Since the explosion of kids identifying as trans is a rather recent phenomenon, it seems likely that there is no good research on the outcomes yet. The people identifying as trans who were studied ten years ago may be very different from the people who identify as trans today (their reasons for feeling trans may be completely different).
It seems rather obvious that something like social contagion is going on, similar to anorexia. There may be cases with other causes, but a lot of them at the moment are probably social contagion.
If you think about it, onset of puberty is when the bodies of kids undergo drastic changes, and it is normal that they struggle to come to terms with it. Maybe worse for girls because their bodies change in more obvious sexual ways.
So they are in a vulnerable state where their bodies feel wrong until they have adjusted to their "new world".
I don't find it surprising that they are vulnerable to people telling them the reason their body feels wrong is because they are really trans, and they desperately grasp for an offered cure.
That is just me thinking, not "medical research", mind you. However, I think parental common sense is underrated when it comes to such issues. Too much expert bullshit has been injected into child rearing over the centuries.
Gender ideology affects almost everybody. It does not just affect members of the LGBT community. That is why there is a backlash against it, because people don't want to be pestered and indoctrinated by it.
Note that gender ideology and people being gay or whatever are not the same thing (just like feminism and being a woman are not the same thing - the one is an ideology and theory of the world, the other is a biological reality).
It is not necessarily legal to get such a test, and in some countries (like Germany), the men are still liable to pay child support even if the child isn't theirs.
I think it is misguided to think all that is needed is to understand each other. Maybe that was the case for a while when everybody was well off, and all that was left to discuss was philosophical issues.
The real issue is that people actually want each other's stuff. It's like quarreling over a source of water - both parties need it to water their plants. It doesn't help to understand that the other side also wants to water their plants, because you still have to water YOUR plants.
At most you can sit together and work out a compromise. Simply understanding the other person's view point won't be sufficient.
Isn't fictional media rather enforcing the stereotypes? And by saying there is a certain way in which media could portray, say, Muslims, are you not implying that there are certain stereotypes that apply? Without stereotypes, how do decide what group certain people belong to?
I also know many people who have seriously hurt themselves while helping friends moving - shot backs, destroyed knees.
I guess it is fine while you are still young and poor, and have few possessions. But as soon as you can afford it, you should pay the professionals to protect your friends from harm.
People invest massive amounts of time to build a following and create content on those platforms. It seems reasonable to ask that it can't be taken away from them at a whim. However, in theory, they should have read the contract before entering it. If they accept those terms, perhaps they should have to live with it.
An analogy would perhaps be a musician signing a contract with a record label? I think they expect some reciprocity, like if they owe three albums to the label, the label also owes them marketing for those albums.
The producers sign the contracts with the people they meet in person to make the videos, so they can verify those same people signed the contracts. A web site has no way to check if the contracts are real. People can just upload made up documents.
That assumes all thumbnails or pictures hash to the same value. Why would that be? There can be different algorithms, resolutions, crops... And there can be millions of thumbnails to check.
It seems rather obvious that something like social contagion is going on, similar to anorexia. There may be cases with other causes, but a lot of them at the moment are probably social contagion.
If you think about it, onset of puberty is when the bodies of kids undergo drastic changes, and it is normal that they struggle to come to terms with it. Maybe worse for girls because their bodies change in more obvious sexual ways.
So they are in a vulnerable state where their bodies feel wrong until they have adjusted to their "new world".
I don't find it surprising that they are vulnerable to people telling them the reason their body feels wrong is because they are really trans, and they desperately grasp for an offered cure.
That is just me thinking, not "medical research", mind you. However, I think parental common sense is underrated when it comes to such issues. Too much expert bullshit has been injected into child rearing over the centuries.