by Sean Adl-Tabatabai, The Peoples Voice:
Over 3% of US high-school students now identify as transgender, and an additional 2% question their gender identity, a new survey has found.
The results of the 2023 Youth Risk Behaviour Survey reveals that 1 in 20 high-school students consider themselves gender queer.
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Infowars.com reports: The survey found that trans and gender-questioning teens face much higher rates of bullying, persistent sadness and suicidal thoughts or behaviors than their peers.
The 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey is the first time the annual survey asked teens whether they identify as transgender or are gender-questioning. The survey included 20,103 public and private school students in grades 9 through 12 from all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
Transgender students were more likely to report persistent sadness or hopelessness (about 72% compared with 50% normal girls and 26% of normal boys); poor mental health, (65% compared to 38% of normal girls and 18% of normal boys); thoughts of suicide (53% compared with 24% of normal girls and 12% of normal boys); and suicide attempts (26% compared with 11% of normal girls and 5% of normal boys).
Various causes have been suggested for the stunning rise in rates of gender dysphoria and transgenderism, especially among America’s children and teenagers.
A study in the prestigious journal PLoS ONE in 2018 suggested that novel factors were to blame, especially social media and belonging to friendship groups that already had transgender-identifying people in them.
There have also been attempts to explain the rise of transgenderism in relation to the growth of mental illness more generally, like this 2014 study, which found that nearly 63 percent of sampled patients requesting gender reassignment had “at least one psychiatric comorbidity.” A third of patients suffered depression, 20.5 percent suffered a specific phobia, and 15.7 percent suffered from adjustment disorder.
A study this year was the first to report a link between exposure to an endocrine-disrupting chemical and transgenderism. The study, published in the Journal of Xenobiotics, considers the effects of exposure to the chemical diethylstilbestrol (DES) on the rate of transgenderism among French boys. The study’s authors discovered that boys exposed to DES in utero were perhaps as much as 100 times more likely to become male-to-female transgender than the highest reported background rate across Europe. Reliable figures for the number of transgender people as a percentage of the population vary wildly, so the actual increase in risk due to exposure to DES could be even higher.
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