My stepson has revealed that he identifies as female...

my stepson has revealed that he identifies as female. Is there a scientific reason why boys are feeling like girls more today? I'm being 100% serious. Please help me understand.

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the mostly accurate perception that one group has more power than the other where we are

do they pass? then its a good decision

Tell him you're just glad he's not your real son.

aww fuck dude, you made me giggle, but I'm crying right now because I raised him. And he's a very odd kid.

Transness in general has a neurological explanation, that there are male and female brains that have anatomical differences and in some people they get the brain of the opposite gender of their body.
In terms of numbers it's not obvious whether more people's brains are not matched by their bodies in the modern day, or whether more people are transitioning now that it's a thing you can go out and do (why bother telling people you are trans in the 1100's, the fuck would you have done about it?)

>Is there a scientific reason why boys are feeling like girls more today?
I'm not sure that's a reasonable assumption. Given the enormous negative reporting bais against people coming out as trans, it's very hard to say anything at all.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fin_de_siècle

It's no longer socially acceptable to be a feminine boy. Our society's focus on identity means that any boy who isn't an alpha thug must cut off his penis.

Uh, where are you getting that from?

>they get the brain of the opposite gender of their body
No they don't. They have slightly anomalous brains where portions develop more like the opposite sex than normal. It's impossible for a boy whose body is bathed in testosterone since puberty to have a "brain of the opposite gender" which is identical to what an average female has, and vice versa. That's fucking retarded.

sure smells like a /pol/ thread in here

Doesnt matter op just help him/ her (her if its becoming serious). Seriously though we dont have clear explanations yet, and your help cant wait until we do get clear scientific answers. Goodluck

>Goodluck
ok, i guess he gets a dress for his birthday then.

;_;

>Is there a scientific reason why boys are feeling like girls more today

A scientific reason? I don't know about that. There are a couple arguments as to why that may be, though. One argument is that the transgender issue being talked about more in the media nowadays is causing more young people to identify as trans because it's "hip" or "trendy." Another would be that, again, because the issue is being talked about more, kids who actually do suffer from gender identity disorder are feeling more free to "come out" as trans. I'm sure the first argument has some merit, but I think it's more to do with the second.

There may be a biological component, but the most likely answer is that you now have an entire generation (Gen Z) that have been brought up in an extremely politically correct and because they have really shitty parents (millennials) they instant access to pornography through the internet, which may or may not cause developmental disorders

Doesn't matter anyway, this is a bait thread.

im 100% gen Z (1995) and i turned out conservative as fuck. parents very liberal to boot, though i think i mostly turned out this way because of college.

idk just felt like /blog/ing in this bait thread

There's actually been a dramatic surge in people claiming to be transgender lately. And interestingly, this new surge of people completely lack the characteristics for wanting to change their gender as did most people before. Rather than wanting to sexualize their own image as a female, this new wave wants to become female due to social fear and pressure. Basically, they feel like swapping their gender will solve whatever problems they feel like they have at the moment, problems caused due to being a boy.

It's kind of funny, liberal sympathy will ultimately cause the death of way more "oppressed" people, at least in this new group of young "transgender" boys, since one day, they'll come to realize that they've mutilated themselves all because they felt like they had trouble being leaders or courageous, or whatever problem it was they felt they had at 13 when they decided to get ready to have their penises chopped off, and then they'll kill themselves. It's all really creepy to be honest, and I've yet to get a good explanation from liberals as to why they actually support that crazy bullshit.

There's a good article on this somewhere, but I'm too lazy to find it right now.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria
Just look at this article and look at our closest relatives (chimpanzees) and judge for yourself. I'm personally against it.

Tell him he isn't. Depending on his age you can get the notion out of his head.

In addition to that statement, compare otherkin and transgenderism. You'll see a lot of parallels.

fucking just turned 18

I'm gen Y and I probably agree with your viewpoints but you're even more atypical for your generation than I am for mine.

Shit, it's probably too late then. Godspeed user.

>this new surge of people completely lack the characteristics for wanting to change their gender as did most people before. Rather than wanting to sexualize their own image as a female, this new wave wants to become female due to social fear and pressure.
Do you have even the slightest evidence this is true?

I've seen a bunch of people in these threads talking about how people are transitioning due to social pressure or drugs or political correctness or because it's "the cool thing to do", and it always manages to come off as generic /pol/-tier "modern degeneracy is corrupting our youth!". No-one has actually provided anything more than anecdotes to suggest that there are large numbers of people being misdiagnosed.

>Tell him he isn't.
I'm sure THAT will help convince them.

>Depending on his age you can get the notion out of his head.
Uh, no. If they really are suffering from gender dsyphoria, that's not going to go away with time. All that's going to change is that that treatment will get less effective the later it's started.

>Do you have even the slightest evidence this is true?
thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/06/15145/

>the witherspoon institute

Not who you're responding to - but your "evidence" is from a conservative Christian think tank? And it's an opinion article at that? Come on, man.

>back in ye olden day
>papa i am girl
>no you're not
>gets slapped

>modern times
>goes on tumblr
>guys i am girl
>thousands of people backing him/her up

It's about how evolved society is and if there is room to express and share stuff like that. It was harder back in the day because shit was tough all around and people didn't need more problems.
Now young people can just do whatever the fuck, for better and worse.

I guess all you can do is love him and get him to a therapist. It might resolve itself well with therapy but you want to get to him before the LGBT pridesters convince him he should get his dick lopped off.

It's the hormones in the water. All part of a cultural-marxist plot to corrupt our precious bodily fluids.