The Role of Peer Influence in Transgender Identification Youth

High schools generally serve as the kind of proving ground for today's teenagers. Social scientists do know this, they've done a tremendous amount of work showing that there are all sorts of problems of damaging behaviors that can be spread through the peer group. So these things do get passed on to kids. Now, as you point out, the real change though today is social media,. You don't need a peer group in your high school who is telling you about being trans, or about changing your identity, or about questioning your identity. They can find it on all over Twitter and other sites where people have been doing it already. And some of the social media websites are known for hosting groups of kids