Tow little critiques - though I love your work and the points you are making here (enough to subscribe, and I only have a few subscriptions).
First, when you write “trans girl,” I wish you would put quotation marks or at least hyphenate, because you are otherwise indicating they there is such a thing as a girl who is “trans,” (ie. Indicat…
Tow little critiques - though I love your work and the points you are making here (enough to subscribe, and I only have a few subscriptions).
First, when you write “trans girl,” I wish you would put quotation marks or at least hyphenate, because you are otherwise indicating they there is such a thing as a girl who is “trans,” (ie. Indicating that a boy who thinks he is a girl or wishes he were one is actually a type of “girl,” which he is not).
Second, I might be misconstruing your phrasing as implying an equal dislike for two things - but I think there are some places where straddling the line is the wrong place to stand and just want to make it clear that - when you say “how much money has been spent to fight laws and guidelines either preventing or insisting on schools sharing kids social transitions with parents,” preventing schools from sharing this info is plain wrong, but insisting that schools share such info is absolutely required and correct. It would not be appropriate to allow schools to do whichever they like. This is not a case where we can leave it to schools to decide. Parents absolutely have a right to know what their children are doing in school, especially when the school is facilitating a powerful psychological intervention. (Again, you may already agree with that, but it cannot be emphasized enough!).
Hippiesq, I agree. I suggest terms like "cross-sex ideation" and "took on an opposite sex persona" to push back against the captured speech. Captured speech, I know for 30 years from my crossdressing, female-persona ex husband, is what changes your thinking process. As well, the surgeries should be identified more clinically such as "sex trait modification." The general public has no idea of the real, expensive, damaging effects of these surgeries.
I accept these critiques. It's incredibly hard to keep trying to leave room in the righting for the not-quite-converted. I'm pondering, I'm thinking about it, I'm sharing some thoughts next week. Keep the thoughts and critiques coming.
It's a brain thing. We're overworked trying to use correct and accurate language. For a while, I could not write the word general or generalization, it all came out "genderal"
Tow little critiques - though I love your work and the points you are making here (enough to subscribe, and I only have a few subscriptions).
First, when you write “trans girl,” I wish you would put quotation marks or at least hyphenate, because you are otherwise indicating they there is such a thing as a girl who is “trans,” (ie. Indicating that a boy who thinks he is a girl or wishes he were one is actually a type of “girl,” which he is not).
Second, I might be misconstruing your phrasing as implying an equal dislike for two things - but I think there are some places where straddling the line is the wrong place to stand and just want to make it clear that - when you say “how much money has been spent to fight laws and guidelines either preventing or insisting on schools sharing kids social transitions with parents,” preventing schools from sharing this info is plain wrong, but insisting that schools share such info is absolutely required and correct. It would not be appropriate to allow schools to do whichever they like. This is not a case where we can leave it to schools to decide. Parents absolutely have a right to know what their children are doing in school, especially when the school is facilitating a powerful psychological intervention. (Again, you may already agree with that, but it cannot be emphasized enough!).
Hippiesq, I agree. I suggest terms like "cross-sex ideation" and "took on an opposite sex persona" to push back against the captured speech. Captured speech, I know for 30 years from my crossdressing, female-persona ex husband, is what changes your thinking process. As well, the surgeries should be identified more clinically such as "sex trait modification." The general public has no idea of the real, expensive, damaging effects of these surgeries.
I’ve lost credibility by mis-spelling my first word, “Two.”
I accept these critiques. It's incredibly hard to keep trying to leave room in the righting for the not-quite-converted. I'm pondering, I'm thinking about it, I'm sharing some thoughts next week. Keep the thoughts and critiques coming.
Will do, my dear!
It's a brain thing. We're overworked trying to use correct and accurate language. For a while, I could not write the word general or generalization, it all came out "genderal"