raharris1973
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I wanted to compared experiences and thoughts. I am an American in my late 40s, married and childless. Something I've noticed just over the last five years has been that among friends of mine or my wife or second order friends through my who have children approaching or gone through puberty age a high proportion are changing from their gender at birth or claiming an asexual status. Something like 25%.
I'm not in any kind of moral panic about it and wish these kids and young people well and for them to feel as comfortable in their own skin as they can, but it is always a surprising development and a piece of news I receive with some instinctive unease.
Have any of you noticed an increase in people in or around your circles changing gender identities? Any idea why this is so?
Was the identity always latently there among biological men and women performing maleness and femaleness in the past?
Are there aspects of 21st century normative expectations of maleness and femaleness, perhaps derived from how it is performed in Hollywood, pop culture, fashion, or porn, that makes young people "not want to compete" at being the gender/sex they were born biologically and choose instead to be the other sex or neutral/asexual?
I'm not in any kind of moral panic about it and wish these kids and young people well and for them to feel as comfortable in their own skin as they can, but it is always a surprising development and a piece of news I receive with some instinctive unease.
Have any of you noticed an increase in people in or around your circles changing gender identities? Any idea why this is so?
Was the identity always latently there among biological men and women performing maleness and femaleness in the past?
Are there aspects of 21st century normative expectations of maleness and femaleness, perhaps derived from how it is performed in Hollywood, pop culture, fashion, or porn, that makes young people "not want to compete" at being the gender/sex they were born biologically and choose instead to be the other sex or neutral/asexual?