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How Social Media Fuels the Transgender Social Contagion

Indeed, peer influence is a major factor for the huge uptick in cross-sex identification today, and it’s not without its consequences. Since 2018, when Lisa Littman first put forward the social contagion hypothesis, her work has been confirmed by findings that suggest social transitioning (including binding) only adds to the problems these young people face: “According to the parents, AYA [adolescents and young adults] children’s mental health deteriorated considerably after social transition.”

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