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… The researchers also point to wider availability of clinics specializing in treatment, alongside greater acceptance of so-called gender fluidity, for the increase in gender dysphoria cases. What they don’t consider, however, is the possibility that darker forces may be at work.
A 2018 study in the journal PLoS One, for instance, showed that increased social media use and having friends who already express gender dysphoria are clear factors in the onset of new cases. This lends credence to the idea that gender dysphoria has obvious “social contagion,” similar to previous crazes like eating disorders, self-harm, and glue-sniffing. The rise of mental illness is also implicated. In a 2014 study, nearly 63 percent of sampled patients who requested gender reassignment surgery also had… Read full article
