archive link: https://archive.is/WuDPc

I wanted to share this post because it is a good example of teens learning the message, directly from peers and adults, that if you try to ask out another teen on a date and find out your crush likes a gender that you aren't, that you should then identify as trans and you'll be able to date them.

Multiple problems with this:

• child transing, in some cases pushing children down a lifetime lane of medical procedures and drugs

• refusal to respect boundaries-- instead of accepting that "no means no," teens learn that if you just change your gender then your crush can't say no

• homophobia-- individuals attracted to one sex and not another end up pressured to date someone who identified as trans in an attempt to date them; and impressionable, marginalized teenagers are likely afraid of being called "transphobic"

These types of posts maintain the current pattern of pressure for children to identify as transgender. If you were a kid and you received these messages from your peers, wouldn't you be influenced, too?