@NoToMisogyny
Non-binary IS woo woo. This woman’s daughter is female. That hasn’t changed because as an impressionable teenager she thinks it’s cool to dictate to her parents. She’ll always be female. She needs to be kept away from ghouls and encouraged to love being a girl. Surely everyone who cared about children would want them to be grounded in reality? To learn to love being female rather than living a lie?
Can I ask, and this is open to all, why do you care?
What difference does it make to your lives that a parent, myself and the op, are respectfully allowing our children, who we love, to be whoever the fuck they want?
Is it because now it's not acceptable to be homophobic, or racist, or sexist, so this is the next best thing?
Because it really does strike me as similar to when people used to make jokes or say nasty stuff about homosexuals and or different races or religions, that now would be marked down as hateful and needless?
Yes, I'm personal aware it might be a stage. I'm sure most here can say they went though some sort of stage in their teens- mine was thinking of tireless ways to get near Mark from Take That because I was 100% sure in my teenage brain that he would immediately fall in love with me and thus I would definitely end up being Mrs Owen. I laugh at it now. But I was convinced back then. I bet I wasn't alone.
Did it hurt me or anyone else? No. Does DD or anyone elses child saying they wish to be known as they/them hurt anyone? No.
In fact, the more people get angry, unnecessarily angry in fact, and refuse to acknowledge it, the more if it is a stage they will do it. That's how a teens brain works.
Would those of you being so rude about it say the same about being gay? Probably not.
I would much rather support my DD so they know that when it came to it, they could rely on me to support them, to have an open discussion. We have discussed powerful females. I'm not particularly girly myself and we dont really sit with gender roles in our house in that I was (until covid) the main breadwinner, I'm chief of DIY at home and DP is far more likely to be cleaning and cooking than me. So they've not grown up in a house where I was repressed.
They're exploring their world and how they want it to be and actually, I think this generation will take far more responsibility than ours. Where we had social media first, we used it for what? Naff all of merit. They use it to get together globally to say no to oppression of minorities and to sign up for Trump rallies and then not turn up to cause shenanigans (DD included). They speak out. I think they will change stuff for the better and whether they do that as she, he , they or it, that's cool!
It doesn't frighten me in the slightest.