• AbsurdityAccelerator@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I know this is a joke, but these kinds of topics are showing up in children’s media these days. Which i think is great. Simple representation matters.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not lgbt but when you witness first hand what people talk about when they say transgender you undertand everything.

      My cousing was born in 1990, nobody talked about it and being gay was stil a big no no, specially being the son of one of 5 brothers. I have 18 cousings and only me and 1 other are women, the rest are all men. All of us were raised together in the same way, so much so that I’m very much not girly and only tried makeup for the first time at 18.

      All that to say that my cousing was NOT influenciate in any way but he was born pretty much a girl, a LOT more girly than me. He woud sing all the little mairmaids songs, dance like he was Belle, LOVED dolls and being “mommy” etc. Mind you he was 2, 3, 5 yo. His parents put him in 10 different psychiatrists. Nothing worked (obviously). he tried hiding or even toning down but there was no way, the boy was born a princess.

      Every time I hear about gender x bio sex I remeber him He never had a “choice”, that’s what he was born as.

      I wish he had had the chance to be himself when he was young (he never changed his gender but he finally “came out” to his dad about 5 years ago)

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        1 year ago

        I don’t think witnessing it is really enough to understand it for everyone.

        For example, I don’t fit in with traditional gender norms. Yet at the same time I don’t feel like I was born into the wrong sex/gender. And if I was born as the opposite sex, I think I’d be pretty indifferent about it. I don’t really care either way for myself, personally.

        I have both transgender and nonbinary friends and I simply don’t relate to their struggles. While I don’t feel like I fit in, I don’t feel like I’m the “wrong” gender/sex either.

        I respect transgender and nonbinary individuals. And I think they absolutely deserve to live their life the way that makes them the most comfortable being themselves. But unfortunately, even witnessing this stuff fist hand doesn’t mean I’ll ever personally be able to understand gender dysphoria.

        I’m supportive, but I’ll never truly understand. But I don’t think you have to fully be able to understand to be an ally.