Every Tomboy Is Tagged Transgender – WSJ

The number of young Americans who describe themselves as transgender has exploded over the past decade, increasing by a factor of 20 to 40, according to gender clinic referral data and a recent Williams Institute report based on surveys by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Why? Jody Herman, author of the report, calls that a bewildering question. Clinical psychologist Erica Anderson tweeted that the surge defies explanation. . . . Something is going on that we don t yet understand.

The two leading explanations are greater social acceptance and social contagion. Both are likely contributing factors, but I think the main reason is simpler. It comes down to a change in terminology.

Until recently, the term transsexual referred to people with a cross-sex identity, a desire to be the opposite sex or even a diagnosis of gender dysphoria. Transgender, the favored term now, is far broader. It encompasses mere nonconformity with rigid traditional sex roles. If you re a tomboy or a feminine boy if your expression or behavior is different from what is typically associated with your sex based on traditional expectations you re transgender. No wonder so many young people think they need medical help to correct their sex.

This idea is propagated by important scientific and medical organizations:

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Among other things, the transgender craze represents many bad ideas coming together at the same time. A big one is insurance entities, including government, paying for procedures that surgeons and physicians (but only some of them) have cooked up to take advantage of what are usually pathological desires that are spreading through the population of mostly young women. It’s quite as if hospitals offered to do weight reduction surgery on anorexics, without the slightest evidence of course that this would improve their patients’ health.

I’m not alone in predicting that in I hope just a few years we will look back on this and say, what were we thinking? “Scientific and medical organizations” eh? There are plenty of doctors and I bet scientists too who don’t hold with transgender ideology, but all but a few of them are afraid, with good reason, to speak up. Notice how Vanderbilt cautioned their staff to shut up and toe the line or face the consequences. That’s real classy, Vanderbilt.