This feeling in young girls and boys that they are in the wrong bodies are causing them trauma and suffering. They turn for support and encouragement to social media, online websites, books and educationists and their peers in the early stages of dysphoria, but seldom to their parents. The soil which receives this sense of being in the “wrong body” is, in many instances, the mind of a child who –

The mother referenced earlier speaks about this as a factor, especially if your child’s friends are “troubled”. Abigail Shrier, author of Irreversible Damage said in an interview with Jordan Peterson, a world renowned clinical psychologist, that “It is a psychological fact that girls during puberty tend to lean towards hysteria and want to go with the trend.”

Jamie Reed, (referenced earlier) in her interview on the “Triggernometry” YouTube channel, calls the surge in gender dysphoria a “social contagion” and advises that children should not be allowed to keep or take their mobile phones to their bedrooms and/or behind closed doors. She also says that children who suffer from gender dysphoria often sense their parents are allowing them to make the transition decision on their own, and thus experience additional stress. Children, “want to know there is an adult in the room.” She encourages parents to also focus on their children’s mental health and notice when they are showing signs of depression, anxiety, withdrawing from family activities etcetera. Healthy meals, enough sleep and outdoor exercise are all important for a child’s mental health.

There is not a science based, clear cut answer to that question. In fact, no one yet knows, or if they know are not saying, what the root cause of gender dysphoria is. There is no record of a focus study into it. As one leading reproductive epidemiologist ^[12] puts it “it is too controversial to investigate and should not be done without trans people involved.” So it seems sensitivity to the transgender community and not wanting to upset them is stopping scientists from doing a study as to the root cause or causes of gender dysphoria. Something so traumatic and distressing to children and their parents worldwide, showing an extraordinary increase, yet no endocrinologist or medical science department at any university considers it important to the future of the human re-productiveness to do research on the dysphoria because they do not want to upset a minority community.

There are some experts who believe that “hormones in the womb, genes and cultural and environmental factors” play a role in gender dysphoria. Environmental factors such as certain chemicals used in mainly plastics and in pesticides being sprayed on almost all food production have now been identified as endocrine disrupters and androgen blocking chemicals It has already been proven that phthalates found in plastics is the reason why the sperm count in males have dropped by 2.5% in the past 10 years ^[13]. Phthalates are called the “everywhere chemical” and exposure is by ingestion, inhalation, skin absorption, intravenous injection. It is also released by heat (microwave and sun), agitation and prolonged storage. The pesticide Atrazine was found to turn male frogs and other male amphibians into homosexuals in a study done at Berkeley University by Tyrone Hayes in 2011. There is much on the internet on this study and Shanna Swan’s interview is a good place to start. She did the Konkrete interview because she said “People need to know about this!” (reference 11).

Yet, in spite of all these possible causes, pharmaceutical interventions and medical surgeries are performed, without reliable peer reviewed research data proving effectiveness nor treating some causes first (such as social media contagion and mental illness). That is a frightening reality and you should give yourself a minute to allow that to sink in.