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Re: They/Them
Posted by Hofstra26
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Y'all folks are starting to shit on my proud mommy moment.  
All jokes aside, when this first came out - I thought it was extreme and ridiculous. But I get it and if that's what a person wants so be it. I will be open about the fact that it isn't easy for me to speak in they/them. It's a conscious effort.
It is really important at my new job, we are even asked to announce our pronouns in intros. I am not going to lose my job or make anyone feel like shit over it.
You are right! And you should be proud! 
ITA! 
Thank you ladies or maybe just thank you! 
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Re: They/Them
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Posted by Hofstra26
Once you simply accept the fact that there are some people who wish to go by certain pronouns you will do a lot less eye rolling. The fact is, it comes down to respect for another human being. It's unnecessary to understand why someone chose a particular pronoun nor does a person have to agree or like it BUT being a tolerant person means you keep your opinions to yourself and respect a person's wishes.
Just because someone has decided in their head that there should only be gay, straight, boy and girl doesn't change the reality that there is a far greater spectrum than that.
This is why these kids have so many issues. You are born a boy or girl. You like who you like.
And then what would an intersex baby be? I grew up with a very close family friend who was not born with male/female sex organs, but looked like a girl. I never knew this until I was older. Then what are those people? ‘Its’?
What did they identify as a person? Did they have a boy or girl name? Whom did they interact with more? Did they ever get married? To which sex?
They (with a female name, whatever that means) adopted two children and married a man (I have no details about her husband’s sex organs).
But the point is they identified as a woman. Whatever someone identifies with isn’t what sexual organ they were born with. They identify with what they identify with. You kind of just contradicted your original statement.
Edit: new keyboard.
“ Whatever someone identifies with isn’t what sexual organ they were born with.”
Amazing this has worked for a LONG time and everyone was fine with it.
Slavery has been around from the dawn of time...so I guess you are good with owning people since it's so embedded in human history.
Screw progress!
How is this progress to say there are 70 something genders? When is the last time you heard someone have a gender reveal or at birth say anything other than it’s a boy or its a girl?
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Re: They/Them
Posted by Hofstra26
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Posted by MrsA1012
Posted by nycbuslady
I find it weird to use they/them for a person you know. It's different when it's more "anonymous". Like, if you're driving and a car cuts you off. You can't see who's driving, so you say "Man, I can't believe they cut me off!" But, "Sally picked up their backpack" sounds weird and totally grammatically inicorrect!
. It sounds extremely weird and awkward. The whole concept is silly. Even if you don’t feel like a boy or a girl , you are biologically one or the other. Feel however you like internally, but don’t expect other people to cater to it with this silliness.
There is so much wrong with this comment but I'll say this, if a person EXPLICITLY asks you to refer to them by a particular pronoun and you ignore that request because you think it's "silly", it makes you an a$$hole.
Who you like and what you do in your bedroom should mean NOTHING to anyone else but yourself. You do you but to push it on these kids that they need to come out as one of these 70 something genders and for businesses to have to put on their forms, male, female or other is just ridiculous.
Whoa!
Normally, I'd ignore you but this comment is the most ignorant and flat out stupid thing I've ever read. It demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of what transgender and gender fluid is. What the adults in the room are talking about goes FAR beyond what "someone likes in the bedroom".
I'm not going to continue this back and forth simply because you're a waste of time and it's abundantly clear that you have ZERO understanding about any of this.
Oops you broke your promise.
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MrsA1012
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Re: They/Them
Posted by windyweather21
Posted by Hofstra26
The only reason kids have any issues today is because they have to navigate a world filled with intolerance and ignorance. What a better place the world would be if people worried less about others choices and instead showed more compassion for where others are at with theirs.
You can be very compassionate and think some things are just ridiculous and over the top.
Kids are now being pressured by woke society to pick a gender, out of 70 something of them.
