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"I think she (Shiloh) is fascinating, the choices she is making. And I would never be the kind of parent to force somebody to be something they are not. I think that is just bad parenting… Children should be allowed to express themselves in whatever way they wish without anybody judging them because it is an important part of their growth. Society always has something to learn when it comes to the way we judge each other, label each other. We have far to go.” (x)
Shiloh, we feel, has Montenegro style,” she said. “It’s how people dress there.She likes tracksuits, she likes [regular] suits. She likes to dress like a boy.She wants to be a boy. So we had to cut her hair. She likes to wear boys’ everything. She thinks she’s one of the brothers.” (x)
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Okay, I totally see your point but like….. it’s a lot of work to eradicate problematic language from your life. Everyone slips up. Everyone fucks up. It takes constant effort. She might not be as educated on transphobic language or the importance of language, or even transphobia politically. I think her attitude is amazing and supportive and loving and she is still new to this. I think she will learn as she goes. Nobody is perfect and it’s her first experience with having a trans child and you can really tell that she is trying. I’m sure once Shiloh says she wants to be called ‘he’ Angelina will make effort to change her pronoun use, but for all we know Shiloh may not have gender dysmorphia and is perfectly fine with being referred to as ‘she’.
Listen, I’m tired of this. Shiloh is just gender non-conforming. She just doesn’t like the gender that has been forcefully imposed on her, as it is instilled by force on every girl from birth. She does not conform to this gender hierarchy, which isn’t a spectrum, it’s a hierarchy of oppression, you know it, we all know it. That doesn’t make her trans at all. It doesn’t make anyone trans. Just gender non-conforming, just being themselves, and it’s totally okay. For everyone’s sake, now a girl cannot like to play football, wear short-hair, suits without being a boy? What the hell is wrong with you people? You are just recycling gender again. This is harming the youth. This is harming you and everyone around you and, deep down all your nice messages and politically correct language, hides a very important piece of the gender hierarchy which puts men on top and women down, and you’re just reinforcing that. Please, stop. Stop this. Of course if everyone she sees like her are boys, she will maybe think she’s wrong and she’s a boy, don’t you see it?
You disgusting, delusional freaks need to shut the fuck up. She was TWO when she said she wanted to be called John because she LOVED PETER PAN.
YOU’RE USING A LITTLE GIRL TO FULFILL YOUR AGENDA YOU PIECES OF SHIT.
YOU THINK THAT A GIRL MUST BE A BOY ON THE INSIDE IF SHE ISN’T FEMININE. YOU’RE NOT BREAKING GENDER ROLES, YOU’RE REINFORCING THEM.
when i was a child i used to pretend i was a boy and got everyone to call me Pyro (from the x men), my sister got everyone to call her Martin instead of her real name. it wasn’t because we actually wanted to be boys, but because we grew up doing things that were typically considered boy things. we used to get teased a lot for not wearing dresses, or like pink, and for playing sports and being quite rough. we were told we were like boys and were called ‘tomboys’. stop saying that girls who are gender non-conforming must want to be boys, let them be children, and let them be little girls who enjoy things without being told they must actually be male. if you had’ve told me when i was a child that i was a boy i would have been very angry with you, it happened to me a lot and luckily i grew up with the mindset that i can do whatever boys do, and still be a girl