Is being bi-gender a "thing" at your kid's school?

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Anonymous wrote:There are only 3 genders...male, female, and mental illness.

If you want to live your life like that, then you should live your life like that. However, I hope that you will be polite to everybody. Also, please be aware that, if you are rude to people for being their gender wrong (according to you), there are plenty of people who will have a low opinion of you as a consequence.

Only people who haven't taken a biology class. There are only men and women. Men have a penis and women have a vagina. PERIOD

The fact that so- called grown, mature adults have to be reminded of this is staggering.

Do you deny that intersex people exist?

What about people who had penises, but lost them due to medical incidents or accidents, even combat? They don't have vaginas? Isn't what's in your head important?

No what's in "your head" is not important especially since, as evidenced here, what is in a lot of people's heads is very peverted and mixed up. And as to men that have lost organs due to accident- they are still chromosomly and biologically males of course. As are men who wear dresses, change their name to Katie, and pretend to be female.

I have come to realize that here in lies the crux of this issue. The bolded statement, that above does not bother me a lick. Even if its "all wrong", even if there is no biological or societal basis to say that a person IS or IS NOT a certain sex based on what they feel in their head/ or based on their body, it simply does not bother me if someone who is 1 sex wants to "pretend" to be the other sex. It just doesn't. FWIW, I don't think its so simple as pretending to be something or being 100% in the wrong body. But eve if it were, I don't see why that should preclude anyone from any rights or the ability to do that, its just not something that matters to me. Just like the idea that someone is 'born' gay or 'chooses' to live as a gay person, I always kind of partially disliked the idea that it would be OK to discriminate based on a choice. So what if it IS a choice for some people in the middle of the sexual spectrum or whatever, it doesn't matter to me if its something that feel biological or feels like a choice, it should just be respected as part of humanity.

I would care less if people pretending to be the other sex didn't decide they needed to adopt the most extreme stereotypes of gender performance in order to do it. You're a woman? And we know you're a woman because you're wearing ridiculous high heels and always made up a ton and your hair tweaked within an inch of its life? How about being a woman and wear some jeans and a tshirt. Oh, that doesn't make you feel feminine enough? The extreme gender performance makes me think it's more of a fetish than anything else. And it reinforces gender performance which I think is damaging to girls and woman.

This is my feeling on it too. Even in the trans kids...I watched some documentary on a trans kid and it was how the kid liked pink and frilly things and playing with Barbies, and wearing make-up and twirling in a tutu and liked drawing butterflies...so they knew 'he' was a girl. As someone who was a girl and liked none of those things...this gender orientation being based on stereotypes makes no sense to me. And that is how transwomen seem to identify as woman - hair, makeup, dresses and pink/purple...i am now a woman who still doesn't care about those things. It is kind of strange to realize that trans folks would't see me as a woman / female because I don't have the interests that to them define being a woman.

Not all transwomen gravitate toward hyper-feminine attire and behavior.

That doesn't change the fact that it's the most common approach. The stories you see on the news and read in the paper are all about how they always knew Larla was a girl because she loved pink and playing with baby dolls. Larlo adored trucks and getting dirty and it was plain as the day is long that he was meant to be a boy. The extreme gender performance is something I'm against for my children, I think it's a mistake for society to go backwards, and it feels more like a fetish than pragmatic expression. That adults reinforce this concept of "girl brains" and "boy brains" is horrible. I thought we'd moved beyond all that. Instead here we are, where Caitlyn Jenner doesn't have a care in the world except what pretty dress to wear.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, kids are impressionable and they're being told all of these differences are to be celebrated. Not just tolerated, mind you, but celebrated. So yes, there is a rash of confused kids embracing these identities.

Ah, that word tolerance. It sounds so quaint now. Remember when that's all that was expected, to "tolerate" these behaviors? Now it has to be full blown acceptance.

Tolerate has always meant acceptance. This is all a little silly but it isn't unacceptable. What is unacceptable is an adult who would mock or deride a child for this or post on an internet chat board protesting it. Only the most deranged sort of loser adult who is sick in the mind would do something like that.

