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[–]Finnegan7921 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

The hairdos are one thing, but the whole "dress however they want " stuff leads to problems. Little girls wearing "boy clothes" like overalls, jeans, etc. b/c she likes to play outdoors, or clothes with cartoon characters that are geared towards boys are one thing, a little boy in a ballerina dress is quite another. One is totally normal and acceptable, the other is weird.

[–]worried19 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's precisely because feminine little boys who want to wear dresses are seen as "weird" that so many of them are being transitioned.

Once upon a time, Jazz Jennings was just a gender nonconforming 3 year old who wanted to wear dresses and whose parents didn't want to let him wear them out of the house. An innocent child's fertility and sexual function was destroyed because society thinks a boy in a dress is wrong.

[–]Finnegan7921 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

No, it was destroyed b/c nobody had the guts to tell the kid what reality was and that he couldn't wear a dress b/c he isn't a girl. A boy getting approval from his parents and society for abnormal behavior is what will fuck him up in the head, not the other way around.

[–]worried19 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Are you a gender critical feminist? We're abolitionists here. Gender is what causes harm to children. I was once a little girl who "passed" as a boy, and I still have a "butch lesbian" appearance as an adult. That's just who I am. There's nothing wrong with a girl being what society considers masculine or a boy being what society considers feminine.

Gender nonconforming little boys should be protected from a society that thinks there is something wrong with them for being who they are. Little Jazz would never have been harmed if the adults in his life had been loving and supportive of his desire to express himself. In all likelihood, he would have been a GNC boy who grew into an adult gay man, as 90% of very GNC little boys do.