Albert Mohler: Understanding the Rise in Claims of Transgender Identity

Could the transgender revolution really be fueled by a social dimension?—a social contagion? That’s what a current—and now very controversial—peer-reviewed study has found. The headline from the Economist in London was this, “Why are so many teenage girls appearing in gender clinics?” The author of the academic study discovered that there is a clear social dimension, a contagion of what's called gender dysphoria, particularly among adolescent girls and young women. So: What does it mean? It means the recent spike in transgender identity may be attributable in large measure to the influence of other young women in the same place at the same time within a definable set of relationships or going to similar places on the internet. You may have sensed this already by observation and intuition. Now: The academic research supports it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.