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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 10

      Helen Pluckrose Retweeted 4thWaveNow

      Hmmm. For once I agree with the gender critical feminists. Unlike them, I accept that trans people exist & usually know it from a very young age. But kids enjoying things kids of the others sex more commonly enjoy is not what being trans is. Most kids who do that are not trans.https://twitter.com/4th_WaveNow/status/1050109569727385601 …

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      4thWaveNow @4th_WaveNow
      "But as Jackie grows, she doesn’t want to play those games. She wants to play with mud and be a super bug! Jackie also doesn’t like dresses or her long hair, and she would rather be called Jack." This is the crap being fed to 4-8 year old girls. https://twitter.com/PinkNews/status/1050038485808242688 …
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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 10

      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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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 10

      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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        1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Oct 10

          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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        2. Angie‏ @Grizzabella3 Oct 10
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Growing up I did have dysphoria and still experience it sometimes even today. (I'm 32 now) I used to lament not being born male. After a lot of soul searching the issue wasn't my body, it was what people expected of me because of it. I realized I'm a tomboy, not trans.

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        3. Angie‏ @Grizzabella3 Oct 10
          Replying to @Grizzabella3 @HPluckrose

          I don't think my experience is always the case, but I'm glad I wasn't pushed to transition. Today I'm happily married with 2 kids, I might not have that if society was then what it is now.

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        4. Sceptical Canuck‏ @Surrey_Atheist Oct 10
          Replying to @Grizzabella3 @HPluckrose

          Yeah. You could have been on hormones and thus have become barren (potentially).

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        2. luke‏ @lukechurchill3 Oct 10
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          I was a very feminine little boy. Liked to wear dresses and play with dolls. But I’m glad I came into my identity as a gay man without the input of ideologues. Would have made me more confused I think.

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        3. luke‏ @lukechurchill3 Oct 10
          Replying to @lukechurchill3 @HPluckrose

          But I also think trans kids know they are trans at a young age without the need for the assistance of advocates telling them who they are.

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        4. luke‏ @lukechurchill3 Oct 10
          Replying to @lukechurchill3 @HPluckrose

          Kids aren’t stupid. If you let someone wrestle with their identity at their own time, at their own pace, without pressure from outside, will they not someday realize who they are?

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        1. Ari  ⚡️‏ @Ariwl1Ray Oct 10
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Have a friend like this. She also preferred having guys for friend most of her life. I think she changed a bit on it after she had kids and became a stay-at-home mom. She was around other women a lot more and because of children had something in common with them finally.

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        1. ihb‏ @ianhbeggs Oct 10
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          We contain multitudes. And need no labels. (Speaking as a primary teacher...)

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