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[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 26 insightful - 4 fun26 insightful - 3 fun27 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Is my skull so thick that I just can't grasp their argument or is it simply insane that any child needs a full body transplant because of the clothes they like?

No, these kind of parents are nuts. Their child is definitely not the ones calling the shots here, just along for the ride. They're projecting their own ideology onto the kid.

The whole thing is basically, 'you're not really allowed to ask anything because it's all offensive to me(and my child but mostly me). Forget everything you know about the differences between boys and girls and pledge your full support for my mindset and approach to child rearing or stfu'.

Don't they HAVE to have a gender?

Why this is inappropriate to ask: Who says? Gender is a social construct that has been manipulated and changed over centuries. The reality is that there are so many kinds of people in the world. Transgender,

Which is STILL a gender smh

Maybe this person should be asking themselves why their child needs to be transgender at all if gender is not needed and the so-called binary is so problematic.

Why not just drop the concept of socially constructed gender entirely(let them be gnc) and just go with sex for identification? Oh yeah, right. Because that actually has a clear definition in biology that can't be obfuscated and completely annihilated by woke parents. And they seem to love shifting meanings around so no one understands what they're talking about anymore so they can be all offended and victimized when someone gets it wrong. I mean, how dare they screw it up.

It's like laying a minefield and being all shocked and pearl-clutchy whenever someone steps on one. Give me a break.

[–]slushpilot 10 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Their child is definitely not the ones calling the shots here, just along for the ride

It's probably negotiated by the child, but technically true, because enabling it is just poor parenting. "I'm a firetruck!" Of course you are dear, let's go buy you a ladder...