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Wisconsin judge sides with 11-year-old trans girl over her right to use school toilets
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i guess it must have also been sad when parents allowed kids to identify as sinister. meaning left-handed, of course. one moment, it was rightfully shunned, the next moment sinister people started getting everywhere and it was growing at an alarming rate, threatening to take over society...
...until it hit 12.5%, where it flatlined and stayed ever since. turns out if you don't bully people into repressing a trait they're born with, you'll see a meteoric rise in the amount of people you now accept, when they stop (rightfully) fearing that you'll repress them. today, it's beyond trivial that if you think there ever has been a point in history where one eight of all people haven't been left-handed, you're just a moron, but your rhetoric would perfectly fit the era when that started to be accepted.
we don't know exactly how many people are trans, but the sharp rise you see and characterize as "currently relevant in social media" is simply due to society (mostly) letting people finally be who they always have been. realistically, trans people are a minority, but that doesn't mean they don't have the same right to be themselves that you and i already enjoy simply for having been born into the majority.
I see no correlation between someone being born left handed and someone who claims to have been born in the wrong body, that's a bit of a stretch. What's not a stretch though is that social media has dictated a lot of what is acceptable in society but that doesn't necessarily mean that's a good thing. People can live their lives however they want but it makes no sense that a kid born in this time would have come to this decision on their own without the influence of social media given how much it's affected our society in the past ten years alone. That's the problem and thats what makes it hard to understand and justify. Those in support of children changing who they think they are, give them pats on back but for what reason exactly and what cost? How is this a good thing? In my opinion, kids need to grow and learn to be productive members of our society before they should ever start being told "you're probably not who you are." It's silly.