Today’s Youth Are Captivated by Dissociation

Commentary In less than a decade, what has been called a “transgender human rights movement” has morphed from stories about children and young people being born in the wrong body, to kids with “gender identity disorder” to “gender incongruence,” and now to “gender expression,” complete with its own line of make-up, fashion models, body scars and hormone home delivery services. The promotion of the dissociation of children from their sexed bodies receives a boost by a more general embrace by the young of dissociation on social media. And social media has in turn been adopted by those seeking to turn a profit off of young people’s body dissociation. Becca is a young woman who is part of the online community of TikTok youth making videos about their purported dissociative identity disorders. Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) used to be called Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), made famous in the movie “Sybil,” whose …
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