No tolerate, means to put up with something, not think there's nothing wrong with it.

In this context, you are wrong. And your viewpoint here is not valid. Are you this ugly despicable person to which I was referring? I would like for you to stop thinking so much about teenagers and who they say they fuck. That is creepy and pervy.

It's worse than that. Most of these kids aren't even sexually active yet (at least among dd and her crowd). They're just figuring out who they are. It's the OP and her ilk imagining these nonexistent teen-trans-orgies all happening with the parents' and school admins' blessings. The kids are figuring out what labels they're most comfortable with, since adults seem so determined to label everyone. The adults like OP are the ones making it all about sex. Gender identity isn't the same as sexuality. It's a separate issue.

Bs. You do not have a clue with what's going on. It is not a separate issue any longer and I have see. That first hand among our children's peers. This should not be raken lightly and it saddens me that parents such as yourself are so niave and dismissive.

Well, I have a gender fluid dd, and we actually discuss her feelings and thoughts as well as the happenings in her friend groups, so I have a decent handle on the situation. You, on the other hand, heard from a friend who saw some story on Facebook or wherever about how the others are ruining their kids' lives by existing. Yeah, you know so much more about it.

Yes, sexual preference and gender identity are two separate issues. It's a very ignorant person who says they aren't. Gender is a social construct. Boy toys and girl toys, pink and blue, feminine and masculine... People created those things. There's no one size fits all. Two sizes aren't even enough. I'm glad the next generation is coming to terms with people being accepted for who they are. It's not really any different from tomboys in the past. Of course boys might not have had such an easy time if they didn't fit the stereotypical male roles, but I'm glad that the kids who don't/can't conform can have a little more acceptance these days. It's still not easy. There are still people like op, and possibly op's kids who see it as their job to put these kids down, and make them feel bad about themselves, but I'm glad more people are being tolerant.

Sonwe worked so hard over decades to prove to everyone that girls can be anything they want to be, and now we have come full circle that if a girl wants to be rough and tumble, into "guy" things, play with trucke, be strong and forceful, then of course they must not be a girl, they are a boy? Or some hybrid half way between the two? What onearth is wrong with them just being string girls who rock their jeans and Ts and can do anything a boy can do? Where is the girl power in all this?

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Anonymous wrote:There are only 3 genders...male, female, and mental illness.

If you want to live your life like that, then you should live your life like that. However, I hope that you will be polite to everybody. Also, please be aware that, if you are rude to people for being their gender wrong (according to you), there are plenty of people who will have a low opinion of you as a consequence.

Only people who haven't taken a biology class. There are only men and women. Men have a penis and women have a vagina. PERIOD

The fact that so- called grown, mature adults have to be reminded of this is staggering.

Do you deny that intersex people exist?

What about people who had penises, but lost them due to medical incidents or accidents, even combat? They don't have vaginas? Isn't what's in your head important?

No what's in "your head" is not important especially since, as evidenced here, what is in a lot of people's heads is very peverted and mixed up. And as to men that have lost organs due to accident- they are still chromosomly and biologically males of course. As are men who wear dresses, change their name to Katie, and pretend to be female.

I have come to realize that here in lies the crux of this issue. The bolded statement, that above does not bother me a lick. Even if its "all wrong", even if there is no biological or societal basis to say that a person IS or IS NOT a certain sex based on what they feel in their head/ or based on their body, it simply does not bother me if someone who is 1 sex wants to "pretend" to be the other sex. It just doesn't. FWIW, I don't think its so simple as pretending to be something or being 100% in the wrong body. But eve if it were, I don't see why that should preclude anyone from any rights or the ability to do that, its just not something that matters to me. Just like the idea that someone is 'born' gay or 'chooses' to live as a gay person, I always kind of partially disliked the idea that it would be OK to discriminate based on a choice. So what if it IS a choice for some people in the middle of the sexual spectrum or whatever, it doesn't matter to me if its something that feel biological or feels like a choice, it should just be respected as part of humanity.

