That in the United Kingdom the phenomenon of transkids was on the rise was known. The latest data provided, However, reveal a real boom for a trend that risks becoming mass. According to data reported by Sun, the minors of 16 years of asking for a sex change have passed since 2 per month a few years ago to 7-10 per week, Therefore, at least one a day.
To be precise, the number of children and teenagers come on 3 ai 18 years who have been going to gender identity clinics, was estimated at 314 In the 2011, leaping to the beyond 2000 of the 2016. Last year, British Equalities Minister Penny Mourdant has ordered an urgent investigation into the phenomenon, from which it emerged that the increase in treatments for transitioning from one sex to another was 4415% among girls only. Data more than ever in line with those of another British investigation, according to which young people who received “gender treatment” moved on from 97 of the 2009 ai 2510 of the two-year period 2017/18: beyond 4000% more in just one decade.
Data that, However, they don't seem to disturb Prime Minister Theresa May at all, declared more than ever «intent on eradicating homophobic and transphobic bullying». «We have developed plans to reform the gender recognition law, streamline and demedicalize the process of changing sex, because being trans is not a disease and should not be treated as such», May added.
The comment of the former advisor of the Department for Education is much more critical, Chris McGovern, who declared to the Telegraph: «People are making a career out of encouraging children to question gender identity, at an age when children need to be left children. When teachers raise these issues, children may become confused or unhappy, traumatized by gender».
On the other side of the ocean, the trend is not too different. According to a survey from the first months of 2017, in the Usa, teenagers come on 13 ai 17 years identifying as transgender would be estimated at 149.750, so it 0,7% of that age group.
An almost insignificant percentage, when compared to that reported, still two years ago, from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (therefore absolutely to be taken with a pinch of salt, the survey having been conducted, moreover, on a sample of 2037 interviewed): il 20% of young people among 18 and i 34 years identifies himself as Lgbt (of which transgenders are only a subcategory), in front of the 12% of self-styled Lgbt on the total population.
Luca Marcolivio
source – https://www.notizieprovita.it/notizie-dal-mondo/regno-unito-boom-di-adolescenti-transgender-ma-la-colpa-e-dei-genitori/