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Title: A Boy's Life
Post by: Natasha on November 27, 2008, 10:12:46 AM
Post by: Natasha on November 27, 2008, 10:12:46 AM
A Boy's Life
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/11/26/a-boys-life/ (http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/11/26/a-boys-life/)
Posted by: Jill in Gender
11/26/2008
This article in the Atlantic about transgender children:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/transgender-children (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/transgender-children) is really interesting, but for all the (often legitimate) worry about how to handle kids with "gender identity disorder," I can't help but think that we'd all be better off if our understanding of maleness and femaleness weren't so straightjacketed. A lot of little kids like to cross-dress; some don't feel at home in the gender roles they're being pushed into. Some of those kids will grow up to identify as trans, or as a gender other than the one they were born as; some won't. Seems to me it would be a lot better if we had a culture that allowed for greater gender fluidity, so that kids (and, hell, the rest of us) could just be themselves without being labeled "disordered" or freakish or wrong.
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/11/26/a-boys-life/ (http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/11/26/a-boys-life/)
Posted by: Jill in Gender
11/26/2008
This article in the Atlantic about transgender children:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/transgender-children (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/transgender-children) is really interesting, but for all the (often legitimate) worry about how to handle kids with "gender identity disorder," I can't help but think that we'd all be better off if our understanding of maleness and femaleness weren't so straightjacketed. A lot of little kids like to cross-dress; some don't feel at home in the gender roles they're being pushed into. Some of those kids will grow up to identify as trans, or as a gender other than the one they were born as; some won't. Seems to me it would be a lot better if we had a culture that allowed for greater gender fluidity, so that kids (and, hell, the rest of us) could just be themselves without being labeled "disordered" or freakish or wrong.
Title: A Boy's Life
Post by: whatsername on November 29, 2008, 12:49:30 AM
Post by: whatsername on November 29, 2008, 12:49:30 AM
QuoteThis article in the Atlantic about transgender children is really interesting, but for all the (often legitimate) worry about how to handle kids with "gender identity disorder," I can't help but think that we'd all be better off if our understanding of maleness and femaleness weren't so straightjacketed.
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/11/26/a-boys-life/ (http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/11/26/a-boys-life/)
oops! I always check this forum, wonder how I missed it already posted. Sorry!