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A new study from a psychology professor at Northwestern University appears to confirm something that many of us already suspected from more anecdotal data. Professor Michael Bailey reviewed survey data from more than 1,500 parents of children and young adults who had "transitioned" to the opposite gender. A large number of parents said that they felt "pressured" into supporting their children's transition. And a majority said that the children displayed "worse mental health outcomes" after going through transgender treatments. This was most often observed in patients described as experiencing Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, where the condition seemingly "comes out of nowhere." This further supports the belief that much of what is being observed is a form of social contagion spreading rapidly through youth peer groups. (Daily Wire)

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Parents were often "pressured" into transitioning their children to treat gender dysphoria, after which the parents reported worse mental health outcomes for their children, according to a new study.
Northwestern University psychology professor Michael Bailey analyzed survey data from 1,655 parents of youth and young adult children who identified as the opposite sex or non-binary. The survey data was compiled by the anonymous support group Parents of Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) Kids, an organization that collects horror stories from parents whose children struggled with gender dysphoria.
The data collected came from families with children who began to identify as transgender between the ages of 11 and 21.

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One surprising element of the study was the disparity in the gender divide. Male-to-female transgender cases like Jazz Jennings and various drag queen performers receive the lion's share of media attention. But the survey found that female-to-male transitions are far more common, accounting for roughly 75% of all cases. It was suggested that young girls tend to be more susceptible to suggestion and group think than boys.

The other startling fact that was discovered is another part of this phenomenon that we've brought up before. More than half of the parents said that their children had other preexisting mental issues prior to transitioning and those issues were not resolved after the process.

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https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/04/05/parents-report-declining-mental-health-in-post-transition-children-n541854

No no. Don't gas light us with those facts. Everyone knows you're really just a super mean bigot if you use common sense to deduce that indulging a delusional person's delusions is worse for them in the long run. Objective truth doesn't exist and we all live in realities of our own making! If you're compassionate, you'll let people filet their *****es into fake vaginas to live out "their truth" because that's what freedom and liberty really entails.

Or something like that. It's hard to pretend to be as dumb as a lib.

How dare you! You-ist! With all your -isms!

Least shocking assessment of all time. These are lonely, troubled, depressed kids looking for an answer and think transism will help....it won't.

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Least shocking assessment of all time. These are lonely, troubled, depressed kids looking for an answer and think transism will help....it won't.

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Feeling out of place in your own body? Irreversibly wrecking your endocrine system and swapping out your functioning pen*s for a rotten festering wound that you have to keep open and clean for the rest of your life ought to help!

I pray that one day we right this ship and we look back on this stuff and see it for the demented barbarism that it is.

We just need to date them.

"The other startling fact that was discovered is another part of this phenomenon that we've brought up before. More than half of the parents said that their children had other preexisting mental issues prior to transitioning and those issues were not resolved after the process."

You cannot help a mental illness by coddling and enabling it. You have to treat it.

This is why the push to transition young kids is so insidious and tragic. Instead of trying to help them, the left is using them as a political weapon, and in the process they are destroying young lives.

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A large number of parents said that they felt "pressured" into supporting their children's transition.

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They failed when their kids needed them most - pathetic

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"The other startling fact that was discovered is another part of this phenomenon that we've brought up before. More than half of the parents said that their children had other preexisting mental issues prior to transitioning and those issues were not resolved after the process."

You cannot help a mental illness by coddling and enabling it. You have to treat it.

This is why the push to transition young kids is so insidious and tragic. Instead of trying to help them, the left is using them as a political weapon, and in the process they are destroying young lives.

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Can't believe parents are so freaking dumb and or naive to think this would help their kid

Unfortunately, I would say this study will be roundly;

• Discredited by this Presidential administration and MSM
• Buried rapidly by this Presidential administration and MSM
• Attacked by the lbgqt advocates
• The authors and publishers will be ridiculed and shunned by all of the above.

did the study ask the kids at all or just the parents

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did the study ask the kids at all or just the parents

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Is there any leftist insanity you won't goal tend for?

ok, so you don't know either. thanks.

So a social contagion , and not a natural occurring phenomenon.

Whoa, so coddling children (minor or adult) with mental issues leads to worse mental health!?

and all of this for a segment of society that is less than 1%. definitely not a distraction. politicians really care.

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did the study ask the kids at all or just the parents

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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-023-02576-9

It takes all of two clicks to find the study. Ofc I doubt you're actually interested in the data.

They only asked the parents. 70 of the respondents were classified as "supportive" of their child's transition, vs 5 classified as "unsupportive", so you won't be able to spin this as conservative parents being biased against trans.

So go on, give me your best spin attempt

What?!

