Is it something in the water? The water in Hollywood, California, I mean.
How can we explain why we see an outbreak of transmania among the children of Hollywood celebrities?
Is it because their parents are famous celebrities, movie stars and other important public figures? Or is it something about the local school system?
Such is the question that the Daily Mail raises.
DailyMail.com exclusively revealed earlier this year how Affleck and Jennifer Garner's child Seraphina Rose appeared at their grandfather's funeral with a masculine buzz-cut and black suit to announce they were now called Fin and used 'they/them' pronouns.
And in July, Elon Musk got into a very public spat with his estranged trans daughter Vivian, born Xavier, who he said used to be a gay boy but had fallen victim to the 'woke mind virus'.
The idea that there are more trans people in Hollywood is a regular subject of debate on social media channels, with threads such as 'Why are all celebs kids trans[?]' on Reddit.
Among the other parents of transgendered children are: Jamie Lee Curtis, Jennifer Lopez, Dwayne Wade and Sigourney Weaver.
Fair enough, they are not all living in Hollywood, but they are certainly all celebrities.
How do the experts explain it?
Some say that it’s all about wealth. Surgical mutilation is expensive and only the very wealthy can afford it.
And yet, if this were the case there would be a rash of transmania among the children of Wall Street bankers.
Among other possible explanations are-- traumatic childhood events. Why these children should suffer more traumatic childhood events and why these events should make them transmaniacs, is not explained.
And then there is the notion that these children might be doing it to gain attention.
The Daily Mail explains, quoting an expert, Dr. Raj Persaud who works in London:
Dr Persaud said that among children who live in the shadows of their parents, there may be a factor at play where they crave to be noticed.
'For those who are not the child of celebrities, they know that to come out as transgender you are going to get a lot of attention,' he said.
'It may be that there are a group of people not choosing the trans life course who otherwise would because they don't want the attention.
'But if you are the child of parents who seek attention, and you have attention-seeking genes, and you have a very famous father and mother meaning there is a distinct challenge in how to get attention, then there may be something about this drive for attention and coming out as transgender.'
None of these explanations feel very satisfactory. We would want to know whether these children have been groomed in school to become transgendered.
And then, consider this.
In many communities, parents are decidedly opposed to seeing their children get caught up in a delusion. Perhaps in celebrity communities, inhabited by people who have far more wealth than they deserve, parents and teachers are afraid to question this social contagion because they believe it would make them look like bigots, or stupid.
So, when they see a luxury belief taking over the minds of their associates they feel compelled to tag along, even to the point of sacrificing their children.
In most normal communities parents will do everything in their power to suppress any developing transmania. Among certain left-leaning pseudo-intellectuals, people believe that a child can change sexes, by changing his or her mind.
Parents in such communities parade their trans children around like trophies. Being tolerant of child mutilation makes you one of the intelligentsia, a true believer. You are sacrificing your child to a false god, all in order to show how deeply you believe in the ambient madness. And in order to show that you are not just some nitwit celebrity who makes a living pretending to be someone else and reciting lines that someone else wrote.
Mood drugs for the rich and famous kids who won’t behave?
"they crave to be noticed... come out as transgender you are going to get a lot of attention,"
Not the whole story but could well be part of it. Take Steam Powered Giraffe, a band founded by to twins. One, now Bunny, was always second fiddle to his brother Spine on stage transed to be Bunny. Seems a bit extreme to avoid being the second best twin but what the hey.