There has been a rapid increase in the number of girls identifying as trans in last 6-7 years. Originally rare and primarily boys, it is increasing among girls as early as 11 or 12 at an alarming rate. The teen years are very confusing for girls in establishing their identity and many feel they don’t fit in with the image that the media paints that girls should be. In addition, they are feeling a lot of pressure from boys to have sex. The media says they are really boys in girl’s bodies and can solve the problem by becoming boys. This sounds like a good solution to them because it offers an explanation for why they are confused about their identity and solves the problem of pressure from boys. In addition, the overwhelming pressure by doctors and school personnel is to transition and little is done to help them understand or resolve their confusion. Yet there is no information on whether transitioning helps or the damage done by transitioning. Most studies are done on boys which have entirely different causes. The rise in the number of girls is so recent that the outcomes cannot be predicted, since girls often don’t resolve their confusion until their early 20;s. Doctors and school personnel are often afraid to try to help them deal with the problem and parents feel they will be labeled as bigoted if they try to get the girl help. Some States are even passing laws that make it a crime to try to prevent a child from transitioning or to get them to return to their natural orientation. Many schools are not notifying parents when a child is confused and are pressuring the child to transition without exploring the cause of their confusion. Ohio House Bill 68 (the SAFE Act-Saving Adolescents from Experimentation) is headed for the House floor. It would ban the experimenting on children by giving them puberty blockers and wrong-sex drugs to transition them to the opposite sex and performing transgender surgeries that often leave them sterile. Contact your representatives and urge them to paass it. Nineteen other States have already passed such laws.