This is a reply to the thread on the Gender Critical community thread on Reddit entitled An unspoken way conflating personal interests and gender ID materially hurts straight girl children.
Yes! As a woman in her fifties, I often wonder if I wouldn't have been pushed to believe that I should transition if I was growing up in modern times. I never liked wearing "feminine" clothes because I found them impractical. When I wore dresses or skirts, I wore shorts under them so I could still run and play and not worry about stupid boys trying to lift up my skirt and show my panties.
I did like playing with dolls, but I also liked playing with "boy" toys like trucks. I didn't want to be a boy, I wanted the same opportunities and respect that boys got. I didn't like being seen as "lesser" because I was a girl. I hated the term "tomboy." My name wasn't Tom, and I wasn't a boy. I was a girl.
These days, who knows if some "well-meaning" school psychologist might have convinced me and my (somewhat gullible) parents that I was a boy trapped in the body of a girl.
As a former nurse, I know both the upsides and downsides to medical treatment. Hormone therapy is not something that should be played around with willy-nilly. I take micronized progesterone to counteract my body's tendency to produce too much estrogen. For me, the benefits outweigh the risks. I am trying to avoid having to have a hysterectomy, something which even to this post-menopausal woman is the last resort. Yet there are doctors who will more than happily recommend major, life-altering surgery to young people who are questioning their identity and their place in this world.
I do not hate transgender people. I know that many of them have suffered untold misery at the hands of cruel individuals. I hate the patriarchy and I hate this modern trans cult (trans activism) which I think stands to do tremendous harm to vulnerable young people, such as I once was.
~Sly Has Spoken~
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