Dennis Prager Show - Abigail Shrier Tells Us Why Young Girls Are Most Suceptible to Transgenderism
Aired: 2020-11-25
Duration: 01:42


=== Peer Contagion Mystery (01:42) ===

[00:00:00]  Out of nowhere, the leading demographic is teenage girls.
[00:00:04]  Teenage girls are the leading demographic claiming to be transgender, pushing for hormones and surgeries and getting them.
[00:00:09]  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.
[00:00:20]  They're coming out with their friends.
[00:00:21]  It's highly concentrated within a friend group.
[00:00:23]  All of a sudden, 50% of a given friend group will decide they're trans.
[00:00:29]  Oh, so it's rarely a loner?
[00:00:32]  No, not now.
[00:00:34]  I mean, that's part of the reason we know that it's pure influence.
[00:00:37]  That's fascinating.
[00:00:38]  I don't remember that in my last interview with you.
[00:00:42]  Oh, that is so...
[00:00:44]  A bunch of them sort of reinforce it.
[00:00:47]  Yes.
[00:00:48]  Just like they do with anorexia, bulimia, other peer contagions.
[00:00:51]  That doesn't mean it's not a real ailment.
[00:00:52]  Of course it is.
[00:00:53]  It's just that teenage girls are particularly susceptible to sharing and spreading their pain and talking themselves into diagnoses.
[00:01:02]  Somebody I respect was saying just this weekend that it is a real...
[00:01:09]  And I have no...
[00:01:10]  I didn't have a daughter and I... I didn't have a sister, so this is just terra incognita for me.
[00:01:21]  But I'm curious, do you relate to this statement that was made to me?
[00:01:29]  Teenage girls have uniquely difficult challenges.
[00:01:34]  I'm going to take your response as soon as we come back.
[00:01:39]  There must be some reason why it's affecting teenage girls.