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oudeteron: courtney-summers: This is Coy Mathis, a transgender 6 year old living in Colorado. It just so happens that my brother is in her class at Eagleside Elementary School in Fountain, Colorado. When I asked my brother how he felt about Coy he said, “She’s got really cool hair and we play on the slides at recess.” I asked what he thought about Coy’s decision to be a girl and he said, “She is a girl. She just got the wrong body on accident.” How is a 6 year old more understanding and accepting of her than many of the adults at Eagleside Elementary? This is something that shows up in studies repeatedly: kids generally don’t have a problem with gender “nonconformity” until they’ve been indoctrinated into cissexism by adults. So, yep. If there’s anything “natural” or “innocent” here, it is in fact the acceptance, not the bigotry.
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oudeteron:

courtney-summers:

This is Coy Mathis, a transgender 6 year old living in Colorado. It just so happens that my brother is in her class at Eagleside Elementary School in Fountain, Colorado. When I asked my brother how he felt about Coy he said, “She’s got really cool hair and we play on the slides at recess.” I asked what he thought about Coy’s decision to be a girl and he said, “She is a girl. She just got the wrong body on accident.” How is a 6 year old more understanding and accepting of her than many of the adults at Eagleside Elementary?

This is something that shows up in studies repeatedly: kids generally don’t have a problem with gender “nonconformity” until they’ve been indoctrinated into cissexism by adults. So, yep. If there’s anything “natural” or “innocent” here, it is in fact the acceptance, not the bigotry.

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