I want to boost everything this person has said and add on.
The reason I call myself a tomboy now, despite it being seen as a childish word and having had someone swear at me over it because โtHeReโS nO suCh thInG as BoY thInGs anD giRL thIngS sHut uPโ is because I couldnโt call myself that or be like that when I was a kid. It was seen as a negative thing and I was already bullied enough. โLooking like a boyโ was the worst thing that could happen to a girl.
And Iโm not even 26 yet. We arenโt talking 30+ years ago, we are talking 2000s and even 2010s. Itโs only since trans people have become more accepted in the past few years that gender nonconformity has too.
And the people who helped me accept my gender nonconformity more than anyone else? Were trans people. They taught me, โthereโs nothing wrong with how you feel. Youโre still a valid woman no matter what you wear, how you have your hair or what youโre into โค๏ธโ
And donโt even get me started on how people treat gender nonconforming men. JK Rowling has a lot of nerve to be like โuwu boys can wear dresses and only us gendercrits accept that!โ when she has, even in recent works, made femininity in men a negative trait, as well as making masculinity in women a negative trait also.
A lot of people still donโt accept gnc people even now. Just last year I had someone tell me theyโd never let their daughter โdress like a boyโ, and Iโm always terrified to walk into a bathroom in case the next JK Rowling is in there, sees my gender expression and pepper sprays me or worse.
โThereโs no such thing as boy things and girl things.โ I donโt need to be told that and Iโm sure 99% of trans people also donโt need to be told that. Tell that to the society that hates us both instead of actively encouraging that hate.
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