4 year olds able to change gender in Scotland

Your post made me wonder... what is a boy to someone who has never been a boy before, and whose only experiences of gender is that as a girl? Where would they find information to frame such an understanding, and would it be accurate? Cause we all know how accurate stereotypes are.. 😂

Wouldn't it be best to confirm that someone is sure of what they feel/think before calling them a "Trans kid", ensuring that they're not simply confused about what that gender entails, and what their options are?

No, sorry... I've agreed with many of your posts so far but that's not what Transgender is about. Being Trans is about being different from what someone was originally. Oh, sure, apparently the original choice was made for them, or assigned to them, but they all started with one gender and desired to change to another different one, or none at all.

We are all masculine and feminine in our traits and behaviors, but that doesn't mean that we are all male and female.

Being either male or female carries a history of experience, learning, and adaptation within that persons environment, but also the experience of the body we have. The sexual organs that we live with throughout our lives. And while it is possible to change your body, and sexual organs (to a degree), the same can't be said for the previous years of experience as a given gender, and the lack of genuine firsthand knowledge of what it's like to be another gender. I've cross-dressed. I've had sex with men, women, and people who had physically transitioned, both partially and fully. But I don't know what it's like to be a girl or a woman. I'll never have to deal with pms, or a host of other biological experiences that females do, and that need to adjust my life accordingly. Nor will I know what it's like to be an target for sexual/physical attraction the way women do, because it's a very different experience for a man vs a woman, due to the society that has developed over time. Just as the vast majority of women will never understand the nuance of masculine culture throughout school, and into our adulthood, with the often direct physical communication, but also the ways we learn to manage that communication.

A woman could spend all her life surrounded by men, adopt their behaviors and mannerisms. Even understand their way of living, and the application of logic the same as the men, but she would still be a woman, driven by biological imperatives, and her mind/thought process would be different, due to her own unique experiences.. through the lens of being a woman... Her feelings and emotions would be different from men, due to the differences in testosterone and all manner of other physical considerations, not least by being a different body type and typically, less physically dense as men. It all matters because it shapes how we perceive and interact with the world. Regardless of what we want...

The point is that we are not all transgender. I've never wanted to be a woman. Regardless of being sexually attracted to men (and women), I've never wanted to be a woman. Nor behave as one. Or think as one. It doesn't appeal to me in the slightest. My emotional ability is not tied to my gender. I can be patient, sympathetic, empathize, whatever... and have solid emotional intelligence, because as with most things, the idea that women have some greater capacity is a stereotype that's convenient for people to continue.. but it's not specific to a particular gender...

Masculine and feminine are simply aspects (adjectives) of behavior and thought... but they're not genders in themselves. That's why we use the terms male and female. Man and woman. Girl and boy. This trans debate is messing up language too much.

Sorry, your post didn't show up until I refreshed after I'd posted my own. I'll cut it back from here on.