Girls with short hair being labelled as trans

Yup.

You can't just be a girl who looks how she wants, dresses how she wants, likes what she wants.... if you break the code you're identifying wrong and you're not a woman or girl. Get in some one else's box right now!

Anyone not yet convinced this is hurling equality for women and girls back decades?

So… young women today get to choose choose between

• long straightened hair and caterpillar eyebrows with orange skin love island style,

Jeez - modern ‘tribes’ such eh?

I think it is part of a bigger trend. I've been a college lecturer for almost 20 years, and one thing I have really noticed is the decline in the alternative groups for those who do not fit in. There used to be the goths, the emos etc so those who felt they didn't fit in joined one of the subcultures. There used to be a lot of subcultures with different groups hanging out in different parts of the college. I'm at a different college now but I see far fewer subcultures, much more homogeneity and much greater pressure to fit in generally. But that's just my impression.

I've got short hair now and I tried to stop a group of teenage boys stealing something at work. Got called a fucking lesbian for my trouble.

Not that being called a lesbian bothers me, just the fact it's because I've got short hair they said it.

If I still had my long hair they wouldn't have said it.

When I was a kid in the 70s loads of little first has a pageboy or Purdie haircut - short his was pretty common. I was desperate to have my really long hair cut short - my sister was allowed by I wasn’t .

I don’t see many girls around with short hair anymore. This probably doesn’t help my daughter’s situation. She’s 10 years old and has short hair because it’s easier to manage for the sport she participates in. We often go to the gym together. Several times a member of staff has followed us into the changing room to tell me that my boy isn’t allowed in there. I don’t make a big deal out of it and I tell the staff she’s not a boy. It’s important that they keep the changing room single sex. And my daughter is seemingly not phased by it. But it happens frequently. A man told her not to go into the ladies toilet at the cinema and she just told him she was a lady. The person making the mistake is often pretty mortified about it.

Christ sake, we fought for the right to wear trousers to school, now it means we were really boys?

My friend's son, looking at a pic of us in the 80s, asked why we all had short hair. Poor lad was given quite the lecture but he was certainly put right. All the girls in his school do have long, straight(ened) hair.

So we’ve ended up with less diversity, less freedom, and more pressure to conform to stereotypes
Yes - with girls behaviour being (yet again) the focus of these toxic ideas.

Likewise wearing trousers instead of a skirt to school.

I definitely notice this. Such a shame.

When I was at school loads of girls had short pixie cuts, and the boys long hair.

Stereotypes have never had a stronger grip from what I can see, it's such a shame.