I asked my 16 year old ( autistic ) daughter about the recent survey, about the spike in girls going to the gender clinic etc etc basically: why are girls so unhappy? She said yesterday:
‘ Because we are at the age when we are made aware of just how unfair everything is for us. Right at the time we are dealing with changing into women and dealing with exams and university and boys. It’s so obvious how we aren’t treated the same as boys and we have a lifetime of it to look forward to. It’s overwhelming and scary & most of my friends are angry and sad, not just ‘unhappy’ but actually pissed off because we are working hard & it might all be for nothing. What’s the point if we won’t ever get what we deserve, let alone basic respect. Plus we have to deal with all the safety stuff and think about rape. It’s tiring ‘
So my daughter is literally thinking the way I thought when I was much older than her. What kind of conversations about this are you all having with your daughters? My daughter has had bad anxiety & related issues and says more than half her year at school have ‘something’ or ‘do something’ to themselves, related to anxiety etc