3% of US High-School Students Now Identify as Transgender
About 3% of US high-school students now identify as transgender, and a further 2% question their gender identity, according to a new survey.
About 3% of US high-school students now identify as transgender, and a further 2% question their gender identity, according to a new survey.
The results of the 2023 Youth Risk Behaviour Survey show that 1 in 20 high-school students do not conform to traditional gender norms.
The survey found that trans and gender-questioning teens face much higher rates of bullying, persistent sadness and suicidal thoughts or behaviors than their peers.
The 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey is the first time the annual survey asked teens whether they identify as transgender or are gender-questioning. The survey included 20,103 public and private school students in grades 9 through 12 from all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
Transgender students were more likely to report persistent sadness or hopelessness (about 72% compared with 50% normal girls and 26% of normal boys); poor mental health, (65% compared to 38% of normal girls and 18% of normal boys); thoughts of suicide (53% compared with 24% of normal girls and 12% of normal boys); and suicide attempts (26% compared with 11% of normal girls and 5% of normal boys).
Various causes have been suggested for the stunning rise in rates of gender dysphoria and transgenderism, especially among America’s children and teenagers.
A study in the prestigious journal PLoS ONE in 2018 suggested that novel factors were to blame, especially social media and belonging to friendship groups that already had transgender-identifying people in them.
There have also been attempts to explain the rise of transgenderism in relation to the growth of mental illness more generally, like this 2014 study, which found that nearly 63 percent of sampled patients requesting gender reassignment had “at least one psychiatric comorbidity.” A third of patients suffered depression, 20.5 percent suffered a specific phobia, and 15.7 percent suffered from adjustment disorder.
A study this year was the first to report a link between exposure to an endocrine-disrupting chemical and transgenderism. The study, published in the Journal of Xenobiotics, considers the effects of exposure to the chemical diethylstilbestrol (DES) on the rate of transgenderism among French boys. The study’s authors discovered that boys exposed to DES in utero were perhaps as much as 100 times more likely to become male-to-female transgender than the highest reported background rate across Europe. Reliable figures for the number of transgender people as a percentage of the population vary wildly, so the actual increase in risk due to exposure to DES could be even higher.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made exposure to endocrine disruptors one of the key targets of his “Make America Healthy Again” agenda, along with consumption of ultra-processed food.
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As late as 2014, in the Persian study referenced in the article, gender identity disorder, or GID, was considered rare worldwide. They note in the introduction: "Lifetime prevalence varies from 0.001%-0.002% [5] to 0.0019%–0.0024%" Now 5% of US high school students are either full on GID, or questioning their gender.
This is a HUGE demographic outlier in 10 years time. While ubiquitous endocrine disruptors are a big concern, it would appear as if peer pressure and social media is a primary driver of the increase. It often is pointed out that kids with transgender friends start identifying as transgender as well. Their dysphoria is being cultivated by peers and the widespread grooming found online, and unfortunately by their teachers.
Unfortunately, the medical professionals that should be saying , "uh, no you're not" are cashing in on a lucrative bonanza that creates patients for life.
Absolutely heartbreaking. Young people should be almost wholesale - happy and curious with lots of vim and vigor to be on the road to their glorious futures. It's crushing that in every direction, things are inverted. The reason is simple, it is because there is an imbalance of the feminine. The feminine is not heard, women are not heard. Look around and women are not talking, they're staying behind, they're going along to get along. Eons of trauma and suppression has to take effort to reverse. The suicide rate of young ones is so disheartening. It's barely mentioned let alone set as an intention to make it right. So much to fix and that's because of the imbalance. Fix the imbalance and everything will fall into place. We'll be able to handle everything.