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i had trouble picking up on certain expressions as a child so i didn’t understand what ‘let them eat cake’ was supposed to mean or why it was a bad thing i was like. aw that’s nice she’s giving the french peasants cake. why are people mad about this
Before you say “Duh,” remember they are using the social contagion lie to make life saving health care from children and teens. Studies like this can be used in court to fight for the rights of children in our community.
How about “It’s about damn time.”?
Book mark this article, find the source study and bookmark that too. Drown them in facts, in truth, not to change their ways but to make sure they cannot spread their lies to others.
We just got handed a powerful tool against the transphobes. Use it.
Haven’t gotten all the way through the article yet, but here’s a good place to start if you want to gauge the potential accuracy of the two studies: The “social contagion” one surveyed 260-something *parents,* while this new study surveyed over 90,000 actual trans youth. The new study has a better design and a MUCH larger sample size, making its results significantly more likely to be accurate.
And to my fellow cis people, please remember not to grow complacent. Media is siding with trans kids, but that doesn’t mean the fight is won yet. The nazis know they’re losing and that means they’re gonna do everything they can to hurt and scare the trans community before their campaign falls apart. They want to put trans kids in death camps. They want to kill cis leftists. They want to create an ethnostate. Until GNC folks in the US are in a position that could be reasonably called safe, we need to keep fighting. This won’t go away on its own. This isn’t about “feeding the trolls”. It’s about preventing another Holocaust. America may not learn from its mistakes, but we can. Love, support, and fight alongside trans folks in every way you can. It’s time to step up or shut up.
For those who would like to read the paper, I found it here
okay so i actually read the paper and i really recommend doing so before you reblog it but here are the main points:
this study was conducted using data from a much broader census of american youth
they were primarily looking at the ratio of AMAB to AFAB trans people, since a lot of gender critical people claim that ‘young girls’ are uniquely vulnerable to ROGD and social contagion (gross)
it turns out, though, that there are still more AMAB trans people than AFAB! the ratio was about 1.5:1 in 2017 and 1.2:1 in 2019, so the proportion is shifting, but the moral panic about young women abandoning womanhood due to peer pressure is… demonstrably false
trans adolescents reported higher rates of bullying and suicide than their cis counterparts, INCLUDING cisgender sexual minority youth, so the argument that trans people are just gay and transition to become ‘straight’ is officially disproven (this is my personal least fave transphobic talking point, it just gets my blood boiling for some reason)
also a ‘substantial’ percentage of trans participants described their sexual orientation as non-straight so can we finally put that argument to rest :)
they then conclude that, due to the rates of bullying and mental health issues, it is unlikely that trans people are simply transitioning because it’s ‘trendy’ or they feel pressured to by their friends
so, yeah, the vast majority of this article will have most trans people shrugging and going ‘yeah we know’, but having an academic source to point to is hugely important, and it’s nice to see the findings being reported in the news as well
