is a trans girl and one is a trans boy.

She then said 'do you think that trans is more common now because parents and society in general are more accepting of it?' .. so clearly she is wondering a little bit about it and this is the conclusion she has come to.

Tbh, I kind of tried to change the subject because I knew she would view my thoughts as bigoted, but If her idea was true, then why has no one that we went to school with now come out as trans? If the only reason there now seems to be more trans people than before, was that it is now more accepted, then surely we would be seeing people of all ages suddenly coming out as trans?

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tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz · 21/03/2022 15:29

@ZaraSizeMedium

Yes, where is the deluge of middle aged women coming out as transmen, purchasing breast binders and underwear fillers, at long last ready to live the rest of their lives as their true authentic self? …. Tumbleweed.
This.
tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz · 21/03/2022 15:28

There is no such thing as a trans child that young, just a projecting parent

NotTerfNorCis · 21/03/2022 15:27

There will always have been people who reject gender stereotypes, but now they're encouraged to believe from an early age that they're trans.

MangyInseam · 21/03/2022 15:24

No. At the most basic level I would say that the numbers and patterns involved don't really support that. It's too many kids, and we aren't seeing older people in anything like similar numbers who are say they should have transitioned as kids they are really men/women, or seem to show ongoing issues because that wasn't an option. We also don't see similar patterns in other cultures historically, it seems to be a new phenomena in terms of who is affected and how.

And people who are looking at the numbers as researchers also don't generally seem to think that seems to be a good explanation either.

ZaraSizeMedium · 21/03/2022 15:22

Yes, where is the deluge of middle aged women coming out as transmen, purchasing breast binders and underwear fillers, at long last ready to live the rest of their lives as their true authentic self? …. Tumbleweed.

Whatsnewpussyhat · 21/03/2022 15:18

'Trans children' will have been heavily influenced by their parents or elsewhere.
Social contagion plays a large role.

Not allowed to point out the glaring differences between the motivations of teenage girls and adult males who claim to be the opposite sex.