I get requests all the time for evidence that most trans-identified kids grow out of it, the vast majority of them going on to be gay or lesbian adults. Here you go. Plenty of studies, helpfully compiled by Dr. James Cantor at this link:
http://www.sexologytoday.org/2016/01/do-trans-kids-stay-trans-when-they-grow_99.html?spref=tw
Of course, nowadays, we’re influencing kids to STAY trans by “socially transitioning” them, using “preferred pronouns,” and puberty blockers. Wouldn’t it be interesting to just leave them alone instead of reassuring them that they really ARE the opposite sex, given how high the medical stakes are?
Imagine all the kids that are being forced to transition by the transcult or parents thinking they’re being progressive, imagine them in 20 years or 10 years. Imagine how fucking sad that is going to be for them when they realize their parents made them take medication and hormone blockers before they even hit puberty and now have to deal with that
They can decide to transition when they are adults and know themselves better. I am so glad no one gave me hormones and told me I was a boy when I was little just because I said I wanted to be a boy. To me, that just meant access to things I didn’t easily have access to as a girl so of course I started saying that. It would have been terrible to then have people start socializing me into thinking I was trans.
“It would have been terrible to then have people start socializing me into thinking I was trans.“
THIS^^. THIS is what the gender specialists and people enabling kids and teens to “transition” NEVER acknowledge.
Blockers and pronouns and all the rest aren’t “fully reversible” because kids’ brains are very plastic, and they are heavily conditioned by what happens in childhood. They LEARN (duh! That’s what childhood is, a huge learning experience), and especially if trusted adults are saying, “oh yeah, you really ARE the opposite sex, we’ll call you by male pronouns”, etc. it will make it difficult if not impossible for them to change their minds.
Support kids in being “gender nonconforming.” Of course! But don’t set them up to be medical patients by taking the step of saying they ARE the opposite sex. If they decide as ADULTS that they want to do that, fine.
We need to support kids who don’t conform to stereotypes, not coddle them in the delusion that it’s possible to change their sex.
