It's not illegal, but it's still weird, creepy and potentially harmful and no amount of lambasting about "the problematic age gap discourse" will make it not true.
It's not illegal, but it's still weird, creepy and potentially harmful and no amount of lambasting about "the problematic age gap discourse" will make it not true.
While I agree that a 26 year old dating a 19 year old seems pretty gross, "brain development" talk is very very off-putting to me because its being used to try and deny trans people health care even after legal adulthood. I don't know what point I'm trying to make here, just feels iffy.
I think it can be used as an argument for saying how 18 yo are different from 35 yo, but not when it comes to denying rights.
i feel you, it's been coming up in the news in a very ugly way recently.
idk maybe i am wildly inconsistent but i would be perfectly comfortable with a minor deciding to begin transitioning well before the "age of development" (if there is such a thing i guess?) and i don't feel that that necessarily contradicts my stance on age-gap relationships. despite what the right may claim, no one is going around grooming kids into transes, but i have seen, with my own eyes, literally dozens of dudes groom girls in their teens. it just feels like a very different circumstance to me but, again i understand how bringing it up as an argument at all may be unpalatable.
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