My daughter is not transgender she's a tomboy

[Gertrude]

If everyone is trans then the word has no real meaning unless you're talking in fairly abstract terms. Hence my preference to limit it to where its clear. Its just a preference though, I'm not saying its right or wrong because I don't know.

I didn't say everyone is trans


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[TomTuttle]

I'm a bit confused.

First the author's son tells her he's a boy.

Then she writes an article misgendering him and describes forcing him to wear dresses and skirts that he doesn't want to wear ("refuses to" -- which means, what did you do to get him to wear them, exactly?).

Four years later she writes another article saying her son isn't trans, but a tomboy, and please everyone stop asking his pronoun. She pours on a bunch of sugar in the form of "let's accept alternate gender expression (as long as my child isn't trans)."

How is anyone seeing this as anything but horrifying and sad?

I told my mum I was a boy but it never caused me distress that people sort of ignored me. The only thing that bothered me is that boys at school sometimes tried to leave me out. I really don't think this is horrible. Forcing the kid to wear dresses is unecessary (and I had tantrums about that ->-bleeped-<- but it wasn't traumatic), but just letting it be a tomboy thing for a while is fine. As long as your not putting your child down, I think its fine. Kids don't even know what gender really is. So I think putting them on a trans path is just as questionable as just saying "she's a tomboy" or something to that effect. Also her kid could have changed her mind by the time of this article?

[SiobhánF]

I'm a bit confused.

First the author's son tells her he's a boy.

Then she writes an article misgendering him and describes forcing him to wear dresses and skirts that he doesn't want to wear ("refuses to" -- which means, what did you do to get him to wear them, exactly?).

Four years later she writes another article saying her son isn't trans, but a tomboy, and please everyone stop asking his pronoun. She pours on a bunch of sugar in the form of "let's accept alternate gender expression (as long as my child isn't trans)."

How is anyone seeing this as anything but horrifying and sad?

What article were you reading?