Opinion | How to Make Sense of the New L.G.B.T.Q. Culture War
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There is an enormous gap between what people are willing to say in public and what they really think.

Alternate title: Ross Douthat "both sides" the trans/gay panic bullshit to make his liberal readers feel better about being bigoted.

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    3 years ago

    Where on earth are people encouraging tomboys to transition?

    I took the tomboy-to-butch-lesbian pipeline and at literally every point in my gender presentation journey was the exact opposite, where I'd be discouraged from doing anything that was any more tomboyish/butch/masc than what I was already doing and would be encouraged to be more traditionally feminine and heterosexual.

    For example: When I finally cut my hair short like I'd wanted to when I was 8, I was in my 20s (a whole ass adult a thousand miles away from where I grew up and where my parents lived) my parents still had a conniption, and had another one when I started cutting it a little shorter than that.