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[–]CastleHoward 27 insightful - 3 fun27 insightful - 2 fun28 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Holy shit! Reading that made me so sad because there is no opportunity for anyone to go against the status quo. No room to step back and think. I'm a parent to a 10 yo girl and I'm in charge of all the decisions because I'm the fucking grownup. I decide which neighbourhood we live in, which school she goes to, what food we eat, the media she consumes etc.... But if she were to say she wanted to start puberty blockers, change her name and wreck her life I would have to hand all of the decisions over to a child and a lunatic healthcare system. Watchful waiting would be considered child abuse.

[–]Finnegan7921 23 insightful - 4 fun23 insightful - 3 fun24 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

"When my daughter told us her truth at the age of four"

holy fucking shit. words fail me.

[–]oofreesouloo 22 insightful - 2 fun22 insightful - 1 fun23 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I looked at it for a brief moment and it was enough for me to find it highly disturbing "My son since young 'acted' like girl! He told me liked to polish his nails" WHAT THE F*CK IS 'acting like a girl'?! And since when is polishing nails = being a girl??????????????

[–]lefterfield 15 insightful - 4 fun15 insightful - 3 fun16 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

I am a lousy girl by this standard :( Guess I better start taking testosterone and binding my breasts.

[–]Realwoman 11 insightful - 5 fun11 insightful - 4 fun12 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Til I stopped being a girl when I lost my interest in painting my nails at 15. Must have transitioned back then

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

I swear to god I want to tell that mom on the first post TO STOP ABUSING HIS 6-YEAR-OLD CHILD!!!!!!!!!!!! God why did I watched this

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

So what I see here is your daughter is a victim of social contagion and she jumps on whatever "edgy" trend she hears about. She needs confidence as a woman instead of indulgence as genderspecial. How is that not obvious? She MIGHT be a lesbian. Well and good. But there's something BAD going on here:

<My AFAB Kid came out as bisexual in eighth grade, then a lesbian in ninth grade, then as non-binary in 10th grade, then as wanting to use they/them pronouns and change their given name in 11th grade, and now they are rising senior, about to turn 18 in the fall, and they have asked for testosterone.>