Why Is Transgender Identity on the Rise Among Teens? Theories Suggest a "Social Contagion" - Psychology Today

IDislikeYourMeta · 2020-12-08T15:31:32+00:00

A new study of social contagion raises important clinical and ethical questions.

Transgender identity* is characterized by experiencing distress with, or an inability to identify with one’s biological sex, usually prompting a desire to live one’s life as the opposite sex.

In the DSM-5, the standard classification of mental disorders used by mental health professionals, this condition is known as “gender dysphoria." Note that classifying gender dysphoria as a disorder does not—indeed, should not—imply a moral judgment of transgender individuals. Depending on the degree of social stigma associated with it, transgender identity can be accompanied by very significant distress. The point of the mental-health outlook is to help reduce stigma and assist transgender individuals in leading good lives. The role of social norms in this picture, however, remains unclear and hotly debated.

The historical and cross-cultural record indicates that conditions akin to what we now call "transgender identity" have been known to occur in all societies, with varying degrees of acceptance, suppression, or even encouragement. The widespread acceptance of individuals who were born males and dress and live as females, such as the hijra in India, katoey in Thailand, bakla in the Philippines, and travesti in Brazil, for example, long predates the current transgender movement in the West. Despite a longstanding recognition of their existence, transgender individuals in those countries continue to face some discrimination. Among the Kuna (also known as Guna) of the San Blas Islands in Panama, transgender identity appears to have been fully accepted since precolonial times. As a rare example of a matriarchal and matrilineal society, names and properties are typically passed on from female to female among the Kuna, leading to a cultural preference for having girl children. In this context, male children were sometimes raised as girls, thereby conferring families with a distinct social advantage. This gave rise to a rare example of absence of cultural stigma around transgender identities.

These examples are telling because they point to the importance of different social norms in mediating gendered preferences and behavior. They also introduce another piece in our puzzle: all the culturally recognized incidences of pre-modern transgender individuals mentioned above involve natal males who transition to female. In the DSM-5, prevalence rates of gender dysphoria are estimated at 0.005 percent to 0.014 percent of the population for natal males, and 0.002 percent to 0.003 percent for natal females. The higher prevalence of males exhibiting the condition is likely related to a higher percentage of male homosexuals worldwide (3 to 4 percent) as compared to lesbians (1 to 2 percent). While these rates are the subject of debate, the higher ratio of male homosexuals as compared to women is a consistent finding across surveys.

As attested by current controversies, rates of transgender identity appear to be on the rise, particularly among young people. Increased social acceptance of a previously stigmatized condition likely plays a role in this process, but other findings are clearly puzzling: Transgender identity is now reported among young natal females at rates that clearly exceed all known statistics to date.

In a recent survey of 250 families whose children developed symptoms of gender dysphoria during or right after puberty, Lisa Littman, a physician and professor of behavioral science at Brown University, found that over 80 percent of the youth in her sample were female at birth. Littman’s study reported many other surprising findings. To meet the diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria, a child typically needs to have shown observable characteristics of the condition prior to puberty, such as “a strong rejection of typically feminine or masculine toys," or “a strong resistance to wearing typically feminine or masculine clothes." Again, 80 percent of the parents in the study reported observing none of these early signs in their children.

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2020-12-08T18:20:59+00:00

There are trans-trenders.
Because of piss poor parenting, SJWs, and the 'need' to be accepted by 'everyone everwherrrrrrrrre' by teens they'll do anything. There are teen boys and girl who lie about being gay.
Apprently you can be trans and do NOTHING to transition or even take anything you simply "Believe what I subjectively think I am!!" and you're all good. Too many people need acceptance and approval by more people to even function properly.
Look at the kind of people on 'Tik Tock" to start.

avavea · 2020-12-09T00:38:42+00:00

Oh yeah ROGD is pretty common among FtM

reddtourmaline · 2020-12-09T15:28:25+00:00

ROGD is a huge huge problem- for the individuals suffering from it because they will transition and regret it, and for the real trans people that just want to be comfortable, but are silenced and labelled as a trender and have the treatment they vitally need witheld from them until they "prove" themselves. By that point, they're often already in the 40%.

Mariposa_Flor · 2020-12-08T17:30:09+00:00

Let people be who they want 🤷🏽‍♀️

Live and let live

JohnDoe721 · 2020-12-08T15:41:18+00:00

You weaken traditional gender roles And tell people that gender is choice, and have the technology to do it. Bang.

loiolaa · 2020-12-09T00:19:40+00:00

I guess now it is much more accepted so more people admit it? Or even know that there is a possibility.

Let people do whatever, who cares

RaskolniFao · 2020-12-09T21:34:26+00:00

related to this sub?

pacsatonifil · 2020-12-10T21:30:24+00:00

I 100% agree. I grew up in the 90s and boys were boys even if they weren’t the most manly and same for girls. I don’t know where this new sexist movement came. If someone likes to have long hair and be more feminine then that’s a feminine man not a woman.

Either way I would recommend everyone for the sake of this sub to thread lightly. In Reddit logical and respectful criticism is seen as an act of hate. They have closed other subs.

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