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we aren't seeing a 4000% increase in kids wanting to transition, and even if that is hyperbole, the attitude suggesting a huge, unprecedented increase in the rate of transition comes from very specific information sources. information sources that often platform other types of dogshit information, lies for money, and inflammatory rhetoric. it isn't a "wrongthink" mentality, its a "the evidence against this positions validity is immense and rigorously scientific, and people who believe this aren't particularly good critical thinkers." in the same way anti-vaccine rhetoric, flat earth rhetoric, and other bogus unscientific claims are wrong, so too is the trans panic wrong. not to mention that the information sources that produce anti-trans bullshit also are engaged in active political movements to deny people medical care and criminalize being trans. so... no. fuck no. it isn't "wrongthink", its just wrong, and people spreading this bullshit are complicit in political posturing that almost certainly has led to the deaths of actual real life children.