8 out of 9 girls at school decided to de-transition because of lockdown

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[–]Femaleisnthateful 28 insightful - 1 fun28 insightful - 0 fun29 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

On the flip side, so many youths are indoctrinated via social media, and young people are spending even more time online as a result of lockdown.

[–]MinisterOfTerfery 32 insightful - 1 fun32 insightful - 0 fun33 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

True, but gender and transitioning is all about how other people see you, if no one other than your family sees you there is no point.

[–]MarkTwainiac 27 insightful - 1 fun27 insightful - 0 fun28 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

transitioning is all about how other people see you

I think it's more about how these people want and think other people see them.

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

That's an interesting point, but I don't think it covers all the etiologies of trans identification. The ROGD phenomenon is arguably driven by a maladaptive coping mechanism by young females with mental health issues. These mental health issues are often exacerbated by social media and online activity. Maybe people in real life won't see them, but there are all sorts of online forums (Tumblr, Reddit) where youth can perform transition and be celebrated for it.

[–]MarkTwainiac 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, and they're all over other social media posting selfies and videos of themselves posing in their different outfits, trying out different postures, faces, hairstyles, makeup and accessories, and generally performing their "gender identities." Tons of this stuff on TikTok and YouTube.

Somebody on YT does compilation vids of the "best" of the most recent trans and non binary Tik Toks. They're all of very self-absorbed young people - mostly girls who think they look like boys but who of course don't at all - performing, and sometimes hectoring other people about pronoun use and how awful terfs are too.

In the old days, adolescents and young adults used to deliver our/their mirror monologues in the privacy of their/our own bedrooms and bathrooms so navel-gazing was a usually solitary act, done for and involving one's self only. Now adolescents take pics and vids and plaster these embarrassing moments of theirs - and their mental health problems - all over the internet for the world to see, unaware that others might see them in a far less flattering light than they want to be seen.

It's like they don't realize that the behavior of Travis Bickle in "Taxi Driver" was presented as a cautionary tale, not something to emulate:

https://youtu.be/lQkpes3dgzg