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There's a psychologist called Diane Ehrensaft who said that boys who open up their onesies and dance around, they're expressing that they really want to be girls because that's like a dress. | |
Or if a girl is pulling out the barrettes, a boy, girl, I'm getting it mixed up, pulls the barrettes out of her hair that she doesn't want to be a girl. | |
Right? Which I think someone with common sense would just look at, well, these are fussy babies that just don't want to wear barrettes or don't want their onesie on, right? | |
And that's sort of natural. | |
Kids don't want to wear their shoes. | |
They throw off their shoes. | |
Does that mean they don't want feet anymore? | |
But that is the philosophy. | |
And a lot of people start to believe it because people with these fancy letters that come from these fancy institutions repeat that over and over again. | |
So that's become the mainstream narrative. | |
However, there are people... | |
People like me and several others, and I think more than I even know, because they have been silenced, believe that kids don't really know themselves, that they need adults to guide them. | |
They need to be grounded in reality. | |
They need empathy and compassion, especially if they're struggling with being in their bodies, but to help them figure out their reality. | |
And generally speaking, when they have distress over their gender, then we need to wait and see what happens. | |
And usually they do grow out of it. |