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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
OK, but nobody you’re trying to argue with is suggesting that we should reinforce gender norms so who are you talking to?
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Gender affirmation reinforces gender norms.
A 12 year old natal boy today who wants to wear dresses and paint their nails, and does not align with conventional boy behaviour, will likely be encouraged to regard themselves as transgendered - someone who is female in gender rather than male. The only reason to associate dresses and painted nails with female is because of traditional gender roles - which are mostly arbitrary and outdated. So let’s instead encourage that natal boy to think of themself as human, without needing the label ‘female.’
The less we associate behaviours and appearance with gender, the less dislocation people who don’t fit traditional norms will feel. So let’s just stop gendering people, full-stop.