Children play with identity. A boy wonders what it would be like to be a girl, a squirrel, a piece of magnetic putty. He is expected to grow out of believing he’s a squirrel. Having been celebrated for being a baby drag queen will be hard to grow out of.https://twitter.com/HeatherEHeying/status/1136858746829697025 …
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Heather E Heying @HeatherEHeyingReplying to @HeatherEHeying @arttavanaThis is destructive of many of those children, and of their families. It is destructive of the rights of actual trans people, who don’t deserve to have fear and hatred fall on them because Trans Rights Activists are behaving abominably in their name.4 replies 17 retweets 87 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @HeatherEHeying
IMO, it is just fine for a little boy to ask for a dress, for someone to give him one, and for him to play in it as he likes. But we've now reached a place where such a thing is like quick feet or "piano fingers," a hook for neurotic, over-invested parents to hang a heavy hat.
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The hard Qs I think you're pointing at trouble me. A kid can decide (as a function of his own interests + peer group, etc, to degrees impossible to tease out) that he'd like to try drag. Should he be stopped, knowing that *other* adults will exploit him to signal their own stuff?
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What *I think* is clear is that the moment a little boy performs publicly in drag, the perception others have of him, the language and feedback that surrounds him, and the amount of attention he draws will dramatically transform in ways that are *very* sticky, for better or worse
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(Thank god kids can still run around and pretend to be squirrels without being assumed to be primordial furries.)
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