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I was a trans kid who didn’t have much of a concept of gender identity until society smacked me in the face with it and essentially made everything revolve around it. I came out as an established adult with a family and career and still lost half my biological family to bigotry, while they cursed me with one hand and blamed me for tearing the family apart.
My heart goes out to the kids who know, feel it in their bones, and have no choice but to watch as their body becomes less comfortable.
Thank you so much for posting this. I wish that families were better and didn’t force gender norms. But I’ve found comfort in chosen family that helped me while I came out and they still help me.
Yeah but that really interferes with the parents’ property rights and religious freedom, so its a messy issue
I mean, we don’t allow religious freedom to infringe on anyone else’s freedoms, why this one?
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and property rights
Also, uh, would dispute your claim, depemding on who ‘we’ is.
Firstly, children aren’t considered property. You can legally take an axe to your house, because you own it. Last I checked, it’s still illegal to take an axe to your kid.
Secondly, religious freedoms extend to where other peoples freedoms start. For instance, if I claim I have the religious right to take an axe to my child, am I allowed to? No.
Not transferrable. Absolutely property.
You seem to be living in a fantasy world. If you know where i can find a portal to there, im very very ready ro ditch this apocalyptic shit hole; we kinda fucked the climate here anyway.
Should i grab like a couple tb of movies or scientific papers or whatever, or just come as i am?
I didn’t have the language for it, but I knew something was wrong with me and the way I felt in my body and in society as soon as I was six or seven years old. Had I been given the right language to express it back then, I would have known right away, but I guess it wouldn’t have been better because, well, there’s nothing I would have been able to do about it. I didn’t know I was a girl. I just knew I desperately wanted to be one. But I could never say that to anyone.
Still, though, I consider myself a trans kid nonetheless, just because I came out later, in my adult life, doesn’t mean that I wasn’t. I pretty much knew what I was, there was just no tolerance nor space for me to be it. And, uh, honestly? I deserved better. Much better. Instead, I’ll be spending the rest of my life dealing with the consequences of all of this…
I came up with the opposite of a tomboy, and told my parents “I’m a tomgirl 😃” in 3rd grade. From that point on my homophobic mom hid anything queer related at all times.
jokes on her I got tits now
You really did. Your entire childhood you were dressed, expected to behave and treated as someone you weren’t. That’s really destructive, and you did great accepting your true self despite all the programming. You are who you are and who you are is great
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for people wondering about whether it’s true that most children just “grow out of” gender dysphoria, I recommend these articles:
https://juliaserano.medium.com/reframing-transgender-desistance-debates-68648a4fd01a
in particular the four studies that make the 80% desistence claim were found to have major methodological flaws:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15532739.2018.1456390
Meanwhile there is robust empirical evidence that gender affirming care for youth is safe and effective, and is recommended by every major medical association:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15532739.2018.1456390
We have zero tolerance for transphobia. You’re banned.
My source is that I made it the fuck up
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As a former queer kid (now queer elder thing): the language gets mixed up sometimes in the vile hetero normative soup, so increasing education and visibility about querrness would go a long way towards fixing it
And letting kids have a little agency and weird experiences would probably clear it up pretty fast. I know, childhood experiences that are awkward would really stand out, but i think the vast majority woukd survive.
And then we could also encourage disingenuous rottimg shit socks like you to kill themselves, which i think would improve the experiences of trans kids, and whatever kids you like to fuck (20$ says he does; they always seem to), and probably the rest of us by a bit too.
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