• progressquest@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    For some kids that’s true. For a surprisingly large percentage though, gender identity can be known before they start school. Most will conform to their birth-assigned gender, so for those people, it isn’t something they express clearly.

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      1 year ago

      Wow before school ? I never would have guessed.

      What social situations are kids put in that make them confront the question of their gender? Is it mostly like marketing and toys and stuff? Or more like family/social pressure to conform to “roles” (baseball v ballet)?

      Just seems so odd for a kid to have to think about gender in general, I’m trying to imagine non-creepy situations where it would come up lol

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          1 year ago

          I think it feels creepy to me because I have 30+ years of brain wires telling me that sex and gender are the same thing. I know they are not, but my brain doesn’t.