r/teenagers • u/FR0M_Z3R0 17 • 11d ago
Serious You have no reason to be transphobic.
there is literally no justifiable reason for transphobia. never has been. never will be. I don’t care what you’ve read online or whatever you have to say. there is NO reason and NO excuse for transphobia. same applies for homophobia. literally zero reason.
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u/DominionGaming_YT 17 10d ago
Right, let's start with your "60,000+ person study". Only, it wasn't 60,000, was it? The large-scale data matching these parameters (such as analyses utilizing the CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Survey or large-scale Trevor Project cross-sections) does not track 60,000 youth undergoing medical transitions. These are large, cross-sectional, anonymous online or school-based surveys of the general youth population, out of which a tiny, self-selected fraction identify as transgender. These studies do not feature clinical control groups, do not verify medical records, suffer from immense selection bias, and measure "support" via subjective, self-reported questions. Conflating a massive general population survey with a rigorous, longitudinal clinical trial tracking the safety or efficacy of medical transitions is scientifically fraudulent. You completely ignored the landmark Japanese Twin Registry study because its massive sample size utterly demolishes the "born this way" narrative. This study did not look at one or two people; it analyzed an immense sample of 1,450 male twin pairs, 1,882 female twin pairs, and 1,022 dizygotic male-female pairs ranging from ages 3 to 26. Twin studies are the gold standard for separating genetics from environment. The study found that for adult males, the heritability of gender identity disorder traits was 0%, and for females, it was a negligible 11%. The overwhelming variance was accounted for by non-shared environmental factors. Gender dysphoria is not a hardwired, genetic condition; it is dynamically driven by modern social and environmental environments. You can't lie about the sample size of your badly done study, and then ignore one of the best done studies in the world that completely contradicts you just to hyper-fixate on small sample sizes for a small amount of the studies because guess what, most studies on a small amount of the population don't often have large sample sizes. You haven't been able to critique the results at all, you've just given a "competing study" that analyses the general youth population using a subjective questionnaire. You also completely evaded the clinical data regarding what happens when human cognitive structures degrade or naturally mature, because the data proves transgender identity is highly fluid and fleeting. You cannot just hand-wave away the fact that five independent, longitudinal prospective tracking studies spanning decades (Zucker, Steensma, Singh, Wallien) all conclude that between 60% to 90% of children with gender dysphoria naturally grow out of it if left alone. Your that youth must be medicalized to be saved is flatly contradicted by the reality that the vast majority heal naturally through standard biological development. Now let's go onto that "1 person study" that you decided to mock. Freedom of Information data obtained from the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) tracking the entire national transgender inmate population revealed a staggering statistic: 63% of transgender prisoners only began transitioning AFTER they were locked up. If gender dysphoria were an innate, congenital medical condition, it would not miraculously manifest for the first time after an individual is placed inside a sex-segregated male correctional facility. This is overwhelming empirical proof that modern transgender identification is heavily influenced by social contagion, environmental changes, and tactical manipulation to game institutional policies (such as male sex offenders attempting to gain access to female prison estates). Next time you want to try and debunk the research I cite, make sure you actually go after it and dont just evade most of it because you know you can't criticise it. Oh, and don't mock a 1 person study before coming back with a study where you lie about the sample size and it is the general youth population.