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[–] wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As a trans woman that played with Barbie's in secret as a kid....

We can acknowledge that stereotyping toys is dumb, while also acknowledging that kids like me knew those stereotypes, and did it anyways not knowing why.

It's great to point out its stupid. But is comes really fucking close to denying trans people the signs they were trans young, even we didn't even know it.

[–] smh@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

Thanks for putting that into words. It felt like I was being told "um, actually, have you considered that disliking Barbie isn't tied to being a boy?" (with an undercurrent of "this reason for thinking you might be trans is invalid".)

I strongly suspect that wasn't the intent of the commenter, they were trying to encourage inclusivity. It just fell flat.