Anonymous asked:
Yeah. Dowling says s/he had no sense of being a male as a child. Why doesn’t anyone question this? Why was Aydian’s lesbian identity up to age 20 less real than his/her current identity as a transman?
I have to wonder what Ellen really thinks. Does she have any question about this, as a lesbian herself?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LujYm465ntY
Starting about 1:10 into the video (linked above):
I came out as a lesbian…at 13. But I didn’t come out officially to friends and family until I was about 17…It just felt like something didn’t fit. It felt like I was a lesbian only because I was a girl who liked girls.
[um, isn’t that what you were?]
So that was the title that was put on me
[title? A person with two x chromosomes and female biology who likes other females IS a lesbian. It’s not a “title”]
rather than the title I felt I identified with. So I was actually just driving home one day with an ex-girlfriend of mine, and she kind of turned to me—I was around the age of 20—and she said, “Have you ever thought of being a boy?” And I was like, “I don’t know. What are you asking me that question for?” I didn’t really know where that was coming from. So I went home that night, and her voice kind of stuck in the back of my head; that question, “do you want to be a boy?” just kept rolling through my head. And so of course I took to Google. I started Googling “girl that becomes a boy” or “how to grow up to be a man” and the Internet just engulfed me. For the next 48 hours it was videos, and links, and articles and everything…
Ellen and Dowling then go on to reassure the viewing public that oh, no, a young person can’t just go on the Internet and decide to become trans. The folks at transgenderreality.com, who document the relentless online indoctrination of gender-questioning teens, would beg to differ.
