Post #3006838

2026-05-31 20:38 UTC

Oh honey, no one is telling children they&#39;re trans. Trust me. Everyone is telling children that they&#39;re cis, repeatedly, hard, insistently, like a chorus of total negation. If a kid manages to figure out that they&#39;re trans in spite of every fucking thing in the world telling them they aren&#39;t trans, it wasn&#39;t because someone told them they were trans. The most they likely ever heard, and it&#39;s not all that likely, is that it&#39;s okay to be trans. But you know that already. You don&#39;t want anyone to stop telling children they&#39;re trans, because no one does that. What you want is for it not to be okay to be trans.

Replies (5)

@Saorsa@neondystopia.world 2026-06-01 19:54

Not something that should ever be relevant until puberty. @YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw

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@YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw 2026-05-31 20:38

No one told me I was trans. I wish someone had told me when I was young enough for it to have mattered. And the message I got from society certainly wasn't, "You might possibly be trans." It was, "Yes, there are a few trans people and they are freaks and jokes and you can't possibly be trans." I hope that might have improved a little. I think some kids get a more balanced message, like, "There are trans people and that's okay." (That's slightly sarcastic.) Hell, "Trans people are freaks and jokes," is still an improvement over, "There are no trans people." But sweet fuck, statistically speaking, no one is telling kids, "You are trans." No one is even telling them, "You might be trans." That's a made-up fear. But again, the people who made it up know that.

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@spiegelmama@infosec.exchange 2026-06-01 03:21

@YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw I'm sorry you had to go through that, and that as a society we're still putting people through that. 🫂

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@PedestrianError@towns.gay 2026-06-01 14:28

@YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw And of course most of the same people also want it not to be ok to be even a little gender nonconforming without being trans, so what they're ultimately pushing for is no individuality and rigid conformity to assigned roles in the farce that is the patriarchy.

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@madengineering@mastodon.cloud 2026-06-01 14:52

@YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw I think these are the same people as the ones who insist that I was forcibly converted to Islam back when I was in the seventh grade because they couldn't handle the fact that religions other than their particular flavor or Baptism exist. They also believe I've been murdered at least 17 times. So yeah, not exactly the best grip on reality.

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