Anonymous asked:

Look, I disagree strongly with your views, but I'm going to try and assume the best for a minute and guess that you're not British, and you don't get the Daily Mail in your country. It is literally the worst source you could use. Period. Like Britain's Fox News but worse. They have repeatedly been known to just straight up bullshit stories. If you can find another, more reliable source that claims doctors are diagnosing 18 month olds, sure, maybe, but until then, it's probably bs.

So, I do know that many in the UK call the Mail the “Daily Fail” and it’s not everyone’s favorite daily rag. However, it is one of the major dailies in the UK, widely read (for better or worse), along with the Independent, the Times, and the Guardian. My point in reblogging the comment that linked to the Mail is that it is saying the same thing all the rest of the media–both liberal and conservative–are: that kids who identify as transgender are born that way (with no evidence whatsoever), while completely ignoring the actual research (which I’ve linked to many times, including page 11 of the latest WPATH Standards of Care) which says that most kids (75-94% depending on the study) who declare they are the opposite sex end up growing out of it.  My aim, if it wasn’t clear from my original reblog, is to critique the message the media are feeding the public. But your comment inspires me to do a post that collects a few of these mainstream media stories, specifically from the UK, to reiterate this point. Thanks.