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Keir Starmer says he doesn’t want schools teaching young people about transgender identities ...

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/25/keir-starmer-trans-education-general-election-2024/
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u/CitrusRabborts 5d ago

But it's the same when considering if you're gay or not. Some people experiment and decide it's not for them. We shouldn't be bothered if teenagers socially transition and then decide it's not for them

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u/ItsFuckingScience 5d ago

Socially transitioning is not equivalent to kissing a boy and deciding it’s not actually for you

Getting yourself, your peers, teachers to address and support you as a new person and identity, persevering against potential pushback from parents, family or anyone suggesting it could “be a phase” etc is not easily psychologically reversible

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u/AJFierce 5d ago

This is an anti-trans line of attack.

Asking people to use a different name for you and different pronouns for you is what social transitioning is, and it is reversible and changeable.

It IS unlikely you want to do that unless you're pretty sure you want to transition already. Pushing back against people insisting it's just a phase is also solved by... not insisting it's just a phase. A sort of unbothered acceptance is the best way to give a kid a chance to explore what it feels like to be called her instead of him, or Kevin instead of Kaylee, without forcing them into a defensive posture.

The idea that trying out a new name and new pronouns is in itself a sort of cognitohazard is an anti-trans line of attack, and whether you're repeating it without knowing it or actively using it it's important people reading this see it identified as such.

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u/Darq_At 5d ago

A sort of unbothered acceptance is the best way to give a kid a chance to explore what it feels like to be called her instead of him, or Kevin instead of Kaylee, without forcing them into a defensive posture.

Exactly. All these people saying "we must protect our children from this thing by telling them it is bad and wrong".

Have they ever met a child?! I can think of no way to make something sound cooler than to insist that it's bad.

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u/hobo_fapstronaut 5d ago

Best way to truly test your child's commitment to a trans identity. 100% support bordering on parental cringe. If the kid still commits after their parents tell them it's "the coolest thing ever totally lit skibbidi toilet yo" then that identity is absolutely locked in.