Gonzo from The Muppets now cross dresses and is “gender non conforming”

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

Abigail Shrier argues a peer contagion model in her book Irreversible Damage, at least in the instance of teenage girls.

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Between 2016 and 2017, the number of females seeking gender surgery quadrupled in the United States. Thousands of teen girls across the Western world are not only self-diagnosing with a real dysphoric condition they likely do not have; in many cases, they are obtaining hormones and surgeries following the most cursory diagnostic processes.

Schoolteachers, therapists, doctors, surgeons, and medical-accreditation organizations are all rubber-stamping these transitions, often out of fear that doing otherwise will be reported as a sign of “transphobia”—despite growing evidence that most young people who present as trans will eventually desist, and so these interventions will do more harm than good. [Cont...]

Scott Howard's The Transgender Industrial Complex is an alt-right take on the phenomena.

Edit: Sailer's review is also worth a read. You can find more if you search his blog over at Unz.

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

I have had it recommended to me in a previous thread, so I'm looking into it down the line. As a counterpoint first, I have discovered this review of the Industrial Complex book: https://medium.com/james-finn/the-transgender-industrial-complex-racist-anti-semitic-nonsense-e82edc20ef89 James Finn believes the book has a lack of evidence for transgenderism being a conspiracy, is poorly written in a lackadasical style simply taking out anger, and fails to take into account the lived experiences of transgender people which have been oppressed more than championed by many. Someone commented Shrier's book falls victim to this kind of thinking as well. How would you compare these writings to the review I posted?

Thanks for showing me Irreversible Damage anyhow. I look forward to going through each resource and its counterpoints.