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 non binary is more on trend now. You still get to be alternative but don’t have to
commit in the same way as trans. I teach a lot
if 18-24 y olds and there’s many a they them. Having said that my 8 y old has a mtf trans kid in his class. Parents work with LQBTQ youths- which seems quite the conincidence.

Can I suggest that anyone interested in where the trans spike came from listen to the Dr Soh & Chloe Cole podcast.
This is a FTM de transion American person.
It was a game changer for me.

The GRA was 2004. There's no backlog after 22 years.

Yes I always think that as we evolve we should get less bothered about labels, but certain demographics seem very keen . It does or did seem for a while that if you didn't like dresses and make up then you were obviously in the wrong body - rather than just being a woman who didn't like dresses and make up which is more of a social conformity isn't it, not biological.

I saw a group of women on Instagram, short hair no make up all in their 50's and they were being asked were they male - err no I am what would have been called a tomboy.

Its totally misogynistic and needs to be banned.

I have nothing against religion whatsoever but any misogynistic practices need to be banned.

I worked in engineering and hated being treated differently because I am female. Its now banned to treat people differently in the world place but this needs to be for religion too.

And they also need to stop this selective application process too. 20 people applied to an engineering job. 2 female. They interviewed the two females and I males and then gave one of the females the job to increase their female engineer numbers. Ffs!! Give it to the person who was best for the job!

I dont want to be given opportunities because I'm female. I want them because I'm the best candidate!!

There were a lot in dd’s year at school. They were all in a group at primary school (to be blunt, the “odd” kids) and then all became non- binary at secondary school. Dd said she thought they were loving having an identity, a special room at school, awards for mental health awareness - attention basically.

I also saw the Pride March in my local city. Well, apart from a few drag queens it was Spot the Gay Man. Or the Lesbian. It was 95% at least young women, many with sticks, in wheelchairs and dressed in their specific style.

At what age did they transition? My bet is that they wouldn't have been given puberty blockers as a young teen back then.

I would flip it, rather than the health condition affecting mostly people with a certain look it doesn’t seem that hard to believe that people with health conditions are more likely to choose one subculture than another. If you have a difference like a disability you might well find you feel more at home among the blue haired woke kids than the sporty kids or (where I live) the Young Farmers.
plus it’s also possible that it’s another factor such as autism which correlates with particular health conditions.

And homophobic dads. Rather a trans daughter than a gay son. Tragic.

I don’t know if it’s over. My two dc went to (different) special schools and knew many trans students. The one I know of (ftm) has just been released from prison for the second time at the age of 20. It was in the local press with a picture where they still had a masculine appearance.

The other ones (mtf) presented and lived as girls and to my knowledge are still the same and they must all be about 20 now. These are young people with severe emotional and behaviour problems to the extent they were in care and/or secure accommodation with full-time supervision.

I agree that finding one’s tribe is important. The Italians have an expression, “Go with the lame and learn to limp” which I think does apply in many cases.

Who is a Mumsnet director?!

Well you did "go along with it" if you kept your mouth shut 🙄

I think if teenagers don't know what being transgender is, that's probably an education issue rather than anything else.

I work with teens and most have an understanding of a wide variety of LGBTQ+ issues.

Nobody is born with both sets of genitals. Some people have a disorder/difference of sex development (the term now used instead of intersex, to avoid exactly this misconception). Some DSDs cause the external genitals to be ambiguous and can therefore mean the baby's sex is incorrectly recorded at birth. Some affect internal or hormonal sex characteristics. DSDs are sex-specific - some affect only males, some only females. None mean a person is both sexes.

Nobody is born with both sets of genitals.
Differences or Disorders of Sexual Development are sex specific. Each of them only affect one sex.
The only connexion with this ideology is when men like Caster Semenya and Imane Kalif use them to steal medals from women.

Yuk, I had no idea that Mumsnet was mixed up with GLP.

Rich people problems

The ONLY one I knew ,who was heading towards f to m trans ,is in a relationship with a man and has a baby ..
No lives ruined here ...
However..school were very pushy with her , labeling situations and deliberately keeping parents in the dark with a 15 year old ..
So it could of been a different story
This person is now diagnosed with autism and adhd

I reckon if my parents (or one in particular) had given me a name that could be flipped into Pile o'Shit, I'd want to be known by another name as well.

It's an influencer trend according to recent newspaper articles. This is from The Telegraph yesterday and there's a similar article in The Times, but I don't have a share token.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/3e3fc9c2f52e4467

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I remember my old housemate being horrified by the name, after she was born. I quite like it 🤷‍♀️

I am a teacher. There are definitely fewer trans-identifying kids, and of the trans kids I taught in that period three that I know of no longer identify as transgender. I currently teach only two FTM transgender students. However, I don’t know about the rest as I have no idea where they are.

I've had a look on Mermaids company history and Mumsnet. I cannot find any of the same directors on both. I haven't been able to look at trustees yet.