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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Our generation worked so hard to expand the notion of what it means to be female--you can be strong, ambitious, loud, athletic, aggressive, whatever--and now it seems like kids are putting "female" in this small, weak box and identifying anything outside that stereotype as something other.”

OP here. This! It makes me so sad. Womanhood is so powerful, and I know I have set an empowering example. That is partly why I am confused. [/quote]

I'm going to disagree, strongly, about what you're saying here, but I'm also confused how it's relevant. Your daughter identifies as some version of pan/Omni sexual (I'm old so I think of that all as being bisexual but I get that younger people don't use that identifier as much). None of that has to go with what she thinks being a woman is. It doesn't sound like she's anything but a woman, just not a straight one.

But even if she is questioning that, it doesn't have to do with not finding women powerful. I'm married to a trans man; he doesn't think women shouldn't be loud, strong, or powerful, he just thinks he isn't one. He's not trying to be stronger or more empowered by becoming a man, he's just trying to be more himself. He's not those things either, he's fundamentally the same person he was for the years before transition (only happier). It's hard to explain, but having seen it up close, it's not like what you're thinking.[/quote]

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