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Out of nowhere, the leading demographic is teenage girls. | |
Teenage girls are the leading demographic claiming to be transgender, pushing for hormones and surgeries and getting them. | |
And we have very real reason to believe that this is yet another peer contagion to befall teenage girls because these girls are coming out in friend groups. | |
They're coming out with their friends. | |
It's highly concentrated within a friend group. | |
All of a sudden, 50% of a given friend group will decide they're trans. | |
Oh, so it's rarely a loner? | |
No, not now. | |
I mean, that's part of the reason we know that it's pure influence. | |
That's fascinating. | |
I don't remember that in my last interview with you. | |
Oh, that is so... | |
A bunch of them sort of reinforce it. | |
Yes. | |
Just like they do with anorexia, bulimia, other peer contagions. | |
That doesn't mean it's not a real ailment. | |
Of course it is. | |
It's just that teenage girls are particularly susceptible to sharing and spreading their pain and talking themselves into diagnoses. | |
Somebody I respect was saying just this weekend that it is a real... | |
And I have no... | |
I didn't have a daughter and I... I didn't have a sister, so this is just terra incognita for me. | |
But I'm curious, do you relate to this statement that was made to me? | |
Teenage girls have uniquely difficult challenges. | |
I'm going to take your response as soon as we come back. | |
There must be some reason why it's affecting teenage girls. |