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Study Confirms Trans 'Social Contagion' Theory: “Gender transition” is driven by social pressure; Mentally ill youth were more likely than non-mentally ill to “transition.”
PJ Media ^ | 04/04/2023 | Ben Bartee

Posted on 04/04/2023 7:01:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

A study published in Archives of Sexual Behavior confirms the common-sense conclusion many observers of the “transgender” hysteria have long drawn regarding the sociogenic nature of deviant sexual identity.

The findings were interesting on several fronts: “gender transition” is driven by social pressure; females are by psychological disposition more susceptible to the “trans” social contagion; and mentally ill youth were more likely than non-mentally ill to “transition.”

From the study’s conclusion:

Results of our study are generally consistent with other recent research about the current surge of gender dysphoria among youth with onset during adolescence or young adulthood. Natal females were affected more often than natal males… There was evidence of immersion both in social media and in peer groups with other transgender-identifying youths….

Youths with a history of mental health issues were especially likely to have taken steps to socially and medically transition…
Parents tended to rate their children as worse off after transition.

Matt Margolis reported on a similar study with comparable results last year.

Relatedly, consider this account from an Austin, Texas, public school teacher who claims that no fewer than 20 out of her 32 fourth-grade students “came out” to her after undergoing a week of LGBTQ+++™ propaganda.

These are internal messages from a 4th grade elementary teacher in @AustinISD. She’s upset that an entire week dedicated to LGBT still wasn’t good enough. Coincidentally, 20/32 of her FOURTH GRADERS are LGBT and have “come out” to her

What the hell is going on in these schools?!


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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: genderdysphoria; lgbt; pressure; rapidonsetgenderdysp; rogd; sexualbehavior; socialcontagion; transagenda; transforce; transgender; transgenderism; transmania; transresearch
Most perniciously of all, the researchers in the social contagion study found that when parents or teachers turned their mentally ill children over to mental health professionals for help, “parents reported that they had often felt pressured by clinicians to affirm their child’s new gender and support their transition.”
1 posted on 04/04/2023 7:01:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Lately I’m hearing a lot of buzz about autistic folks being a major part of trans mental illness.


2 posted on 04/04/2023 7:09:37 AM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: SeekAndFind

For the child, they get more attention because they are now considered ‘special’, and they revel in this newfound attention.

They also are desperate to be elevated in the eyes of their peers at school because they will be the new center of attention until the next shiny thing comes along.

For the clinicians, surgeons and psychiatric professionals it means more money in the old bank account.

For the parents it’s a new way to look modern and be the neighborhood center of attention because they have a ‘trans’ child. Just like they were in a cool HS clique again. This is essentially legalized Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy.

Sick and evil people all around..................


3 posted on 04/04/2023 7:14:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SeekAndFind

“gender transition” is driven by social pressure;


GROOMING


4 posted on 04/04/2023 7:24:18 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: SeekAndFind

More wasted money to prove the obvious. It’s like we have to recreate the basics for the morons our system has produced as clearly practically no one has had an actual education in public school for decades. No wonder Musk wants to go to Mars.


5 posted on 04/04/2023 7:29:03 AM PDT by pops88 ( Helping usher the glory of God into Las Vegas)
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To: SeekAndFind

At least some intelligent analysis. Two things...this whole “social uproar” thing seems to be part of a calculated distraction to keep conservatives occupied while the Dems are stealing the reins of government. Gotta’ fight on both fronts.
Second, it is easy for the general population to accept physical and social fluidity. After all, they must reason, didn’t we all evolve from Darwin’s “warm little pond” to what we are now? What’s the big deal about changing sexes or gender identity? Having characters like “shape shifters”, morphin’ power rangers, mutant ninja turtles, and transformers in the culture helps normalize the concept.
IMHO.


6 posted on 04/04/2023 7:39:24 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: Getready

I hate autocorrect. Least = last.


7 posted on 04/04/2023 7:42:10 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I feel like this trans thing is a cult. They prey on vulnerable people and try to keep them away from their families, just like cults do.


8 posted on 04/04/2023 7:49:06 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: pops88

Completely agree.


9 posted on 04/04/2023 7:49:43 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“ mentally ill youth were more likely than non-mentally ill to “transition.”

Well, duh! How much tax money was spent to uncover this brilliance?


10 posted on 04/04/2023 7:56:48 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s what I’ve been saying all along. Young girls, especially those of the age of menstrual onset, feel strange, awkward, and ugly. They are faced with monthly swings in emotions which distress them even more. And then someone plants the idea that boys don’t go through what girls do and that they can be a boy, too. And once they announce they’re going to transition, they get praises and encouragement from the Internet and are immediately launched into the most revered status of leftists; victim.


11 posted on 04/04/2023 7:58:40 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Coincidentally, 20/32 of her FOURTH GRADERS are LGBT and have “come out” to her”

The entire staff at the school needs to be fired.


12 posted on 04/04/2023 8:01:23 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
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....and mentally ill youth were more likely than non-mentally ill to “transition.”

What a crock of BS! If you think you're the opposite sex you're mentally ill! The non-mentally ill don't "transition" or think they were born with the wrong gender.

13 posted on 04/04/2023 8:22:18 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

ROGD=”rapid onset gender dysphoria” is the new term being applied to the theory of social contagion/ coercion to conform to transgenderism.


14 posted on 04/04/2023 9:03:50 AM PDT by mumblypeg ("Give me Stalin or St. Paul. I've seen the Future, brother; it is murder."--Leonard Cohen)
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To: Taxman

ping


15 posted on 04/04/2023 9:06:51 AM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Anyone who lived thru the anorexia pandemic knows this. Teenaged girls are functionally insane, and only partially recover as they approach middle age.


16 posted on 04/04/2023 9:10:31 AM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: C210N

Where have you you seen this? After the Nashville murderer was reported to be “on the autism spectrum”, and several prior mass shooters were autistic transgender cases, I started to wonder about an autism-transgender connection. Cogitation isn’t scientific proof, but since autism often involves high intelligence but problems with empathy, sense of self, and ability to connect “normally” with others, sufferers likely self-perceive as “misfits”, and might seek explanation and relief in transgenderism. Those hopes are likely dashed, after the “transitioning” damage is done, but the autism remains.

Medical practitioners who do not address mental illness before irrevocably altering their patients’ bodies and hormones are committing a serious wrong.


17 posted on 04/04/2023 9:10:52 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: SeekAndFind

How many experts did it take to figure out trans freaks are psycho?!


18 posted on 04/04/2023 9:12:41 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: SeekAndFind
I think the whole gender transition fad is a horribly cruel prank played on our most miserable and lonely young people.

19 posted on 04/04/2023 9:30:29 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants; All

We need to learn to dissect the LGBT jargon & get to the heart of what they’re really
saying.
What does it really mean for an adult to “come out”?
It means, to publicly ANNOUNCE one’s sexual AVAILABILITY. IOW, when adults decide to “come out” they are announcing they are ready to be sexually ACTIVE with others who might be sexually attracted to their their type. They’re essentially saying, “Pick me to have sex with.”

Now, ask this: why would it be necessary for minor children to be pressured/ encouraged to “come out” and make public announcements regarding their presumed sexual “identities” or “preferences”?


20 posted on 04/04/2023 9:30:39 AM PDT by mumblypeg ("Give me Stalin or St. Paul. I've seen the Future, brother; it is murder."--Leonard Cohen)
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