Non-binary at 10 year old

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Reply 60

L'absurde

Original post by Inexorably

I think the fact I described the decision as 'cockamamy' lets you know that I think the term is stupid.

That could be an actual gender according to Tumblr, who knows!

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Reply 61

lostintrnslation

Original post by L'absurde

Have I said anything about not letting this kid live their life? I'm not advocating that anything should be done to the kid.

You guys should seriously calm down.

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being a dick about someone's identity isn't going to help anyone... taking the piss out of an identity that deviates from the norm (like non-binary) only discourages young lgbt+ people from experimenting with their identity and discovering who they are. people should be allowed to identify however they wish without being judged for it. calling them delusional and critisising them is only causing harm.

Reply 62

L'absurde

Original post by lostintrnslation

I'm sorry but no-one is above judgment. We aren't in some perfect fairyland.

Reply 63

lostintrnslation

Original post by L'absurde

I'm sorry but no-one is above judgment. We aren't in some perfect fairyland.

but wouldn't it be better if people didn't judge others?

Reply 64

L'absurde

Original post by lostintrnslation

but wouldn't it be better if people didn't judge others?

We'd all be a bunch of softies...I don't know how well that would end.
Judging is part of human nature.

Reply 65

lostintrnslation

Original post by L'absurde

We'd all be a bunch of softies...I don't know how well that would end.
Judging is part of human nature.

ahh so we can judge lgbt+ people and ostracise them to the point that they commit suicide but that's fine bc if we didn't do that then we'd be a 'bunch of softies'. come on, you might not agree with the term non-binary or whatever but you have to agree that things would be easier if being judgemental wasn't a thing.

Reply 66

username1539513

At first I thought this was about coding languages for some reason...

Reply 67

L'absurde

Original post by lostintrnslation

I didn't say that. Everyone gets judged for one thing or another, and this whole victim thing doesn't work on me I'm afraid.
Nah, I disagree. It's part of life. You have to agree that judgment is a better option than execution.

Original post by L'absurde

I'm sorry, I'm not really up to date with all the SJW jargon :colondollar:

As for the child, well, I probably would have called myself a laddish girl at 10 (into dinosaurs and science instead of normal girl things) so whatever works for them I guess

Reply 70

L'absurde

Ignorance is bliss.

That's the problem. It's okay for girls to be into stereotypically male things, doesn't make you non-binary.

Reply 71

username1539513

Original post by L'absurde

Ignorance is bliss.

That's the problem. It's okay for girls to be into stereotypically male things, doesn't make you non-binary.

So, just to clarify, your problem is that just because he likes stereotypically masculine things it doesn't make him non-binary?

Reply 72

L'absurde

I don't have a problem really. But it is annoying that if a boy likes dolls, the parents automatically assume he's trans or whatever. I don't care that he's non-binary, I just don't think it's a real ting™.

Reply 73

Another

So I guess the terms "tomboy" and "skater chick" stopped being cool enough

Reply 74

theweirdo

Original post by L'absurde

EDIT: 10 years old*
I ****ed up the title -____-

Came across this on the BBC website, surprise surprise...

Poor child, kinda feel sorry for him/her.
Which delusion are we going to have to accept next?

(Why can't kids just be kids anymore ffs!)

Thoughts?

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Well.. my thoughts on this are: we have a very complicated society and I guess people are free to believe whatever they want to. This may not make sense to many of us, but it will to some others and that's okay.

Reply 75

indigofox

Why do they have to identify as something or give it thought at all. I had short hair, wore track suits, climbed trees and only did things that lads do till I was 14. I'm still not 'girly' I don't wear skirts do nails and all that and kind of think being a lad would have suited me so much better. I still think of myself of female though just a sporty non girly one. Besides certain biological differences gender could just largely be a social construct anyway everyone has elements of masculine and feminine inside them.

Reply 76

KRin

Original post by asmuse123

What about the Intersex people? They have both male and female genitals. So, there are 3 biological sexes.

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You said yourself. They have both 'male' and 'female' genitals, that is they have have aspects of both of the sexes but aren't an entirely new sex themselves. If they were an entirely new sex then surely they would have an entirely new kind of genitals and would have a separate role in our overall reproductive method.

At least that's how I understand it.