{"id":1514314,"date":"2022-06-13T20:34:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T00:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1514314"},"modified":"2022-06-13T20:34:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T00:34:42","slug":"transgender-young-people-in-u-s-have-nearly-doubled-recently-report-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/transgender-young-people-in-u-s-have-nearly-doubled-recently-report-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender Young People In U.S. Have Nearly Doubled Recently, Report Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftransgender-young-people-in-u-s-have-nearly-doubled-recently-report-shows%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1514314&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The number of younger teenagers who identify as\u00a0transgender has nearly doubled in the U.S. over the last few years, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>The number of transgender people aged 13 to 17 in the U.S. is almost twice what it was in\u00a02017,\u00a0according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu\/publications\/trans-adults-united-states\/\">report<\/a> from the Williams Institute,\u00a0a research institute based at the UCLA School of Law.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, the Williams Institute\u00a0researchers estimated that around\u00a00.7 percent of younger teens were transgender in the U.S., about 150,000 teens. Now, they estimate that number has doubled to\u00a0300,000.<\/p>\n<p>Teens and young adults make up a much larger portion\u00a0of the transgender population compared to adults. About 43% of the\u00a01.6 million transgender people in the U.S. are young adults or teenagers, and nearly one in five are minors ages 13 to 17. This is despite the younger teen demographic being less than 8%\u00a0of the total U.S. population. In the same vein, young adults 18 to 24 make up just under a quarter of the transgender population, but they are only 11% of the total U.S. population.<\/p>\n<p>About 1.4% of all teens 13 to 17 identify as transgender, while 1.3% of young adults 18 to 24 do so. Meanwhile, only 0.5% of adults identify as transgender, according to the study.<\/p>\n<p>Adults 25 to 64 tended to identify as transgender less than their younger counterparts. That older age group makes up well over half, 62%, of the U.S. population, but less than half, 47%, of the transgender population.<\/p>\n<p>As might be expected, seniors showed the same trend. People over 65 make up 20% of the U.S. population, but they are only 10% of the transgender population.<\/p>\n<p>The report\u2019s data came from\u00a0the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s\u00a0Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, as well as the agency\u2019s\u00a0Youth Risk Behavior Survey.<\/p>\n<p>Many medical professionals have in recent years lent their full-throated support to minors receiving puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and in some cases surgical transitions, which can mean double mastectomies and bottom surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Now though, some medical professionals are speaking out and warning about the dangers of rushing to medically transition a teenager or young person who says they identify as the gender opposite their biological one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems extraordinary that now 1 in 5 teenagers identify as trans,\u201d said Stella O\u2019Malley, a\u00a0psychotherapist who works with young people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is notable that this rise is predominantly evident among teenagers and young adults \u2013 if it was spread out among all age groups then we would be merely witnessing a correction taking place, where people who previously felt unable to live as trans now felt free to do so. But this isn\u2019t happening; instead something else is going on among teenagers and young people and it is imperative that clinicians, educators, and policy-makers carry out an in-depth analysis on this population,\u201d O\u2019Malley told The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Malley added that there are many \u201cuntrue statistics\u201d related to transgender people, especially when it comes to suicide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now the data suggests that the risk of suicide remains both post-affirmation and post-transition. Sadly, there is no magic solution to life and suggesting that affirmation or medical transition will fix a person\u2019s suicidality is a dangerous promise to make,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Another physician blamed the rise in gender incongruence in the population on a \u201csocial contagion\u201d that is \u201cfueled by social media\u201d and \u201cfully supported by \u2018woke\u2019 medical organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that a very high percentage (60-98%) of kids who are given support will no longer identify as being the wrong sex as adults. Sex cannot be changed; it begins at conception and is solidified during embryologic development in the womb,\u201d said Dr.\u00a0Michael K. Laidlaw, MD, a\u00a0board-certified physician\u00a0and endocrinology specialist in California.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no scientific way to turn a female body into that of a fertile adult male, nor is there a way to turn a male body into that of a fertile adult female,\u201d Laidlaw told The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>Laidlaw noted as well that cross-sex hormones come with significant risks, including infertility, deadly blood clots, heart attacks, increased cancer risks of the breasts and ovaries, liver dysfunction, worsening psychological illness, and other serious conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of younger teenagers who identify as\u00a0transgender has nearly doubled in the U.S. over the last few years, according to a new report. The number of transgender people aged 13 to 17 in the U.S. is almost twice what it was in\u00a02017,\u00a0according to a report from the Williams Institute,\u00a0a research institute based at the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":1514343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1514314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1514314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1514343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}