. Of course, no one should EVER be mistreated or bullied because of gender. That should not have to be stated. If someone asked me to use they / them pronoun, I’d do it to avoid an awkward situation . That doesn’t change the fact that the huge numbers of girls who are saying they are trans men and the rise of kids declaring themselves to be non binary has a strong element of social contagion. It’s a topic too complicated for a short post on here. Abigail Shrier has done some interesting work on the subject. I’d also suggest reading people’s actual experiences on the Reddit , detrans forum. Aside from incredibly rare events with intersex children , there are biologically two sexes. You are biologically a man or a women. They / them is silly because it’s asking people to use made up words that defy material reality. I don’t like having my speech policed and I don’t like being asked to use words that I feel reflect fantasy.
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klingklang77
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Re: They/Them
Posted by nycbuslady
As a spinoff question -- How is this they/them handled in other languages, especially romance languages like Spanish and Italian where EVERYTHING is masculine or feminine? I speak Italian, but not daily, and I've yet to have a need to refer to a singular person as "they".
I have not encountered this much in German. I only see it in job ads (M/W/D or X= male/female/diverse). There is a pronoun ‘x - and a different suffix depending on the case’. Some also use ‘they’ in English, but I have never heard this.
However, the use of ‘one’ (example: one may say) is used far more in German than in English in natural speech. Strangely enough ‘one’ is ‘man’ in German.
I think it varies because most languages have some sort of gender for all nouns, so it is kind not a big deal. Probably in 10 years it will have evolved more.
Edit: new keyboard sucks.
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Re: They/Them
Posted by MrsA1012
Of course, no one should EVER be mistreated or bullied because of gender. That should not have to be stated. If someone asked me to use they / them pronoun, I’d do it to avoid an awkward situation . That doesn’t change the fact that the huge numbers of girls who are saying they are trans men and the rise of kids declaring themselves to be non binary has a strong element of social contagion. It’s a topic too complicated for a short post on here. Abigail Shrier has done some interesting work on the subject. I’d also suggest reading people’s actual experiences on the Reddit , detrans forum. Aside from incredibly rare events with intersex children , there are biologically two sexes. You are biologically a man or a women. They / them is silly because it’s asking people to use made up words that defy material reality. I don’t like having my speech policed and I don’t like being asked to use words that I feel reflect fantasy.
I agree!
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Re: They/Them
Posted by Hofstra26
Posted by MrsA1012
Posted by nycbuslady
I find it weird to use they/them for a person you know. It's different when it's more "anonymous". Like, if you're driving and a car cuts you off. You can't see who's driving, so you say "Man, I can't believe they cut me off!" But, "Sally picked up their backpack" sounds weird and totally grammatically inicorrect!
. It sounds extremely weird and awkward. The whole concept is silly. Even if you don’t feel like a boy or a girl , you are biologically one or the other. Feel however you like internally, but don’t expect other people to cater to it with this silliness.
There is so much wrong with this comment but I'll say this, if a person EXPLICITLY asks you to refer to them by a particular pronoun and you ignore that request because you think it's "silly", it makes you an a$$hole.
I think most of the comments on this thread are gross.
How can you claim to be a compassionate human raising compassionate humans if you can't even learn a pronoun.
Dinosaurs, man.
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Re: They/Them
Posted by MrsA1012
Posted by windyweather21
Posted by Hofstra26
The only reason kids have any issues today is because they have to navigate a world filled with intolerance and ignorance. What a better place the world would be if people worried less about others choices and instead showed more compassion for where others are at with theirs.
You can be very compassionate and think some things are just ridiculous and over the top.
Kids are now being pressured by woke society to pick a gender, out of 70 something of them.
. Of course, no one should EVER be mistreated or bullied because of gender. That should not have to be stated. If someone asked me to use they / them pronoun, I’d do it to avoid an awkward situation . That doesn’t change the fact that the huge numbers of girls who are saying they are trans men and the rise of kids declaring themselves to be non binary has a strong element of social contagion. It’s a topic too complicated for a short post on here. Abigail Shrier has done some interesting work on the subject. I’d also suggest reading people’s actual experiences on the Reddit , detrans forum. Aside from incredibly rare events with intersex children , there are biologically two sexes. You are biologically a man or a women. They / them is silly because it’s asking people to use made up words that defy material reality. I don’t like having my speech policed and I don’t like being asked to use words that I feel reflect fantasy.
