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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

If people haven't peaked already - this is parents in Texas and some very young looking "trans" children.

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PickAChew · 30/10/2021 00:34

www.them.us/story/texas-anti-trans-sports-law-youth-under-attack

The UK may be slowly turning in the right direction but the ferocity displayed in this article tells me that we're going to have a long battle ahead.

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TrainedByDinosaurs · 30/10/2021 20:16

The focus on conformance to stereotypes for very young children is depressing

Knownbyanothername · 30/10/2021 22:33

If I was a child now there’s every chance I would have fallen into that category. Had friends who were all boys, loved train sets and science and maths and Mechano, hated skirts and frilly things (still do). Am proudly female. Luckily in the 70s it was just called being a tomboy and largely ignored.
Still love maths 🙂

MrsMadderRose · 30/10/2021 23:22

Yes exactly the same here Known. I even remember aged about 8, thinking about how I should have been a boy and feeling sad that I never could be. But that was not because I was a boy! It was because society told me that the stuff I liked was "boy stuff".

And not long after that, I cam to terms with it, and I love being a woman and am happy I grew up able to have a sex life and kids, unsurprisingly enough. I was a tomboy, and that was a really useful category for me, because a tomboy is a type of girl, and despite gender stereotypes existing, it's not derogatory - it just means a girl who doesn't do the feminine stereotype.

Genderists often like to bang on about "third genders" in various societies, but what they actually are is categories that allow for some people not fitting in, and giving them other options, with varying degrees of limitation. Tomboy is a good positive example of that, which we should embrace - and it would be good if there was an equivalent positive category for non-masculine boys.

girafferafferaffe · 30/10/2021 23:24

@SuperSleepyBaby

The video linked in the article of the child. When he was aged 3 and acting “like a girl” - his mother was investigating conversion therapy. She also says she was “really spanking” him to get him to stop acting “like a girl”. At 4 he was suicidal so she saw the light and accepted he was a girl. I wonder what will become of him when he grows up?
Jesus this is horrendous
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