nuggets

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by nuggets 9mo ago
That perhaps indicates that these are distinct phenomena and shouldn't be lumped into the same category.
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by nuggets 9mo ago
It's interesting how much protest there is to even the suggestion there may be a social contagion aspect. I think some people have backed themselves into an ideological corner on this one.
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by nuggets 9mo ago
You don't have to suggest an explanation for this demographic change if you don't want to.
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by nuggets 9mo ago
If that is the cause, how does it explain both the sex ratio shift and the rapid increase in referrals starting from around 2011-2012 onwards? There were gender clinics across Europe reporting similar demographic changes in pediatric referr
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by nuggets 9mo ago
Could you elaborate on what you're alluding to, please?
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by nuggets 9mo ago
But the adult demographic of left-handers doesn't have, and didn't have, a sex ratio skewed in the opposite direction to the youth demographic. So how is this a relevant comparison?
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by nuggets 9mo ago
Then why were there more boys who want to be girls referred prior to a decade ago, compared to girls who want to be boys? The radical feminist movement in the UK has existed much longer than this, since around the late 1960s to early 1970s.
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by nuggets 9mo ago
There are other papers showing the same sort of pattern elsewhere. For example, you can see one cited in that paper within the introductory paragraphs. As the commenter upthread noted, the adult demographic is more weighted towards men who
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by nuggets 9mo ago
What is your alternative explanation for why referrals have so sharply skewed towards girls who want to be boys, within the past decade or so? It is doctors who first drew attention to this phenomenon. See for example Tavistock whistleblowe
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by nuggets 9mo ago
Regarding the change in sex ratio for childhood referrals, this is well documented. See for example this paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324768316_Sex_Ratio... "Social contagion" is social sci
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by nuggets 9mo ago
There's not really any plausible explanation as to why referrals to pediatric gender clinics became so skewed towards girls who want to be boys, other than social contagion. The sticking point is that it's politically controversia