For me, the key point is that if someone (especially a teenage girl) didn’t like their body in any other way, we would encourage them to love and accept themselves as they are, but for some reason if they don’t like themselves in this one specific way people believe it means they were born in the wrong body and need to become someone els…
For me, the key point is that if someone (especially a teenage girl) didn’t like their body in any other way, we would encourage them to love and accept themselves as they are, but for some reason if they don’t like themselves in this one specific way people believe it means they were born in the wrong body and need to become someone else. And thinking about who benefits from convincing teenagers of this?
instead we’re generalizing ALL pubescent girls’ anxiety and body anxiety as gender dysphoria.
it’s all too common that transitioning is pushed when girls present with 1) mental health issues, 2) being bullied at school, 3) are victims of sexual abuse, or 4) are simply tomboys and girls whose bodies aren’t considered this week’s ideal form.
I saw someone make some really good points about teenage girls and eating disorders, and how much some of this mirrors that. There are some girls relating to the boy body because they aspire to the boy body. Not a *man's* body, but a boy body - slim, curveless, smooth, safe. I completely see this.
A lot of these girls are also on the autism spectrum. They never felt like they fitted in and the explanation given to them is that they are really boys. Evil!
Very true. I can’t help but think what an incredibly misogynistic cult this is - to actively work to make girls believe that their female body parts are “wrong” and that the answer, the cure, is to become a man. That’s not to say that it is less evil for boys to be boondoggled into transing to female.
For me, the key point is that if someone (especially a teenage girl) didn’t like their body in any other way, we would encourage them to love and accept themselves as they are, but for some reason if they don’t like themselves in this one specific way people believe it means they were born in the wrong body and need to become someone else. And thinking about who benefits from convincing teenagers of this?
instead we’re generalizing ALL pubescent girls’ anxiety and body anxiety as gender dysphoria.
it’s all too common that transitioning is pushed when girls present with 1) mental health issues, 2) being bullied at school, 3) are victims of sexual abuse, or 4) are simply tomboys and girls whose bodies aren’t considered this week’s ideal form.
I saw someone make some really good points about teenage girls and eating disorders, and how much some of this mirrors that. There are some girls relating to the boy body because they aspire to the boy body. Not a *man's* body, but a boy body - slim, curveless, smooth, safe. I completely see this.
A lot of these girls are also on the autism spectrum. They never felt like they fitted in and the explanation given to them is that they are really boys. Evil!
Very true. I can’t help but think what an incredibly misogynistic cult this is - to actively work to make girls believe that their female body parts are “wrong” and that the answer, the cure, is to become a man. That’s not to say that it is less evil for boys to be boondoggled into transing to female.
Follow the money! There are definitely some people benefiting.
https://youtu.be/tLXdoqXbC6k