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[–]BiologyIsReal 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I don't know about this, but I think nowadays the parents may be ones mainly driving the small children towards as trans identity. I'm thinking in cases like Jazz Jennings. I just find so odd to bring your kid to a gender clinic just because she or he doesn't fit with gender roles. About this study specifically, well, I think they should have studied the fathers, too.

[–]worried19[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree about nowadays. There are so many famous trans children where it seems like the parents, specifically the mothers, are driving the train. Jazz Jennings, Coy Mathis, Avery Jackson, etc. I could probably list dozens more. Huge red flags all over those situations, yet there's nothing but fawning praise from the media.

1991 was well before GNC children were affirmed as trans, but I can't help but think some of these mothers may have been similar. That they wanted to have a "sick" child to bring to doctors and specialists. Where were the fathers, though? What was their role in all this? It would be interesting to know the state of their emotional health as well.