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Critics claim gender clinics are seeing an excess of trans boys. But new data suggest otherwise (theconversation.com)

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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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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 32 points 4 months 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.