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For girls claiming to be boys or boys saying that they're girls, it's a case of them telling someone who they aren't.


> Those kids are lucky, because their parents love them and accept them for who they are,

Sounds to me like they're accepting them for who they aren't.

Which is a big problem, as these kids are going to have an awful shock when they grow older and realize that most people in the outside world don't go along with the lie that man can become women and women can become men.

To gaslight these children into believing otherwise is terrible parenting bordering on child abuse. Especially if these kids had so-called 'gender-affirming' medical or surgical interventions inflicted upon them. It's awful really.


So your point is that these kids are making a horrible mistake that they are too young to understand.

I'll agree that this is a potential problem and that it does happen, albeit a very small percent of the them (~ 3% in the US): https://www.gendergp.com/detransition-facts/

The parents are not gaslighting them, because they're also painfully aware that there are people who hate and fear them for who they are, but there are also those that will love them. These are incontrovertible facts.

I understand that what they're doing is "not normal", and it's clear that you are deeply offended by how they're choosing to live their lives. But here's the thing, it's really none of our business.

You're being coached on a daily basis to hate and fear these people and to be angry enough to vote for the people who want to eliminate them. I'm not saying that in a morally condemning way, it's a simple observation of what makes the political machine work.

Do you know any trans folk? Have you ever talked to any? I have, and their stories prove you wrong that their decision on how to live their life was the correct one.


One more key point -- approximately 1 percent of the population is born intersex: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/key-issues-facing-p...

That means they're born literal with both sexes, and "correcting" that is effectively 50% accuracy.

So please tell me how immoral they are for "fixing" the original "correction" when it was done incorrectly.


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