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nuggets

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    Comment #46272370

    That perhaps indicates that these are distinct phenomena and shouldn't be lumped into the same category.

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    Comment #46272347

    It's interesting how much protest there is to even the suggestion there may be a social contagion aspect. I think some people have backed themselves into an ideological corner on t…

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    Comment #46227145

    You don't have to suggest an explanation for this demographic change if you don't want to.

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    Comment #46227076

    If that is the cause, how does it explain both the sex ratio shift and the rapid increase in referrals starting from around 2011-2012 onwards? There were gender clinics across Euro…

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    Comment #46226718

    Could you elaborate on what you're alluding to, please?

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    Comment #46226688

    But the adult demographic of left-handers doesn't have, and didn't have, a sex ratio skewed in the opposite direction to the youth demographic. So how is this a relevant comparison…

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    Comment #46225524

    Then why were there more boys who want to be girls referred prior to a decade ago, compared to girls who want to be boys? The radical feminist movement in the UK has existed much l…

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    Comment #46225503

    There are other papers showing the same sort of pattern elsewhere. For example, you can see one cited in that paper within the introductory paragraphs. As the commenter upthread no…

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    Comment #46225254

    What is your alternative explanation for why referrals have so sharply skewed towards girls who want to be boys, within the past decade or so? It is doctors who first drew attentio…

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    Comment #46224993

    Regarding the change in sex ratio for childhood referrals, this is well documented. See for example this paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324768316_Sex_Ratio... "Soc…

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    Comment #46224740

    There's not really any plausible explanation as to why referrals to pediatric gender clinics became so skewed towards girls who want to be boys, other than social contagion. The st…