The Story: A new study published in the medical journal Pediatrics finds many more teens than previously thought say they are transgender or identify themselves using other nontraditional gender terms.
The Background: In the United States, an estimated 0.6 percent of adults identify as transgender. Previous studies estimated the number was slightly higher for teens aged 13 to 17—0.7 percent.
But according to CBS News, this latest study estimates that nearly 3 percent of teens are transgender or gender nonconforming, meaning they don’t always self-identify as the sex they were assigned at birth. That includes kids who refer to themselves using neutral pronouns like “them” instead of “he” or “she.”
If these new estimates are correct, it means that young people are 329 percent more likely than adults to identify as transgender, and that there are almost as many transgender teens as there are adult men and women who identify as gay and lesbian. Read More
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More U.S. teens identify as transgender
The social contagion theory helps to explain why I am seeing more young people who are "transgender or gender nonconforming" on the campus of Murray State University where I am a student. The university provides an environment where these youngsters can be more openly transgender or gender nonconforming than they can in their own communities. They also have more peer support. However we may view this development, it is a development to which Christians seeking to reach and engage the younger generations must give thought in considering how to go about evangelizing the younger generations.
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