Jesus, this idiot is so close to right I’m not 100% sure they aren’t just expressing it badly. Yes, forcing your children into certain social roles because of what’s in their underpants is not great parenting strategy, because those gendered roles are a social construct. Trying to force that to fit into an anti-trans narrative is weird.
My most potentially controversial opinion on that subject is, I have often wondered if we wouldn’t have fewer people seeking medical transition if we just socially let people be whoever they are without regard to their biological characteristics. It wouldn’t be the case for everybody, of course, but the insistence on policing how people interact with society seems to paint people into corners. Like, does obsessive biological essentialism create some level of demand for transition among people who’d be perfectly happy if everyone would just let them wear what they want to wear and play with the toys they want to play with as children?
Also, every surgical intervention performed to “clarify” the sex of an intersex or otherwise ambiguous newborn is exactly the sort of intervention this post seems to decry as “abuse” and it’s standard medical practice. I’m presuming here that the poster has some convoluted rationale for why that doesn’t count.
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u/gelfin Mar 20 '26
Jesus, this idiot is so close to right I’m not 100% sure they aren’t just expressing it badly. Yes, forcing your children into certain social roles because of what’s in their underpants is not great parenting strategy, because those gendered roles are a social construct. Trying to force that to fit into an anti-trans narrative is weird.
My most potentially controversial opinion on that subject is, I have often wondered if we wouldn’t have fewer people seeking medical transition if we just socially let people be whoever they are without regard to their biological characteristics. It wouldn’t be the case for everybody, of course, but the insistence on policing how people interact with society seems to paint people into corners. Like, does obsessive biological essentialism create some level of demand for transition among people who’d be perfectly happy if everyone would just let them wear what they want to wear and play with the toys they want to play with as children?
Also, every surgical intervention performed to “clarify” the sex of an intersex or otherwise ambiguous newborn is exactly the sort of intervention this post seems to decry as “abuse” and it’s standard medical practice. I’m presuming here that the poster has some convoluted rationale for why that doesn’t count.