“They want to teach their daughters body acceptance and self-advocacy? MUST BE A CULT!”

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[–]Hard_headed_woman 21 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 0 fun22 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

With teens and young women, ROGD is how they opt out of the difficulties of being a woman.

With older women, EVEN if they did have dysphoria and wanted to transition, I just don't see most women being that selfish. Most women wouldn't do that to their children, imo.

[–]fuckingsealions 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I agree with you, and I think that older women also have enough experience in the world to know that it's no escape.

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

Most older women have a healthy wariness of the medical and psychiatric establishment and Big Pharma as well. Older women also tend to be aware of the preciousness and precariousness of good health, so they're less likely to put their health at risk the way trans people do so willingly and casually. Plus older women usually have long outgrown the childish habits of mind that are involved in transmania - such as magical and wishful thinking, shallow lookism, spending hours mirror-gazing, constantly comparing one's self to others, and believing that "the grass is always greener" and that human biology is inconsequential and can be overcome and denied by identifying out of it.

[–]Thatstealthygal 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And.... we've just grown into ourselves. We know we're not men, we just sometimes like masculine things, imagine ourselves being men at times, but know we're women.