What a great article. This part totally resonated with me: If only “LGBTQ” institutions and media would start teaching people that we need to expand our idea of “girlhood” to include buzz-cuts, toy trucks, worms, digging and spitting, and stop intentionally conflating the words ‘sex’ and ‘gender.’ If only they’d teach people that ‘gender’ is just a hierarchy, a set of roles and expectations, positioning women as objects for male consumption. That lesbians have a long history of flipping off the rules of ‘gender,’ and we do it long before we even understand what it is we’re fighting against.
I was that girl with a buzz cut, playing with my favourite dump truck etc. Now I'm a married woman with long hair, but a biker, who wears men's clothes if I want, and doesn't conform to gender stereotyping.
I just hope she's happy now, and that the same thing doesn't keep happening to other women out there.