Agreed. The numbers for girls are way way high, and it’s been a sudden increase.

What’s more, there are physical differences. When teenage boys are given female hormones, as long as they haven’t yet had what’s called “bottom”surgery, the effects are ordinarily quite reversible when they go off the hormones. For teenage girls, the voice effects are usually permanent, even if there’s been no “bottom” surgery. There’s more, too – involving what’s known as “top” surgery.

That said… the latter comment about the correlation of sexual abuse of boys by adult men with the boys’ growing up to be gay men – that’s pretty damn horrifying, but sadly believable. My husband’s uncle, who died several years back, always told my husband he could’ve gone either way, but was… how did he put it? “Educated”? by a gay man while in his teens.

In short order, another three? or so girls from her class, in fact in her group of (I’m inferring, having known her for a decade at this point and knowing what kind of kids she graduated to, also awkward) friends in the very competitive school she attended also came out as trans. Last time I saw this family, the teen, now 16 or possibly 17, was receiving hormone therapy but was presenting as a kind of stereotypically butch girl or gay boy – hair shorter than most girls wear it now but longer than most straight boys in her area, clothes indeterminate, definitely not stereotypically feminine but also not as deliberately “uncaring” as straight boys – say, black skinny jeans, Doc Martins, a fashion t-shirt, wide and prominent belt, clunky jewelry. And I wondered whether the parents still believed they’d made the right decision in letting their 14yo dictate such a permanent and life-changing path. They said their kid was happier than at 14, but never seemed to consider that that might have happened anyway. Nor did they seem to consider the contagion issue. But certainly their kid was not trying to blend in with the pack of cis boys. It was my clear impression that the kid had found a niche, and neither sex nor gender had much of anything to do with it.

We have given license to libertinism.

No, you don’t, sister. And we know from studies of identical twins you don’t

Still the gay guys I’ve known were just gay. The bi guys I’ve known were mostly straight but could, in your terms, “nail anything.”
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But the statistics show that gay men are 4-5 times more likely to have been molested or physically abused than the general population.

This is deliberately blurred by the LGBT lobby – which presents this as “mentoring” and encourages lonely, attention-starved kids to think of it that way. Here in Israel a “counselor” at a “walk in center” was shot, and the LGBT lobby flogged it for years as evidence of “intolerance”… turns out it the shooter was the family member of a troubled teen who had “walked in” and been taken advantage of.

Is this just a variation of the usual cognitive dissonance on the left, or is something else at work?

Also: In addition to the rampant Marxist (no longer just left-liberal) doctrination in classrooms, the complicity of school administrations in this transitioning abuse, and also in facilitating abortions, without notifying the parents of either (but you can go to jail if you send your kids to school with ibuprofen in their backpacks), is one thing that tempers my enthusiasm for getting kids back into the school buildings in the fall.