I agree-social media have played a key role in promoting trans ideology among female teenagers. I'm not sure what we can do about that, but it sure doesn't help when the Biden administration joins in and actively encourages confused, socially awkward young women to consider undergoing radical medical procedures in order to conform to their perceived "true sex." That's what Biden appointee Rachel Levine did.
Social contagion is making teen girls depressed — and trans
We are going to look back years from now and wonder how, as a society, we failed young girls so badly. Between social media and fashionable gender theories, we are making teenage girls depres…
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We are going to look back years from now and wonder how, as a society, we failed young girls so badly.
Between social media and fashionable gender theories, we are making teenage girls depressed, anxious and trans.
In a Substack essay the other day, a mother wrote of her daughter, “She was among the last of her small group of biologically female friends to socially transition. It was mid-pandemic, and she spent most of her time with her best friend, who had, unbeknownst to me, shown her hours upon end of transgender entertainment on YouTube and TikTok.”
Of course, that is going to have an effect, although there is a massive effort to deny it among trans activists and in much of the media.
The Geico gecko can persuade us to buy car insurance.
Donald Trump can post a meme on Truth Social and it can prompt someone to go take a baseball bat to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Someone can use the wrong pronoun and it can move a trans person to harm himself or herself.
But what can’t possibly happen, we are supposed to believe, is that the constant discussion and celebration of transgenderism might persuade confused young people to decide they are nonbinary or trans.
Even some trans advocates are willing to admit this makes no sense.
Marci Bowers, president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, told the progressive New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg: “There are people in my community who will deny that there’s any sort of ‘social contagion’ — I shouldn’t say social contagion, but at least peer influence on some of these decisions. I think that’s just not recognizing human behavior.”
Bowers is the exception, though. It is taken as an article of faith among trans activists and much of the left that social contagion is a pernicious myth.
This denial is based on the idea that people, especially young people, aren’t suggestible.
We know this isn’t true.
What we are told, what our friends do and say, what signals we get from society matter enormously.
And awareness and encouragement of transgenderism, nonbinary status and heretofore unknown genders have increased dramatically.
Internet searches for anorexia in recent years have declined while searches for transgender have soared.
There are transgender and nonbinary celebrities.
Schools have started teaching kids gender ideology, and some will “transition” children without telling parents...
mod: this thread is about the Biden administration, not transgender issues - get back on topic.
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