For years, I have seen the surge in youth identifying as transgender, and I have understood it as social contagion, much to the woke chagrin of some colleagues. As a child psychiatrist in a cartoon progressive state, I risk being professionally tarred and feathered for voicing support for academics such as Drs. Lisa Littman or Debra Soh…
For years, I have seen the surge in youth identifying as transgender, and I have understood it as social contagion, much to the woke chagrin of some colleagues. As a child psychiatrist in a cartoon progressive state, I risk being professionally tarred and feathered for voicing support for academics such as Drs. Lisa Littman or Debra Soh. The following anecdote is not hyperbole: I once had an eleven year old patient who was ostracized and bullied for having a Christian worldview (learning from her fundamentalist Christian parents) and not embracing the social engineering curriculum of her public school educators. It is noteworthy that over half of the girls in her middle school home room identified as trans or non-binary. No debate: we should all respect and treat with kindness all human beings and how they would choose to identify themselves, but the other side of the coin is that accepting does not mean embracing or agreeing with anyone’s view on reality, biology, or a natural order. A study was just released:
Has anyone on this thread read this study and have any comments on methodology? The battle for verity of ideas may come down to good study design and math.
For years, I have seen the surge in youth identifying as transgender, and I have understood it as social contagion, much to the woke chagrin of some colleagues. As a child psychiatrist in a cartoon progressive state, I risk being professionally tarred and feathered for voicing support for academics such as Drs. Lisa Littman or Debra Soh. The following anecdote is not hyperbole: I once had an eleven year old patient who was ostracized and bullied for having a Christian worldview (learning from her fundamentalist Christian parents) and not embracing the social engineering curriculum of her public school educators. It is noteworthy that over half of the girls in her middle school home room identified as trans or non-binary. No debate: we should all respect and treat with kindness all human beings and how they would choose to identify themselves, but the other side of the coin is that accepting does not mean embracing or agreeing with anyone’s view on reality, biology, or a natural order. A study was just released:
https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/doi/10.1542/peds.2022-056567/188709/Sex-Assigned-at-Birth-Ratio-Among-Transgender-and
Has anyone on this thread read this study and have any comments on methodology? The battle for verity of ideas may come down to good study design and math.