No because this 'point' is bullshit.
Maybe we are, maybe we aren't, I very much doubt we are considering she seems to be freaking the fuck out about something that in itself isn't a problem. Like she states that 2% of high school students have come out as trans where as before only .1% would. This isn't a problem at all, it reflects our growing acceptance of trans as something people are, before know people might just feel wrong in their bodies for their whole life. Now you could ask the question of "what about the 40-60 year olds, where are all of them coming out as trans?" But thats the thing, it does happen, but its uncommon because being trans is expensive and by that age you generally need surgery to really look like the sex you identify as, but if you are young and get hormones then you might be able to get by with no surgery at all and look like the gender you are more comfortable as.
Interesting theory. So it's just not worth it for people in that age range, and so they've resigned themselves to just suffer in silence for the rest of their lives?
Well, there is a lot more that goes into transitioning then just going from male to female or viceversa. On top of all the hormones and possible surgeries you also have the social cost. You have the very real possibility to lose friends and family because of it and even in places where its more accepted, male to female tends to be more celebrated then female to male. So as you get older unless the dysphoria is really bad, you might just put up with it rather than risk the friend group you have since making friends is harder as you get older.
Wrong leveeeeeeer!
It may also be a case of visibility. We see more people of a younger generation coming out as transgender because younger people have facebook, instagram, twitter, tiktok...A vast platform of social media to announce who they are. You think a 40-60 year old is on as many as that, if they're on any at all? There might be just as many 40-60 year olds coming out as transgender as there are teenagers its just they're not as easy to keep a track of
Older people may also not wish to turn their coming out into a semi-public event or spectacle. They just may want to look the most important people in their life in the eye and tell them who they are inside.
Exactly, but I woudln't say because of facebook, instagram, twitter, tiktok. I would say more because of motivated reasoning. No one cares what a 40-60 year old does, but if our teenagers are doing something we don't approve of then stop the presses and freak the fuck out. And, the person he was linking is certainly motivated if for no other reason then to sell books.
I don't think that the author relied on statistics gathered through social media for her book. That's a horrible way to collect data for reasons that should be obvious.
In agreement with this notion.
No, I really doubt this is the case. I think she might be abusing numbers or taking the wrong conclusion from them, but there is almost no way shes getting her data from social media.
That's not how the burden of proof works. The burden is on the person that makes the claim. You claimed that these statistics were gathered through social media. You prove it.
The person who made the claim here is you. You brought the video up. You quoted what it said as fact. Apparently without looking into it too much. I'm providing a possible theory for why her data might be skewed. Hell, my original premise hinges on what she says being accurate; that she's right in that we're seeing more of one age group coming out, but thats just because they're a more visible age group as a whole.
Yes, but I didn't claim that the data was gathered through social media. That was all you.
Well unless you can back up your theory with evidence, it stands on equal footing with the theory that her data is skewed because elves tampered with her computer.
You didn't ask me to fact-check my own source. You asserted that her data is skewed because teenagers are more active on social media. Don't get so mad and defensive when people point out that this is ridiculous.
And where did I do that? Because I seem to recall saying social media was skewing her data, not that it was the sum total of it. Strike one
Ah ah ah dude, you've already said burden of proof is on the person making the claim. Thats you. I'm questioning your claim so the burden is on you to prove it, not me to prove it for you. Strike two
That is in actuality literally what I asked you to do. Almost word for word:
Strike three, yer out!
If you'd had the book this whole time why not cite her sources and show us where she's getting her info?
I didn't have the book the whole time, I just got it for Kindle while I was writing that last post.
You can feel the bitterness of betrayal across 4000 years of time, space, and culture.
