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Help us inform other podcast listeners by subscribing to the Issues Et cetera podcast with YouTube, Spotify, and Apple. There is a new study out that is showing a rapid decline.

Now, the percentages are small, but the proportion of the percentages is pretty remarkable,

a rapid decline in the number of young people who are

identifying as transgender. I think it's further evidence that we've been experiencing here

for the last 10 years or so with transgender ideology is, in fact, the social contagion

that many have said it is. Welcome back to issues, CETRA, joining us to talk about

the rapid decline of transgender identification. Glenn Stanton, director of family formation

studies for focus on the family, and author of a recent column for the Federalist titled,

Here's Why Transgender Identities are finally in Free Fall. Glenn, welcome back.

Thank you, Todd. It's good to be with you.

The transgender phenomenon has been widely recognized by sensible people as a social contagion for years.

Why have some resisted and still resist acknowledging that fact? Well, because the lie is built on this idea that, oh, no, no, trans people, like, I as a man, if I become trans, like, no, I'm actually really objectively a woman.

And when you say it's social contagion, that it's just things that a fad that people buy into, then that obviously

digs into and cuts away at the, no, this is just natural argument, which of course it's not.

And that's the irony, Todd.

Like, think about this.

We know that in gender theory class, they tell us that male and female are just social constructs.

But if you're a trans woman, no, you are actually objectively, truthfully, an actual woman, and nobody can disagree with you.

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