INeedSomeTime

That's a good read. To be fair it's good to wonder what triggers the distress among girls/women to the point they'll be prone to adopt trans identity... my theory is it's simply because of social media. Social media is where they find the whole trans thing to begin with but social media is a place where they see how women/girls are seen by men. They see the thounsands of beautiful, and surely edited, selfies of Instagram female models. They see how very feminine pretty women will get popular on Instagram just for their looks. Isn't it that offending to some other women/girls, who either aren't this pretty or just don't want their self-worth based on it? That's kinda similar to people bringing up the magazine models, who also distorted girls view on themselves... but in the past they weren't exposed to it as much as now. But even then another social contagion was Eating Disorders - a similar distress signal among girls.

The notion that these teens sound like they were reading from a script is very true. For our excercises in a psychiatric clinic we could listen to some patients stories. One of the recorded patients, who agreed to share her story, was a 12 year old girl. She was all fine. She simulated depression, being pansexual (when asked how she understood this sexuality she understood in a non-sexual way) and then said she's transgender. All of that she said sounded very script like to me. I detected it right away and I could even tell where she read all of that. I found it concerning and it was troubling even more when it was said that these kind of minor patients were common currently.