“I have no idea how a billionaire Children’s author lending her name and clout to spreading transphobic propaganda would have any influence on anyone.” - someone who is absolutely, definitely arguing in good faith, totally
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It is a DIRECT PARALLEL with creepy pro-life rhetoric "Once you hold that baby in your arms and you feel the oxytocin flooding through your brain and you feel that God-given maternal bond, you won't be able to imagine ever having wanted to kill your child"
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Yeah. The implication isn't even that kids can't make these decisions, but that NOBODY can make these decisions unless they go through puberty.
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and there's no scientific basis for this! it's a just-so hypothesis that they would LIKE to be true, because it'd be handy for their rhetoric. zero evidence for it it's horrific. insisting on the exact set of irreversible changes the patient is desperate to avoid. pure spite
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I know this is a fraught metaphor but
@Nymphomachy believes it's the only metaphor that conveys the true enormity of the violation and who am I to argue -- They are openly taking the stance of "Just hold them down until they learn to enjoy it"
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It is also utter bullshit.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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In my experience it was literally the opposite of that. I was more or less fine being called a boy sometimes when I could play around with gender but when puberty hit and my voice started changing i couldn't stand it. Like some kind of biological overflow error.
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Yeah, which definitely makes sense; puberty sort of creates gender in most sense; we project it back onto children, but it's really just play-acting anyway.
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