I would care less if people pretending to be the other sex didn't decide they needed to adopt the most extreme stereotypes of gender performance in order to do it. You're a woman? And we know you're a woman because you're wearing ridiculous high heels and always made up a ton and your hair tweaked within an inch of its life? How about being a woman and wear some jeans and a tshirt. Oh, that doesn't make you feel feminine enough? The extreme gender performance makes me think it's more of a fetish than anything else. And it reinforces gender performance which I think is damaging to girls and woman.

This is my feeling on it too. Even in the trans kids...I watched some documentary on a trans kid and it was how the kid liked pink and frilly things and playing with Barbies, and wearing make-up and twirling in a tutu and liked drawing butterflies...so they knew 'he' was a girl. As someone who was a girl and liked none of those things...this gender orientation being based on stereotypes makes no sense to me. And that is how transwomen seem to identify as woman - hair, makeup, dresses and pink/purple...i am now a woman who still doesn't care about those things. It is kind of strange to realize that trans folks would't see me as a woman / female because I don't have the interests that to them define being a woman.

Not all transwomen gravitate toward hyper-feminine attire and behavior.

Really? Can you point to an article or documentary or an example of a transwoman who isn't into the stereotypical feminine attire and behavior?

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We need another Great Depression, with bread lines and all. That will cure all this garbage pretty quickly.

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It's a fad. In the last ten years it was cool to pretend that you were a lesbian, then bi-sexual, now "trans". Just wait a year or so and it will be something else.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a fad. In the last ten years it was cool to pretend that you were a lesbian, then bi-sexual, now "trans". Just wait a year or so and it will be something else.

Trunp supporters perhaps?

That would really get the parents of dcum up in arms.

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Anonymous wrote:There are only 3 genders...male, female, and mental illness.

If you want to live your life like that, then you should live your life like that. However, I hope that you will be polite to everybody. Also, please be aware that, if you are rude to people for being their gender wrong (according to you), there are plenty of people who will have a low opinion of you as a consequence.

Only people who haven't taken a biology class. There are only men and women. Men have a penis and women have a vagina. PERIOD

The fact that so- called grown, mature adults have to be reminded of this is staggering.

Do you deny that intersex people exist?

What about people who had penises, but lost them due to medical incidents or accidents, even combat? They don't have vaginas? Isn't what's in your head important?

No what's in "your head" is not important especially since, as evidenced here, what is in a lot of people's heads is very peverted and mixed up. And as to men that have lost organs due to accident- they are still chromosomly and biologically males of course. As are men who wear dresses, change their name to Katie, and pretend to be female.

I have come to realize that here in lies the crux of this issue. The bolded statement, that above does not bother me a lick. Even if its "all wrong", even if there is no biological or societal basis to say that a person IS or IS NOT a certain sex based on what they feel in their head/ or based on their body, it simply does not bother me if someone who is 1 sex wants to "pretend" to be the other sex. It just doesn't. FWIW, I don't think its so simple as pretending to be something or being 100% in the wrong body. But eve if it were, I don't see why that should preclude anyone from any rights or the ability to do that, its just not something that matters to me. Just like the idea that someone is 'born' gay or 'chooses' to live as a gay person, I always kind of partially disliked the idea that it would be OK to discriminate based on a choice. So what if it IS a choice for some people in the middle of the sexual spectrum or whatever, it doesn't matter to me if its something that feel biological or feels like a choice, it should just be respected as part of humanity.

I would care less if people pretending to be the other sex didn't decide they needed to adopt the most extreme stereotypes of gender performance in order to do it. You're a woman? And we know you're a woman because you're wearing ridiculous high heels and always made up a ton and your hair tweaked within an inch of its life? How about being a woman and wear some jeans and a tshirt. Oh, that doesn't make you feel feminine enough? The extreme gender performance makes me think it's more of a fetish than anything else. And it reinforces gender performance which I think is damaging to girls and woman.

This is my feeling on it too. Even in the trans kids...I watched some documentary on a trans kid and it was how the kid liked pink and frilly things and playing with Barbies, and wearing make-up and twirling in a tutu and liked drawing butterflies...so they knew 'he' was a girl. As someone who was a girl and liked none of those things...this gender orientation being based on stereotypes makes no sense to me. And that is how transwomen seem to identify as woman - hair, makeup, dresses and pink/purple...i am now a woman who still doesn't care about those things. It is kind of strange to realize that trans folks would't see me as a woman / female because I don't have the interests that to them define being a woman.

