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‘An explosion’: what is behind the
rise in girls questioning their gender identity?

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Posted By: NorthernDog, 11/25/2022 8:44:18 AM

Earlier this year, a team of NHS researchers was asked to investigate why there has been such a huge rise in the number of adolescent biological girls seeking referrals to gender clinics. (Snip) Last year, there were more than 5,000, which was twice the number in the previous year. And the largest group, about two-thirds, now consisted of “birth-registered females first presenting in adolescence with gender-related distress”, the report said. The review team is looking into the causes behind “the considerable increase in the number of referrals” and the changing case mix, but is not expected to publish any findings

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A frightening trend. And just a few years ago the number was close to zero.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: singermom9 11/25/2022 8:57:28 AM (No. 1341908)
5 years from now they will feel lied to and angry. Taking the drugs will leave them infertile and if they destroy their bodies unable to nurse and children if they did not take the drugs. Either way they will NEVER vote for dems who lied to and encouraged them and probably unable to have children who will vote dem.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: chance_232 11/25/2022 9:03:12 AM (No. 1341918)
Could it be that girls are just generally more trusting, gullible, uninformed and prone to the latest fads and peer pressure than boys??? Asking for a friend.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: janjan 11/25/2022 9:03:25 AM (No. 1341919)
Teenagers are easily influenced. The teachers are making them feel hip and special. It’s intoxicating. But it’s not hip and special. It is evil, dangerous and demeaning. These teachers are demented and evil. The future for these teenagers is being destroyed so the liberals can play politics. It’s sickening.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: PChristopher 11/25/2022 9:05:34 AM (No. 1341923)
In this insane world, is it crazy to think that this is a plot to destroy the fabric of our society and our breeding stock at the same time?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: bpl40 11/25/2022 9:14:04 AM (No. 1341932)
When I was growing up it used to be called penis envy. Never went anywhere.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: franq 11/25/2022 9:14:54 AM (No. 1341933)
God is not amused.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: smcchk 11/25/2022 9:20:24 AM (No. 1341942)
Girls are particularly body conscious. I remember those days of agonizing over any imperfection (could not care less now!). Girls can be unhappy and be lured into thinking a big change solve the problem. Every medical professional who treats a teen with irrevocable procedures and dangerous drugs should be liable for huge lawsuits when the girls become unhappy adults.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: DVC 11/25/2022 9:20:46 AM (No. 1341943)
This is how you depopulate the planet. Get rid of the breeding females by getting them to agree to destroy their ability to reproduce.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: J F Ackerman 11/25/2022 9:34:36 AM (No. 1341953)
Perhaps a reaction to the unmentionable- childhood abuse by male family members.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Northcross 11/25/2022 9:35:41 AM (No. 1341955)
Remove God from your life and you can fall for any idiot fad that the world offers.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Frederic F. Frew 11/25/2022 9:41:46 AM (No. 1341960)
Gee, might it be social contagion, like we've been reading/posting about on here for about four years?
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Reply 12 - Posted by: NYBruin 11/25/2022 9:48:49 AM (No. 1341963)
The same reason girls nowadays dye their hair bright pink and get a nose ring. Science also tells us children's brains are not fully developed until the early 20s.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: gmholler 11/25/2022 9:54:03 AM (No. 1341966)
SOMEBODY paid MONEY for this? From a former adolescent female and the mother of 2 daughters, I can tell you it's pretty obvious - growing up often just plain sucks for girls.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: red1066 11/25/2022 10:00:51 AM (No. 1341971)
Teens, especially teenage girls are really into fads. Right now, the latest fad is questioning one's sex. This fad however ruins your life FOREVER. That this whole thing seems to affect girls more than boys is odd, since the schools and media have spent the better part of almost forty years jumping on the promote girls bandwagon at the expense of boys.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: LadyVet 11/25/2022 10:03:44 AM (No. 1341972)
So much of the "women's movement" is directed by Ivy-league lesbians, like Hillary Clinton, Randi Weingarten, Elena Kagan, Donna Brazil. These people do not like being women and they preach that females can be just like men. That is where it starts and then it seeps into the culture with liberal teachers and through Hollywood. If you think schools are not full of LGBT radicals, you are not paying attention.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: planetgeo 11/25/2022 10:06:13 AM (No. 1341977)
It's because the teachers' unions have become infested with aggressive homosexuals who are actively and openly recruiting as early as kindergarten for their next generation of victims. Think of public schools these days as the Department of Pubic Works.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: The Remnants 11/25/2022 10:08:51 AM (No. 1341978)
