Trans youth on the early internet show that the identity is not a fad.
New research proves that the internet has always been a haven for trans youth.
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How the early internet created a place for trans youth to find one another and explore coming out
Follow coverage of trans issues, and you’ll hear some people say that teens who change their gender identity are participating in a fad, and that social media is the culprit. As one proponent of legislation that would restrict access to care for trans teens claimed, social media platforms are where trans youths are falsely “convinced” that their feelings of identifying as a gender other than the one assigned to them at birth – known as gender dysphoria – are valid. These fears of Instagram, Tumblr and TikTok as breeding grounds for instilling gender dysphoria in young people recall...
Source: theconversation.com