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This is an actual position, not a straw position. https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenting/a43702/transgender-child-kimberly-shappley/ https://www.goodh
by empthought 6y ago
This is an actual position, not a straw position.
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenting/a43702/transgender-child-kimberly-shappley/ https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenting/a43702/trans...
The only way this person could resolve her discomfort at her child’s inclination to play with “girl things” was to start considering her a girl.
Meanwhile where are the “gender-progressive” people sticking up for a two-year old’s right to play with whatever toys they want without sanction or punishment? Certainly not raising any concerns about this sort of story.
Combine it with the well-documented higher incidence of gender nonconformity of cis gay people at a young age, we see many supposedly “progressive” people allowing the sentiment “better a straight daughter than a gay son” get normalized without challenge.
- pseudalopex 6y agoThe child "was verbalizing that she was a girl at least six times a day" and praying for her boy self to die. The mother talked to professionals. She only began to change her mind after a transgender teenager's suicide note made her realize her own child might commit suicide. Even then she studied and prayed for months. What makes you think the mother assumes her daughter will be straight?
- empthought 6y agoBecause she already knows he is a homosexual male, which ends up a straight trans woman.
- pseudalopex 6y agoLess than 25% of trans people are straight.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_sexuality#Sexual_orientation_distribution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_sexuality#Sexual_o...