NEW STUDY: Trans identification has surged in young adults, driven by natal females; increase is greater in whites.
From 2014-2022, trans identification:
▶️Nearly quintupled in 18-24 year olds
▶️Quadrupled in 25-34 y/os
▶️Stayed flat or declined in those age 35+
▶️By 2022, 2.78% of 18-24 year-old adults identified as trans, up from 0.59% in 2014.
▶️The increase was driven by those identifying as trans men or gender non-conforming; identification as a trans woman did not change significantly among young adults and declined significantly among all adults.
▶️The increase in identifying as trans was larger among White individuals than among Black or Hispanic individuals.
In a new essay posted on the Yale Law website, researchers in the pediatric gender medicine space such as @Jack_Turban lambasted the Cass Review for saying that trans identification has "increased exponentially." But this new study finds what looks like exponential growth when trans identification is broken down by birth year: link.springer.com/article/10.100…
Trans identification nearly quintupled among 18 to 24 year olds and quadrupled among 24 to 34 year olds from 2014 to 2022: link.springer.com/article/10.100…
A breakdown in the types of trans identification in 18 to 24 year olds from 2014 to 2022:
Percent of US 18- to 24-year-olds self-identifying as transgender, by racial/ethnic identity, 2014–2022:
Percent of US 18- to 24-year-olds self-identifying as transgender, by residence in a Democrat-leaning or Republican- leaning state, 2014–2022:
As one person commented, @Jack_Turban has argued that trans identification has recently decreased in adolescents.
@jack_turban The findings in the new study are likely to be fairly accurate, since they are based on nationally representative data and an enormous data set. link.springer.com/article/10.100…
I posted the wrong graph earlier in the thread with this one:
Percent of US 18- to 24-year-olds self-identifying as transgender, by residence in a Democrat-leaning or Republican- leaning state, 2014–2022:
This study raises questions:
▶️Why has trans identification surged in young adults but not in middle-aged or older adults?
▶️Why has trans identification surged in natal females but not in natal males?
▶️Why has trans identification risen more in whites?
What do you think?
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Controversial Gender Researchers Launch Long-Term Study of Gender Dysphoric Youth and Their Parents
I report 🧵⬇️:Branded as gender heretics by the pediatric gender-medicine establishment and transgender-rights activists, Michael Bailey @profjmb, Dr. Lisa Littman @LisaLittman1, and Kenneth Zucker say they "won't be intimidated."
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One would hope that this leader in promoting fine health and science journalism would do better. See the 🧵for 🚨fact checks🚨. ⬇️⬇️
LINK:
The Association of Health Care Journalists Has Published a Highly Misleading Primer on Covering Transgender Medicine
One would hope that this leader in promoting fine health and science journalism would do better. open.substack.com/pub/benryan/p/…
As @JesseSingal pointed on Friday, a new primer on reporting about transgender health care published by the Association of Health Care Journalists @AHCJ is a highly misleading and at times outright false document.
This is the Chinese professor who seriously violated ethical norms when he covertly edited the genomes of two babies to provide them with a natural resistance to HIV in their immune cells. This despite the fact that these children would not likely ever be exposed to the virus and thus had no practical use for this genetic mutation, which is found in about 1% of those of exclusively Northern European ancestry. Dr. He was sentenced to 3 years in jail. Now he is apparently trying to play hardball with the medical publishing world:
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Sapir's analysis follows similar findings in a paper published in June by German researchers who found that, in Germany, after five years, only 36% of youths with a gender-dysphoria-related diagnosis still had that diagnosis in their medical chart. researchgate.net/publication/38…
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How Harvard Teed Up the False Claim That the 'Vast Majority of Minors Getting Gender-Affirming Surgeries Are C-s Kids' benryan.substack.com/p/how-harvard-…
GIDS Dissident, Dr. @MaxDavie, takes down latest post criticizing Dr. Hilary Cass, vanishes from Twitter
🧵: After attacking Dr. Hilary Cass in a paper posted in a Google doc, claiming she recommended @AbigailShrier's Irreversible Damage, then backpedaling the claim, then writing a blog post once again criticizing the Cass Review author, claiming she was dead set on a randomized controlled trial of puberty blockers for pediatric gender dysphoria that he saw as unethical, Dr. Max Davie has stripped his blog site of that posting and vanished from X.
Along the way, he accused me of journalistic malpractice after he emailed me accusations about one of his critics and I published them. He said he told me the information in confidence, but as I told him, he never said anything about it being off the record.
The background:
Cass Review Author Denounces As 'Baseless' And 'Cynical' Dissidents' Claim That She Touted Abigail Shrier's Scathing Polemic On Trans Kids benryan.substack.com/p/cass-review-…
Here is the archive of @MaxDavie’s since deleted blog criticizing Hilary Cass. archive.is/kKY0M