Girl's School and Gender Pronouns

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:as a feminist and mom. I am concerned that young women/girls today, can't embrace their gender and identity without feeling "less than"-- we didn't fight these battles for them to fade into some "they/them" back ground or for trans women to say they "always felt like a woman" --no you didn't.

+ a million

I said the same in front of my DD and her friend and whoa did the friend tell me that I clearly didn’t get it. Well clearly I don’t and her explanation didn’t make me get it either. But now I’ve been labeled as something I also don’t understand.

I wonder if in a generation there will be a backlash in the opposite direction? I’m with you, PP, I’m a feminist and very liberal and I don’t get it at all. Denying our own gender does not make us more supportive of trans people.

There has to be. The medical malpractice alone. Once younger women see what happened to the generation of girls ahead of them, ugh. The pendulum will swing.

I'm a Gen-Xer and the first wave of feminist didn't understand our wave of feminism either! Our daughters will probably identify as fourth wave or fifth wave feminists and think all previous iterations were morons.

[Anonymous]

Especially if most of the fourth or fifth generation feminists are men.

[Anonymous]

Please read Irreversible Damage. So enlightening. Teenage girls are living in a scary. The trans movement, even what seems as innocuous as binding, has severe physical effects not mention mental ones. These decisions are not for children or teenagers to make. They need to wait until they are adults. And we as parents and teachers must stop the madness. The affirmative therapy is a crock. Would we tell anorexic girls you feel like you are fat so for now on we will call you fatty and help you achieve your lowest weight? Insanity. It's not anti trans so ask girls to wait until they are adults.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please read Irreversible Damage. So enlightening. Teenage girls are living in a scary. The trans movement, even what seems as innocuous as binding, has severe physical effects not mention mental ones. These decisions are not for children or teenagers to make. They need to wait until they are adults. And we as parents and teachers must stop the madness. The affirmative therapy is a crock. Would we tell anorexic girls you feel like you are fat so for now on we will call you fatty and help you achieve your lowest weight? Insanity. It's not anti trans so ask girls to wait until they are adults.

Comparing being trans to be anorexic, on the other hand, is incredibly bigoted. Did you spark a bowl before you wrote this chestnut?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:IMHO, there are many many more trans males than females at this age.

Trans busy are well documented as an age 2-5 thing. And free were girls.

Now upper middle adolescent girls in western cultures are breaking all records suddenly seeming themselves transitioning and changing their names, burning their breasts, and sinking into the online trans communities. All schools are doing is watching and touting LGBTQ mantras. Doctors just nod and go with it so as to not get cancelled. Parents are told to be quiet and loving, and let the child explore their genders.

Stop the dramatics. Seriously. My daughter is at an all girls school and only 1 girl in her entire grade is trans and another may be as well. It is not an overwhelming number of girls. The girls accept their classmate(s) and it is a NON ISSUE. Stop making so much of it. 2 girls put of 90 is not a majority or even close.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:IMHO, there are many many more trans males than females at this age.

Trans busy are well documented as an age 2-5 thing. And free were girls.

Now upper middle adolescent girls in western cultures are breaking all records suddenly seeming themselves transitioning and changing their names, burning their breasts, and sinking into the online trans communities. All schools are doing is watching and touting LGBTQ mantras. Doctors just nod and go with it so as to not get cancelled. Parents are told to be quiet and loving, and let the child explore their genders.

Stop the dramatics. Seriously. My daughter is at an all girls school and only 1 girl in her entire grade is trans and another may be as well. It is not an overwhelming number of girls. The girls accept their classmate(s) and it is a NON ISSUE. Stop making so much of it. 2 girls put of 90 is not a majority or even close.

