People who believe that small children are proof that gender roles are natural are really on a whole other level.
A young child, using words she learned purely by mimicking the way others speak: I want to be a mommy when I grow up.
Y’all absolute Mensa candidates: Wow. This child is a blank slate. Completely unaffected by society. Guess lady-brains truly are the only explanation here, science deniers.
No one here ever said that. This is a strawman of the argument that kids can have sex dysphoria.
Tucutes and Terfs really need to stop believing that gender roles and gender are one and the same. Liking blue instead of pink and wearing jeans instead of skirts isn’t the same as your brain screaming “WHY DON’T I HAVE A PENIS???” every time you look in the mirror and feeling crippling depression every time you undress.
Gender roles differ from culture to culture and are imposed by society, however your genetic makeup stays the same everywhere you are.
The presence or absence of gender dysphoria is not the defining factor of gender.
Gender dysphoria can be purely social according to the dsmv’s criteria on gender dysphoria. In other words, someone’s dysphoria can be only about gender roles and gender expression and you’d still qualify for a diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
The idea that gender dysphoria is always crippling depression all the time, is a lie and it’s unhelpful to dysphoric people. Gender dysphoria can be extremely disabling but it doesn’t have to be extreme or all the time, forever.
Anyway, there are people who see very young girls playing with dolls and think that her liking of dolls over blocks is some type of innate cause. There are whole debates when it comes to topics like this lol.
And children can have gender dysphoria.
I never said that children can’t have gender dysphoria. They can, but the problem is a lot of people are confusing children and making them think they must be trans because they break gender roles, but they aren’t.
I don’t like to wear skirts or dresses, I don’t like makeup. I prefer cool colours to warm colours. I prefer video games and building toys to doll toys and frilly things. If I tell people my problems it’s because I want a solution not sympathy. I’m more logical than emotional, I don’t like flirting with boys or going to parties.
But I am still a girl. This doesn’t make me a different gender. Just because I behave outside what cultures consider women should be like, this does not suddenly make me “trans-masc” or “demiboy” or “nonbinary” or anything of the sort.
However this current wave of “gender is a social construct” is legitimately confusing people. I see gnc girls who would otherwise have absolutely no questions about their gender suddenly thinking they’re not “really girls” because they don’t behave like a 1950s stereotype. And this isn’t being peddled by conservatives, it’s being peddled by progressive people.
Atypical dysphoria or nonbinary exists, and those people need support and help, but telling children that “you like pokemon instead of frozen, so gender is a social construct” is just going to make things worse and result in people detransitioning and such.
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