Not all transwomen gravitate toward hyper-feminine attire and behavior.

Really? Can you point to an article or documentary or an example of a transwoman who isn't into the stereotypical feminine attire and behavior?

DP. Stereotypical or hyper feminine?

How about people I know in my life. Not that you'd believe me, but I'm not posting anyone's names or personal info to prove a point. I think extremes are just more noticeable, not more common.

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Need advice on how to go about hosting a sleepover for a few young teen friends- with a mix of LGBTQ attendees. All friends for a couple years but I'm worried that there will be someone uncomfortable or something inappropriate could happen

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, kids are impressionable and they're being told all of these differences are to be celebrated. Not just tolerated, mind you, but celebrated. So yes, there is a rash of confused kids embracing these identities.

Ah, that word tolerance. It sounds so quaint now. Remember when that's all that was expected, to "tolerate" these behaviors? Now it has to be full blown acceptance.

Tolerate has always meant acceptance. This is all a little silly but it isn't unacceptable. What is unacceptable is an adult who would mock or deride a child for this or post on an internet chat board protesting it. Only the most deranged sort of loser adult who is sick in the mind would do something like that.

No tolerate, means to put up with something, not think there's nothing wrong with it.

In this context, you are wrong. And your viewpoint here is not valid. Are you this ugly despicable person to which I was referring? I would like for you to stop thinking so much about teenagers and who they say they fuck. That is creepy and pervy.

It's worse than that. Most of these kids aren't even sexually active yet (at least among dd and her crowd). They're just figuring out who they are. It's the OP and her ilk imagining these nonexistent teen-trans-orgies all happening with the parents' and school admins' blessings. The kids are figuring out what labels they're most comfortable with, since adults seem so determined to label everyone. The adults like OP are the ones making it all about sex. Gender identity isn't the same as sexuality. It's a separate issue.

Bs. You do not have a clue with what's going on. It is not a separate issue any longer and I have see. That first hand among our children's peers. This should not be raken lightly and it saddens me that parents such as yourself are so niave and dismissive.

Well, I have a gender fluid dd, and we actually discuss her feelings and thoughts as well as the happenings in her friend groups, so I have a decent handle on the situation. You, on the other hand, heard from a friend who saw some story on Facebook or wherever about how the others are ruining their kids' lives by existing. Yeah, you know so much more about it.

Yes, sexual preference and gender identity are two separate issues. It's a very ignorant person who says they aren't. Gender is a social construct. Boy toys and girl toys, pink and blue, feminine and masculine... People created those things. There's no one size fits all. Two sizes aren't even enough. I'm glad the next generation is coming to terms with people being accepted for who they are. It's not really any different from tomboys in the past. Of course boys might not have had such an easy time if they didn't fit the stereotypical male roles, but I'm glad that the kids who don't/can't conform can have a little more acceptance these days. It's still not easy. There are still people like op, and possibly op's kids who see it as their job to put these kids down, and make them feel bad about themselves, but I'm glad more people are being tolerant.

Sonwe worked so hard over decades to prove to everyone that girls can be anything they want to be, and now we have come full circle that if a girl wants to be rough and tumble, into "guy" things, play with trucke, be strong and forceful, then of course they must not be a girl, they are a boy? Or some hybrid half way between the two? What onearth is wrong with them just being string girls who rock their jeans and Ts and can do anything a boy can do? Where is the girl power in all this?

Who said all tomboys are gender nonconforming? You're the one who keeps trying to lump people into two groups. I'm totally fine with girls being able to do anything they want, including identify with a masculine gender.

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Anonymous wrote:So, how does everyone feel about having gay, lesbian, transgender, etc preteens in gender-specific camp cabins?