Exactly it’s a non issue and the use of the word “girls” or “young ladies” at a girls school should be a non issue as well, given that it is a situation in which is chosen by a family, not put upon them. An individual student has every right to use whatever pronouns they/she might want but as a group it is a “girls” school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Please read Irreversible Damage. So enlightening. Teenage girls are living in a scary. The trans movement, even what seems as innocuous as binding, has severe physical effects not mention mental ones. These decisions are not for children or teenagers to make. They need to wait until they are adults. And we as parents and teachers must stop the madness. The affirmative therapy is a crock. Would we tell anorexic girls you feel like you are fat so for now on we will call you fatty and help you achieve your lowest weight? Insanity. It's not anti trans so ask girls to wait until they are adults.

Comparing being trans to be anorexic, on the other hand, is incredibly bigoted. Did you spark a bowl before you wrote this chestnut?

Hmm, trans kids partake in bodily mutilation, severing off breasts that they can never get back, take hormones which if on for just a few months can render their voices deep forever and leave them sterile. Yup, your right anorexia is way less of an issue than being trans. And do you think if you lob the good ole bigoted insult that's supposed to scare people into silence? Unfortunately, the word bigoted has lost any impact because of it's over usage. Well done. You are so ignorant.

[Anonymous]

Middle schoolers surveyed in this area have big percentages claiming to be non-binary or trans and joining support groups, changing names at schools. Public middle schools and DC private ones. It’s tough to change it back due to peer pressure as well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Please read Irreversible Damage. So enlightening. Teenage girls are living in a scary. The trans movement, even what seems as innocuous as binding, has severe physical effects not mention mental ones. These decisions are not for children or teenagers to make. They need to wait until they are adults. And we as parents and teachers must stop the madness. The affirmative therapy is a crock. Would we tell anorexic girls you feel like you are fat so for now on we will call you fatty and help you achieve your lowest weight? Insanity. It's not anti trans so ask girls to wait until they are adults.

Comparing being trans to be anorexic, on the other hand, is incredibly bigoted. Did you spark a bowl before you wrote this chestnut?

And PP you missed the point of the comparison. Critical reading. It's about affirmative therapy. You wouldn't tell someone yes you are a dog because that's what they feel. People are affirming kids trans identity as young as kindergarten and placing kids as young as 11 on hormone blockers so that they will literally never be able to physically come into their sexuality. The point is that you would not do with that with any other mental health condition and yes, especially in the teenage years, most trans issues are actually body dysmorphia and/or a WHOLE slew of other mental illness that are not even being explored or addressed. That's malpractice and child abuse.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter who attends a very strong local private girls school (one that we have been very happy with) reports that girls in her student government, led by the adult Director of Student Life, are having conversations about how using the terms 'girls' when addressing the students there is 'exclusive' and not gender-identity inclusive. There are discussions about changing the handbook to restrict the use of 'girls,' as well as the Director of Student Life actively advocating to the girls actually taking down school-purchased signs on campus the denote that it is a girls school. While I am left-leaning and certainly think that people should be able to choose their own pronouns, this seems over the top. We chose a girls school precisely for it being one. And we have deeply appreciated the strengths that that her girls school education has provided to her. Has anyone else with a daughter in a girl's school heard about this?

Either Stone Ridge or Holton. Either way, it’s ridiculous.

Def not Stone Ridge. It's Catholic and majority of the parents are conservative.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The funniest part about it is all of these girls who think they are railing against the “patriarchy” are trying to join it by identifying his male! They don’t even realize the absurdity of their own statements.

I think there is an element of "if you can't beat them, join them." By middle school, girls are smart enough to see the vast amount of misogyny in the world, and how their male classmates have a better life ahead of them just by virtue of being born with penises. I don't think they are trying to rail against the patriarchy. They are just looking at their options and in many cases being rational.

You have issues! Get over being a victim

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Please read Irreversible Damage. So enlightening. Teenage girls are living in a scary. The trans movement, even what seems as innocuous as binding, has severe physical effects not mention mental ones. These decisions are not for children or teenagers to make. They need to wait until they are adults. And we as parents and teachers must stop the madness. The affirmative therapy is a crock. Would we tell anorexic girls you feel like you are fat so for now on we will call you fatty and help you achieve your lowest weight? Insanity. It's not anti trans so ask girls to wait until they are adults.

