1. A 3-yr-old may be "totally sure" of their "gender identity" for a simple reason: They notice other kids, come to realize...
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2. They like to play, dress, and behave more like a typical kid of opposite sex. Therefore, they MUST be opposite sex. This is child logic.
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3. Then if bullied/teased coz they don't fit gender norms, &/or parents disapprove, they'll be even more insistent their body is wrong.
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4. Absurd to say babies born hating their own bodies. Kids use CHILD LOGIC to deduce that their gender atypicality means they're "wrong."
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5. Then they point to short-term "research" showing these kids are happy as proof they are "really trans." Confirmation bias on steroids.
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6. Of course they're happy (for now). They get to fit in, all the adults are praising them, no more battles over haircuts and toys.
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7. No one's talking about the injections and surgeries they'll face later. It's all glitter & pink hair & some of them even get to be stars!
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8. Later they get to march w/Mom in parades & be interviewed on TV & told how brave they are & reminded their only other choice was suicide.
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9. They may stay "happy" even after becoming a permanent med pt, coz those surgeries & jabs are just part of being trans! And NO ONE ever
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10. ...points out decades of research showing most of them would have grown up to be lesbian or gay--no med treatment needed--if left alone.
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11. Because you see, the TV & Internet won't reveal that many LG adults were just like them as kids. Only awful TERFs & transphobes do that.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2697020/pdf/Dtsch_Arztebl_Int-105-0834.pdf …pic.twitter.com/utDtMmqLZT
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