Why Are Young Girls So Susceptible To Becoming Trans?

when it comes to the current trends that we're seeing this increase in transgender especially youths what's your assessment of the situation why do you think it is that we've had such a rapid increase in that happening right yeah so I yeah I wrote that call that article that that you mentioned on that and if we look at it historically um well so let's step back let's look at uh brain patterns that I mentioned before where you know you take a 10 year old You can predict 93 of the time whether it's a boy or a girl if you take an adult You can predict 95 percent of the time whether it's a man or a woman so the brain patterns for guys are kind of bunched up in this area but there are some individuals that kind of go out on the curve so there are guys that have female typical brain patterns not a lot of them but they're there uh and there are girls who have been women who have male typical brain patterns so it's not you know kind of out of bounds to think well you know maybe for whatever reason um you know you didn't see the sex typical shift in brain development for for whatever reason so you're going to get it would make sense that you you know you have some guys who really like girl things um but they're kind of forced to be boys and to do boy things and they would develop gender dysphoria and the same thing for some girls and so if we look at early um transsexual um in individuals they had a pattern of sex atypical play so they ate me and the boys are playing and liked girl things and so forth expressed wanting to be a girl had this uh dysphoria depression and discomfort with being a boy or or a girl if it's the the reverse of that in those individuals if they're carefully screened and so forth would be fairly rare but if they transition um most of them do okay they're okay with it so the detransition rates are one or two percent so it's like yeah it worked for them but now jump forward to the last you know well it started maybe 20 years ago but especially the last 10 years or so the number of individuals who are claiming to be transgender has really spiked um Way Beyond the numbers you would expect based on these brain patterns for example um and the demographics of these individuals have changed as well typically it was disproportionately more men than women and they had a history of gender dysphoria now we're getting more women especially adolescents than men and most of them as far as I know don't I mean some of them do but a lot of them don't have this history of gender dysphoria and sex atypical play patterns and other sorts of things that have historically been reliable markers of um transgender issues and doing well with with the transition if that's what they they chose to do so there's been this huge Spike as you know and it's been argued that's social media has has driven a lot of it um and I I think that's right and I argued that um adolescent girls in particular may be at risk for these negative social media influences um because during that time you know early adolescence late adolescence they're really trying to develop this social support network they're really trying to develop this you know a couple of BFFs and feel included and integrated and socially supported and emotionally supported and so forth that's a really important thing now guys go through a similar thing where they want to be part of a bigger group that works together and so forth um but the girl networks I think are more susceptible to social contagion and going along with ideas that maybe aren't a good idea just to fit in and to be part of the group and not to get excluded or rejected from the group which is a bigger concern for girls than it is for boys and I know so I think we have a recipe for like combine that with social media and all the media attention General Media attention to these issues it's now become a political signal rather than a kind of a personal desire it's like you support this because you support for all Progressive sorts of things or against it because you're against all Progressive sorts of things it's really created an environment that I think is going to be detrimental and is being detrimental to a lot of adolescents and young adults especially girls and this would explain why you have seen a sex difference in the number of f to M as opposed to M to F transitions or desires for transition because it you would presume that um there's a left-handedness argument that gets used I'm not sure if you've heard this used before uh where during the Middle Middle Ages people that were left-handed were seen as more likely to be witches so um people hid the fact that they were left-handed I think it was around about two percent of people few hundred years ago said that they were whereas now it's around about 10 to it's a teens percent I think of the population that are left-handed uh so the argument is when you stop demonizing people for being their true self being fully left-handed or being a male that identifies as a female or vice versa um that people open up that would be the explanation for why you would see this rampant increase the fact that we are more as a society more accepting of it but that wouldn't explain why you have this massive increase in F to M as opposed to M to F that's right this sect difference appears to be explained away largely by the raw materials that we went through women's desire to fit in then a greater social cue ability to absorb absorb that it also explains why you don't have a completely random distribution of people across the entire United States you know one person out of every 10 schools one girl out of every 10 schools one male out of every 30 schools let's say across the US it's five girls in one class that all sit at the same table together during lunch that's right yeah yeah you see these clusters or in the one school district I think 10 of the kids um I don't remember what the male female breakdown was uh claimed to be transgender non-binary or something which which makes no sense the the other issue that has changed is the um regret and detransition rates are going up from Fairly rare one two percent or so to um you know did depending on what you look at the stopping of of hormonal treatment can be you know one out of three or or so so the the rates of people kind of changing their mind is going up suggesting that the transgender the dysphoria so forth wasn't really related to that it was due to some other other issue what I find particularly fascinating and kind of morbidly ironic about this situation is that the biological sex differences that men and women have are providing the raw materials to cause increasing volumes of men and women to recant their own sex or at least their own gender identity so it's almost like the supply and demand of what's going on is happening in a community of people that deny that there are any sex differences yeah yeah yeah yeah it it it it it it's a mess so right so yeah so you're you're saying that the um adolescent women's girls susceptibility to social Contagion has a biological basis to it which I I think it does um and that biological basis makes them more prone to claim that they're really a guy yeah it is um it's amazing people can can spend stories for sure what's happening people if you enjoyed that then press here for the full unedited episode and don't forget to subscribe face [Music] foreign [Music]