Maybe it's a bit of a stretch but I feel like for some children the whole referring to them as "they" all the time will instill in them this completely unnecessary identity that they would never have come to on their own if they had been left in a regular environment. And what if a situation like that forgets that kid up, and they're going about their entire lives believing their trans when they just really liked to play mommy or be a fireman or whatever while they were in kindergarten?
Kids are too young and impressionable to fully wrap their minds around the whole transgender trend. Honestly, they should be making the decision when they become more knowledgeable and are able to make more responsible decisions (Let's say 18 is a good median target).
This, kids don't even know what love is, let alone have to worry about this trend now.
this had me thinking about me as a kid
when i was like, 7 or 8 (i was being homeschooled at the time so 3rd-4th grade) i went through this weird feminine phase where i, by myself, made the conscious decision of wanting to be more like a girl, or at least how i thought girls were (didnt know about transitional surgery so at the time i didnt think i could actually "switch"). all this really entailed was me keeping my room cleaner and playing with more girl themed toys. mostly baby dolls cause i was maternal af for some reason. to me that mean't i was a girl. i lived in an environment where it was obviously weird, but everyone just accepted it, let me do it, and would even buy things for me to basically let me live out how i wanted.
i dont distinctly remember my parents ever telling me "i can be what ever i want", or calling me any special pronoun other than what i was: a confused little boy. but i remember not feeling shunned or like i needed to hide these feelings i was very public about it with my family and my family was very public/supportive of me. probably a couple months of this happened and then one day i just stopped. i realized keeping my room straight was a forgetin hassle and that i didnt like doing it, i missed playing with lego and honestly the baby dolls were just kind of annoying. they wouldnt stop crying. i wasnt a good mother.
despite the fact i still have a very real feminine personality, im heteroloveual male AF. i know this for a fact and nothing can change that (cept a REALLY forgetin good hot guy). but it did take a small amount of experimenting in an open and accepting environment to figure that out and solidify that. i mean, could those feminine tendencies have manifested me into some trans queer pyro fox identifying pusi boi if my parents shunned me and didn't let me live out how i wanted to? i could certainly see that happening
i definitely dont know how i feel about diluting kids personalities with new age pronouns or letting them take hormonal pills. i know my parents would not have let me do something that drastic had i asked to do it, but i certainly think kids can thrive in an open environment where they're given the freedom to experiment to some extent with even gender and love because kids aren't stupid. i mean they are stupid, but not when it comes to what they want. i thought i wanted to live that way, but after living that way it helped me realize what i
really wanted
to be a annoying messy girl loving boy
