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UnHerd: Why are fewer young people identifying as trans?

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Signalbox · 14/10/2025 16:08

Is the transgender trend amongst our youth finally fizzling out? Let’s hope so!

https://unherd.com/newsroom/why-are-fewer-young-people-identifying-as-trans/

Archive…

https://archive.ph/6a5fR

Twitter…

https://x.com/epkaufm/status/1978074195767480659

“The fall of trans and queer seems most similar to the fading of a fashion or trend. It happened largely independently of shifts in political beliefs and social media use, though improved mental health played a role”

UnHerd: Why are fewer young people identifying as trans?
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Okiedokie123 · 16/10/2025 20:55

windowlark · 16/10/2025 10:13

‘I would - in an ideal world - ban all cosmetic surgery other than things like pinning back sticky-out ears, or removing large facial growths.
I would do this for many many reasons’

Out of interest, and I’m not saying I disagree, but why not ban all cosmetic surgeries. Why is it ok for people to get their ears pinned back?

I’m with you in that I’m essentially against cosmetic surgery but….. if my kiddo hadn’t had cosmetic surgery aged 2 she would now have an apple sized lump by her eye. Sometimes it is worth doing.

Pleasegetmeacoffeesotired · 17/10/2025 03:57

Okiedokie123 · 16/10/2025 20:55

I’m with you in that I’m essentially against cosmetic surgery but….. if my kiddo hadn’t had cosmetic surgery aged 2 she would now have an apple sized lump by her eye. Sometimes it is worth doing.

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So why is that different to other people wanting cosmetic surgeries?

borntobequiet · 17/10/2025 07:04

So why is that different to other people wanting cosmetic surgeries?

Probably because it could compromise eyesight and possibly other functions. (Which TBF makes it necessary, rather than cosmetic surgery.)

Argonometra · 18/10/2025 14:30

DrBlackbird · 15/10/2025 22:41

That is just incredibly heart breaking. Surgeons performing these mutilations should be struck off. Sociopaths every one of them.

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People can do bad things and not be sociopaths. Especially given that at least one university, Bath Spa, forbade a student from researching detransition rates. It's easy to become a pawn when people censor information.

DeanElderberry · 18/10/2025 15:45

I found these interesting - graphics showing reasons why people who later detransitioned, transitioned in the first place, and a graph showing the relative ages of both transition and detransition in boys and girls.

https://x.com/pjamessteven

worth looking at the bloke's tweets

girljulian · 18/10/2025 15:49

LeftieRightsHoarder · 14/10/2025 20:36

I keep thinking of the girl I saw at a music festival with her back to me, dancing around in front of her friends, a bit drunk, holding her shirt wide open while they laughed and cheered. Being much older, I smiled indulgently and thought luckily she was safe with her friends.

Was she hell. She danced round and I saw she wasn't exposing her breasts but two horrible scars where she'd had them amputated. I could have wept. I keep thinking of her funny tipsy joy, and her stupid friends egging her on.

I hope to god she had nothing worse done. I hope every surgeon involved in this shit show is struck off for life.

Maybe she wasn’t trans? I’m not trans but I’d love to have my tits removed. It’s not a gender thing.

MarvellousMonsters · 18/10/2025 17:02

I think we are still quite a long way from this being truly over. I do think it’s a trend, a harmful one, but hopefully, eventually, the worm will eat its own tail and we will see less gender woo and more rejections of stereotypes.

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