Oversharing here, but I have to make a point.
Puberty is such a bad time for people to be exposed to Tumblr’s ideologies about gender.
I’m glad that when I was 14 and uncomfortable with my body (to the point where I verbally claimed that I wished I was a boy, was disgusted by the idea of growing boobs, and angered by the thought of having to wear a bra) I had responsible adults to tell me that being uncomfortable with physical changes in your body at puberty is a NORMAL and natural part of life; instead of having Tumblr to tell me that I was dissatisfied with my physical form because I was actually a genderqueer demiboy or something like that.
This is transphobic.
This isn’t tranphobia at all. It doesn’t intend to minimize the issues of transgender people at all. To call such a statement transphobic is the equivalent to agreeing to the idea that anyone who has any soft of anxiety about their body is transgender which is simply not true.
Subscribing to such a belief leads to the harm of actual trans people.
Imagine if some people who had a normal amount of anxiety over their body began identifying transgender and then a few years later retracted this statement and (rightfully) called it a phase (of anxiety over a changing body).
How does this affect trans people? On a broad scale it gives the impression to the general public that trans people are going through a phase, or in more general terms, that their gender identity is illegitimate.
It is VERY well possible that people can falsely identify as transgender under the premise of uncomfortable development during puberty.
To call this person transphobic for simply stating that some people may misconstrue awkward puberty growth adjustments for legitimate gender dysphoria damages the transgendered community.
Learn what actual transphobia is before labelling something as transphobic and please think before ignorantly commenting on trans issues regardless of your gender identity.
Thank you and have a blessed day.
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