There's an article making the rounds claiming a large drop in LGBTQ identification in youth, generally, identifying non-binary drops as largest. But I worry about declines in gay and lesbian identification being offset by increases in trans identification, lending credence to the idea of transitioning homosexual kids. Are you aware of any breakdown that can illuminate this?
Sexuality confusion for school age people is ubiquitous. The difference is the feminist Marxists controlling the education system leveraging this condition to groom their ideological armies of social chaos.
I think that the nonbinary self-ID does not necessarily pose a threat to the physical health of the girls involved in this fad unless they opt for some form of irreversible medicalization. Unfortunately, this particular group of young female, mostly white political extremists does pose a threat to everyone they interact with. They often are members of the group of young authoritarian bullies who have been responsible for much of the online and in-person pronoun policing and punishment of people who refuse to comply. They are incredibly abusive to male partners who originally thought they were getting involved with a feminine heterosexual girl (which is what most of them really are).
The all long for victimhood. Alas, for some reason one can't Identify as Black, you have to actually be Black. A white hetro female has a chance of advancement so long as she distinguishes herself in her wokeness, but for a white male there are only two options: be LGBTQ2SAPDNB++ or be neuro-divergent -- ADHA, autistic ... one of those.
This is fairly poor survey, which is endemic in sociology, and acute in the case of delusions, compulsions, or fads. But most importantly:
When it comes to survey design, responses you don’t allow don’t get answered. Responses you do allow can create false perceptions.
Ultimately it all comes down to pseudoscience. In the world of pseudoscience (and quite frequently in sociology) surveys are about affirming a point of view rather than getting empirical data. Just ask a critic of sociology.
Imagine if the question were “irrespective of neurological diagnosis, do you believe you have Tourette’s”. Tourette’s is a real thing, rare, relatively stable rate of occurance in populations, involuntary, measurable, and having a workable origin the effects can be modified. And there’s a parallel version to the to neurological one which is a fad. If you get a lot of positive answers you’ve found a fad.
The real question for sex would be “do you believe you have a different sex than your sex identified at birth.” - that’s proof of a delusion, but delusional people won’t even answer that correctly - they don’t believe they were identified as anything other than the sex they believe themselves to be. These are men who believe they have periods, as an example.
A compulsion is more like “Do you feel better or worse when you present yourself as the opposite sex” or “Do you have a need to present, groom, or refer to yourself as a member of the opposite sex.” But you can’t ask that quite that way because to some people it’s clothing, other it’s grooming, or it may be a pronoun - how a compulsion erupts can be varied.
The third set of questions are more around “When it comes to grooming, presentation, or pronouns, would you say nobody you know, some people you know, many or most people you know feel the same as you do,
That tries to tease a fad out. But I work in tests for professional credentials which are more straightforward.
The more interesting question in all of this is “Rate how comfortable you are with the sex you were identified with at birth”
That’s the real question.
Being uncomfortable with your sex is pretty much one of the major parts of adolescence, since your body is changing and possibly in ways you dont like. Puberty doesn’t end until undergraduate work is over, and it’s been peaking just as these folks enter school.
If you’re female and you don’t like menstruation, being noticed (or not) as your body matures sexually, or being treated differently from boys, sure you’ll be uncomfortable. Certainly if you’re young and Lesbian that can be challenging, make you uncomfortable with being female.
With boys of course, smelling, shaving, pesky erections, intensified competition - “being man enough” - are certainly good reasons for being annoyed at being male. And of course being gay is still pretty tough. All are reasons for being uncomfortable with being male.
If the only question they have in a survey which asks the adolescent sex discomfort question is answered jn terms of being “trans” or “nonbinary” you’ll get that answer. Adolescent women are apparently less uncomfortable saying that nowadays.
It’s the old fallacy of “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”. Being an adolescent uncomfortable due to your sex is not evidence of believing you are the opposite sex, feeling you are the opposite sex, that you enjoy popularity by being taken for the opposite sex.
But, when it come to survey design, responses you don’t allow don’t get answered. Responses you allow create false perceptions,
But I’m rather coarse because I know the word gender has no fixed meaning so these survey instruments simply “reify” pseudoscience.
Perhaps, in addition to the intellectual atmosphere on college campuses encouraging this kind of self-identification, I also wonder about rates of autism and rates of child sexual abuse, especially amongst women, where there seems to be a strong correlation. In addition, the self-loathing of homophobia amongst lesbian women who have been sexually abused, I believe, is a strong correlation.
It seems quite natural for a large cohort of men to prefer to be women since women are now given huge advantages in every aspect of education and society.
This is fairly poor survey, which is endemic in sociology, but acute in the case of delusions, compulsions, or fads.
Ultimately it all comes down to pseudoscience.
Imagine if the question were “irrespective of neurological diagnosis, do you believe you have Tourette’s”. Tourette’s is a real thing, involuntary, measurable, and having a workable origin the effects can be modified.
The real question would be “do you believe you are a different sex than your sex identified at birth.” - that’s proof of a delusion but delusional people won’t even answer that correctly - they don’t believe they were identified as anything other than the sex they believe themselves to be. These are men who believe they have periods.
A compulsion is more like “Do you feel better or worse when you present yourself as the opposite sex” or “Do you have a need to present, groom, or refer to yourself as a member of the opposite sex.” But you can’t ask that quite that way because to some people it’s clothing, other it’s grooming, or it may be a pronoun.
The third set of questions are more around “When it comes to grooming, presentation, or pronouns, would you say nobody you know, some people you know, many or most people you know feel the same as you do,
That tries to tease a fad out.
But I’m rather coarse because I know the word gender has no fixed meaning so these survey instruments simply “reify” pseudoscience.
