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Originally Posted by Bend it like Bourgeois

I'm usually right there in the crusty conservative dude crowd, but this one I get - now.

My kid had his birthday. He had friends over from school and hockey and all that. And when I looked at the list of kids he made I saw a girls name and said oh who's that, is she from school? My kid said yes but [name] is a boy. I'm thinking weird boys name but whatever. Turns out [name] is a girl who self identifies as a boy. To my kid and his friends, he's a boy. A quiet, kinda odd boy, but they don't care. I dont pretend to understand any of it, but that experience made this not hypothetical for me. I can see not a looney set of rules but a kid who was just hanging with his friends.

If [name] is any example, I can guarantee your daughter will never feel like she is on a team with a boy. She might feel like there is a weird kid on her team, and maybe even know the story and find the whole thing awkward. But it will not be like it seems in your head where it's a dude walking into the girls changeroom. And from what I saw (only a couple of hours with pre-teens I admit) chances are our kids will handle this better than we do if we clear the way with rules like these.

This post made my day! Thank you!