Don't like it, but don't think anything can really be done about it.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are an adult and you are actively encouraging your child to choose their gender rather than accept what they were born as, you are guilty of child abuse and should be imprisoned. I really feel bad for these kids who are going to grow up confused as hell because their parent made their life more difficult than it needed to be. Kids are learning that it's trendy to be LBGTQ and straight kids are choosing to be LBGTQ because they want to be cool. It's tragic and is one of the reasons we have a nut for a president right now.

This is exactly how we ended up with a nut job and if this insanity from the left continues, he will get re-elected.

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Anonymous wrote:There are only 3 genders...male, female, and mental illness.

If you want to live your life like that, then you should live your life like that. However, I hope that you will be polite to everybody. Also, please be aware that, if you are rude to people for being their gender wrong (according to you), there are plenty of people who will have a low opinion of you as a consequence.

Only people who haven't taken a biology class. There are only men and women. Men have a penis and women have a vagina. PERIOD

The fact that so- called grown, mature adults have to be reminded of this is staggering.

Do you deny that intersex people exist?

What about people who had penises, but lost them due to medical incidents or accidents, even combat? They don't have vaginas? Isn't what's in your head important?

No what's in "your head" is not important especially since, as evidenced here, what is in a lot of people's heads is very peverted and mixed up. And as to men that have lost organs due to accident- they are still chromosomly and biologically males of course. As are men who wear dresses, change their name to Katie, and pretend to be female.

I have come to realize that here in lies the crux of this issue. The bolded statement, that above does not bother me a lick. Even if its "all wrong", even if there is no biological or societal basis to say that a person IS or IS NOT a certain sex based on what they feel in their head/ or based on their body, it simply does not bother me if someone who is 1 sex wants to "pretend" to be the other sex. It just doesn't. FWIW, I don't think its so simple as pretending to be something or being 100% in the wrong body. But eve if it were, I don't see why that should preclude anyone from any rights or the ability to do that, its just not something that matters to me. Just like the idea that someone is 'born' gay or 'chooses' to live as a gay person, I always kind of partially disliked the idea that it would be OK to discriminate based on a choice. So what if it IS a choice for some people in the middle of the sexual spectrum or whatever, it doesn't matter to me if its something that feel biological or feels like a choice, it should just be respected as part of humanity.

I would care less if people pretending to be the other sex didn't decide they needed to adopt the most extreme stereotypes of gender performance in order to do it. You're a woman? And we know you're a woman because you're wearing ridiculous high heels and always made up a ton and your hair tweaked within an inch of its life? How about being a woman and wear some jeans and a tshirt. Oh, that doesn't make you feel feminine enough? The extreme gender performance makes me think it's more of a fetish than anything else. And it reinforces gender performance which I think is damaging to girls and woman.

This is my feeling on it too. Even in the trans kids...I watched some documentary on a trans kid and it was how the kid liked pink and frilly things and playing with Barbies, and wearing make-up and twirling in a tutu and liked drawing butterflies...so they knew 'he' was a girl. As someone who was a girl and liked none of those things...this gender orientation being based on stereotypes makes no sense to me. And that is how transwomen seem to identify as woman - hair, makeup, dresses and pink/purple...i am now a woman who still doesn't care about those things. It is kind of strange to realize that trans folks would't see me as a woman / female because I don't have the interests that to them define being a woman.

Not all transwomen gravitate toward hyper-feminine attire and behavior.

Really? Can you point to an article or documentary or an example of a transwoman who isn't into the stereotypical feminine attire and behavior?

Here's a transwoman wearing a leather jacket and black pants (she's a model but this isn't a modeling shot): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4240126/amp/Vogue-Paris-feature-transgender-model-cover.html

Here's a Redditor's before-and-after (she's wearing a parka): https://www.reddit.com/r/transtimelines/comments/5tiung/mtf_6_months_hrt/

A transwoman in a t-shirt and jeans: https://www.instagram.com/p/z_T1fvHPak/

Janet Mock in a business-casual look: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DF5zS8FXgAA9sJ9.jpg:large

That was an easy google search. You can look for more yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a fad. In the last ten years it was cool to pretend that you were a lesbian, then bi-sexual, now "trans". Just wait a year or so and it will be something else.

