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Originally Posted by Bobo Fett
The dating app results are certainly what I, and I assume most (all?) of us expected - no surprise there. But this is getting into a much, much bigger subject. Are people really concerned if kids come out as gay or choose different pronouns and later figure out that isn't what they want/who they are? I know I'm not. I'd think the concern is kids trying to undergo surgery, for example, due merely to "social contagion". That's what I remain unconvinced is actually happening, and a higher number of young people changing pronouns isn't all that compelling to make me believe otherwise.
exactly, children are very open to the world of possibilities and thus why over 60% of them engage in homosexual experimentation at a young age
just having gone to camp or boarding schools i've personally witnessed plenty of hetero males engaging is pseudo homosexual activity such as all jerking off in the same room - your country of canada is infamous for its soggy biscuit tradition among hockey players
we're all infamously familiar with the trope that all women experimented with other girls in college and studies show as high as 25% of women have done this at a young age
these are all people who as they become adults and are done with the experimental phases of their lives determine they are straight and cisgender people
i had two sisters growing up and fairly long hair for a child, so sometimes my sisters would dress me up as girl and i'd go along with it, i even went to school on halloween as a girl and everyone was shocked by the transformation and even complemented me that i actually made a very pretty girl etc etc etc - it was genuinely fun, i liked the attention i got, and had it not been considered so weird for me to not do it on halloween but rather happened in today's environment then i perhaps would have done it more frequently, i was probably 9 or 10 at the time and if i were surrounded by at the time by ideas that perhaps i was indeed actually a girl then who knows if that would have taken hold or not
i see my nephews/nieces/children of friends all be super impressionable at early ages, my nephew once pretended he was a cheetah for like 3 weeks straight and his parents went along with it and he eventually had to be bribed with cake to get him to act like a human again once they released this phase may not wear out on its own without a nudge - i have no doubt that if i planted the seed in my nephew that perhaps he was a girl and started buying him dresses and such that he would at least run with it for a brief period
and these seeds are being planted, my niece, at her doctor's checkup when she was 10 was asked by her doctor if she was a boy or a girl - as if it was a perfectly reasonable question for a doctor to ask and that she could be either
it is my belief that kids in these experimental phases are leaning into stuff that they would grow out as they get older and putting them on irreversible paths of hormone blockers and even performing surgery is not the correct path
again, david reimer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer
at 6 months of age his penis was destroyed in a botched circumcision, at 3 years of age they learned of a new "gender is a social construct" theory from some people at johns hopkins - they believed that children were so impressionable that if they wanted to raise david as a girl that it would take hold - that's exactly what they did and it wasn't until 14 when david told his parents that he was contemplating suicide because he didn't feel like he was a girl did they let him know it's because he wasn't - so for about a decade they convinced a boy without a penis that he was actually a girl even though they started that process at age 3
david needed a double masectomy because they'd been pumping him full of estrogen and he thus had tiddies at age 14
the people doing the "science" were most likely perverts acting out their own fantasies and disguising it under the label of science - they would force david and his twin brother to perform sexual acts with each other - stripping them down, having david spread his cheeks, and having the brother repeatedly thrust into him as young asexual children - that is just sick perverted behavior to force two brothers who are young children to have sex with each other all while you are photographing the event - if this were done outside of a "science experiment" it would be consdired a kiddie porn operation - but nope, while his academic work is now under heavy scrutiny - he still managed to publish over 2,000 articles/books and received many prestigious awards and there's an entire wing of an art museum in his native new zealand named after him
in fact, the entire reason for david "coming out as a boy" was that he hated those people at johns hopkins so much that he would kill himself if he was ever forced to see those people again - they were absolute monsters who traumatized him and his brother
his brother died from an overdose of anti depressants, david later shot himself in the head
a 2016 study of 7 boys who like david were raised that way found all 7 eventually found their way back to being male again, these were boys who spent their entire youth as women, believing they were women, having had vaginal surgery and received estrogen to help out with the physical transition as well
so yeah, when your 8 year old child says "mommy i'm a girl" you don't go ahead and schedule some doctors visits and start hooking him up to hormone blockers because it's most likely no different than the "i'm a dinosaur" phase the kid will have 4 months from now