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Steve's avatar

The third topic--is trans still cool with kids?--is a fascinating one. I did not get marries until my 40s so bow this 1986 high school grad has a son and daughter in high school. One thing I've noticed is that, as young people, they want to challenge conventional wisdom just as their date. Living in Reagan's America, that impulse naturally took me to the left. Living in a liberal Connecticut town, that same impule is taking them to the right.

My kids are open to trans people and,, indeed all gender nonconforming people. But I'd say their attitude is respectful and sympathetic instead of jealous or admiring. That is, they wish them well, but do not find them to be special.

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Steve's avatar

Lol! I'm using a new Samsung phone with a different keyboard. Substack does not allow editing of comments (only deleting). So mentally change "date" to "dad"--and please don't report me.

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Gender: A Wider Lens's avatar

Ha! You're safe (for now)!

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Gender: A Wider Lens's avatar

Thanks for the input, Steve! It's helpful to hear from parents of kids who are NOT questioning their gender, to better understand the attitude of those adolescents about all of this.

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for the kids's avatar

Can you please write up the outcomes you have found as a peer reviewed paper? The field is starving for data.

There is a serious issue with "no data....must be no problem!"

Researchers advocating for these interventions are still saying that if a kid starts puberty and still has GD, or if it intensifies then (how about appearing during puberty, that is intensifying?) that it is likely to remain....does this claim match your experience? Byrne (2024) traced the claim back and didn't find it had data behind it, but you could add to this with what you are seeing, which most people looking into this do not have access to.

It is of course limited data because these are patients who came to see you, self-selected patients (or parent selected) but most studies suffer from this. The ones which follow up the medical pathways don't keep track of enough of the patients, for long enough, either and so also are not getting a full picture.

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Theo's avatar

Trans identification is evidently still “cool”, at least in America. Just a few weeks ago a survey showed that the number of both adults and children identifying as trans has reached a new all time high and is expected to keep increasing… https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/20/trans-people-us-data

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Cassandra anonymous's avatar

New York metro area seems thoroughly permeated, no?

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Mike Walker's avatar

This info should be available and shared all over the place when it’s (this stage at least) finalised. It’s great work and there’s a paucity and I would say a suppression of this information (see Olsen, WPATH and that extremely polite never answers questions obfuscating nut job Levine) because the science is settled! 😂

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