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Being gay or trans or non binary or whatever is not contagious. There is no reason for differing %, except the trend is very clear: The older the generation the

Being gay or trans or non binary or whatever is not contagious. There is no reason for differing %, except the trend is very clear: The older the generation the fewer % are out. It's because people are more supported and more able to come out. More people aren't gay. More people are able to live their truth publicly. * and based on your comment I will leap that you aren't a part of this community. The ugly truth is it is still very hard to come out for way too many. And dangerous. Look at the attacks on trans kids and talking about gender in schools.

fhklp 4y ago
- hikingsimulator 4y ago
  ROGD is a invention by an adjunct who asked parents on transphobic websites. It was never intended to represent the reality of transgender people. Please don't spread lies and misinformation -- you just have to perform a cursory glance online to find that out. > Lisa Littman, as an adjunct assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, created the term based on an online survey of parents on three anti-transgender websites who believed that their teenage children had suddenly manifested symptoms of gender dysphoria and begun identifying as transgender simultaneously with other children in their peer group. [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid-onset_gender_dysphoria_controversy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid-onset_gender_dysphoria...
  - fhklp 4y ago
    Have a read of this, it's a first-hand account of a detransitioner who says that Littman's description of ROGD fit her to a tee: https://lacroicsz.substack.com/p/by-any-other-name https://lacroicsz.substack.com/p/by-any-other-name She was captured by the ideology as a teenager and took testosterone for a year and a half before realising what had happened to her. And there are many others just like her. I urge you to be more open-minded about this issue, and not baselessly accuse others of lies and misinformation, just for disagreeing with your opinion and having concerns about how children are being so negatively affected by this trend.
emptysongglass 4y ago
- hef19898 4y ago
  Did you just actually compare coming out as LGBTQ and sexual identity to conspiracy theories? Come on, you can do better.
  - emptysongglass 4y ago
    No, I did not. I am saying using language improperly invites the wrong kind of conclusions. Please respond to the strongest possible interpretation of my comment. I have trans friends. We get along. I do not hate people for choosing an identity. That is silly. I could get into the futility of binding ourselves to an identity (any identity) and how it perpetuates suffering but this is not the time or place. I think it's important to also point out that comments like yours, drive-by tweet-sized derision, directly feed the outrage culture humanity faces today.
- mccarvo 4y ago
  From context, I don't think they mean the phrase literally, it's really just a shibboleth of the progressive political movement in the US, with connotations of a person going public about a facet of themselves they had previously kept private due to fear of judgement from others or similar negative repercussions.
strken 4y ago
How do you have any idea what's socially determined (a more neutral phrasing than "contagious") and what's not? It's not as if anyone's doing randomised controlled trials of RuPauls Drag Race exposure and gender self-identification. I don't care why people do anything and I'm generally happy to let them do it, but come on. We have no idea what causes any given person's sexuality or identity to develop in the way it does. The most you can do is point to some correlations. Definitive statements like that are overconfident.

fhklp 4y ago

hikingsimulator 4y ago
ROGD is a invention by an adjunct who asked parents on transphobic websites. It was never intended to represent the reality of transgender people. Please don't spread lies and misinformation -- you just have to perform a cursory glance online to find that out. > Lisa Littman, as an adjunct assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, created the term based on an online survey of parents on three anti-transgender websites who believed that their teenage children had suddenly manifested symptoms of gender dysphoria and begun identifying as transgender simultaneously with other children in their peer group. [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid-onset_gender_dysphoria_controversy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid-onset_gender_dysphoria...
- fhklp 4y ago
  Have a read of this, it's a first-hand account of a detransitioner who says that Littman's description of ROGD fit her to a tee: https://lacroicsz.substack.com/p/by-any-other-name https://lacroicsz.substack.com/p/by-any-other-name She was captured by the ideology as a teenager and took testosterone for a year and a half before realising what had happened to her. And there are many others just like her. I urge you to be more open-minded about this issue, and not baselessly accuse others of lies and misinformation, just for disagreeing with your opinion and having concerns about how children are being so negatively affected by this trend.

emptysongglass 4y ago

hef19898 4y ago
Did you just actually compare coming out as LGBTQ and sexual identity to conspiracy theories? Come on, you can do better.
- emptysongglass 4y ago
  No, I did not. I am saying using language improperly invites the wrong kind of conclusions. Please respond to the strongest possible interpretation of my comment. I have trans friends. We get along. I do not hate people for choosing an identity. That is silly. I could get into the futility of binding ourselves to an identity (any identity) and how it perpetuates suffering but this is not the time or place. I think it's important to also point out that comments like yours, drive-by tweet-sized derision, directly feed the outrage culture humanity faces today.
mccarvo 4y ago
From context, I don't think they mean the phrase literally, it's really just a shibboleth of the progressive political movement in the US, with connotations of a person going public about a facet of themselves they had previously kept private due to fear of judgement from others or similar negative repercussions.

strken 4y ago

How do you have any idea what's socially determined (a more neutral phrasing than "contagious") and what's not? It's not as if anyone's doing randomised controlled trials of RuPauls Drag Race exposure and gender self-identification. I don't care why people do anything and I'm generally happy to let them do it, but come on. We have no idea what causes any given person's sexuality or identity to develop in the way it does. The most you can do is point to some correlations. Definitive statements like that are overconfident.