The point in here that “it’s so cool to be trans that kids are just faking it” is bs is so, SO important. My 7 yr old was being so relentlessly bullied after kids caught sight of his enby SIBLING that we had to get admin involved. They had to move the kids off the bus to make it stop - in *Seattle*
We made this month's bonus episode available to everyone so you can distract yourself from the horrible Supreme Court news with some horrible trans-rights news!
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I genuinely don’t know how the narrative of trans = social cache got started but it is so wildly antithetical to real life that it would be funny if it wasn’t deeply upsetting and being used as a basis to deny an entire group of people rights.
HONESTLY. As an educator, the best I can say is that fewer kids are cruel & more are making an effort to understand and accept - but that is still a minority of kids looking out for a *very small* minority - and it's nothing like social capital 🙄 We still have a lot of work to do to protect all kids
Honestly most people - everyone else, really, have been really kind, and the actual classmates in kid 2’s class have done great. But bigots won’t be happy until every genderqueer kid is ostracized into oblivion and unfortunately their kids go to school with mine 😞
i feel like one way a lot of these transphobes really tell on themselves is when they accuse trans people of wanting to be part of some sort of an in-group to bully everybody else, because that’s the only reason *they* can think of to do *anything*
Unfortunately I think for a lot of them it DOES occur to them. Just like I am explicitly teaching my kids to accept everyone, they are teaching theirs to bully anyone queer. I think they want their kids to have their values just like I do. They just value hate and fear
It's part of the whole "social contagion" myth. Their kid didn't have friends, then came out as trans/nonbinary, now they have friends. Clearly the only explanation is "it must be a trend that makes you popular."
Total failure of imagination in service of their prejudices.
This is such an important set of podcast episodes. They DISMANTLE anti-trans stuff.
The stuff about Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria is so important for cishet folks like me to hear and use to defend these kids.
my spouse worked at a performing arts high school for 7 years and even there, they don’t have *that* many trans kids. the mecca school for queer kids still only had 5-10 per grade. more than the local public schools, sure, but even thee most inclusive school did not have that many.
yo, Alyssa!! *waving excitedly*
(not trying to be weird but your excellent post came across my TL and I was like, "hey, I think I know her!" don't wanna spill personal info all over the place, but my DMs are open!)