They were coerced into making an irreversible medical procedure that has NOT made them the opposite sex as promised but a sterilized life long drug addict in a mutilated body?

Noooooooo

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dead said:

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did the study ask the kids at all or just the parents

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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-023-02576-9

It takes all of two clicks to find the study. Ofc I doubt you're actually interested in the data.

They only asked the parents. 70 of the respondents were classified as "supportive" of their child's transition, vs 5 classified as "unsupportive", so you won't be able to spin this as conservative parents being biased against trans.

So go on, give me your best spin attempt

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Any spin attempt will lower your IQ by 20 points.

I have three girls. 20, 16, and 10. Their favorite thing to call me is boomer (even though I'm Gen-X) due to my views and the way I talk to them. I have yet to see one inkling of this psychotic behavior from them and I truly believe that even if they did feel some kind of peer pressure to conform with this crap they'd be like "Yeahhhh…I'm pretty sure this isn't going to fly at my house."

Just part of my overall parenting plan. Make crap like this unacceptable and ridicule people that buy into it. It also helps that we've always done parochial school where this isn't tolerated. You want blue hair? Fine. You're suspended and can go to public school.

They just aren't being accepted enough.

When 75% of these "trans kids" take their own lives before they reach 30 year old, anyone want to take bets on the Leftists and the complicit medical professions apologizing?

Can't define a drag queen, claims to be a mental health expert...go it. The confirmation bias is running hard lately with this.

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ok, so you don't know either. thanks.

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You can't expect honest and truthful survey responses from the mentally ill.

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ok, so you don't know either. thanks.

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You can't expect honest and truthful survey responses from the mentally ill.

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Self-reporting surveys are the worst form of data, regardless of mental illness. People lie/misreport about themselves for a variety of reasons. This is well documented.

Nobody serious about finding the truth would take the approach that "dead" is insinuating. Especially when concerning mentally ill individuals.

Your kid has a mental illness, so you agree to let some ghouls mutilate their genitals and shoot them up with hormones. Their mental illness gets worse.

Who could have ever seen that coming?

Resident liberals apparently.

If you're depressed and suicidal pre-transition, you will be depressed and suicidal post-transition.

It's safer for many unattractive teenage girls to join a "victim group" and identify as a boy. Pathetic people enabling their delusions.

Being a trans gives outcasts the ability to be accepted

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"The other startling fact that was discovered is another part of this phenomenon that we've brought up before. More than half of the parents said that their children had other preexisting mental issues prior to transitioning and those issues were not resolved after the process."

You cannot help a mental illness by coddling and enabling it. You have to treat it.

This is why the push to transition young kids is so insidious and tragic. Instead of trying to help them, the left is using them as a political weapon, and in the process they are destroying young lives.

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That fact is most definitely not startling. It's predictable

Matt Walsh nailed it. The left doesn't care about you and won't be there when you end up regretting your decision to transition. You're nothing but about votes, division, and power.

That's as shocking as learning Tesla owners aren't very good at working on cars.

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A new study from a psychology professor at Northwestern University appears to confirm something that many of us already suspected from more anecdotal data. Professor Michael Bailey reviewed survey data from more than 1,500 parents of children and young adults who had "transitioned" to the opposite gender. A large number of parents said that they felt "pressured" into supporting their children's transition. And a majority said that the children displayed "worse mental health outcomes" after going through transgender treatments. This was most often observed in patients described as experiencing Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, where the condition seemingly "comes out of nowhere." This further supports the belief that much of what is being observed is a form of social contagion spreading rapidly through youth peer groups. (Daily Wire)

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Parents were often "pressured" into transitioning their children to treat gender dysphoria, after which the parents reported worse mental health outcomes for their children, according to a new study.
Northwestern University psychology professor Michael Bailey analyzed survey data from 1,655 parents of youth and young adult children who identified as the opposite sex or non-binary. The survey data was compiled by the anonymous support group Parents of Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) Kids, an organization that collects horror stories from parents whose children struggled with gender dysphoria.
The data collected came from families with children who began to identify as transgender between the ages of 11 and 21.

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One surprising element of the study was the disparity in the gender divide. Male-to-female transgender cases like Jazz Jennings and various drag queen performers receive the lion's share of media attention. But the survey found that female-to-male transitions are far more common, accounting for roughly 75% of all cases. It was suggested that young girls tend to be more susceptible to suggestion and group think than boys.

The other startling fact that was discovered is another part of this phenomenon that we've brought up before. More than half of the parents said that their children had other preexisting mental issues prior to transitioning and those issues were not resolved after the process.

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https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/04/05/parents-report-declining-mental-health-in-post-transition-children-n541854

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I mean, is the data not a little biased?