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Some claim ‘social contagion’ is driving teenagers who were assigned female at birth to identify as transgender and seek medical care.

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[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago

aka MAGA is pissed off because there's less women and teenage girls for them to eyefuck.

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 59 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

“An excess”? What does that even mean?

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Transphobes need to lie, because "truth is not on their side", also people feel more empathy for AFABs.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For the right wing? It means "some".

[–] TorJansen@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

For MAGA it means just one

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 20 hours ago

I'm suddenly reminded of that video where Jordan Peterson starts bawling about the "butchers" that "mutilated" Elliott Page.

Sure do love how to these fuckers all trans girls are groomers and all trans boys are poor innocent girls that are getting groomed into chopping off their breasts. Sure isn't exhausting at all.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

More than the made up numbers of how many trans people there are

[–] wizblizz@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are the child trafficking pederasts I voted into power the issue? No, must be the kids who are wrong.

Christ on fucking crutches. Leave the trans kids alone.

[–] griff@lemmings.world 7 points 1 day ago

and leave our neighbors alone as well

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 55 points 1 day ago

‘But data suggests otherwise’ is true of essentially all transphobic witch hunts, but that’s hardly going to stop them.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 day ago

This is like the skin-coloured band-aid thing again.

If it's a group of people saying they can help trans kids then it's "social contagion", but when it's a societal norm of hatred and oppression towards trans people pressuring them to stay closeted then hey, that's nothing to do with society, it's just the standard default.