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Originally Posted by Liam-

No, social media platforms aren’t making people trans, like they can’t make people gay, or bisexual or you can’t make someone straight, stop parroting things that ate just blatantly not true if you look at them with even an ounce of logic or thought other than ‘we have to stop trans people!’

I'd be genuinely interested to hear if you think the same about non-binary identities.

I mean I'm just going to be real here and say that my daughter has a TONNE of natal-female friends who identify as non-binary. They look, sound, and socialise as entirely female - but they certainly claim to be non-binary and quite a few identify as boys. To be clear; they identify as boys but all of their friends are girls, they're "gay" and have crushes on straight boys, and they are visually and socially quite clearly female other than having short hair. She already (by EARLY teens) has multiple friends who are biologically female, were "male" for a year to 18 months (with a new name and everything) and are ALREADY back to being female with their original name. This is anecdotal yes, but it's also documented to be the case in schools all across the western world.

It's not the same as sexuality in the slightest, entirely unrelated and not even really comparable, and there's just no doubt whatsoever that there's an element of aesthetics and trends for young people.

Again not saying that "real" dysphoria isn't a thing, just that there are multiple very different things at play here and one of them is absolutely a social trend. Again, in my day these same kids would have been buying a leather duster coat and chains, loading up on eyeliner and calling themselves "Azrael". It is the same thing. LGBTQ has been thoroughly appropriated by a tonne of young people who will shed it as soon as they find a style they like better.