A POST AND graph shared widely on social media misleadingly suggests that up to 23% of young adults identified as transgender in 2022.

The post was first published on X, where it was promoted by Elon Musk and quickly garnered 14,200,000 views, as well as spawning dozens of identical posts on other social media platforms, such as Facebook.

“The graph of people, but especially kids, identifying as transgender literally nosedives as soon as Elon buys Twitter,” the post begins

The image appears to show figures peaking in 2022, when Musk bought X, with the corresponding figure for 18-24-year-olds falling to just under 18% last year.

“Almost like it was a social contagion…” the post continues

“…and people couldn’t talk about it because they were being censored

“Imagine that.”

Less than 5 minutes after it was posted on 8 March, it was reposted by the head of X, Elon Musk, with a caption decrying “the lunatic left”, Jack Dorsey, who co-founded the social media company, and OpenAI, a rival to the company that owns X.

That post has accumulated an additional 16 million views, according to statistics on X.

Musk has a long history of disparaging comments about transgender people, saying that they are victims of a “woke mind virus”. He has also said he was tricked into approving medical treatment to help his child transition, saying he considers his child to be “killed” or “dead”.

(Vivian Jenna Wilson is alive, and estranged from her father, Elon Musk).

However, the graph has nothing...

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