Maybe we need a new meme for how to deal with transgenderism...
Posted on 04/19/2017 10:06:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“I just wanted to check,” the teacher said. “Your child wants to be called a boy, right? Or is she a boy that wants to be called a girl? Which is it again?”
I cocked my head. I am used to correcting strangers, who mistake my 7-year-old daughter for a boy 100 percent of the time.
In fact, I love correcting them, making them reconsider their perceptions of what a girl looks like. But my daughter had been attending the after-school program where this woman taught for six months.
“She’s a girl,” I said. The woman looked unconvinced. “Really. She’s a girl, and you can refer to her as a girl.”
Later, when I relayed this conversation to my daughter, she said, “More girls should look like this so it’s more popular so grown-ups won’t be so confused.”
My daughter wears track pants and T-shirts. She has shaggy short hair (the look she requested from the hairdresser was “Luke Skywalker in Episode IV”). Most, but not all, of her friends are boys. She is sporty and strong, incredibly sweet, and a girl.
And yet she is asked by the pediatrician, by her teachers, by people who have known her for many years, if she feels like, or wants to be called, or wants to be, a boy.
In many ways, this is wonderful: It shows a much-needed sensitivity to gender nonconformity and transgender issues. It is considerate of adults to ask her — in the beginning.
But when they continue to question her gender identity — and are skeptical of her response — the message they send is that a girl cannot look and act like her and still be a girl.
She is not gender nonconforming. She is gender role nonconforming.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
A lot of people need a dirt nap. A lot. Like a whole lot.
Also, a lot of people are mentally ill. Like a whole lot.
The author sounds like a lib but she is quite right. Back in the old days there were tomboys and sissies. Most grew out of it. Good article from a surprising source.
Holy moley.
This mom says her daughter is a girl, no question. But then she also says she has sympathy for “trans” kids, and she has researched puberty blockers and hormones??? Why would she be researching such topics if she is saying her daughter is just a normal girl????
“In many ways, this is wonderful: It shows a much-needed sensitivity to gender nonconformity and transgender issues.”
Typical liberal nutcake. Sure hope her daughter grows up to be a normal woman.
Some parents need their heads checked......they’re just as confused as they’re making their children
Thing is, back in the 70’s, the left was all about girls playing with guns and boys playing with dolls. They suggested that we “force” girls to act girly and force boys to act boyish. Of course, they learned that it really is hard wiring.
Yet now they’ve taken it to the next level. Now, when a girl acts boyish, they start questioning the girl’s sexual identity. They are walking, talking breathing Dichotomies.
It is the liberal way. Remember, in the sixties, “save the whales”? It was because they wanted them to be there for our children and grandchildren to enjoy. But now it is “save the whales” for the sake of the whales themselves.
So we were right. A lot of these so called Transgender kids are being manipulated to say they are of the opposite sex. The way this story reads is that the schools and doctors are trying to get her to go against nature. Let kids be kids.
“In many ways, this is wonderful: It shows a much-needed sensitivity to gender nonconformity and transgender issues.”
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There’s at least half yer problem right there, lady.
More than 79.8 Million people in the US are taking psychiatric drugs for mental illness.
That is the whole Democrat party. They are insane. They are programmed. They are violent. And they intend to kill humans.
My wife was such a tomboy that one of her male friends when she was young asked his mom if she could sleep over and the mom said no because she is a girl. His response was, “[name]’s a GIRL?!”
And yet she is more woman than any woman I’ve ever met. Hence the “wife” part. :)
Libs really need to lighten up.
Yep, stopped reading there.
My optometrist told me she sees more kids crying because they CAN’T have glasses (don’t need them) than the reverse. Surprising to me, but evidently wearing glasses has somehow become “cool” just like being a tranny has. Some parents tell them “that’s OK, we’ll get you a pair of fake glasses instead”, which is catering to the same BS theory that these tranny-encourager parents embrace.
Kids need direction not buddying. If you’re a girl you can wear your hair however you wish and play sports, dress as you feel comfortable. But you are still and always will be...a girl. A young female with two X chromosomes.
The end.
I was a tomboy when I was a kid, although I did like to put a pretty dress on occasionally. I just thought boys had more fun than girls, that playing cowboys and indians was more fun than playing house with dolls. Never did I think I was a boy, and thank God I grew up when we just had tomboys and sissies and didn’t indoctrinate us and shoot us up with hormones and ruin our lives.
Kind of sounds like both mom and daughter like the attention they get from the daughter’s tomboy looks. As well as confusing people about the daughter’s gender.
In this case its just a variation of the freak circus mentality.
Maybe we need a new meme for how to deal with transgenderism...
“Nuke the unborn gay whales!”
When I was in the Army, I wore my hair VERY short. Who had TIME to fuss with it, plus you had Helmet Head every day, anyway.
I was called, ‘Sir’ on more than one occasion by civilians. Meh.
My sister was the REAL tomboy. She wore a pair of (play) Six Guns from the time she could toddle until she went to Kindergarten. Mom wouldn’t let her wear them to school or church or in the bathtub, but the minute she could, they were on her hips again, LOL!
Yeah. I guess we’re weirdos. *Rolleyes*
I thought the number of mentally deranged people here was well over 100 million.
It sure seems at least half of the people under 45 in this forsaken nation are either mentally ill or demon possessed.
And yes, they wouldn’t mind murdering others as well.
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