Yeah. Knew it. Sudden onset gender dysphoria.
Abigail Shrier writes about it. Or maybe it was Deborah Soh. Perhaps both, they kinda overlap for me. But anyways, there's a few interesting things to know about it.
First, gender dysphoria has been documented for like the last 100 years. It's almost always, the vast majority of the time, been biological men who experience it.
Now, we are experiencing a new phenomenon where groups of peers are all suddenly coming out as trans. That's called sudden onset gender dysphoria. This is, the vast majority of the time, teenage or young girls. Almost always after one of their peers does it. One starts it and then others follow.
They're a good chunk of the trans trenders that the people earlier were talking about.
These are typically the girls who are more likely to in the past be goths/counter culture, cut themselves, have small friend groups, can be outcasts, get bullied, etc. Suddenly they or one of their friends becomes trans, and is SHOWERED with attention, approval, and praise. Which is EXACTLY what these types of girls are lacking in their lives. So they see this easy answer to get all this stuff. They can be trans too!
What they really need is therapy. Not from a therapist that's going to just accept that they're trans though. And what they get instead is encouragement from groomers and prescription hormone blockers.
It's no wonder they have a high suicide rate. They rapidly and massively change their lives, and once the rush and appraisal wears off they left with a mutilated body and the same depressed feelings they started with.
Did you know in some places, teens can walk into clinics and get hormone therapy and not even inform their parents?
When history looks back on this era, this will all one day be seen as utterly barbaric