Well, hello Emma Watson

What does 'behaving like your sex' mean? You realise there are tomboys right? Or that's what they used to be classified as. There is no 'right' or 'wrong' way to be a boy or girl.

And maybe that boy is gay or that girl is lesbian. Do you realise what to trans away a gay child?

Having a "trans child" is the new Münchhausen's by proxy.

She infantilised herself:

”I lost my licence because I’m used to others doing the grownup stuff”

is pretty ridiculous for a 30 year old to say.

healthcare? I hope you're not suggesting that being trans is some kind of illness that needs treating.

There are lots of men who identify as women without taking any drugs, removing body parts or even shaving their beard. Proof if needed that trans healthcare was invented by transphobes to make trans people sound damaged.

Every attempt to make trans healthcare a right is a cruel attack by people who hate trans.

There you go - that's the nub of it. And it would be march in, not sneak in. But you can't limit it to blokes in dresses because that would discriminate against those who don't wear them. It would have to be all of them.

No that's fair enough. I'm.not saying anything. Im saying what I've HEARD people with kids who they think are transgender say. So basically you are saying there is male and female and then there is just behaviour and you can't ascribe any particular behaviour to any particular sex. Fair enough.

Personally I think every man should have a legal right to sneak into women's changing rooms etc when they want to watch a women undress so it's unfair to just make that a trans right.

I have a son and a daughter and I absolutely know what sex they are and which one is the boy and which one is the girl. If I ever say I can't, I'm either lying or I've lost my mind. How do you think my husband and I knew which one of us had to take the pregnancy tests and go to the midwife appointments? Do you think we'll struggle to work out which child will need to be prepared for having periods?

I suspect (I know) that you're just talking about behaviours and performances. But any child can wear a dress and any child can like Barbie. We don't say a child is a girl because they like Barbie (well we shouldn't) because that's sexist, regressive and simply not true. I never liked Barbie. I was still a girl.

Are you seriously telling me that if my son says he wants a Barbie doll, or he feels like he's a girl, I should tell him that he is? And encourage him to go into girls' spaces and fuck them if they don't consent? Rather than just give him the doll and tell him boys can like dolls?

Yes - these people are idiots.

No I'm talking about people on TV I've seen who talk about how they knew their child was different from the sex they were given at birth. It's s straightforward question with no hidden agenda. I've seen and heard this from.parents.

TRAs have harassed Tom for years for refusing to bow down to them or publicly blast JK. They detest him and have resorted to their old tricks of trying to pin him for all sorts of baseless wild shit, including child abuse. They're frothing, demented weirdos who defame the bloke constantly, so to a section of the HP fandom he has absolutely been cancelled.

So when I was little, I hated dresses, loved bugs, woodwork and chemistry kits, preferred playing with boys outside climbing trees etc. Did sciences and technology at school. Love a bit of DIY with power tools. Does any of that make me a man?

Edited to say I only gained access to power tools as a teen.

Or abusive.

How do you explain the parents? Easy - they are idiots.

I do wonder how much of it is down to gender disappointment.

Jackie Green is one of five boys, IIRC.

The parents are judging their children based on outdated, frankly toxic, gender stereotypes, @Daygloboo. There is a set of behaviours, likes, dislikes etc that is in the box marked girl, and a wholly different set in the box marked boy.

So, as @ThatCyanCat says, a boy who plays with a Barbie must really be a girl, because he is exhibiting a behaviour from the girl box. A girl who likes rough-and-tumble games, wears trousers and wants short hair is showing behaviours from the ‘boy’ box, so must be a boy.

Surely it is more progressive to abandon the gender stereotypes and say that biology determines a person's sex, but they can have any likes, dislikes, hobbies, activities, hair style, clothing that they want.

Basically a man/boy is someone of the male sex, with any character, NOT someone with either biological sex but masculine character, and a woman/girl is someone with female biology and any character, NOT someone of either biological sex but a (sweetly) feminine character!

How could they possibly know that? What does "acting like a boy/girl" actually mean. Most of those parents probably have gender disappointment, and have convinced themselves that their child is of their desired sex.

Well, yes, some people are attention seeking loonies.

So you are saying that boys and girls are defined by regressive sex stereotypes?

How does a child behave as the opposite sex? Are you referring to outdated stupid gender stereotypes like boys liking cars and girls liking dolls? Come on mate. It’s 2025 not 1955

But how do they "know" ?

This was the best gif I could see.

OK but maybe a bit more complex than that. I mean, you hear about parents who say they knew their child was the opposite from the one on their birth certificate.

I am with you. I don’t understand this. Maybe time for this decision chart?

I have two small children, one of each sex, and I have absolutely no idea what you mean by this. Can you give an example?