Thread by @DadTrans

As someone supported by Mermaids for years, I've never seen anyone 'told' that they are "in the wrong body". I've never seen a child told that they may be trans for liking dresses or playing football. The criticism itself is grounded in not only transphobia but sexism. 1/

My daughter, who happens to be trans, rarely wears dresses & loves playing football. She has not grown up ashamed of her body. Her body is not 'wrong', it is hers & we will support her autonomy in choosing what if any medications she may need to live her life to the fullest 2/

If you want to learn more, @FierceMum wrote a blog two years ago addressing most of the common stereotypes levelled by gender critical types & enforced by the media.
Trans kids, & trans people in general are the ones tearing down the gender boundaries. growinguptransgender.com/2018/02/06/on-…

It says everything about the 'Gender Critical' movement that a key area of potential common ground with trans people - the need to allow people to express their gender without stigma, is instead denied & a false narrative built claiming that trans kids enforce stereotypes.

The 'wrong body' trope, is most often used as shorthand by cis people to explain a trans experience to other cis people. Yes, of course it is also sometimes used by trans people but holding this as a single phrase symbolic of the trans experience is a straw man fallacy.

And on body autonomy, I have never seen a trans person speak out against right to choose or abortion, the same is not true of key 'gender critical' voices many of whom are either actively campaigning against access to abortion, or working with groups opposing reforms.

Call me old fashioned but I still believe in a society where a adolescent at risk of pregnancy should have the right to body autonomy & access to birth control. I also believe trans adolescents should have the right to body autonomy & to impact decisions on the right health care.