America must catch up to Europe in accepting the role of peer influence in adolescent gender dysphoria.
Transgenderism is the belief that every person has a “gender identity” (an inner sense of being male, female, something else, or in between) distinct from his or her sex and that, when the two conflict, gender identity should take precedence. It is perhaps surprising that this idea has caught on. And yet it has. According to Pew Research, over 5 percent of Americans under 30 identify as transgender or nonbinary, compared with 1.6 percent of the total adult population and just 0.3 percent of those over 50.
