Dr. Phil McGraw

If you arrest the development

that can have ramifications long-term, or at least they can't say it doesn't have ramifications long-term.

Well, of course.

And if you're doing testosterone blockers, for example...

That does have long-term consequences.

And my point is, they can't say it doesn't.

They don't have a body of literature that says it doesn't.

And I'm, look, I'm not a physician.

I think a lot of it is owing to social media platforms and the internet.

I think this is what I'm talking about when I say the activist...

I don't think speak for the community at large.

I think they get an agenda that they're pushing, and I think they really get wrapped up in this, and it gets a lot of oxygen on the internet.

It gets a lot of oxygen on social media platforms.

Now, they say there's no social contagion here, but the girls that are claiming to be transgender, that percentage has gone up

And some reports say it's gone up 800 percent, a thousand percent over the last several years.

And they say, well, that's because they feel more comfortable talking about it now.

Is that true or is it because you read about it, you see it on social media and you think, well, I can distinguish myself in this way.

I think there is a social contagion effect.

So people jump on the bandwagon and if it's for a short period of time,

but they've done things that can't be reversed.