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Re: They/Them
Posted by windyweather21
Posted by Hofstra26
Posted by windyweather21
Posted by Hofstra26
Posted by MrsA1012
Posted by nycbuslady
I find it weird to use they/them for a person you know. It's different when it's more "anonymous". Like, if you're driving and a car cuts you off. You can't see who's driving, so you say "Man, I can't believe they cut me off!" But, "Sally picked up their backpack" sounds weird and totally grammatically inicorrect!
. It sounds extremely weird and awkward. The whole concept is silly. Even if you don’t feel like a boy or a girl , you are biologically one or the other. Feel however you like internally, but don’t expect other people to cater to it with this silliness.
There is so much wrong with this comment but I'll say this, if a person EXPLICITLY asks you to refer to them by a particular pronoun and you ignore that request because you think it's "silly", it makes you an a$$hole.
Who you like and what you do in your bedroom should mean NOTHING to anyone else but yourself. You do you but to push it on these kids that they need to come out as one of these 70 something genders and for businesses to have to put on their forms, male, female or other is just ridiculous.
Whoa!
Normally, I'd ignore you but this comment is the most ignorant and flat out stupid thing I've ever read. It demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of what transgender and gender fluid is. What the adults in the room are talking about goes FAR beyond what "someone likes in the bedroom".
I'm not going to continue this back and forth simply because you're a waste of time and it's abundantly clear that you have ZERO understanding about any of this.
Oops you broke your promise.
We know you're a bigot. You don't need to keep commenting to prove that.
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They/Them
Myself, and my kids only use he/she or her/him. How did the world survive all these years without 70 different genders lol
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Re: They/Them
Posted by mrsrainbow
Posted by windyweather21
Posted by Hofstra26
Posted by windyweather21
Posted by Hofstra26
Posted by MrsA1012
Posted by nycbuslady
I find it weird to use they/them for a person you know. It's different when it's more "anonymous". Like, if you're driving and a car cuts you off. You can't see who's driving, so you say "Man, I can't believe they cut me off!" But, "Sally picked up their backpack" sounds weird and totally grammatically inicorrect!
. It sounds extremely weird and awkward. The whole concept is silly. Even if you don’t feel like a boy or a girl , you are biologically one or the other. Feel however you like internally, but don’t expect other people to cater to it with this silliness.
There is so much wrong with this comment but I'll say this, if a person EXPLICITLY asks you to refer to them by a particular pronoun and you ignore that request because you think it's "silly", it makes you an a$$hole.
Who you like and what you do in your bedroom should mean NOTHING to anyone else but yourself. You do you but to push it on these kids that they need to come out as one of these 70 something genders and for businesses to have to put on their forms, male, female or other is just ridiculous.
Whoa!
Normally, I'd ignore you but this comment is the most ignorant and flat out stupid thing I've ever read. It demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of what transgender and gender fluid is. What the adults in the room are talking about goes FAR beyond what "someone likes in the bedroom".
I'm not going to continue this back and forth simply because you're a waste of time and it's abundantly clear that you have ZERO understanding about any of this.
Oops you broke your promise.
We know you're a bigot. You don't need to keep commenting to prove that.
She always breaks....allllll.ways.
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Re: They/Them
Posted by Raging2020
Myself, and my kids only use he/she or her/him. How did the world survive all these years without 70 different genders lol
Good to know you're raising tolerant kids.
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Re: They/Them
Posted by Raging2020
Myself, and my kids only use he/she or her/him. How did the world survive all these years without 70 different genders lol
No clue and that was my point. You can identify as whomever you want, do whatever you want in your bedroom but I have never seen a gender reveal using ANY of the 70 other genders they claim to have now. You are a boy or girl. What you do in your own time, with your sex life, is for YOU and only YOU. No one should be telling you, you are wrong as I think we are ALL on the same page with. But the they/them crap is just ridiculous. You have a name, use your name.
