[ SECRET POST #2469 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2469 ⌋

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Comments

[herongale]

Ugh, this kind of reasoning is so infuriatingly anti-scientific and anti-commonsense.

Basically, children are being taught about their own gender identity since they are born. If a child feels out of sync with the gender identity they've been assigned, they will often notice it and feel it at a very young age. They might not have the words for it yet, especially if they are raised in an environment where gender essentialism is so ingrained and expected that no one even thinks about the possibility that a child may be transgendered, but it's not at all uncommon for this to become an issue FOR THE CHILD at a very young age.

So, in many respects it just doesn't matter if adults don't think a child is old enough to be concerned about their own gender identity. If the child is concerned about it, their concerns are valid, and should not be brushed away with someone being all "you're too young to worry about this; no go along and play with your dolls" mentality.

Because you know what? Eventually "too young" becomes "too old" and the same people who say that a child is too young to worry about such adult things will be baffled and annoyed at adults who express concerns about their own gender identities, saying things like "if it were such an issue, wouldn't you have noticed it a long time ago?" People just can't win.

What age is the "right age?" The only proper answer to this is "whenever the individual in question thinks its an issue." I think if you were saying "Shiloh is too young for ABSOLUTE STRANGERS ON THE INTERNET to be wondering about her gender identity," I'd probably agree with you. But for she herself? If she cares, then she's not too young. End of story.

[(Anonymous)]

this, all of this. People constantly underestimate children but I do agree that the media and everyone should stop trying to label a young child that they don't even really know. There is no "right" age, maybe this is just a phase, maybe not. It's honestly none of our business though. =\