How ‘peer contagion’ may play into the rise of teen girls transitioning

Submitted July 9, 2020, 6:04 p.m. by fijupanda

https://nypost.com/2020/06/27/how-peer-contagion-plays-into-the-rise-of-teens-transitioning/

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Tweeders55 · July 9, 2020, 6:41 p.m.

The New York Post actually publishing facts. Time to smoke a bowl.

loquedices · July 9, 2020, 8:23 p.m. · 1 reply

Thanks for sharing.

I believe that in the next 5-10 years we will be seeing a lot of therapists investigated for being way too lax with letting children make irreversible damage to their bodies. We are already starting to see some people who transitioned as kids expressing remorse in their late teens/20s. Really sad stuff.

DJLeafBug · July 9, 2020, 8:32 p.m. · 1 reply

imo it should never be encouraged. we wouldn't tell people with eating disorders to go ahead and hit their goal weight. it's disgusting the medical community is feeding these people hormones and prescribing plastic surgery to adults much less children.

dietpepsimagician · July 10, 2020, 2:27 a.m. · 1 reply

we wouldn’t tell people with eating disorders to go ahead and hit their goal weight

Doctors definitely do still do this, though. Not disagreeing with you that telling children to take hormones or do permanent damage to transition is wrong, but this metaphor doesn’t work very well. Women are still being thrown under the bus about weight if they don’t “look” thin enough to have an ED.

DJLeafBug · July 10, 2020, 9:26 a.m.

no psychologist is telling an anorexic to hit her goal weight of 80 lbs. what are you talking about?

parsons525 · July 9, 2020, 9:44 p.m.

And unlike those terrible haircuts I got, or those ugly piercings, there’s no going back when you transition.