I’ve noticed these days most female celebrities go out of their way to say that they aren’t ‘completely straight’, although I suspect in almost every case they have no intentions of sleeping with another woman, they just say it to ‘sound hip.’
I read the article, and I think the mother is either:
* autism spectrum
* moral peacocking to an extreme
Women are far less likely than men to have strict rules based thinking, something the general public under-appreciates as essential to IT, engineering, technology. Mechanics can have an interest in how something works and hammer out rough solutions. Engineering requires far more rules-based thinking, understanding all the rules and how they interact. It is conscientiousness at an abstract level.
This can occur in women normally, and some make great attorneys and accountants. The interest in technology, though, seems more likely if you’re female and on the autism spectrum. Less interested in people and more in things, which is very much the opposite of the normal women.
What is interesting is how female autistic-leaning individuals are disproportionately being pushed into transgender diagnoses and surgery. That because you’re logical, rational, analytical, don’t care much for dresses and feminine toys, you must somehow be a boy.
To the left, girls who are at best tom-boys and at worst far less feminine are prime candidates to undermine biological dichotomy.
I can’t help but wonder if the mother is mildly autistic, sees it in a daughter, and thinks this is the RIGHT way to raise the child. It isn’t. But when gender seems irrelevant to how people are classified, they all seem the same inside but for minor variations in appearance and behavior, going gender neutral can seem logical.
All of that is aside from the political ideology pushing this whole thing.
We can argue about gender stereotypes and social expectations, whether it is mandating girls wear skirts with school uniforms or the denigration of stay at home fathers.
What we cannot reasonably deny is penis equals male, vagina equals female, and the rare 1 in 50,000 accident doesn’t eliminate the over-arching biological reality.
Nor do those rare biological accidents we can compensate for many of those known defects, whether via hormones or surgery.
Where we reach insanity, where liberalism’s central tenet seems to be “feelings determine reality and morality”, is to say that your feelings override biological fact, that if you feel like a woman you are a woman. That the penis and XY chromosomes are a lie, the brain’s impulses are more important, so let’s alter the brain to suit the delusion. Actually, if the brain’s thoughts are out of alignment with reality, that’s a mental illness.
Transgenderism is the ONLY mental illness, dysphoria, where we say society must accommodate the delusion and alter the body to match. If someone says they’re Napoleon, we don’t give them plastic surgery and demand everyone else call them Emperor. If someone says they’re ‘trans-disabled’ and want to chop off a limb or intentionally blind themselves, most doctors still stick them in a ward under supervision before they hurt themselves. But if they say take off the primary and secondary sexual organs and give me hormones instead of psychiatric drugs and counseling, yep, let’s go for it.
Another reason liberals are pushing transgenderism is to break down sexual barriers. If there’s not really a difference between men and women, how can you refuse to have sex with someone though you’re officially heterosexual?
If you think that’s too much, realize that the lesbian protests at “gay pride” and “transgender” events are because lesbians are getting bullied by transgenders (80% male, 80% of those still with a penis) for not having sex with them. Yes, liberals are bullying lesbians who don’t want to have sex with men to have sex with men who say they’re women.
To be fair, liberals are also putting out a few articles about how men who don’t have sex with homosexual friends are bad meanies, too.
But this has been common in lesbian circles, hence the shaming, shunning and no-platforming of classic feminists for being “TERFs”. Germaine Greer and Camille Paglia, for example, were shouted down and threatened for saying a man who was a man for most of his life shouldn’t get women’s awards after being a man all his life except the last few months.
The gender-bending and gender-denial is thus an attempt to eliminate any social recognition of biological sex so they can try to create a utopian society where everyone is equally interchangeable in every role and in bed.
The fact that they exploit the mentally ill to do it isn’t seen as immoral. Instead, they think they’re helping those people get better and make society better.
At least this couple is only confusing the kids with psychobabble instead of dosing them with hormones and planning surgery for the sake of their illogical dogma.