What Is Going on with the Trans Trend?

[Candace Owens]

In March 1991, the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent
Psychiatry published a study on mothers of boys with gender identity
disorder. When I was in school, my psychology courses called this “gender
dysphoria disorder,” which is what the American Psychological Association
(APA) called it in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(DSM-5-TR) at the time. It is my understanding that now, the APA no longer
considers gender dysphoria a mental disorder.

Back when gender dysphoria was considered a psychiatric issue, this study was
done. It is fascinating. It examined the mothers of boys with gender identity
disorder, compared with controls. The abstract reads:

This pilot study compared mothers of boys with gender identity
disorder (GID) with mothers of normal boys to determine whether
differences in psychopathology and child-rearing attitudes and
practices could be identified.

So, the study assessed if you were raising children the same way or
different. It goes on to say:

Results of the Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines and the Beck
Depression Inventory revealed that mothers of boys with GID had
more symptoms of depression and more often met the criteria for
Borderline Personality Disorder than the controls. Fifty-three
percent of the mothers of boys with GID compared with only 6% of
controls met the diagnosis for Borderline Personality Disorder
on the Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines or had symptoms of
depression on the Beck Depression Inventory.

That is shocking: 53% of the mothers of boys with GID compared with just 6%
of the controls had Borderline Personality Disorder or had symptoms of
depression. This brings into question if it is the environment or if it is
the child. Take Megan Fox, for example. Megan is the mother of three boys and
allows her son to wear dresses. Are her boys being who they have always been?
Or, is the situation as she claims, that while she was pregnant, she could
sense they were not going to blend gender stereotypes?

This is not a solely conservative issue. Bill Maher recently named these
trends as geographic on “Real Time.” Bill Maher is a liberal, and, I think,
could be considered Leftist. But even he is acknowledging the “trendiness” of
this. We agree that this necessitates further conversation, not censorship.
We should be able to have open dialogue. We must be able to have rational
conversations when we start to realize weird trends and disparities. And such
is the case of the geographical nature of these trends. First, he showed the
climbing rates of Americans identifying within the LGBTQ community. These
percentages are climbing so much that they are doubling with every
generation: before 1946, less than 1%; baby boomers, 2.6%; Generation X,
4.2%; millennials, 10.5%; and Generation Z, 20.8%. “If we follow this
trajectory,” Bill says, “we will all be gay in 2054.” His audience laughed,
but then, he showed that transgender children numbers are exploding in Los
Angeles and are minimal in places like Ohio. So he posed a question I have
asked over and over: “If this spike in trans children is all-natural, why is
it regional?”

That’s a great question. Which is it? What do you think it is? Is this real?
Where should we be looking? The environment of these children? Is it the
environment? Is it natural? These are all fair questions we should be asking.