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Re: They/Them
Posted by windyweather21
Posted by CookiePuss
Posted by windyweather21
Posted by klingklang77
Posted by windyweather21
Posted by klingklang77
Posted by windyweather21
Posted by Hofstra26
Once you simply accept the fact that there are some people who wish to go by certain pronouns you will do a lot less eye rolling. The fact is, it comes down to respect for another human being. It's unnecessary to understand why someone chose a particular pronoun nor does a person have to agree or like it BUT being a tolerant person means you keep your opinions to yourself and respect a person's wishes.
Just because someone has decided in their head that there should only be gay, straight, boy and girl doesn't change the reality that there is a far greater spectrum than that.
This is why these kids have so many issues. You are born a boy or girl. You like who you like.
And then what would an intersex baby be? I grew up with a very close family friend who was not born with male/female sex organs, but looked like a girl. I never knew this until I was older. Then what are those people? ‘Its’?
What did they identify as a person? Did they have a boy or girl name? Whom did they interact with more? Did they ever get married? To which sex?
They (with a female name, whatever that means) adopted two children and married a man (I have no details about her husband’s sex organs).
But the point is they identified as a woman. Whatever someone identifies with isn’t what sexual organ they were born with. They identify with what they identify with. You kind of just contradicted your original statement.
Edit: new keyboard.
“ Whatever someone identifies with isn’t what sexual organ they were born with.”
Amazing this has worked for a LONG time and everyone was fine with it.
Slavery has been around from the dawn of time...so I guess you are good with owning people since it's so embedded in human history.
Screw progress!
How is this progress to say there are 70 something genders? When is the last time you heard someone have a gender reveal or at birth say anything other than it’s a boy or its a girl?
A baby is 0 hours old when it is born. It doesn’t identify with anything except the need to eat and feel safe. Anatomically, they are mostly born with some sort of sex organ. Gender is something different. Google it (didn’t you subscribe to this as life advice in another post?).
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Hofstra26
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Re: They/Them
Posted by mrsrainbow
Posted by windyweather21
Posted by Hofstra26
Posted by windyweather21
Posted by Hofstra26
Posted by MrsA1012
Posted by nycbuslady
I find it weird to use they/them for a person you know. It's different when it's more "anonymous". Like, if you're driving and a car cuts you off. You can't see who's driving, so you say "Man, I can't believe they cut me off!" But, "Sally picked up their backpack" sounds weird and totally grammatically inicorrect!
. It sounds extremely weird and awkward. The whole concept is silly. Even if you don’t feel like a boy or a girl , you are biologically one or the other. Feel however you like internally, but don’t expect other people to cater to it with this silliness.
There is so much wrong with this comment but I'll say this, if a person EXPLICITLY asks you to refer to them by a particular pronoun and you ignore that request because you think it's "silly", it makes you an a$$hole.
Who you like and what you do in your bedroom should mean NOTHING to anyone else but yourself. You do you but to push it on these kids that they need to come out as one of these 70 something genders and for businesses to have to put on their forms, male, female or other is just ridiculous.
Whoa!
Normally, I'd ignore you but this comment is the most ignorant and flat out stupid thing I've ever read. It demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of what transgender and gender fluid is. What the adults in the room are talking about goes FAR beyond what "someone likes in the bedroom".
I'm not going to continue this back and forth simply because you're a waste of time and it's abundantly clear that you have ZERO understanding about any of this.
Oops you broke your promise.
We know you're a bigot. You don't need to keep commenting to prove that.
Oh but she will most definitely keep commenting, digging herself a bigger hole and further proving what an intolerant and ignorant person she is.
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Re: They/Them
Posted by Hofstra26
Posted by Raging2020
Myself, and my kids only use he/she or her/him. How did the world survive all these years without 70 different genders lol
Good to know you're raising tolerant kids.
