Transing ChildrenFirst mention of the Keira Bell court case in a major liberal U.S. news outlet? - New Yorker article by a transgender-identified person (FtM)

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[–]SerpensInferna 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I'm just going to bring this up because this is a terribly misquoted fact that drives me absolutely insane.

When we hear stories of girls being married off at a very young age - the great majority of the time these were royal or upper class women and it was to make alliances. Your average woman, even in the medieval era and before, generally married around the age of 20. Our ancestors weren't complete morons and they understood that very young girls having babies was even more dangerous than grown women having babies, and giving birth was always dangerous.

Also the person that wrote this article is a complete moron.

[–]GConly 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Your average woman, even in the medieval era and before, generally married around the age of 20.

Rome too. Child brides tended to be politically motivated there too.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Here are some facts then https://www.worldvision.com.au/global-issues/work-we-do/forced-child-marriage#:~:text=When%20it%20comes%20to%20child,of%20all%20young%20women%20globally.&text=Each%20year%2C%20another%2012%20million,of%2018%20become%20child%20brides. https://www.worldvision.org/child-protection-news-stories/10-worst-places-child-marriage

[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Thank you for sharing that! Wow. Just wow. That's beyond fucked up.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah it definitely goes on. I cannot understand why the TRA in question would want to paint it as being appropriate though??? No, I don't think you kids should be getting married or working full time as carpenters. What on earth??

Anecdotally my grandparents left school at 13 to work, and while their lives aren't messed or horrible up for it, it wasn't a great situation and they worked hard so that their own kids would not have to have a childhood like that.

[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

and they worked hard so that their own kids would not have to have a childhood like that.

EXACTLY!!! We try to better society so that we do not have to live like that, with the pointless harms and dangers that we did in the past... so why use the past as justification for doing bullshit today?? "They did something equally as harmful in the past" is not a good justification for doing something harmful in the present.