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Even though transphobes are trying to frame this supposed phase as a childhood thing, they will readily accuse trans adults of going through a phase when they come out too. Not wanting minors to transition is a flimsy goalpost that will move the second they believe they have a chance to ban transition for everyone.

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Apr 5Liked by Erin Reed

Thank you for debunking this Erin

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This has nothing to do with trans children. These are youth doing what they're supposed to do and what is normal: imagining how they might be in the world. Of course that would include sometimes thinking about being another gender, just as it might include thinking about being an astronaut, firefighter, birthworker, etc. These people don't want kids to have imagination, either.

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Why can't conservatives ever report in good faith? That's rhetorical, I know the reason.

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These assholes need a study to figure out how trans adults blink into existence if trans kids are desisting at 80%.

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Another possible reason F might say they want to be M is because of awareness of the unfairness of the patriarchy.

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I knew right off the bat that the headline of being trans being "just a phase" was bs when I saw it came from the Daily Mail. anything that comes from them or the Daily Wire or the Daily ShitMcnuggets usually is just propoganda.

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Every day another hurtful headline. I'm so fed up with this. Elon amplifying this obvious misinformation is infuriating.

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Apr 5·edited Apr 5

Quick error correction on the line "parents of 'sissy boys' or masculine girls taking their parents in for psychological treatment".

I'm guessing your child having gender dysphoria doesn't lead to taking the child's *grandparents* in for conversion therapy, haha.

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They're just flat out lying.

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The Daily Mail- all the journalistic integrity of Fox News, but you can read it in a posh British accent to sound like a 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 intellectual!

Ugh... gag me with a shovel. No surprise, though, coming from that scream rag. They only do fact-checking to make sure they're getting the facts 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨.

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Thank you for addressing that Erin! There’s very little in terms of new information in that article and the skew, which is par for the course from the author and the site, is ridiculous.

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The Daily Mail is patently awful, but most people in the US seem not to know this.

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You nipped that one in the bud Erin! Thanks. I had just read that one yesterday in Blaze News🤮 Gotta see what is topical in other information silos to b relevant. Just the headline made me scoff( Do I really need infuriating misinformation and the Ra! Ra! of the peanut gallery in comment threads??)

But I read it and noted all it did not say about how they arrived at such conclusions....

Very unconvincing, yet I know it fits the world view of bigots everywhere.

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Well done! Thank you!

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Was that "DeVos" as in former secretary of education and co conspirator of the Trump administration tasked with privatizing public education. Also heir to the Amway pyramid scam fortune ?

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