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Your child isn't trans, she's just a tomboy

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Birdsweepsin · 23/01/2023 13:47

Mary Wakefield in the Spectator

www.spectator.co.uk/article/dont-medicalise-tomboys/#Echobox=1674450150

At no other point in history would the existence of a boyish girl have raised the idea that she might actually be a boy in some metaphysical sense. But because we’ve been marinating, for a decade, in the glutinous language of critical gender theory, it’s become normal to think a boyish girl or a girlish boy needs treatment.

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NotAnotherBathBomb · 23/01/2023 14:03

BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 23/01/2023 13:50

We as a society seem to have skipped over the part where we tell our kids they can like whatever clothes, hobbies, friends etc they like, and have jumped straight into telling them there must he something wrong about them because they like X Y and Z.

It's fucking batshit.

I agree with you. But then men wearing 'feminine' clothing get called perverts/fetishists on here.

RoseslnTheHospital · 23/01/2023 13:58

zanahoria · 23/01/2023 13:57

Your child is not trans, not a tomboy

Just a child

Whatever their sex leave them be to explore life however they choose

Unless the little blighter is getting into serious trouble

Was about to say something similar. Even the term "tomboy" implies there is something boy-specific about normal child behaviour.

zanahoria · 23/01/2023 13:57

Your child is not trans, not a tomboy

Just a child

Whatever their sex leave them be to explore life however they choose

Unless the little blighter is getting into serious trouble

BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 23/01/2023 13:56

It doesn't help that we now have a whole raft of men who want to become women (for a variety of reasons) who are now in spaces and platforms they can influence.

Joram86 · 23/01/2023 13:52

I agree, was talking to my parents about this the other day. I was a tomboy, loved football didn’t like dresses or girly clothes but never would be said oh she wants to be a boy. I think some parents these days are too quick to think something is “different” with their kid and try and rationalise it where in fact it is just a small part of their personality that may be more inclined to activities or clothes that are more aimed towards boys.

BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 23/01/2023 13:50

We as a society seem to have skipped over the part where we tell our kids they can like whatever clothes, hobbies, friends etc they like, and have jumped straight into telling them there must he something wrong about them because they like X Y and Z.

It's fucking batshit.

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