Again, this conversation isn't about kids who are trans or want to transition (or, it wasn't until very confused people started commenting). It's about kids who are gender non-conforming or gender fluid.

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Anonymous wrote:It's a fad. In the last ten years it was cool to pretend that you were a lesbian, then bi-sexual, now "trans". Just wait a year or so and it will be something else.

Again, this conversation isn't about kids who are trans or want to transition (or, it wasn't until very confused people started commenting). It's about kids who are gender non-conforming or gender fluid.

And kids who eschew the labels of boy and girl.

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Anonymous wrote:There are only 3 genders...male, female, and mental illness.

If you want to live your life like that, then you should live your life like that. However, I hope that you will be polite to everybody. Also, please be aware that, if you are rude to people for being their gender wrong (according to you), there are plenty of people who will have a low opinion of you as a consequence.

Only people who haven't taken a biology class. There are only men and women. Men have a penis and women have a vagina. PERIOD

The fact that so- called grown, mature adults have to be reminded of this is staggering.

Do you deny that intersex people exist?

What about people who had penises, but lost them due to medical incidents or accidents, even combat? They don't have vaginas? Isn't what's in your head important?

No what's in "your head" is not important especially since, as evidenced here, what is in a lot of people's heads is very peverted and mixed up. And as to men that have lost organs due to accident- they are still chromosomly and biologically males of course. As are men who wear dresses, change their name to Katie, and pretend to be female.

I have come to realize that here in lies the crux of this issue. The bolded statement, that above does not bother me a lick. Even if its "all wrong", even if there is no biological or societal basis to say that a person IS or IS NOT a certain sex based on what they feel in their head/ or based on their body, it simply does not bother me if someone who is 1 sex wants to "pretend" to be the other sex. It just doesn't. FWIW, I don't think its so simple as pretending to be something or being 100% in the wrong body. But eve if it were, I don't see why that should preclude anyone from any rights or the ability to do that, its just not something that matters to me. Just like the idea that someone is 'born' gay or 'chooses' to live as a gay person, I always kind of partially disliked the idea that it would be OK to discriminate based on a choice. So what if it IS a choice for some people in the middle of the sexual spectrum or whatever, it doesn't matter to me if its something that feel biological or feels like a choice, it should just be respected as part of humanity.

I would care less if people pretending to be the other sex didn't decide they needed to adopt the most extreme stereotypes of gender performance in order to do it. You're a woman? And we know you're a woman because you're wearing ridiculous high heels and always made up a ton and your hair tweaked within an inch of its life? How about being a woman and wear some jeans and a tshirt. Oh, that doesn't make you feel feminine enough? The extreme gender performance makes me think it's more of a fetish than anything else. And it reinforces gender performance which I think is damaging to girls and woman.

This is my feeling on it too. Even in the trans kids...I watched some documentary on a trans kid and it was how the kid liked pink and frilly things and playing with Barbies, and wearing make-up and twirling in a tutu and liked drawing butterflies...so they knew 'he' was a girl. As someone who was a girl and liked none of those things...this gender orientation being based on stereotypes makes no sense to me. And that is how transwomen seem to identify as woman - hair, makeup, dresses and pink/purple...i am now a woman who still doesn't care about those things. It is kind of strange to realize that trans folks would't see me as a woman / female because I don't have the interests that to them define being a woman.

Not all transwomen gravitate toward hyper-feminine attire and behavior.

That doesn't change the fact that it's the most common approach. The stories you see on the news and read in the paper are all about how they always knew Larla was a girl because she loved pink and playing with baby dolls. Larlo adored trucks and getting dirty and it was plain as the day is long that he was meant to be a boy. The extreme gender performance is something I'm against for my children, I think it's a mistake for society to go backwards, and it feels more like a fetish than pragmatic expression. That adults reinforce this concept of "girl brains" and "boy brains" is horrible. I thought we'd moved beyond all that. Instead here we are, where Caitlyn Jenner doesn't have a care in the world except what pretty dress to wear.

So, everything you know about being transgendered comes from the news media that you probably spend half your life bashing in other contexts as "fake news."

Check back when you have actual real-life experience with this instead of paranoid delusions.