Nearly a quarter of girls aged 14 self harm

And now those kids are being told that all their problems will magically disappear if they simply change gender.

It's the ultimate self harm really isn't it

And now those kids are being told that all their problems will magically disappear if they simply change gender.

Figure would be higher than a quarter of girls if they included binding in the definition of self harm.

Seriously how are people not adding up 2+2 correctly in the face of so much evidence???

What I found interesting about this is this bit:

A separate survey of 10- to 17-year-olds and their parents across 2,000 households, also included in The Children's Society report, found the children were unhappiest with school and their appearance.
This research also suggests that boys and girls are often harmed by gender stereotypes.
Those who felt boys should be tough and girls should have nice clothes were least happy with life.

That last sentence speaks volumes. Children who feel that they don’t meet gender stereotypes are unhappy.

We need feminism now more than ever given this.
We also need to look very closely at toxic masculinity.

Having

Yes. I think it's really no coincidence that girls are self-harming to this extent in the climate of:

Academic pressure
Allied with the pornification of girls and women
Allied with the absolute obsession with perfect looks and adhering to sterotypical idea of femininity

It's a pressure cooker

And I see daughters of friends of mine, who are really good at expressing their feminist ideas and standing up at school against being made to wear skirts, then tripping of to Pride with their pink hair, little realising how little of a fuck Pride gives about them and their female bodies and their female experience