GC teen

[northender]

My dd is 15 and gender critical. She is open about it with friends and is having lots of discussions. She really gets it and I have had some great conversations with her about it. Could any of you recommend women for her to follow on social media or things for her to read?

Magdalen Berns
Madeleine Kearns
Megan Murphy
Lily Maynard
Selina Soule

Maybe Blaire White and Rose of Dawn, both are GC Trans women. Maybe also LGB Alliance as the Stonewall Antidote.

For old fashioned reading, not social media, reading Abigail Shier's Irreversible Damage, also Invisible Women is brilliant because it will solidify her perception of the patriarchy, but with all my suggestions check them out first.

I'm pretty out of touch with teens so not sure how good my suggestions are. Others will be along soon...

Also OP, reading the title of your thread I just thought thank god, there's hope for us yet!

Thank you, I'll suggest them to her. She really has taken it on board and we had a long chat tonight as she wanted to be prepared with well developed responses. Had a proud mum moment.

We've got Invisible Women, just haven't read it yet

All my female teens are feminists, and every bit as gobshitey as their mother. She is emphatically not alone.

Helen Lewis's Bluestocking newsletter is good.

@OhHolyJesus

Also OP, reading the title of your thread I just thought thank god, there's hope for us yet!

My daughter is also 16 and her view is "I don't get what feeling like a woman means and we're all non-binary.

I don't question her too much about it because I obviously don't want to give her any reason to rebel LOL but she seems fine to be open with her friends. She isn't particularly angry about it and is fairly live and let live. I suspect her view is quite common amongst youngsters - they privately regard it all as a load of old bollocks but don't actually see it as affecting them much. Which is a problem for GC people and also for trans people. Because I suspect young trans teens are getting a very distorted view of how life will be - they probably think that there are many more people up for dating etc than there actually are.

On Instagram I recommend RadFemBlack and Radical_Abolitionism

Honestly I wouldn’t encourage her to voice those opinions. Affirm her but let the older generations fight this fight. As a 50+ yo woman who’s feeling lonely and marginalised at work, it’s definitely taking a toll on my mental health, I’m not trying to change my millennial dds opinions. The tide is changing but it’s a lovely and uncomfortable place and I wouldn’t encourage a teenager to speak out.

lonely, it’s definitely not a lovely place

Social media: Sarah Ditum, Rebecca Reilly-Cooper, Victoria Smith (glosswitch).

I am hopeful that the worst of the teen/YP trans movement (as opposed to older AGPs) will be quite short-lived. Nothing is less cool than the trends from the generation just above you - as teens, part of how you define yourself is by rejecting the last generation's music, fashion, icons etc. And the fact that gender nonsense is being forced down their throats at school should make them even more keen to rebel against it.