Libby Emmons
Brooklyn NY
Oct 9, 2024
The CDC recommends that schools create more "inclusive activities," such as "providing mental health and other health service referrals that are inclusive of students with LGTBQ+ identities."
The trans trend in the US shows no signs of abating, even as other nations take a step back and reconsider their approaches to treating gender dysphoria and how they deal with the social contagion. Some 3 percent of high school students now identify as trans, per a new CDC report released on Tuesday, and another 2.2 percent are "questioning" their gender identity. In 2023, there were some 17 million high school students in the US, meaning that of those, some 570,000 students believe they are trans, and 380,000 are not sure if they are trans.
Another report, this time from Do No Harm, a group of doctors that opposes sex changes for children, found that 13,994 minors received some kind of medical treatment for their diagnosed gender dysphoric condition and that among those, 5,747 were surgically altered in service to their belief that they can change sex. Do No Harm scouted insurance claims to obtain much of their data, which they recorded between 2019-2023, finding further that $119 million was spent on these prescriptions, surgeries, and medical appointments. Do No Harm further stated that these figures are likely to be understated.
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