The "depopulationists" are behind the explosion, of course; the same as they are behind the LGBT etc free-fall. And some grinning depopulationist is giving thanks.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: TexaTucky 11/25/2022 10:18:05 AM (No. 1341983)
Is this happening because girls are more prone to the latest fads and peer pressure than boys? Is it because God has been removed from the family? Is it because girls are particularly body conscious? Hard to say since my personal experience is a sample size of only one. My nephew was raised in an intact, loving, Christian home. He was involved in his church, went on mission trips . . . was totally into his faith his whole young life. Until he got sucked into this "gender dysmorphia" stuff in his late teens. Definitely body conscious, he was a tall, big-boned, masculine guy who spent a LOT of time online. Parent approved gaming transitioned into more violent games as he got older which was followed by absorption in a social media and faux online friendships that find common cause with other susceptible psyches . His evolving belief that "women had it easier" combined with the opinions of his disembodied online family curated a warped solution for a teenage boy going through the angst of trying to become a man. Always loved and supported to the Nth degree, he lacked nothing in terms of what "good" parents should provide their children. The only thing they didn't give him was money to mutilate or medicate himself with hormones. He eventually "transitioned" after a substantial effort at counseling over the years. He got what he wanted. And then he killed himself with a common preservative used to cure meat. If you think you know why this is happening to our children, please write a book telling us the cure. We'd love to know. Apparently good parenting, an intact family, and an active faith in God aren't the silver bullet you might imagine.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 11/25/2022 10:26:21 AM (No. 1341996)
It's a fad. Yes, it's frightening, but it's a fad. Rearranging your parts should be banned for persons under 21..... I say under 35.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: WV.Hillbilly 11/25/2022 10:35:58 AM (No. 1342002)
Mental illness and groomers.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: clayusmcret 11/25/2022 10:36:41 AM (No. 1342003)
Peer pressure. And as #1 posted in 5 years they're gonna be angry as hell for being taken seriously.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: bigfatslob 11/25/2022 10:48:49 AM (No. 1342012)
I would venture to say this is just in the U.S. and not global. The wicked sickness is a democrat trait promoted by the likes of the fraud Joe Biden speaking out for the sycophants that follow other pedophile perverts like him.
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Reply 23 - Posted by: Trump'sCousin 11/25/2022 11:32:06 AM (No. 1342031)
Well, only the demoncraps, Ftards, libs and assorted nut balls are indulging in this passing fancy. They are thinning their own ranks so it works for me. Let them press On! Be prepared for skyrocketing murders across this country in the coming years as the brats realise what has been done to them. Parents, doctors, indoctrinators... none of them will be safe from the wrath of the remorse of the mutilated. Yet further thinning their own ranks. Looks like a win win to me! Here's hoping it becomes a reality TV show I would definitely tune in. Popcorn and beer at the ready. And the award for most grizzly murder of an enabling virtue signalling screwed up set of breeders goes to... Winner winner chicken dinner! Play stupid games win stupid prizes. ZERO SYMPATHY HERE NEXT!
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Reply 24 - Posted by: Namma 11/25/2022 11:38:35 AM (No. 1342035)
Teachers!
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Reply 25 - Posted by: MickTurn 11/25/2022 11:39:48 AM (No. 1342038)
One Word: Indoctrination.
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Reply 26 - Posted by: Kate318 11/25/2022 11:57:59 AM (No. 1342048)
Same thing that has them cutting themselves.
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Reply 27 - Posted by: udanja99 11/25/2022 1:07:58 PM (No. 1342095)
Puberty is more difficult for girls than it is for boys. (And guys, unless you’ve ever sat in a middle school desk among your highly critical peers and suddenly found blood running down your leg, I don’t want any argument.) They are also more prone to peer pressure. Being trans is the “in” thing these days and teenage girls feel tremendous (self inflicted) pressure to be “in”.
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Reply 28 - Posted by: Trump'sCousin 11/25/2022 1:12:32 PM (No. 1342096)
My husband has 2 friends who are raving Ftards. They are pro all this nonsense. One is a high paid shrink, the other worked creating text book content for schools. They have never met each other. They are scornful of traditional conservative life and views. Guess what...both have male offspring who have decided they want to be female. The shrink will not talk about it and becomes visibly uncomfortable if it is casually brought up and says "I don't want to talk about it ". BIG GIANT PROPONENT OF ALL THINGS LEFTARD. The other one is a real prize. Another GIANT PROPONENT OF ALL THINGS LEFTARD. Thinks it's great, every justification in the world... no problem at all with it... until he's had a couple. Then the truth comes out. Admitted it ain't what is was cracked up to be and admitted to crying when he took his son to have a dicectomy. Ask me where my sympathy meter is pinging... NO SYMPATHY HERE They push this garbage on society and privately they know how evil it is. YOU WANTED IT, YOU EAT IT. ALL OF IT.
