My daughter is a girl who liked and still likes things more typically popular among boys. Video games. Football. Tech stuff. Geekdom. Refuses to wear skirts or make-up. She noticed this difference at about 5 & talked about it a lot until she was 12.
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The conclusion she came to and repeated often was 'I'm a girl but I'm not girly" and I think most of us who are not gender ideologues can understand the meaning of that. I disapprove of a book which teaches kids that children who have gender atypical interests are trans.
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Trans activists who support this are doing their cause an injustice. If this becomes a common narrative, the consequences are likely to be an increase in the number of kids who say they are trans followed by an increase in desistance thereby increasing scepticism of trans ID.
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I agree, this is not what trans is. But I think the problem stems (at least partly) from the failure of the trans community to embrace a coherent and intelligible account of trans identity (maybe because doing so requires tackling unsettling questions).
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And because most of them do not want to politicise their trans identity or draw attention to it.
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Actually Helen, we do accept trans people exist. What we do not accept is that they *are* women and have an inalienable right to access to women’s spaces. And that they can shut down conjecture on these things.
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"gender critical feminists" aren't a monolith; we call ourselves "rational feminists" (see profile) for a reason. That said, trans-identified people most obviously "exist." Does this mean they are actually "born in the wrong body"? Debatable.
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Since when have gender critical feminists not accepted that trans people exist?
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I want to ask this too. I've yet to see any evidence of this amongst the GC feminists I began following over the summer (because of proposed changes to the GRA). That sounds suspiciously like propaganda to me.
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I sometimes wonder what would have happened if tom boy hated everything girly me had been born in time for the current choice taken
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To its ludicrous extremes era when people feel that they are heroes for ‘supporting’ the confusion of distressed young people
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The problem with "most of them know it from a very young age" is that the large majority of those who "knew it at a very young age" (i.e. thought they were, or were "meant to be" the opposite sex) desist/grow out of those feelings.
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Totally agree, and this is where I see the dangerous creep-in of rigid conservative gender roles again. Except this time it’s exponents are far leftists AND right wingers. Go figure...#2018
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No, it's just right-wingers!
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So what is the basis, then, for labeling kids trans because they play with opposite gender toys etc. other than rigid gender roles?
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Love your writing. How do GC feminists not accept they exist? The debate I follow is about rights, because of course trans people exist.
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Probably this generation of women will have grown up with even pop culture telling them the world hates them, that it sucks to be a woman, and at the same time telling them all their problems are solved if they “find out” they’re trans.
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doctors know the difference between gender non-conformity and clinically significant dysphoria. this is a red herring - don't give it credibility.
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