Posted on 04/20/2017 8:28:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
For a change, the ultra-liberal New York Times sort of got it right.
Pushing back against the reflexive tendency of so many on the Left embrace “gender fluidity” and to even encourage people to claim that they are really of a gender different than that of their birth and biology, the Times published an op-ed by Lisa Selin Davis which reads in part:
“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.”
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.
The knee-jerk tendency to assume (and wish?) that people are transgender has become so pervasive that anyone who shows interest in that which is not wholly typical for his or her gender is assumed to be “trans”.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Many professional women have “men’s” haircuts, including myself. It is low-maintenance. My husband and son both have longer hair than I.
You cannot be a woman unless you were a little girl first.
I have short hair, too. The fact that I am considered “unfeminine” by the Hair-Length Policemen simply because of this - in spite of long dresses, jewelry, and ten children - demonstrates the absurdity of our culture’s tiny “gender” boxes.
Finally some sense..
I’ve woken up real women too. Often it’s better to just let them sleep.
You sex is determined by your chromosomes. If you have a Y chromosome, you are a male. Otherwise, you are a female.
Any deviation from that is simply mental illness.
Sorry, references are not in my knowledge bank. When movie or tv or actress/actor categories come up on “Jeopardy” the husband and I know we will not get any of them.
“....My husband and my son both have hair longer than mine.”
All things seriously considered, and I don’t mean this flippantly, you might want to rethink your convenient choice.
Yeah, grew out of it. Today, she is a supermom with two of the cutest little grandsons in the world and a business executive with an plum overseas posting.
Her husband had to follow her because she makes more money. No brag, just fact.
This is nothing new, read Roman’s 1:18 to the end of the chapter. The big difference between now and every other time in history when humans were vile and disgusting is modern technology can place it instantly and constantly in front of everyone’s face, forcing it to become the “norm”.
They have claimed global warming is no longer debatable, its settled science. Cannot debate the weather, it is science.
These are the same "scientists" that say, if you "feel" like something, then you are! Who are we to shut down debate about feelings.
Tell the Texans to change three dozen Republican members of the state House of Representatives so that they are in line with the state Senate. The “bathroom bill” is dead in TX for 2017 because Speaker Straus won’t allow a vote.
I was a tomboy growing up. As A teen I had that heavy metal fan look for many years. Glad I didn’t grow up during the label everyone a cross dresser or homosexual to get mommy attention years.
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