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Reply 29 - Posted by: Roscoelewis 11/25/2022 1:17:16 PM (No. 1342097)
Some people are just born stupid. They're stupid when they are five. They are stupid when they are fifteen; they are stupid when they die.
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Reply 30 - Posted by: thethirdruffian 11/25/2022 1:32:53 PM (No. 1342103)
It’s trendy and constantly pushed by the Democrat/media establishment to make money. Makes them money, now and for future medical care and psych care for repair of damage. They’ll be damaged and probably childless and troubled, making them lifetime democrat voters. And it helps with the great replacement, as mainly white kids are targeted for this. Win,win,win for the Democrats, who fight the real war against women.
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Reply 31 - Posted by: Subsuburban 11/25/2022 1:59:16 PM (No. 1342108)
Everybody remember the terrible "scourge" of anorexia/bulimia we went through a decade or so ago? How about "cutting"? Now what group of highly suggestible, hormonally unbalanced, mentally and physically vulnerable human beings were most affected by these things? Yup, adolescent females. Where are all those poor "victims" now? We don't hear much from or about them, because they generally matured out of their temporary psychological problems and their peculiar "malady" stopped attracting attention, so it no longer served a purpose for them. Flash forward to today. What group of human beings is most subject to the "transgender" craze? Go ahead, guess; I bet you know the answer. Anyone who has lived with or raised a female of the human species knows that they are emotionally labile to an excessive degree, highly suggestible, prone to caving under peer pressure while exhibiting an high degree of approval-seeking and conformity to group norms. Only a very small number of these so-called "transgendered" adolescents have anything like that going on; they mostly are maladjusted teenagers who, given time to mature physically and emotionally would adapt to their biological sex. Of course, there is a large number of adult perverts who compose the "drag queen/transgender" cohort we hear from so often and so loudly. They are driving the bandwagon in order to obtain more victims upon whom they can eventually prey. They deserve to be chemically and surgically mutilated, then permanently incarcerated and separated out from society, all in the name of improvement of the species.
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Reply 32 - Posted by: TurtleDove 11/25/2022 2:27:10 PM (No. 1342119)
A frightening trend. And just a few years ago the number was close to zero. TREND is the operative word there. Teenage girls are very susceptible to "peer pressure", "being included", & are therefore very prone to following "trends". Without responsible adults to steer them safely - at least until they are done physically developing - they are in for a lifetime of serious physical & emotional pains. God help them & God help the USA.
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Reply 33 - Posted by: earlybird 11/25/2022 3:46:07 PM (No. 1342138)
Preteen girls seem to be highly suggestible. Keep in mind that this is in the UK where procedures are free. And available to all.
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Reply 34 - Posted by: Heil Liberals 11/25/2022 4:24:56 PM (No. 1342146)
TikTok. The lack of real male role models. Moms who are emotionally stunted and at 40 try to dress like their 12 year old. And the sick Fks who think that all this is ok.
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Reply 35 - Posted by: CaktusJakk 11/25/2022 5:25:26 PM (No. 1342172)
What's behind it? Young, therefore inexperienced and naive, egos seeking attention.
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Reply 36 - Posted by: GoodDeal 11/25/2022 5:47:16 PM (No. 1342188)
You wonder why? They keep pushing gender and sexual confusion in school and hammering on the transgender option and guess what happens, kids get suckered into it and the result is the goal of destruction of the family by destroying the children. This is all satanic demonic and a sin against Gods creations.
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Reply 37 - Posted by: earlybird 11/25/2022 8:05:47 PM (No. 1342258)
This “explosion” was developed in a study done in the UK. Of young people in the UK. Are we going to assume the same is going on here? I don’t believe so,
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Reply 38 - Posted by: smokincol 11/25/2022 10:47:09 PM (No. 1342322)
if they really think being a female is like drawing the short straw being a male is not any better, they ought to think long and deep before they do anything that can't be undone. what have we come to as a society of rational??? human beings
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Reply 39 - Posted by: Heraclitus 11/25/2022 11:29:24 PM (No. 1342335)
There was a body-shaming craze where girls were becoming anorexic, some even dying, but obviously they had gotten the idea that the way their bodies were made was somehow bad, unacceptable, and even ugly. So they were starving themselves. Having the social networks and web and computer devices only accelerated the dissociative (if i may use that) behaviors. Maybe this phase in girls who are now grown with children are unwittingly impressing on their children the sense that they are not whole beings. Instead of being taught that they were created by God with a special purpose, as individuals, and that while of equal value to boys, they are different from them, and vice versa, they have been being taught that they are the same, they are equal to boys. So it's good to be equal TO boys? What does that mean? When God created human beings, He made them Male and Female, different in order, but equal in His sight. Teach them the value they have as individuals, beautifully unique. And teach the same to boys, that they will grow to be good and strong and to cherish the girls. Girls and boys need to respect themselves and each other, then we have more hope that they'll grow up to be good parents and good citizens. This whole gender perversion is one of the cruelest exercises, rather, tortures inflicted on children, second only to the hideous Mengele experiments. Parents need to fight back, fight for their children. Their Girl can NOT be a boy; nor a Boy a girl. I'd like to say "Snap out of it!" but I'm afraid too many parents and other adults have been brainwashed in this sort of era of mass psychosis. .
