Contagion of Identity: A Modern Challenge

There is a noteworthy trend centering on the contagion in identity issues, particularly with anorexia in the past and current instances of gender identity shifts among adolescents. In high school environments, behaviors such as anorexia can spread socially, drawing parallels to the emergence of gender identity confusion among peers. Although anorexia primarily affected upper-middle-class liberal families previously, a shift has occurred, leading to a rise in cases of teenage daughters identifying as boys in similar family structures today. This shift impacts public discourse within liberal organizations, where some parents, due to their child's gender identity as 'trans', may shield these subjects from critique, illustrating a significant change in social dynamics around identity and familial responses.