Comparing being trans to be anorexic, on the other hand, is incredibly bigoted. Did you spark a bowl before you wrote this chestnut?

And PP you missed the point of the comparison. Critical reading. It's about affirmative therapy. You wouldn't tell someone yes you are a dog because that's what they feel. People are affirming kids trans identity as young as kindergarten and placing kids as young as 11 on hormone blockers so that they will literally never be able to physically come into their sexuality. The point is that you would not do with that with any other mental health condition and yes, especially in the teenage years, most trans issues are actually body dysmorphia and/or a WHOLE slew of other mental illness that are not even being explored or addressed. That's malpractice and child abuse.

+1 How did we get to the point that you are a bigot if you say that it is not ok for a 12 year old girl to take massive injections of testosterone?

[Anonymous]

NP here. I didn't read anything on this board that suggested someone supports giving young adolescents. "massive injections of testosterone." Those are just claims some posters have used to characterize "the other side." A ton of logical fallacies in these posts, including the particular slippery slope argument you see above. As is usually the case, the issue is more complicated than these hacks want to acknowledge. They're more invested in furthering their own political agenda.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Please read Irreversible Damage. So enlightening. Teenage girls are living in a scary. The trans movement, even what seems as innocuous as binding, has severe physical effects not mention mental ones. These decisions are not for children or teenagers to make. They need to wait until they are adults. And we as parents and teachers must stop the madness. The affirmative therapy is a crock. Would we tell anorexic girls you feel like you are fat so for now on we will call you fatty and help you achieve your lowest weight? Insanity. It's not anti trans so ask girls to wait until they are adults.

Comparing being trans to be anorexic, on the other hand, is incredibly bigoted. Did you spark a bowl before you wrote this chestnut?

Hmm, trans kids partake in bodily mutilation, severing off breasts that they can never get back, take hormones which if on for just a few months can render their voices deep forever and leave them sterile. Yup, your right anorexia is way less of an issue than being trans. And do you think if you lob the good ole bigoted insult that's supposed to scare people into silence? Unfortunately, the word bigoted has lost any impact because of it's over usage. Well done. You are so ignorant.

Omg stop!!! At the all girls schools in this area there are MAYBE 1-2 girls at most that identify as bi or trans or binary and since this is the private school forum focus on that. The fact that you think tons of girls are binary on this area isn’t relevant to this forum because that’s not the case at the private all girls schools in this area. You have an agenda and are threatened by trans kids and I think you should get help and explore why it is triggering you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please read Irreversible Damage. So enlightening. Teenage girls are living in a scary. The trans movement, even what seems as innocuous as binding, has severe physical effects not mention mental ones. These decisions are not for children or teenagers to make. They need to wait until they are adults. And we as parents and teachers must stop the madness. The affirmative therapy is a crock. Would we tell anorexic girls you feel like you are fat so for now on we will call you fatty and help you achieve your lowest weight? Insanity. It's not anti trans so ask girls to wait until they are adults.

Comparing being trans to be anorexic, on the other hand, is incredibly bigoted. Did you spark a bowl before you wrote this chestnut?

Hmm, trans kids partake in bodily mutilation, severing off breasts that they can never get back, take hormones which if on for just a few months can render their voices deep forever and leave them sterile. Yup, your right anorexia is way less of an issue than being trans. And do you think if you lob the good ole bigoted insult that's supposed to scare people into silence? Unfortunately, the word bigoted has lost any impact because of it's over usage. Well done. You are so ignorant.

Omg stop!!! At the all girls schools in this area there are MAYBE 1-2 girls at most that identify as bi or trans or binary and since this is the private school forum focus on that. The fact that you think tons of girls are binary on this area isn’t relevant to this forum because that’s not the case at the private all girls schools in this area. You have an agenda and are threatened by trans kids and I think you should get help and explore why it is triggering you.

OMG grow up and research what you are actually talking about instead of living under a rock and making stuff up. This is a growing issue. Take a break from your rose and superficial wokeness and take a look around. No agenda other than enlightening ignorant people like you.