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[–]BEB 33 insightful - 1 fun33 insightful - 0 fun34 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It's kind of Munchausen syndrome by proxy - these parents want attention so must have Very Speshal Kids - note that a lot of the parents ( and -sorry - it is usually mothers) of trans kids are very LOOK AT ME themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factitious_disorder_imposed_on_another

[–]SpatOuttheKoolaid 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Narcissistic parenting. (one of the few remaining helpful communities on reddit is r/raisedbynarcissists) it's classic, just the method is new. I was raised by a narcissist--I was "marketed" into academics, but I was born in the 80s. So glad I wasn't born a few decades later and my mom didn't happen to want a son.

[–]BEB 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There was actually a study done on mothers of transgenders, I believe it mothers of TiMs, that found a high % of a specific disorder. It could have been Borderline Personality Disorder. If I find it, I will post.

Another study found that TiMs have a much higher % of personality disorders than the general population, with the most prominent being Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

[–]TangerineRabbit 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Here is one study if anyone is interested