LemonJello
for screenshots of the school's tweets. I need to remember to include text as well as links!
I feel particularly passionate about the effect of the current transgender narrative on girls entering puberty and their bodies.
The fact that a primary school like Red Oak doesn't recognise this rocks me to the core.
I came across this tweet from a 'female to male' person accidentally the other day.
I'd ask you all not to link it to the tweeter by searching, as I don't want to identify them, but it made me incredibly sad and I wanted to share because it's so important to hear what's going on right now.
And because they said something that I think would resonate hugely with many, many women on this board.
They posted a selfie wearing a t-shirt and shorts:
Never EVER thought I would feel comfortable in shorts, always thought my legs looked to ugly to be female. Now I know they aren't supposed to look female and neither am I. Never hide yourself because you don't fit into a box someone else wants you in.
I never felt my legs fitted the box labelled by society as 'female' - as mine too, were 'too ugly'. And I never wore shorts. To be honest, I still struggle with that 'box' of 'what women in shorts should look like'.
But because I grew up in a different era, I still have my breasts (this young twitter person doesn't any more) . I became a grown adult female, not always happy with their body, but fully intact.
Transactivists would shout at us that we don't understand.
But so many of us with bodies that didn't fit the standards of ''femaleness' many years ago, never mind the increasing media-led bar of 'femaleness' now. We understand.
Which is why we're here. Shouting. Standing up for girls.