This article makes my skin crawl.
When Maddie was two years old, she loved nothing more than to parade around in the teacher’s high heel shoes at Sunday School. Maddie played with her older sister’s toys and dressed up in her clothes. At the playground, Maddie’s mother, Katie, watched her child run right past the boys for the huddle of little girls. All of Maddie’s friends were girls ... When Maddie was able to express herself verbally, it became clear that she didn’t recognize herself as a boy at all.
So Maddie is identifying as a girl before she can even talk??
It was decided that Maddie would transition in the summer between kindergarten and first grade.
That is very scarily young. At 5 years old, I doubt Maddie understood that she can't actually change sex.
In April, Katie and Maddie stood in front of the state judiciary committee, so they could see Maddie in person, so they could see just who this proposed statute would hurt. Maddie isn’t a runaway athlete. She actually has asthma. She’s simply a kid who loves sleepovers, video games and playing sports with her friends.
This is just emotional manipulation - both of us, the readers, and the state judiciary committee.
I’m glad I was there and I could hear what they were saying and trying to argue – that they were right and we were wrong,” said Maddie, who let her newly graduated lawyer mother do the talking. “It was difficult to hear them say trans kids aren’t real boys or girls. It’s hard to hear them contemplating my existence.”
Again, the same nonsense argument, but this time with the logical fallacy made clear: a statement that there are biological differences between trans girls and natal girls becomes the same as stating that trans girls don't exist.
It's like a bastardisation of "I think, therefore I am" - as if whatever I think about myself is automatically true. "I know that I exist and I know that I am a girl, therefore I am a girl. If you say I am a boy, you are questioning my existence."