Why can't her kids be tolerant? You can totally understand someone who chooses the same sex or opposite sex or wants to be the opposite sex, etc. and still think there are only 2 genders.
Let me know the next time you hear a gender reveal or baby being born being anything other than boy or girl.
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Re: They/Them
Posted by Hofstra26
Posted by Raging2020
Myself, and my kids only use he/she or her/him. How did the world survive all these years without 70 different genders lol
Good to know you're raising tolerant kids.
I think it’s ridiculous they are pushing this crap on kids. Confusing them at ages when they are navigating the tween/teen years.
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Re: They/Them
Posted by klingklang77
Posted by windyweather21
Posted by CookiePuss
Posted by windyweather21
Posted by klingklang77
Posted by windyweather21
Posted by klingklang77
Posted by windyweather21
Posted by Hofstra26
Once you simply accept the fact that there are some people who wish to go by certain pronouns you will do a lot less eye rolling. The fact is, it comes down to respect for another human being. It's unnecessary to understand why someone chose a particular pronoun nor does a person have to agree or like it BUT being a tolerant person means you keep your opinions to yourself and respect a person's wishes.
Just because someone has decided in their head that there should only be gay, straight, boy and girl doesn't change the reality that there is a far greater spectrum than that.
This is why these kids have so many issues. You are born a boy or girl. You like who you like.
And then what would an intersex baby be? I grew up with a very close family friend who was not born with male/female sex organs, but looked like a girl. I never knew this until I was older. Then what are those people? ‘Its’?
What did they identify as a person? Did they have a boy or girl name? Whom did they interact with more? Did they ever get married? To which sex?
They (with a female name, whatever that means) adopted two children and married a man (I have no details about her husband’s sex organs).
But the point is they identified as a woman. Whatever someone identifies with isn’t what sexual organ they were born with. They identify with what they identify with. You kind of just contradicted your original statement.
Edit: new keyboard.
“ Whatever someone identifies with isn’t what sexual organ they were born with.”
Amazing this has worked for a LONG time and everyone was fine with it.
Slavery has been around from the dawn of time...so I guess you are good with owning people since it's so embedded in human history.
Screw progress!
How is this progress to say there are 70 something genders? When is the last time you heard someone have a gender reveal or at birth say anything other than it’s a boy or its a girl?
A baby is 0 hours old when it is born. It doesn’t identify with anything except the need to eat and feel safe. Anatomically, they are mostly born with some sort of sex organ. Gender is something different. Google it (didn’t you subscribe to this as life advice in another post?).
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Hofstra26
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Re: They/Them
Posted by Raging2020
Posted by Hofstra26
Posted by Raging2020
Myself, and my kids only use he/she or her/him. How did the world survive all these years without 70 different genders lol
Good to know you're raising tolerant kids.
I think it’s ridiculous they are pushing this crap on kids. Confusing them at ages when they are navigating the tween/teen years.
Who is this evil "they" that's forcing your kids into a spectrum of gender? Sounds so scary.
If you have ever know a person who is transgender, non-binary, etc etc you'd realize pretty damn fast they weren't coerced into anything. In fact, while others around them might have been unaware they've know their whole lives they were different in some way.
Nobody is pushing anything on your children. That's fact.
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Re: They/Them
Posted by Raging2020
Myself, and my kids only use he/she or her/him. How did the world survive all these years without 70 different genders lol
Well being that you seem to not understand reflexive pronouns, I see why.
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Re: They/Them
Posted by Hofstra26
Posted by Raging2020
Posted by Hofstra26
Posted by Raging2020
Myself, and my kids only use he/she or her/him. How did the world survive all these years without 70 different genders lol
Good to know you're raising tolerant kids.
I think it’s ridiculous they are pushing this crap on kids. Confusing them at ages when they are navigating the tween/teen years.
Who is this evil "they" that's forcing your kids into a spectrum of gender? Sounds so scary.
If you have ever know a person who is transgender, non-binary, etc etc you'd realize pretty damn fast they weren't coerced into anything. In fact, while others around them might have been unaware they've know their whole lives they were different in some way.
