When I was around 9 I knew I didn’t like my genitals and wanted those of the opposite sex, but I didn’t know that was something I could actually do. When I was around 12/13 I found a Scratch project that explained about sex and gender and trans people and I was like “That’s me!”

Cue several years of oscillating between “yeah, I’m trans, stop lying to yourself” and “you’re just trying to feel special/seek attention/rebel/you’ll never be a real girl anyway”. I eventually realised I was genderfluid and that I was actually oscillating between being fem/girl and being agender, and rarely masc.

Around 15/16 I came out as nonbinary at school which was ignored. Around 17 I started insisting on they/them pronouns which was then respected by some people, around the same time I got on HRT.

Then when I started passing around a year later and getting gendered as female by strangers and feeling gender euphoria from that, I was pretty sure that I was actually trans :p

So apparently now “men’s right activists” also doesn’t mean what it is just like “feminist”? I find all this redefinition of words really annoying and confusing :(

Can’t “men’s rights activists” just mean people who advocate for men’s rights? Or better yet, stop with the binary gendered language, and instead advocate for gender equity?

It’s more about experience than age. If you prevent 13 year olds from gaining online experience, they’ll have the same level of inexperience when you expose them to the internet at 16.

I think you have to operate in the framework of the sensory world when acting within the sensory world, and like using science and stuff to work out what’s likely to happen if you do certain things as opposed to other things. But that’s not the same as saying that you believe the physical world is real

What do you mean by being spiritual? I’m an idealist so I think consciousness/subjective perception is the fundamental substrate of reality, and matter/the physical world is just an illusion, but I wouldn’t consider myself spiritual…

What’s cultural programming? 👀

Is that like societal norms?

Fascinating article, thanks for sharing!

Others have already answered your question, but I’d like to note that it’s timely to ask this during women’s history month :p

That’s an interesting fallacy, I haven’t heard it before. I’ll have to note it down, “dismissal from imaginary pamphlet”

This is just more child abuse disguised as “parental rights”. It becomes clear how harmful this is when you realise that not all parents have their childrens best interests at heart (even if they think they do and sincerely mean well) and allowing parents to censor the information children have available to them allows them to censor information that the children learn only too late to prevent harm.

Pearl harbour was a ‘trap’?

You get YouTube where everyone likes everything and nothing is ever bad quality /s

No, I present how I prefer to present. I don’t really know what an agender style would be, and I don’t like wearing masculine styles - since my gender doesn’t really go to that part of the spectrum anymore

From Pour Some Sugar On Me

looking like a lover with a red iPhone (radar phone)

From I’ll Be There For You by Bon Jovi

I pray to God to give me one more trans girl

(I pray to God you’ll give me one more chance, girl)

I can see how to download my settings as a json, but how do I export my whole profile?

There’s a difference between allowing a child to choose which permanent change they want to happen to them out of two options, or delaying the choice, rather than making a permanent choice that can be made mater at no detriment.

I fall under the nonbinary umbrella as I used to be genderfluid - my gender would change over time between feminine, agender, and masculine, and now it’s just genderflux as I oscillate between agender (no gender identity) and varying levels of femininity. (I plot it on a scale where G1=fully masculine, G5=agender, and G10=fully feminine. I used to go between G4 and G10 (mostly around G5-7), but recently it’s been more between G5 to G10 (with most of the time between G6-8) - so I’ve gotten more feminine over time.) And this is to do with my internal identity, mostly defined by levels of dysphoria/euphoria and how I feel about my body, not how I present.

I present mostly fairly unambiguously feminine though, maybe slightly tomboyish/gender neutral as I generally wear T shirts and jeans and stuff as opposed to say dresses. I do paint my nails, style my hair, wear makeup

Yes to all three. But people who claim to be trans are rarely any of those, and scientific consensus shoes that trusting them generally leads to less harm than disbelieving them - especially as puberty blockers are fully reversible. If the adolescent is not trans, they can stop them and have their natural puberty continue as normal.

Adolescents are the only ones taking puberty blockers anyway - when the kids are trans. When they’re cis, children take them to prevent precocious puberty. Do you think they shouldn’t be allowed to?

Is taking puberty blockers one of those “life altering decisions” you think children shouldn’t be allowed to take (spoiler, not taking them is also a life altering decision, and a more harmful one)? Also, do you discriminate between children and adolescents?