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

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As we know the period from the mid 10s to early 20s has been described as “woke 1” and is apparently “over”.
When I was at secondary school in the 2010s, there were four trans kids in my year group (3 FTMs and one mtf) the one mtf was autistic and in foster care. I was always nice to them and kept my views to myself but I’m wondering what’s going on with them now, they’ve completely dropped off the radar. None of them have social media accounts and no one else I went to school with had heard from them.

My daughter has just entered year 5 and doesn’t know any trans kids or even what one is, my neighbours teenage children don’t know any either and they’re the age I was when four classmates transitioned.

I know there’s a lot of teachers on mumsnet would this be your experience too?

Ive tried googling this but everyone seems to have moved on from it I think there may be a forgotten generation who’s lives have been ruined

I think its on purpose, tbh.

Many lives are ruined.
Have you not read detransitioner stories?

Actually, I feel that the deliberate maiming and/or medical crippling of a single individual is one too many. More just makes it worse, but one is enough to be abhorrent.

I’ve spent the morning moving my dd into halls. I must have seen at least thirty students with walking sticks this morning.

I think it’s maybe 10 since 2007, when counting started.

Thank you! I seemed unable to find that information in a site I felt reliable.

The figure leads immediately to wondering how many trans murderers there have been in the same time-period, doesn't it. Hmm.

I agree. It’s incredibly frustrating

I’m pretty sure it’s more.

Fore your school follow the Cass guidance and require a medical letter before socially transitioning children?

Undoubtedly most are ND or have mental health problems like depression or both. Strangely though, my ASD child is the opposite. He sees everything in black and white, so he can’t get his head around trans at all. It just doesn’t compute for him. Luckily there less of it around and he has gained coping mechanism with things that turn his understanding the universe on its head, but there was a point when he found trans and the school pandering to falsehoods around biology really distressing.

This paper from February 2026 has surveyed all transgender homicides in the UK over 25 years. there were 11 transgender people unlawfully killed & 15 transgender perpetrators.

Abstract
Transgender people are often portrayed as especially vulnerable to violence, but estimating victimization rates is difficult because reliable population denominators are lacking. This paper proposes an alternative approach, comparing the ratio of transgender homicide victims to perpetrators. It analyzes all homicides involving transgender people in Britain from 2000 to 2025. Victims were outnumbered by perpetrators, even excluding those who declared a transgender identity after imprisonment. Almost all cases involved natal males identifying as transwomen. The victim-perpetrator ratio among these individuals closely resembles that for males overall and differs markedly from that for females. BBC News published more than four times as many articles on transgender victims as on perpetrators, contributing to perceptions of exceptional vulnerability.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6182901

Thank you, NowSober. That's what I was hoping to find. I mean the information was what i was hoping to find, not that it would be that particular information, if you see what I mean.

Sorry I don't understand, maybe I've missed something. Why did they have walking sticks, were they suffering from a disability? The thread is about trans kids, not sure if you meant to post here.

Walking sticks are the new way to signal that you are special and different and your taste in sexual partners or lack of them must be proclaimed in some way. As if it were universally interesting.

I haven't noticed it (walking stick "trend") at my daughter's uni but will have a look around next time I visit.

I’m confused. So walking sticks are to do with your sexuality, and not people with mobility problems being more confident to use them?

I think the idea is that a walking stick is the new fashion (“queerness” being the old one) to position oneself for success in the victimhood olympics.

I cannot confirm or deny this in my own experience.

The thread is about the trans trend. You have missed something. Walking sticks are the new trend.

RTFT

More useful information here, 2021 article

https://archive.is/dvW1E

"Even though we’ve seen a sharp rise in the number of people who identify as transgender in the last few years, a trans person hasn’t been murdered in the UK for <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.is/o/dvW1E/www.bromsgroveadvertiser.co.uk/news/17961867.murder-trial-following-death-transgender-woman-adjourned-next-year/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">nearly three years and there are, for example, no reports ever of a trans person in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland being murdered.
Moreover, not one of even the eleven people Transrespect says were murdered, were killed due to “transphobia”. The victim in each case was typically murdered by a male sexual partner due to drugs or money issues. None were killed by a woman — and one was killed by a <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.is/o/dvW1E/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-16305570" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">man who identifies as a woman.'

ETA the links in the article are messed up when I post, best to read the article itself.

BBC News published more than four times as many articles on transgender victims as on perpetrators, contributing to perceptions of exceptional vulnerability.

The BBC has a lot to answer for.

Apologises if it’s been posted already but Kathleen Stock wrote about this growing trend for girls using disability aids: https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/young-women-walking-sticks-gen-z-disability-2ssv95mws

Able-bodied young women are carrying them to signal their totally enthralling sexuality, yes.

This must be a right pain for people who actually need them.

Give me walking sticks any day. Apart from this trend being hugely irritating to people who actually need to use them for mobility issues, no harm done. Throw them in the corner when your MH improves and crack on with life

Do they have different colours for different sexualities?

(Can’t read the Kathleen Stock article so I don’t know if she explains it there)

You should be able to read Kathleen Stock's article here

archive.ph/sSSDO