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Originally Posted by pdw
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I've lived long enough to remember when my mother was talked down to by doctors because she breastfed her children.
I've lived long enough to know my mother declined thalidomide as recommended by her doctor.
I've lived long enough to have had to mother my siblings because post partum depression was not recognized and my mother had a very bad case of it.
I've lived long enough to have menstrated during a time when PMS was not a recognised thing.
I've lived long enough to remember when my more progressive aunts chuckled about the fact that we always had real butter, not margarine.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/stayi...r-vs-margarine
There's still the idea white bread is bad for you
https://www.bonappetit.com/story/who...an-white-bread
And there's many more things that could be said. Science is not a god to be sacrificed to and I'm not knocking science - in the best instances science is self-correcting. There's a ton of articles, scholarly and otherwise on it. I have a great deal of respect for science.
But when it comes to a soft idea that people are in the wrong gendered bodies, science is asking people to disbelieve 30,000 years of homo sapiens evolution. We organised ourselves by what our bodies could do. It was not the other way around and there is no proving how a so-called woman's brain thinks as opposed to a man's. It's actually insulting our intelligence. It's a gendered sex's fantasy of how he or she thinks the other sex thinks.
And it is much too important to subject children to. Just this summer a young girl killed herself and no doubt she will be put in the statistics of transchildren who commit suicide and used as a platform in support of allowing children to pick their genders.
The backstory on this girl who was a friend of my niece's, is that her mother left the family to live with her boyfriend. Father was looking after the children. Being abandoned by your mother cannot be a good feeling.
Girl decided at one point she is actually a he. Since it comes out later, after her death by hanging, that her mother's boyfriend had been sexually abusing her, why wouldn't she, at aged 14ish, given the smorgasbord of choices she's been told she has, decide to grab the one with power?
This makes her popular in some quarters and bullied in others. And she's not too sure what it means to call herself by a plural, or what it means in terms of living a healthy life given her background? I mean, the fights between her parents don't stop, her father still is not home much as he's at work. Her mother doesn't believe her about the boyfriend. CFS gives custody to the father. She still loves her mother and she's only 14.
In the meantime she also went back to being a she.
RIP dear friend of my niece's. Whom I had to tell that before anything in her life gets to that point, she can come to me. I will believe her. We will figure it out. She is loved.
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