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I don't think it's troubling at all. It just shows that the "kids these days" are more thoroughly rejecting cultural stereotypes about gender than previous generations.
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That's a bizarre perspective.

I'm a woman. Therefore any hobby, interest, talent, style, anything I do was appropriate for a girl, and is appropriate for a woman. That's rejecting stereotypes. There is no "boy" or "man" thing. There is only a thing, that anyone of any sex can be interested in or involved in.

Now kids are re-enforcing the old stereotypes. A girl is interested in "boy" things? Trans boy! A girl is interested in both "boy" and "girl" things? Non-binary! A girl is interested in "girl" things? Girl!

That's not rejecting cultural stereotypes. It's fully buying into them and defining who they are based around those stereotypes. To the point where my daughter who would have been a "tomboy" when I was a child is asked what her pronouns are and whether she's trans. Because clearly since she has "boy" interests and a "male" aesthetic, she can't be a girl.

When I was a kid? I could be a girl with my "boy" interests and "male" aesthetic ... because I was a girl. Seems like kids are today are being shoved backwards, not breaking stereotypes even further.[/quote]

Maybe your daughter will identify as trans or nonbinary. I see nothing wrong with that. [/quote]

Maybe she will. And that's fine. But right now, she's not. And yet, she's asked if she is because of stereotypes and the reinvigorating of stereotypes the trans and non-binary trend has caused.

It's reinforcing old stereotypes, stereotypes that my 70's generation had fully rejected, that my daughter is asked if she's trans because she has "boy" interests and a "boy" aesthetic. That's the opposite of rejecting cultural stereotypes, as PP claimed.[/quote]

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