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[–]jkfinn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, so many similarities, as you point out. Perhaps parents abdication is greater in transing than it is with anorexia though, because parents have more input into sex stereotypes in their raising of a child. I think of the advertising, fashion, and movie industries as being far more instrumental in anorexia than are the parents. I would also like to think that parents who for the most part must recognize trans for some kind of fad or gay thing, would seriously intervene, successfully or not, when to their child, it becomes way serious & extreme. (also, anorexia is often kept more hidden, i think)