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"Children don't need to learn about ..." is so wild. Y'all are fascinatingly weird, as if preventing kids from learning about things is either possible or desirable.
You think that people with mental conditions shouldn't get help and encouragement to deal with them? Again, this is so amazingly weird.
If you have kids I feel for them. My children know that I'll love and accept them even if they turn out differently from my expectations.
Your kid might be trans and hiding that fact to protect themselves just like I did. The only way you can find out for sure is to convince your child that they can come out to you without risking your disapproval.
Lol, buddy, I'm almost 40 and I figured out I was trans when I was 11 based on nothing more than passing anthropological references to hijra and two-spirit persons I found in a small town Texas public library in the 90's. If my generation is fucked then every generation is fucked.
AHH the old two spirit fallacy argument. Really reach now dude.
Children need to learn about stuff that matters, not gender politics or ideology.
These people need mental help, not physical mutilation.
Fallacy? Argument?
What are you talking about?
If "gender politics or ideology" don't matter then why are the Republicans making such a huge stink about them? Is this an admission that your version of gender politics and ideology are, in fact, nothing more than politics and ideology?
We agree, then. Do me a favor and look up what the American Pediatric Association says we should do to provide that mental help.
This is UK dude not America.
https://objectnow.org/debunking-the-two-spirit-myth/
Their arguments remain entirely valid no matter the country. Just maybe bail from the argument in which you have zero standing.
You clearly aren't understanding at all.
Some Native American and Indian cultures have three genders.
Orthodox Jews recognize seven in the Talmud.
If those cultures can recognize the complexity and ambiguity of gender centuries before the scientific method was developed, then obviously we can trust science when it says that gender isn't a simple either-or proposition.
Did you get around to looking up the APA recommendations for mental issues related to gender yet? Tell me what the pediatricians say we should do.