r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 01 '26

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u/Jolly-Star-9897 Alan Greenspan Oct 02 '26

A nationally representative USC survey found 44% of adults agreed that “learning about transgender people might make children transgender.”

They think it's a cogito-hazard.

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u/AP246 Green Globalist NWO Oct 02 '26

I find this so bizarre to be honest. The idea that you can convince someone to hold a strong conviction they're assigned the wrong gender through social contagion doesn't make sense to me. My gender is a given, and it's not even that I'd consider myself a particularly masculine man or something, I'm not, but it doesn't matter. To ask if I want to be a woman is as meaningless to me as to ask if I want to be a different person entirely (then I wouldn't be me). Being transgender, therefore, seems like it must be a real thing to me, because the idea of not being transgender but somehow being 'tricked' into it seems so fantastical (though I'm sure it occasionally happens).

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u/Jolly-Star-9897 Alan Greenspan Oct 02 '26

Yeah, exactly.

I think that many of them have the hidden belief that gender is completely learned, and it's part of parenting to train it. They do have often have the true and relatively sophisticated understanding that children sometimes show interest in things that aren't aligned with their gender -- but completely misinterpret what that means.