“When I spoke with parents at our ROGD meeting, I asked a simple question. Every single one of them answered the same way: yes, their child was addicted to video games.”
Is this a clinical diagnosis? Kids today play a lot of video games. Addiction is a discrete issue. Have they been tested or is this just the impressions of people who desperately need someone to blame?
“At what point do we stop calling this coincidence?”
Do a survey of parents with kids your age and see just how many of them say their kid is addicted to video games. What percentage of these addicts are transgendered? Is it statistically significant? Or is it just a sign of being a teen in the 2020’s?
“There are countless videos online of gamers openly discussing taking estrogen, claiming it makes them feel calmer, more sensitive, or more “in tune” while playing.”
Yes, I can believe people who are indeed transgendered benefiting from estrogen treatments. I think you’re approaching it backwards, though.
“Whether people are comfortable acknowledging this or not, this content exists, and it reaches vulnerable minds.”
Again, you’re looking for someone to blame because your child being in the wrong body just CANNOT be real, it would be a stain AGAINST YOU and you can’t handle that.
“Sometimes I think about the movie Poltergeist, where the little girl sits in front of the television, mesmerized by the static, until she is eventually pulled inside. Not because screens are evil in themselves, but because prolonged exposure without guidance can shape perception, identity, and belief in powerful ways.”
Poltergeist was a classic. You’re a paranoid. Don’t confuse the two.
“I want to be careful here.”
You’ve already made the accusation, just go with it.
“I am not interested in promoting conspiracy theories.”
Ah. But I am old enough to remember when YOU said, ‘At what point do we stop calling this coincidence?’ That’s promoting a conspiracy theory, bubbles.
“But there is a difference between inventing conspiracies and asking reasonable questions when patterns repeat themselves with such consistency.”
No, there isn’t.
People going through the same thing will use the same language to describe similar experiences. Ask monks from four different religions about their walks with the divine. Ask addicts of four different substances about how their addiction progressed.