For what it's worth, it seems about 1/4 of the psychogenic tics influenced by social media described in this study occurred in males, but since there are other sources that acknowledge a significant overlap between the kids who have TikTok tics and a trans gender identity (I think I saw one article that cited up to 40%, but don't quote m…
For what it's worth, it seems about 1/4 of the psychogenic tics influenced by social media described in this study occurred in males, but since there are other sources that acknowledge a significant overlap between the kids who have TikTok tics and a trans gender identity (I think I saw one article that cited up to 40%, but don't quote me on that) it's hard to tell if some of the "males" cited in this statistic or actually teenage girls identifying as boys and having two social contagions affecting them
"The majority of these new presentations occurred in female patients (75.6%)"
For what it's worth, it seems about 1/4 of the psychogenic tics influenced by social media described in this study occurred in males, but since there are other sources that acknowledge a significant overlap between the kids who have TikTok tics and a trans gender identity (I think I saw one article that cited up to 40%, but don't quote me on that) it's hard to tell if some of the "males" cited in this statistic or actually teenage girls identifying as boys and having two social contagions affecting them
"The majority of these new presentations occurred in female patients (75.6%)"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9733629/
I'll look at that. Thanks.