Quote Originally Posted by David USF View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
From watching the video of this girl, I do not believe she was actually trans. Her mannerisms were fairly feminine, and she even retained a mostly feminine look.

Indeed, she identified as "non-binary", rather than male.

For the most part, I believe non-binary is a copout, where someone wants to have a trans identity but doesn't want to actually live as the opposite gender.

We have gotten away from what trans was supposed to be -- switching to the other gender in order to alleviate the deep psychological pain of gender dysphoria.

This girl does not appear to have had gender dysphoria at all. She was probably just a bit "different" and had a hard time fitting in with other girls, so I'm guessing that's what led her to fall into the trans community.

Those with gender dysphoria are miserable being their birth gender. They hate their body and their secondary sex characteristics, and wish very badly they had been born the opposite sex. For these people, transitioning can sometimes provide psychological relief, but of course this should be held off until they're adults, as often these feelings resolve themselves by adulthood.

I think the left is doing incredible damage by validating the idea of 100 genders and bizarre pronouns, as they are simply confusing today's youth into thinking they're trans simply because they're a bit different or gender nonconforming.

The message should be that it's fine to be an effeminate boy or masculine girl, and that people should be accepting of such differences. The message should NOT be that you are "trans" if you're not like everyone else.
Back in the day we used to call them tomboys

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomboy
I agree with you.

This is more regressive left wing nonsense.

Rather than the correct message of, "Understand that some boys will be effeminate and some girls will be masculine, and you should be accepting and non-judgmental of them", the left is currently pushing the idea that males and females need to act in rigid, stereotypical fashion, and if they don't, they must not be their birth gender. So a girl with some masculine traits or styles is strongly encouraged to either call herself a boy or identify as "nonbinary", instead of simply a masculine girl. Dumb.

It's especially dumb because most kids grow out of this, and naturally snap back to more typical gender presentations. Go look up the tomboys you knew back in school in the '80s. You'll see that some of them remained masculine and came out as lesbians, but many others married men and look traditionally feminine. Imagine if those girls were given hormones, sterilized, had their breasts cut off, and told they were boys. Very harmful, and history will indicate that when this stupid craze ends.