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Yes, so.
Last year I made a video about trans athletes, which some of you may remember. This didn't have much to do with my interest in trans people, but more with my difficulty understanding the relevance of competitive sports. I think in the next century or so it'll go out of fashion because any remaining gains will come down to the question what physical enhancements or genetic selection is still permitted.
That's what I think anyway, feel free to disagree...
I guess I should have seen it coming then that I would get plenty of requests to look at the question whether transgender teens should transition or whether the spike in trans-identification among teens is social contagion. I said "no" to this repeatedly when my team members brought it up because, well, too much political baggage. But I gave in eventually, primarily because my own children are almost teenagers now, and I want to understand what's going on.
Are teens turning trans because it's fashionable? That's what we'll talk about on Saturday.
Is the person in the photo male or female? It's an AI generated image, so I think it can plausibly be said that it's neither.