Nobody is pushing anything on your children. That's fact.
Yes, I agree many know early on.
But by making this a “thing” and having kids select their pronouns confuses them. I have a cousin whose 11 year old decided to announce her pronouns “her/she” on tik tok under her biography or whatever it’s called. Why is that even a thing?? If you want to be called something different than you have your entire life then I guess let people know. But if people know you as a certain gender and nothing changes….why announce it? Why is this even a thing? Especially at 11.
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Re: They/Them
Posted by Raging2020
Posted by Hofstra26
Posted by Raging2020
Posted by Hofstra26
Posted by Raging2020
Myself, and my kids only use he/she or her/him. How did the world survive all these years without 70 different genders lol
Good to know you're raising tolerant kids.
I think it’s ridiculous they are pushing this crap on kids. Confusing them at ages when they are navigating the tween/teen years.
Who is this evil "they" that's forcing your kids into a spectrum of gender? Sounds so scary.
If you have ever know a person who is transgender, non-binary, etc etc you'd realize pretty damn fast they weren't coerced into anything. In fact, while others around them might have been unaware they've know their whole lives they were different in some way.
Nobody is pushing anything on your children. That's fact.
Yes, I agree many know early on.
But by making this a “thing” and having kids select their pronouns confuses them. I have a cousin whose 11 year old decided to announce her pronouns “her/she” on tik tok under her biography or whatever it’s called. Why is that even a thing?? If you want to be called something different than you have your entire life then I guess let people know. But if people know you as a certain gender and nothing changes….why announce it? Why is this even a thing? Especially at 11.
They are just copying what others do. They see a friend or other tik tokers do it and they have to to do it. Follow the crowd
Which is fine, until the thing is something dangerous... like everyone is vaping or eating tide pods or whatever- then it becomes an issue with the whole I have to be like everyone else
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Re: They/Them
Posted by NervousNell
Posted by Raging2020
Posted by Hofstra26
Posted by Raging2020
Posted by Hofstra26
Posted by Raging2020
Myself, and my kids only use he/she or her/him. How did the world survive all these years without 70 different genders lol
Good to know you're raising tolerant kids.
I think it’s ridiculous they are pushing this crap on kids. Confusing them at ages when they are navigating the tween/teen years.
Who is this evil "they" that's forcing your kids into a spectrum of gender? Sounds so scary.
If you have ever know a person who is transgender, non-binary, etc etc you'd realize pretty damn fast they weren't coerced into anything. In fact, while others around them might have been unaware they've know their whole lives they were different in some way.
Nobody is pushing anything on your children. That's fact.
Yes, I agree many know early on.
But by making this a “thing” and having kids select their pronouns confuses them. I have a cousin whose 11 year old decided to announce her pronouns “her/she” on tik tok under her biography or whatever it’s called. Why is that even a thing?? If you want to be called something different than you have your entire life then I guess let people know. But if people know you as a certain gender and nothing changes….why announce it? Why is this even a thing? Especially at 11.
They are just copying what others do. They see a friend or other tik tokers do it and they have to to do it. Follow the crowd
Which is fine, until the thing is something dangerous... like everyone is vaping or eating tide pods or whatever- then it becomes an issue with the whole I have to be like everyone else
Hence the reason 11 year olds don’t belong on social media.
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| Posted 2/16/22 3:09 PM |
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Tulip9
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Re: They/Them
I am so happy I grew up in the 80s... life was easier, there was less pressure to grow up- there is no need for 11 year old children to need pronouns
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| Posted 2/16/22 3:17 PM |
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lululu
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Re: They/Them
Posted by Tulip9
I am so happy I grew up in the 80s... life was easier, there was less pressure to grow up- there is no need for 11 year old children to need pronouns
While I agree with you in some ways, think about how difficult growing up in the 80s was for transgender or gay children. Forced to conform with societal norms and not let anyone know who they really are for fear of being ostracized? I can't even really imagine how hard that must have been.
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| Posted 2/16/22 3:19 PM |
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