There's an article making the rounds claiming a large drop in LGBTQ identification in youth, generally, identifying non-binary drops as largest. But I worry about declines in gay and lesbian identification being offset by increases in trans identification, lending credence to the idea of transitioning homosexual kids. Are you aware of any breakdown that can illuminate this?
Sexuality confusion for school age people is ubiquitous. The difference is the feminist Marxists controlling the education system leveraging this condition to groom their ideological armies of social chaos.
Totally true!
I think that the nonbinary self-ID does not necessarily pose a threat to the physical health of the girls involved in this fad unless they opt for some form of irreversible medicalization. Unfortunately, this particular group of young female, mostly white political extremists does pose a threat to everyone they interact with. They often are members of the group of young authoritarian bullies who have been responsible for much of the online and in-person pronoun policing and punishment of people who refuse to comply. They are incredibly abusive to male partners who originally thought they were getting involved with a feminine heterosexual girl (which is what most of them really are).
The whole "non-binary" thing is utter hooey.
It needs to go away.
The all long for victimhood. Alas, for some reason one can't Identify as Black, you have to actually be Black. A white hetro female has a chance of advancement so long as she distinguishes herself in her wokeness, but for a white male there are only two options: be LGBTQ2SAPDNB++ or be neuro-divergent -- ADHA, autistic ... one of those.
This is fairly poor survey, which is endemic in sociology, and acute in the case of delusions, compulsions, or fads. But most importantly:
When it comes to survey design, responses you don’t allow don’t get answered. Responses you do allow can create false perceptions.
Ultimately it all comes down to pseudoscience. In the world of pseudoscience (and quite frequently in sociology) surveys are about affirming a point of view rather than getting empirical data. Just ask a critic of sociology.
Imagine if the question were “irrespective of neurological diagnosis, do you believe you have Tourette’s”. Tourette’s is a real thing, rare, relatively stable rate of occurance in populations, involuntary, measurable, and having a workable origin the effects can be modified. And there’s a parallel version to the to neurological one which is a fad. If you get a lot of positive answers you’ve found a fad.
The real question for sex would be “do you believe you have a different sex than your sex identified at birth.” - that’s proof of a delusion, but delusional people won’t even answer that correctly - they don’t believe they were identified as anything other than the sex they believe themselves to be. These are men who believe they have periods, as an example.
A compulsion is more like “Do you feel better or worse when you present yourself as the opposite sex” or “Do you have a need to present, groom, or refer to yourself as a member of the opposite sex.” But you can’t ask that quite that way because to some people it’s clothing, other it’s grooming, or it may be a pronoun - how a compulsion erupts can be varied.
The third set of questions are more around “When it comes to grooming, presentation, or pronouns, would you say nobody you know, some people you know, many or most people you know feel the same as you do,
That tries to tease a fad out. But I work in tests for professional credentials which are more straightforward.
The more interesting question in all of this is “Rate how comfortable you are with the sex you were identified with at birth”
That’s the real question.
Being uncomfortable with your sex is pretty much one of the major parts of adolescence, since your body is changing and possibly in ways you dont like. Puberty doesn’t end until undergraduate work is over, and it’s been peaking just as these folks enter school.
If you’re female and you don’t like menstruation, being noticed (or not) as your body matures sexually, or being treated differently from boys, sure you’ll be uncomfortable. Certainly if you’re young and Lesbian that can be challenging, make you uncomfortable with being female.
With boys of course, smelling, shaving, pesky erections, intensified competition - “being man enough” - are certainly good reasons for being annoyed at being male. And of course being gay is still pretty tough. All are reasons for being uncomfortable with being male.
If the only question they have in a survey which asks the adolescent sex discomfort question is answered jn terms of being “trans” or “nonbinary” you’ll get that answer. Adolescent women are apparently less uncomfortable saying that nowadays.
It’s the old fallacy of “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”. Being an adolescent uncomfortable due to your sex is not evidence of believing you are the opposite sex, feeling you are the opposite sex, that you enjoy popularity by being taken for the opposite sex.
But, when it come to survey design, responses you don’t allow don’t get answered. Responses you allow create false perceptions,
But I’m rather coarse because I know the word gender has no fixed meaning so these survey instruments simply “reify” pseudoscience.
Perhaps, in addition to the intellectual atmosphere on college campuses encouraging this kind of self-identification, I also wonder about rates of autism and rates of child sexual abuse, especially amongst women, where there seems to be a strong correlation. In addition, the self-loathing of homophobia amongst lesbian women who have been sexually abused, I believe, is a strong correlation.
It seems quite natural for a large cohort of men to prefer to be women since women are now given huge advantages in every aspect of education and society.
This is fairly poor survey, which is endemic in sociology, but acute in the case of delusions, compulsions, or fads.
Ultimately it all comes down to pseudoscience.
Imagine if the question were “irrespective of neurological diagnosis, do you believe you have Tourette’s”. Tourette’s is a real thing, involuntary, measurable, and having a workable origin the effects can be modified.
The real question would be “do you believe you are a different sex than your sex identified at birth.” - that’s proof of a delusion but delusional people won’t even answer that correctly - they don’t believe they were identified as anything other than the sex they believe themselves to be. These are men who believe they have periods.
A compulsion is more like “Do you feel better or worse when you present yourself as the opposite sex” or “Do you have a need to present, groom, or refer to yourself as a member of the opposite sex.” But you can’t ask that quite that way because to some people it’s clothing, other it’s grooming, or it may be a pronoun.
The third set of questions are more around “When it comes to grooming, presentation, or pronouns, would you say nobody you know, some people you know, many or most people you know feel the same as you do,
That tries to tease a fad out.
But I’m rather coarse because I know the word gender has no fixed meaning so these survey instruments simply “reify” pseudoscience.