I have a beautiful 5 year old granddaughter, born male, but who is insistent she is female
When I was five until I was 8, I was insistent I was a boy, wore clothes traditionally associated with boys and so on…by the time I was 8 I lost interest in defining myself as a boy, instead I saw myself as a female who rejected gender stereotypes. My family were fine with all these phases…now it might have been that later in life I decided that I was trans…again not a problem. But I feel bad for your granddaughter, as they are not being allowed to play with identities but being forced into an identity being fixed at an extremely young age. If that approach becomes standard then children like your grandchild could end up being castrated at five in order to fit one specific gender role, I personally find that horrifying. It seems to me the equivalent of FGM in other cultures and I don’t want to see it normalised.
And yes OP, the Rosa Parks analogy was racially offensive, and analogies do not make something fact. Just because language allows for comparisons to be made doesn’t make a comparison reasonable or factual, it’s a claim nothing more. Many things are considered inappropriate in a society, sometimes this is unreasonable, sometimes this is reasonable. There are adults who want to have sex with children who might compare themselves to Rosa Parks and lament that they are not accepted and should be – doesn’t validate their claims and doesn’t validate the analogy or make it any less racially inappropriate or insensitive.
And finally, as so many posters have pointed out, the whole basis of female/male sports came out of awareness of physical difference not gender, for which there are clear reasons. As someone who has been involved in martial-arts based contact sport, I can tell you physical differences between male/female make a huge impact in a fight-based scenario. I could spar with teen boys but even the ones who were the same height/weight as me could have wiped me out with a simple punch. A number of Hollywood movies and films cast tiny women in roles where they kick the asses of much larger men, but these are contrived scenarios not reality, and although they are uplifting in some ways I wonder if they are communicating a false image of physical advantage/disadvantage between the majority of women and the majority of men?