re: A transgender 9-year-old tells her story

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In those rare cases, sure, but that doesn't explain why a boy who "identifies as a girl" is in to such stereotypically female things.

My point earlier in this thread was that a boy who identifies as a girl almost invariably identifies with the 1960 version of a woman, which leads me to believe that he/she is much more into female things than he/she actually feels like a female.

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What evidence do you have to support your position? A few anecdotes? How many transgender people do you know? Because none of the ones that I know well are overly invested in stereotypically feminine things. It's much less of an exaggerated expression for them than what you're suggesting.

One just came out a few years ago and she has always been into punk rock, metal, and skateboarding.

Another is really into video games and is getting a PhD in the sciences.

None of that is exclusively male, but they're definitely not stereotypically girly pursuits or interests.

I know one trans woman who is a fashion designer so I guess that's a typically female pursuit, although there are plenty of men (usually gay) working in fashion. She dresses femininely, but she makes a lot of her clothes and it's arguably androgynous. She also models male clothing sometimes.

There are certainly a lot of trans women who express their gender in very stereotypical ways, but that could have more to do with wanting to "pass" as female and feel feminine than anything else.

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Hog on the Hill

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Scolds anecdotes the proceeds to give a list of anecdotes

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I just don't understand how a 9 year old has any idea what this is.

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I don't remember how I thought back at that age but I do know that there was a kid in the neighborhood that we all called a fig. He might have been 11. Yep he turned out to be gay.

Dude in my class always acted like a girl, even since the 4th grade. He pretended to be the pink Power Ranger. He's gay now.

Her parents should be in jail for child abuse.

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I said once gay marriage was allowed there will be no end to what's "ok". Before long it will be okay to molest children and marry your kids.

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offshoretrash

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yep...you're trash alright.

This transgender shite is out of control, yes, but it is not happening because two dudes can get tax breaks after signing a piece of paper at the court house.

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ust look how Penn St treated the Sandusky scandal. If we continue down the road we are going down, in 20 years anything will fair game.

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You're a fricking moron. Gay people aren't pedophiles. They aren't remotely tied together. Get your head out of your arse.

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I just don't understand how a 9 year old has any idea what this is.

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They don't. They know it gets ten attention, and that is literally all it takes.

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I am not willing to bet the future mental health on "current theory".

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It'll be fine, now let's cut off a few dicks and get back to important shite like which celebrities are fricking each other.

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Scolds anecdotes the proceeds to give a list of anecdotes

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The difference is that I'm not making sweeping statements based on my anecdotes. I used them to offer a different perspective and show the person to whom I was replying that his anecdotes are not necessarily representative of all transgender women.

Did you really need that explained to you?

edit: Let me elaborate because I know someone isn't going to understand.

If person A has seen five dogs and they've all been brown, he might say that all dogs are brown.

Person B has seen five dogs, and two were yellow. He knows he can't generalize about the color of all dogs, but he can definitely say that person A is wrong--not all dogs are brown. Sometimes they are yellow.

Anecdotes cannot be used to prove a generalization, but they can be used to disprove a generalization. This is just basic inductive logic.