I love B99. And I do support trans people.
But so many girls grow up thinking that being a girl/woman is a bad thing to be, because of the enormous pressures of sexism, misogyny, substantially higher risk of rape and abuse, etc.
And they’re not entirely wrong. Being a woman in an intensely misogynistic patriarchy can be a pretty terrible thing. Being a woman living in a rape culture is horrible.
But giving young girls who are struggling to cope with these pressures the idea that they can simply opt-out is false. I have a lot of friends who decided to declare themselves transmen or non-binary because they couldn’t tolerate being groped, catcalled, harassed, condescended to, and the thousand other daily acts of casual sexism most of us are familiar with. That’s very sad, because calling yourself non-binary or trans doesn’t necessarily stop you being a victim of those things. And it’s horrific beyond words that women feel they must chop off their breasts and take hormones just to avoid being raped and oppressed. And where does that leave women who aren’t willing to go to such extreme lengths to avoid sexism and misogyny?
We should put our efforts into stamping out sexism and sex-based abuse, not raising a generation of girls to believe that the first time they’re groped/harassed/discriminated against, they should simply ID out of being female, rather than standing up to that abuse.