Victims of bullying but even more often perpetrators. This is the conclusion of a Finnish survey on trans youth and bullying, showing that non-binary trans adolescents are 4 times more likely to commit discriminatory acts.

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A Finnish study will never be quoted by advocates of the alleged rampant homo-transphobia.

Bills against homophobia in various Western countries (which in reality aim to introduce thought crime) have almost always been sunk, and fortunately, there is no evidence of any surge in mass violence against LGBTQ+ people.

 

Trans youth: 4 times more likely to be bullies

The survey was published a few months ago in Frontiers in Psychology and overturns the traditional image of bullying and so-called transphobia.

The finding is clear: adolescents who identify as trans are more often perpetrators than victims of discriminatory behavior.

What happens now to the rivers of ink spilled on the so-called “minority stress”, invoked as dogma to explain the psychological suffering of transgender youth due to discrimination?

The dominant narrative, often driven by noble motivations, has portrayed trans youth as passive victims of stigmatization. Their mental health problems would not derive in any way from underlying psychological conditions, but would be entirely attributed to rejection and social stigma.

Based on this, school curricula are rewritten, the Italian language is forcibly manipulated, and, even more gravely, “gender-affirming treatments” such as puberty blockers are justified.

Yet, without denying the reality of various unjust episodes of abuse, the research suggests another perspective: trans youth are over 4 times more likely to bully their peers compared to non-transgender youth.

 

The study’s authors are not biased

The three authors of the study, researchers at Tampere University, are not biased at all. In addition to using language typically colonized by gender ideology, they even propose that schools establish programs to «reduce heteronormativity».

It is curious, however, that they themselves acknowledge how trans youth (particularly those identifying as “non-binary”) are more likely than their peers to be victims of bullying, but also to bully others. In fact, the link between transgender identity and acts of bullying turns out to be even stronger than that with being a victim of bullying.

«Of course, transgender adolescents may experience disproportionate episodes of bullying, but they are certainly not passive victims», commented biologist Colin Wright of the Manhattan Institute, one of the leading experts on gender dysphoria.

The survey involved two groups: one of trans youth of lower secondary school age and one older group attending high school. Both show a high likelihood of discriminating against others, with a slight increase in the younger group.

Another interesting finding is that biological males commit acts of violence more frequently than biological females. This detail is consistent with what is observed among heterosexual youth, confirming that nature does not change even if psychological self-perception is affected by gender dysphoria.

 

Treatment of gender dysphoria

The authors of the study do not offer specific explanations other than that «the development of transgender identity represents an additional stress factor for young people going through adolescence, a period already difficult in terms of development, on their way to adulthood».

This is a reasonable summary and justifies the choice of more and more countries around the world to treat gender dysphoria not with surgery, but through watchful waiting and psychological support.

It is now undeniable that 80–95% of young patients will eventually come to accept their biological sex in late adolescence naturally, without any kind of therapeutic or social affirmation¹Cohen-Kettenis P.T. et al., The treatment of adolescent transsexuals: changing insights, The Journal of Sexual Medicine 2008 ²Cantor J.M., Transgender and Gender Diverse Children and Adolescents: Fact-Checking of AAP Policy, Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy 2019.