New movie portrays 10 year old girl as a boy, the child playing the role has also been transitioned

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[–]MarkTwainiac 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I do believe sex and genital dysphoria exists,

Just want to point out that neither sex nor genital dysphoria are requirements to obtain a clinical diagnosis of "gender dysphoria" in childhood or adolescence & adulthood. "Gender dysphoria" is the term clinicians & the public use today. The clinical criteria for a diagnosis of "gender dysphoria" do not require that a person be unhappy with, or in any way distressed by, one's sex or genitals. All that's required is a desire/preference for the sex stereotyped toys, games, clothing, grooming standards, roles usually associated with the opposite sex.

[–]worried19[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah, that's the problem. It's all based on stereotypes, like toy preferences, clothing preferences, and who the child wants to play with.

Under their guidelines, I would have been a trans child. I had at least 6 of the required social symptoms. The only symptoms that should even be remotely taken into account are feelings about the sexed body, specifically genitalia. I doubt you'd find many 10 year old girls who hate their vaginas. To be honest, I doubt the vast majority of elementary school kids even know where it is. I didn't have awareness at that age.

[–]MarkTwainiac 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes, prior to menarche, most girls are naturally aware they have vulvas - though many don't know the name - but not necessarily that they have vaginas. As a result, they are unlikely to hate their vaginas since they don't know they exist. Exceptions, of course, are a) girls who've been sexually abused in a way that involved vaginal penetration; and/or b) girls who've gotten comprehensive sex education prior to menarche. Though as someone who had the latter, I don't see why this would lead to unhappiness or distress; learning about the female ability to conceive, gestate, birth, nourish & immunize new human beings only increased the self-esteem of me & my peers.

I think it's important to note & emphasize that all these supposedly "trans kids" today suffer from "gender dysphoria," which in most cases is just dissatisfaction with the clothes, toys, playmates, grooming standards & roles typically associated with the most rigid stereotypes of one's sex. These are not kids distressed over their genitals or sex characteristics - things which they are only dimly aware of, or not aware of at all.

[–]worried19[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It just upsets me more and more the longer I think about it. And yet it seems so under discussed. Even on GC, most of the discussion is about trans women. To be honest, what's happening to gender nonconforming girls is far more alarming to me than anything trans women are doing. We're talking about the lives of these little girls. And little boys, the boys are being medicalized too.

This is medical experimentation on children, and no one is allowed to question it without being labeled "the enemy." Even saying you don't feel like a middle school kid should be put on hormones is forbidden now. I feel like this should be a much bigger deal than it is. J.K. Rowling touched briefly on the topic, but I feel like almost no one is aware of what's happening to even the youngest of children. I hope there's a high-profile detransition sometime soon to call the public's attention to it.