@ConstanceGracy
Same in the secondary’s round here, every kid and his dog are now bi/ trans/ Gay etc.. one girl in particular was all three during just a 4 week interval and is now binary and straight.
Seems like a fad right now and is making kids even more confused than they already are.
Indeed. Back in the day, politically angry, disaffected young people or those who felt they didn't belong with the 'cool kids' could identify with subcultures like punk and Goth. There was plenty of gender-bending going on there, too, but without outright denial of material reality. Telling people they are, or can be, what they are patently not is very unhealthy and sets them up for a great deal of unhappiness later on.
I'm particularly concerned for young trans men who believe they can transition away from the oppression they will suffer through life simply on account of the fact that they were born female.
In a culture of toxic masculinity, effeminacy is not cricket. I wonder how many young men, feeling there is no neat little box in which to place their own brand of masculinity, transition to escape that sense of not-belonging. Or whether some are on course to grow up as effeminate, gay men. If the latter is the case it shows a worrying trend back towards the homophobia Stonewall et al did such good work toward tackling in the first place.
Now they seem intent on undoing all the good they did. There's a profound, sad irony about all of the above.