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[–]kahlua 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This whole article, if it is real, makes me feel deeply uncomfortable with how this woman has instilled such an unhealthy understanding of sex in her daughter so early on. She's not a boy, she's reacting to the limitations and expectations imposed upon us for being female.

"Shopping there felt deceitful, wrong, like a lie." Seriously!? I find the association forced between gender, sex, and clothing so ridiculous. My husband and I swap clothes all the time, sometimes he wears my flannels, t-shirts, trousers and overshirts, sometimes I wear his, big deal. Literally nobody cares, I've never received a look for being in the men's section of Uniqlo or Zara or Savers.

[–]Badmammajamma[S] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Also, it’s so annoying that clothes preferences are somehow proof of a person’s gender. I have regularly worn men’s clothes until my hips and ass got too big to do so. I wear men’s shoes still. I have never once wanted to be a guy. It’s so fucking stupid that children are receiving this diagnosis because they don’t/do want to wear pink. How would we know if a child was trans without the color pink? Because I see far too much of this argument: a girl doesn’t like pink, so she’s a boy. A boy does like pink so he’s a girl. This is 1st grade logic if I ever heard it.