Why more young people are coming forward now
Dr Helen Webberley on LBC: trans healthcare, with Tom Swarbrick, LBC
More young people are transgender now than ever before. Something is causing a sudden surge, whether that is social contagion, online influence, or a trend that will pass. The numbers are rising, so something must have gone wrong.
What I was trying to say there is that the numbers are not rising because more people are becoming trans. They are rising because more people finally have the words for something they always were. I have spoken with so many people who spent decades knowing something was different about them, carrying that quietly, with no language and no map. The language exists now. The visibility exists now. Young people today can name what they feel, and so they come forward. That is not a crisis. That is progress.
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