Our society has gotten much more tolerant in the past 20 years. I think people are more comfortable expressing who they are now. I am not so sure the number of transgender people has increased at all. I think we just hear the truth these days from those who suffer with this.The new phenomenon of large numbers of kids feeling fine in their own bodies until something upsets them at or around puberty is only seen within the last 20 years and is growing.
How come?
Most of the trans people I know are in their 30s, 40s, or even 50s, and I know at least one in her 60s. Every single one of them says they would have transitioned decades earlier, had society allowed it. In fact, I’m in my 30s and that’s true of me, as well!Our society has gotten much more tolerant in the past 20 years. I think people are more comfortable expressing who they are now. I am not so sure the number of transgender people has increased at all. I think we just hear the truth these days from those who suffer with this.
I thought that too, but people tell their therapist their deepest darkest secrets, and therapists are reporting that they’re seeing an uptick, too.Our society has gotten much more tolerant in the past 20 years. I think people are more comfortable expressing who they are now. I am not so sure the number of transgender people has increased at all. I think we just hear the truth these days from those who suffer with this
Did you see post 51?I do want to emphasize, again, that when we’re talking about medical treatment of trans people (hormones, surgeries, etc), we’re talking about medically necessary treatments that are proven effective.
That is not evidence that the person was transgender. It could be evidence that someone needed a nice set of male colthing.There are recorded cases of this condition going back thousands of years. In Prague archeologists found a skeleton that had a male sex but was buried in female clothing and with feminine grave goods - that skeleton was at least 4500 years old.
That is simply not true. Consider this:Did you see post 51?
Effectiveness studies seem to be showing that these treatments are not diminishing anguish.
It actually is pretty strong evidence. According to the archeologist who uncovered this find the culture this individual belonged to had very strict burial rules and didn’t make mistakes. It shows this individual was deliberately buried in the manner that women were buried, which strongly suggests that the buriers considered this individual to be a woman.That is not evidence that the person was transgender. It could be evidence that someone needed a nice set of male colthing.
We read into this situation what we desire to find…
Also, even if someone robbed the grave for a set of male clothing, why would they leave a set of female clothing to replace it? Were people looking into the tomb on a regular basis? How often does that happen?It actually is pretty strong evidence. According to the archeologist who uncovered this find the culture this individual belonged to had very strict burial rules and didn’t make mistakes. It shows this individual was deliberately buried in the manner that women were buried, which strongly suggests that the buriers considered this individual to be a woman.
Some skeleton from thousands of years ago from an ancient culture is not strong evidence.It actually is pretty strong evidence.
Whether a medical condition is described in the medical literature is not necessarily a good indicator of its existence or of its prevalence in the general population. Just to give an example, the existence of ADHD in adults was not mentioned in the medical literature until about 1980. That doesn’t mean, however, that ADHD in adults didn’t exist before then or that ADHD in adults was a new thing and that there was an explosion of adults with this condition after that. Even now, experts have estimated that only about 20% of adults with ADHD have been diagnosed. Most of the rest have been struggling in their jobs or private lives with symptoms of ADHD without knowing that they have it or that they could benefit from treatment for it.While gender bending behaviors have existed since the beginning, the “feeling trapped in the wrong body” phenomenon emerges in the medical literature in the late 1800s and was very rare.
The new phenomenon of large numbers of kids feeling fine in their own bodies until something upsets them at or around puberty is only seen within the last 20 years and is growing.
How come?
The evidence actually does bear this out. There are a lot more out trans people than there were a few decades ago, but only because society has become more accepting. A very large percentage of that increase is accounted for in people who would have transitioned decades ago, had that been an option. Once you adjust for this fact, the percentage of younger people who are trans is about the same as the percentage of older people, which indicates that trans people exist in roughly the same numbers regardless of what generation we’re talking about.Except that the activists make the claim that TG exists at the same percentage in the population all throughout history and there is no increase whatsoever. No fad, believe every kid who claims it.