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[–]teacherterf[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, I have some sympathy for teenagers who carry on this way. Teenagers are still figuring things out, and identity struggles are part of adolescence. I still think we'd avoid a lot of the excesses of this movement if adults responded by smiling and saying "mmm, that's nice" and moved on rather than falling over themselves to "affirm" every 14yo who declared that she was too special to be a she/her. Middle-aged women who do this are past the point where they can grow out of it, and I do everything I can to avoid spending more time with them than I have to.