Lannie Rose
2 min readSep 2, 2019

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Hello Dali. (That is fun to say!) While most of your post seems like hogwash, I do find disturbing the idea that kids are experiencing peer pressure to transition. While that is bad, I guess it is difficult to avoid because that’s how kids act. On the other hand, I have to believe that the peer pressure to conform is always much much stronger than the peer pressure to transition, because that is how kids (and, in this case, adults) act. However much some may despise emos, it pales in comparison to how most despise gender changers. Anyway, what is the harm if a kid chooses to live as the other gender for a while, even if it turns out they are not trans? …as long as they don’t have any irreversible medical procedures, which you really cannot get until you are at least 18 anyway. A dude who lives as a girl for a couple of years, or a gal who lives as a boy, or a kid who lives as non-binary, will probably benefit from a broadening of their horizons, and grow up to be a much better person for it! My final point is, the corrective for such peer pressure is not to suppress information about gender and sexuality, and to deny support to those who want to be different; rather, it is more and better information and more exposure to the true, broad range of the human gender/sexuality spectrum, and support for the freedom to choose and experiment. Kids are smart, they’ll figure it out. We should trust each child to find their own path.

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Lannie Rose
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