I feel so sad about all this..
I remember being a kid at school and being told (and truly believing) that people are people are people. To just be yourself and love and accept people for who they are. I don't remember feeling like I had to be a certain way, to define myself, or others. The word was open and full of possibilities. I didn't have to think or consider if I was a girl, I simply was one. I went about my life, and learnt like all the other boys and girls. We knew we were boys and girls but in the same way that we know gravity keeps us on the ground. We didn't have to constantly consider it. It just was. It didn't really matter either way.
Now everything is so hard. So many boxes. So many questions.
Why can't we just accept our biology and do whatever the hell we want to do? Why does me refusing to deny reality impact how someone wants to live? Wear a dress, a wig, cut your hair, call yourself whatever you like.
Why is it that race, which is less definite or 'real' than sex, so all encompassing and not to be argued with, but sex suddenly so abstract or meaningless that I can be one, or the other, or none?
There are real safety reasons that sex matters.
Why should I need to shower or change beside a person with a penis so that they can feel like a real woman? I want to be only around biological females in intimate spaces because a biological female cannot rape me. That. is. it.
If I feel nervous when a man is walking close behind me late at night it is because there is a possibility he might attack or rape me. He probably won't. He's probably rushing home to see his wife. It isn't personal. I don't know him. I just know it is a possibility. That's all.
Children are children, just let them be children and stop sexualising them, stop grooming them.... just stop.
If you think you're being kind, you're not.