Originally Posted by gabalyn
This may be slightly off topic, but I feel as though I have seen a lot of gender dysphoria recently among gifted and/or ASD kids.
I recommend reading

The Tragic Transgender Contagion
by David French
National Review
August 18, 2016

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The vast majority of kids who experience a period of discomfort with their biological sexual identity eventually desist. Indeed, the number may well be over 90 percent. In other words, kids who are growing and learning about life and themselves sometimes endure a period of confusion. This should shock exactly no one. What is shocking, however, is the insistence that this period of confusion should be treated as a period of confirmation — and that medical intervention is the logical and tolerant next course.

Indeed, transgender diagnoses have become so fashionable that doctors are sometimes stampeding to prescribe life-altering drugs even to kids — and then later, when the kids grow up, recommending mutilating surgery. In other words, doctors aren’t necessarily waiting for evidence of “consistence, insistence, and persistence.”

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"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." - George Orwell