[plain talk]

Nearly 150,000 American teenagers from 13 to 17 years old — or one out of every 137 — would identify as transgender if survey takers asked, according to an analysis of state and federal data that offers an answer to a question that has long eluded researchers.

I formatted the sentence in bold since it is bold-faced lie.

[Gay State Conservative]

I formatted the sentence in bold since it is bold-faced lie.

Not necessarily a lie.If you think about it it's easy to believe that one kid in 137 in that age group hates his/her life.Ask a boy like that if he thinks he's a girl and he might say yes.Ditto asking a girl if she thinks she's a boy.But remember,that same kid is just as likely to tell you that he/she is the King/Queen of Spain.

It's called garden variety mental illness.