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[quote=Anonymous]Chores aren't sex based. They are need-to-get-done based.

You can be considerate and allow members of the family to pick and choose some chores (my DD prefers to cook rather than clean, so she volunteers for cooking chores over cleaning chores, this is something we can accommodate). You can also be blunt that some chores no one wants and they still have to get done (none of us prefers to clean bathrooms, so cleaning the bathroom is assigned on a rotation).

Any chores I had a child plead "too weak" or whatever (unless it happened to be a real reason, like they're physically disabled in some way) would become a chore they'd have to do because I'm not willing to unleash an adult into the world who's incompetent. Yes, a female teen is generally weaker than a male teen, but she's not too weak to mow the lawn, do yard work, and so on. She might struggle to hold up heavy items but surely she has a brain and can work out a solution (use a wheelbarrow instead of hand-carrying, make use of scaffolding instead of holding something over her head). A transgender boy has no more excuse than any biological female for not doing physical chores. (Unless he knows his parent is ridiculously, harmfully, old-fashioned and is willing to take advantage of that in order to get out of work.)

You might want to consider what else in your household you have illogically made sex based, and consider whether an outdated adherence to harmful performative gender roles have been inflicting mental damage on your child.[/quote]

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