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Fact Check: No, A New Study Does Not Show "Being Trans Is Just A Phase"
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Wow, very debunked and fact checked, lol.
Since you seemed to miss what exactly was meant by the headline:
To complete the paragraph you grabbed from:
Yeah, the author is making that up though, drawing conclusion based on their own biases. The question is not "do you feel dissatisfied with your sex". It's asking, directly, about the surveyed's desire to be the opposite sex. Which is literally what it means to be transgender.
The second quote is just semantic straw-grasping "the study didn't use the literal words 'gender confused'!"
Please. It is completely fair to describe "desire to be the opposite sex" as gender confusion, especially in years of childhood where one's sense of self is in active development.
Being transgender is a constant and persistent condition. Even for genderfluid people the "fluidity" needs to be repeatable. If a girl/woman suffering from cramps during her period thinks "I wish I was a boy/man so that I didn't need to suffer through this every month", she doesn't become trans because of it.
And "gender confusion" isn't a fair description. It's basically saying "they are wrong about what they're feeling". And you're not a telepath to know that
Yes. The whole point is to show that only a small minority of children who exhibit the hallmark 'sign' of being transgender, actually are.
That 2-3% of adults still feeling those same desires consistently, are obviously transgender.
No, you're imbuing meaning that isn't there, by conflating confusion with incorrectness. Being confused is not the same as being wrong. Confusion means uncertainty--not being sure of what's true about yourself is definitely not the same as being wrong (what are you even wrong about? If you're currently "confused", then you have not reached a conclusion yet, and you have to do that before you can be correct or incorrect).