Until the picture is more clear, society should be mindful (not hysterical, mind you, just careful) about how to talk to children about this.
Yes, we definitely should only teach children about proper, true, God-sanctioned heterosexual relationships until we know how to talk to children about two men holding hands.
Exactly how does it hurt kids to teach them that some people identify with a different gender than their biological sex? Do you have some psychological studies to back that claim up or are you just presuming you know?
A kid who thinks they’re heterosexual might start to imagine that they as well might identify with a different sexuality than the one they were born with, which can cause them significant stress.
Do you not see how this is the same?
And the reason the reporting of the number of cases has gone up is we’re more accepting of trans people now. Guess what, the number of LGBT+ people in general has gone up. Because people can come out of the closet without fearing for their life a lot of the time (but not every time) these days.
I see, so we shouldn’t get kids plastic surgery if they have a non-life threatening but ugly deformity because thinking your own body is wrong is completely internal and has nothing to do with how society thinks of you.
Yes, we definitely should only teach children about proper, true, God-sanctioned heterosexual relationships until we know how to talk to children about two men holding hands.
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What were you referring to then? That’s what this is about.
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Exactly how does it hurt kids to teach them that some people identify with a different gender than their biological sex? Do you have some psychological studies to back that claim up or are you just presuming you know?
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A kid who thinks they’re heterosexual might start to imagine that they as well might identify with a different sexuality than the one they were born with, which can cause them significant stress.
Do you not see how this is the same?
And the reason the reporting of the number of cases has gone up is we’re more accepting of trans people now. Guess what, the number of LGBT+ people in general has gone up. Because people can come out of the closet without fearing for their life a lot of the time (but not every time) these days.
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I see, so we shouldn’t get kids plastic surgery if they have a non-life threatening but ugly deformity because thinking your own body is wrong is completely internal and has nothing to do with how society thinks of you.