Florida sues leading medical groups for supporting gender-affirming care

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/florida-medical-groups-transgender-lawsuit

If you actually look at how transphobes and people on the right talk about kids and parenting, they’re incredibly strict to the point of being almost dictatorial.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/transphobia-is-not-rational-b9e7013f40b9?sk=f62c3309b12331ba2a37c07d87fdcd37

#LGBTQ #Transgender #Transphobia #Parenting #SocialContagion

Transphobia is Not Rational

Against the social contagion

Medium
— Similar arguments have been used against the #LGBTQ+ #community, suggesting an "#epidemic" or "#socialcontagion." In reality, as #societal #stigma targeting #marginalizedgroups eases, people feel freer to #express their #authenticselves without #fear or #judgment, as clearly shown in the chart below.
A new view on the gut microbiome and the social contagion of health - 3 Quarks Daily

by Jeroen van Baar

3 Quarks Daily
No "Social Contagion" - Gender Transition Rates Reach Equilibrium In New Study

Despite claims of "exploding rates of being trans" and "rapid social contagion," a new Swedish study seems to hint that we have reached an equilibrium of gender transitions.

Erin In The Morning
Inside the right-wing YouTube empire that's quietly turning millennials into conservatives

The viral videos from Dennis Prager's "university" have clocked more than 1 billion views.

Mother Jones

#SocialMedia #anger #rage #SocialContagion #LovingKindness
*LISTEN(6min)
"Even if you're not aware of it, it's likely that your emotions will influence someone around you today."

Social Media Spreads Rage, But Kindness Can Stop It In Its Tracks : Shots - Health News

"Emotions circulate through social networks — the good, bad and ugly. And these days, the feeling that seems most viral is anger. Sometimes it takes just one act of kindness to stop the vicious cycle."
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/02/25/697052006/anger-can-be-contagious-heres-how-to-stop-the-spread

Evidence Undermines ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’ Claims
Fears of “#socialcontagion,” used to support anti-#transgender legislation, are not supported by science
“It is not rapid-onset #genderdysphoria,” says Diane Ehrensaft, director of mental health at the University of California, San Francisco, #Child and #Adolescent #Gender Center . “It’s rapid-onset parental discovery.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-undermines-rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria-claims/ #LGBTQA+ #LGBT
Evidence Undermines 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria' Claims

Fears of “social contagion,” used to support anti-transgender legislation, are not supported by science

Scientific American
I may have already posted this, but here it is again. #SocialContagion "We’re going through a Great Reorganization of Sexuality and Gender—the second such transformation in U.S. history."
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/whos-afraid-of-social-contagion/
Who's Afraid of Social Contagion? - Boston Review

Our ideas about sexuality and gender have changed before, and now they’re changing again.

Boston Review
No Evidence Being Transgender Is A "Social Contagion"

People opposed to transgender rights have often pointed at the rising number of transgender clinic referrals as proof of "social contagion." There is no evidence for this claim.

Erin In The Morning