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Reply 40 - Posted by: JimBob 11/26/2022 12:00:30 AM (No. 1342338)
"The review team is looking into the causes behind “the considerable increase in the number of referrals” and the changing case mix, but is not expected to publish any findings" So..... why do the 'study' and then hide the 'findings'? There's an evil RAT in this pile!
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Reply 41 - Posted by: hoosierblue 11/26/2022 7:57:22 AM (No. 1342468)
Keep it simple. (BRAIN WASHING)
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President Biden met with congressional leaders of both parties on Tuesday to discuss lame-duck session priorities, including passing legislation to avert a looming rail strike that could devastate the U.S. economy.  'I asked for Congress, whether they'd be willing to come in and talk about what we're going to do between now and Christmas in terms of legislation,' Biden said at the top of the meeting. 'There's a lot to do in resolving the rail strike,' Biden said.  'Congress has to act to prevent it. It's not an easy call, but I think we have to do it - the economy's at risk.' 
McCarthy Can Put the GOP in Position To
Win in ’24
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Posted by Moritz55 11/29/2022 9:37:34 AM Post Reply
Now that the GOP has gained a House majority, Kevin McCarthy has a real opportunity to rise to the occasion. Although it wasn’t the midterm election result McCarthy wanted, by winning the House of Representatives the Republican Party has a seat at the governing table. The 55th speaker of the House is in a position to set policies and priorities in contrast to Joe Biden, and in the process make the case that a Republican belongs back in the White House in 2024. Doing so means that McCarthy and his lieutenants will have to demonstrate they understand the value of playing the long game. Even in a complicated political environment,
WATCH: Adam Schiff Blasts McCarthy, Says
GOP Leader Only Wants Him off Intel Committee
to Appease QAnon
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Posted by ladydawgfan 11/29/2022 8:28:21 AM Post Reply
As with people in general, there are certain political figures who simply can’t get out of their own way. In the case of California Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff, it’s almost like he intentionally tries to humiliate himself every time he opens his lying mouth. Toss in his stage-4 TDS, and this guy is a real bundle of joy. Schiff’s latest delusional blabbering — on CNN, of course — was in response to GOP House Leader Kevin McCarthy‘s confirmation, during a November 20 segment with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, that if he becomes Speaker of the 118th Congress on January 3, he will remove Schiff, Ilhan Omar,
Biden calls on Congress to avert "national
rail shutdown"
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Posted by Dreadnought 11/28/2022 6:37:21 PM Post Reply
President Biden urged Congress Monday to intervene to avert a "potentially crippling national rail shutdown," after multiple rail labor unions shot down an agreement brokered by the White House in September. American consumers and virtually all industries could take a hit at the beginning of the holiday season if workers do strike as soon as Dec. 5. Congress could intervene and impose contract terms on railroad workers, which is what Mr. Biden is urging them to do. Thanks to the Railway Labor Act, passed in 1926, Congress can force workers back to their stations with a congressional resolution.
UK Govt Prosecutors Argue Parts of Bible
‘No Longer Appropriate in Modern Society’
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Posted by Imright 11/28/2022 6:06:50 PM Post Reply
Lawyers for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) of England and Wales tried to have a Christian street preacher convicted for quoting the Bible to a lesbian couple, insisting that scripture is “no longer appropriate in modern society “. The extraordinary case, mounted in what is still nominally a Christian church, with an established church in which the head of state serves as Supreme Governor, was brought against armed forces veteran and throat cancer survivor John Dunn, after the police referred him to prosecutors for telling a lesbian couple that it “says in the Bible that homosexuals will not inherit the kingdom of God” in Swindon.
Exclusive — Conservatives Warn of ‘Doomsday
Scenario’ if McCarthy Fails in Speaker
Race Where Democrats Neuter GOP Power
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Posted by Imright 11/29/2022 11:54:19 AM Post Reply
Several top conservatives are warning that if House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, the Republican nominee for Speaker of the House, does not win the speakership election on the floor of the House on Jan. 3, 2023, a “doomsday scenario” could emerge where Democrats undercut GOP power. In such a scenario, concerns are rising that so-called moderate—or establishment Republicans—are willing to band together to make a deal with the Democrats to elect a moderate Republican as speaker with Democrat votes in exchange for a House rules change that hands the incoming Democrat minority significant power over how subpoenas can be issued.
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