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An article on trans kids
Dec. 2nd, 2006 10:59 pm
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Deniz has a friend Jonathon. And she was telling me the other week how "Jonathon says he's a girl sometimes, but I know he's really a boy". (We'd been talking about hair length.)
And here I was trying to explain that sometimes kids say that and it's just pretend, and sometimes they say that and it's that we're wrong about whether they're a girl or a boy - but I don't know, I may have gone right over her head.
*frowns a bit*
Come to think of it, it was when she was playing with Jonathon all the time she'd say things like "You can't be a pirate, girls can't be pirates" (or superheroes, or firefighters, or whatever), nevermind that *she* was pretending to be a pirate (or whatever). Of course it was a coincidence - kids do play with this sort of thing at that age, they're sorting it all out - but now I've got it stuck in my head.
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Deniz has a friend Jonathon. And she was telling me the other week how "Jonathon says he's a girl sometimes, but I know he's really a boy". (We'd been talking about hair length.)
And here I was trying to explain that sometimes kids say that and it's just pretend, and sometimes they say that and it's that we're wrong about whether they're a girl or a boy - but I don't know, I may have gone right over her head.
*frowns a bit*
Come to think of it, it was when she was playing with Jonathon all the time she'd say things like "You can't be a pirate, girls can't be pirates" (or superheroes, or firefighters, or whatever), nevermind that *she* was pretending to be a pirate (or whatever). Of course it was a coincidence - kids do play with this sort of thing at that age, they're sorting it all out - but now I've got it stuck in my head.
