Every child I know under the age of 10 is unbelievably chill about gender and tbh I’m jealous
Me, teaching a pagan kids class: “A lot of people think that the deity Loki might be genderfluid, do any of you know what genderfluid means?”
8 year old, rolling his eyes like that’s the stupidest question he’s ever heard: “Everyone knows what genderfluid means”
Little sister: *walks into the kitchen looking incredibly masc*
Me: “Nice outfit, a lot of afab folks have to work really hard to look that masculine.”
Little sister: *takes headphones halfway off and gives me a blank stare* “Why? Is clothing gendered or something?”
Me: “No, but a lot of people will assume things about your gender based on your clothing”
Little sister: *Puting her headphones back on as she walks away* “Oh, cool I guess.”
9 year old that I babysit sometimes: “What’s that flag on your shirt?”
Me: “It’s the nonbinary flag. It means that I’m not a boy or a girl.”
9 year old: “I know what it means, have like 5 nonbinary friends, duh.”
I’m fucking begging the terfs in my notes to read literally anything about children’s gender development.
“It’s because kids aren’t old enough to know that gender is based on sex” Buddy two-year-olds can distinguish people based on secondary sex characteristics, the cis-binary view of gender isn’t hard to grasp. It actually takes children until about age 6-7 for their ideas about gender to be less based on gender stereotypes and more on their individual experience with gender, and for them to recognize and respect gender variant people. So like the fact that y’all’s idea of gender never got past the complexity of a toddlers is not my fault or my problem.
Also, I know very few parents who actually enforce trans and nonbinary acceptance with their children. The majority of kids are still being told by their parents that “boys have penises and girls have vaginas” it’s just that most kids today have enough gender-variant friends, caretakers, and tv role models, to establish individually that that is false and that gender is more complex than that. This isn’t evil trans people brainwashing your children, this is intelligent children developing critical thinking skills and coming to their own conclusions.
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