{"id":61902,"date":"2025-08-23T19:14:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T17:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uccronline.it\/eng\/?p=61902"},"modified":"2025-08-24T23:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T21:10:36","slug":"new-study-trans-youth-more-often-bullies-than-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uccronline.it\/eng\/2025\/08\/23\/new-study-trans-youth-more-often-bullies-than-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"New Study: Trans Youth More Often Bullies than Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-128033\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uccronline.it\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/trans_bullismo-1-1.webp\" alt=\"trans bullying\" width=\"602\" height=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>Victims of bullying but even more often perpetrators. This is the conclusion of <strong>a Finnish survey<\/strong> on <strong>trans youth and bullying<\/strong>, showing that non-binary trans adolescents are 4 times more likely to commit discriminatory acts.<\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Finnish study <strong>will never be quoted<\/strong> by advocates of the alleged rampant homo-transphobia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bills against homophobia in various Western countries (which in reality aim to introduce <strong>thought crime<\/strong>) have almost always been <strong>sunk<\/strong>, and fortunately, there is <strong>no evidence<\/strong> of any surge in mass violence against LGBTQ+ people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Trans youth: 4 times more likely to be bullies<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The survey was published a few months ago in <strong><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/psychology\/articles\/10.3389\/fpsyg.2020.612424\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frontiers in Psychology<\/a><\/i><\/strong> and overturns the traditional image of <mark><strong>bullying<\/strong><\/mark> and so-called <strong>transphobia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The finding is clear: adolescents who identify as trans are <strong>more often perpetrators<\/strong> than victims of discriminatory behavior.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What happens now to the rivers of ink spilled on the so-called <strong>&#8220;minority stress&#8221;<\/strong>, invoked as dogma to explain the psychological suffering of transgender youth due to discrimination?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The dominant narrative, often driven by noble motivations, has portrayed trans youth as <strong>passive victims<\/strong> of stigmatization. Their mental health problems would not derive in any way from underlying psychological conditions, but would be <strong>entirely attributed<\/strong> to rejection and social stigma.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Based on this, <strong>school curricula<\/strong> are rewritten, the <strong>Italian language<\/strong> is forcibly manipulated, and, even more gravely, &#8220;gender-affirming treatments&#8221; such as <strong>puberty blockers<\/strong> are justified.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yet, without denying the reality of various unjust episodes of abuse, the research suggests another perspective: trans youth are <strong>over 4 times more likely<\/strong> to bully their peers compared to non-transgender youth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-128034\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uccronline.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/trans_bullismo.webp\" alt=\"trans bullying\" width=\"468\" height=\"379\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The study\u2019s authors are not biased<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The three <strong>authors of the study<\/strong>, researchers at Tampere University, are not biased at all. In addition to using language typically colonized by <i>gender<\/i> ideology, they even propose that schools establish programs to <i>\u00ab<strong>reduce heteronormativity<\/strong>\u00bb<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is curious, however, that they themselves acknowledge how trans youth (particularly those identifying as &#8220;non-binary&#8221;) are <strong>more likely<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>\u00abOf course, transgender adolescents may experience disproportionate episodes of bullying, but they are <strong>certainly not<\/strong> passive victims\u00bb<\/i>, commented biologist <strong>Colin Wright<\/strong> of the Manhattan Institute, one of the leading experts on gender dysphoria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The survey involved <strong>two groups<\/strong>: one of trans youth of lower secondary school age and one older group attending high school. Both show a <strong>high likelihood<\/strong> of discriminating against others, with a slight increase in the younger group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another interesting finding is that <strong>biological males<\/strong> commit acts of violence more frequently than biological females. This detail is consistent with what is observed among heterosexual youth, confirming that <strong>nature does not change<\/strong> even if psychological self-perception is affected by gender dysphoria.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Treatment of gender dysphoria<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The authors of the study do not offer specific explanations other than that <i>\u00abthe development of transgender identity represents <strong>an additional stress factor<\/strong> for young people going through adolescence, a period already difficult in terms of development, on their way to adulthood\u00bb<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is a reasonable summary and justifies the choice of <strong>more and more countries<\/strong> around the world to treat gender dysphoria not with surgery, but through <strong>watchful waiting<\/strong> and <strong>psychological support<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is now undeniable that <strong>80\u201395%<\/strong> of young patients will <strong>eventually come to accept<\/strong> their biological sex in late adolescence naturally, without any kind of therapeutic or social affirmation<sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"1\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"000000000000321e0000000000000000_61902\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-000000000000321e0000000000000000_61902-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-000000000000321e0000000000000000_61902-1\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"1\"><b>Cohen-Kettenis P.T. et al.<\/b>, <i>The treatment of adolescent transsexuals: changing insights<\/i>, The Journal of Sexual Medicine 2008<\/span> <sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"2\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"000000000000321e0000000000000000_61902\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-000000000000321e0000000000000000_61902-2\">2<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-000000000000321e0000000000000000_61902-2\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"2\"><b>Cantor J.M.<\/b>, <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uccronline.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2019journalsexmaritth.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transgender and Gender Diverse Children and Adolescents: Fact-Checking of AAP Policy<\/a><\/i>, Journal of Sex &amp; Marital Therapy 2019<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victims of bullying but even more often perpetrators. 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