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

I know. There is nothing innate about color preferences, but little children are gender detectives and when they learn the concept of gender they try to make sense of it. This leads to avoiding the colors that they think mean the other sex. But their ideas about sex (I don't think they even understand what 'gender' is and sometimes I think nobody does today) are extremely superficial. In one study a little boy put a barrette in his hair and declared that he was now a girl. The adults thought it was funny, but he meant it literally. For him 'girl' and 'boy' were all about superficial stuff.

And the TRAs argue that children of that age (three or four) already know for certain if they are trans...