Thu Jan 26, 2023 – 6:56 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — The president of a leading transgender health organization admitted to the New York Times (NYT) that social contagion has played a role in the heart-stopping rise in the number of children and teens who identify as transgender.
Dr. Marci Bowers, president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) which advocates for medical affirmation for trans-identifying youth, is himself a man who identifies as a woman. He is a surgeon and a gynecologist who has performed thousands of vaginoplasties, a procedure which purports to create for males a vagina from their existing genital tissue, but which not infrequently ends in disaster.
“There are people in my community who will deny that there’s any sort of ‘social contagion’ — I shouldn’t say social contagion, but at least peer influence on some of these decisions,” Bowers told his NYT interviewer of the growing number of trans kids. “I think that’s just not recognizing human behavior.”
NYT journalist Michelle Goldberg who interviewed Bowers also confessed, “I … think we don’t understand what’s behind the huge increase in adolescents — many with mental health disorders — identifying as trans.”
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