Now or in the future
Oooh yes, so it might, thank you for spotting that. Feeling more comfortable in trousers is definitely likely to mean not that you want to be warm enough, or don’t want bare skin chafing, or want to feel free to run or do headstands or sit on a bus without worrying about showing your bum, it’s likely to mean you want to “identify as male” despite being female and having the body to prove it, either now or in the future or indeed in the past. Never mind those silly body things, nobody cares about those, they’re chaff, husks, dirt, the true reality is clothes.
What the hell? Might want to “identify as male either now or in the future”?!
Insanity.
Well you just never know, do you.
How can people not see how absurdly regressive this? This conflation of stereotypes and arbitrary norms with innate essence. How have “we” slipped so far backward so quickly? And all—perversely—in the name of progress!
My school started allowing trousers 40 years ago. I immediately took them up on it, and have been wearing trousers ever since. One of these days I might get around to identifying as male…or not.
As for 3 foot long shoes, that would be fine, but I need ones that will fit over webbed feet, since I identify as an otter. How will the schools accommodate those of us with otter identity?
Wow, in 1979/80(?) at my school girls won the right to wear uniform trousers just like the boys. Either a third of the female population at the school were closet trans, or maybe, just maybe, it was as campaigned on; that trousers were warmer in winter, safer around oversexed and under-trained boys and just plain desired as part of a girls everyday wardrobe. This mind-fucking regressive ‘if you like boys/girls traditional stuff then you are really a boy/girl’ is just unbelievable.
I’m sorry if this comes across as terribly intrusive or personal, but would you (as an otter) be using this footwear on just the hindlimbs, or the forelimbs as well? I’m just concerned on how shoes of that size might have an impact on one’s swimming ability. Also, having them on all four limbs might result in your being mistaken for a sawhorse. This might be ill-advised. When one is trying to pass as a mustelid, mixed-message xylo-equine signals might be confusing to many who are not au courant with the latest in species identity politics. Rather than offering you a nice, tasty fish, people might instead use you to saw a two by four.
I might want to identify as Humphrey Bogart on Mondays and Fridays and Marlene Dietrich on Tuesdays and Thursdays; which would be handy, as the one suit would just about cover all the bases there. And of course, what I do on Wednesdays and weekends is nobody’s business but mine.
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How ludicrous is it possible to get?
Not a priority:
-Girls might be cold in the winter
-Girls might feel uncomfortably exposed in some situations
-Girls might feel constrained from playing
-Girls might feel objectified
-Girls might want to make choices about their clothing
A priority:
*Girls might someday decide they are magically boys inside
Shorter analysis: we don’t give a damn about girls’ feelings, health, or choices. But when it comes to destroying girls, we’re all in.
Will the school also begin teaching auto repair, business administration, and astrophysics — in case the girls want to identify as male now or in the future?
So, so progressive.
I saw a note about someone helping “queer and genderfluid friends” express their “femininity” through makeup. I doubt it ever came up to help straight males with their makeup. Maybe a guy just likes the way it looks, and doesn’t feel a need to declare it to be “expressing femininity”, let alone his “feminine side”.
Sackbut, not asking for help is one of the ways you know someone is a man.
So what do you do about someone who is not asking for help while wearing a skirt?
They must be Scottish.
No true Scotsman would ask for help.
BA-doom TISH!
Is it possible that Ms. Birkin wants to maintain the current dress-code and her quote is a little pre-emptive bullying of those girls who want to wear trousers? Telling the whole school that girls who want to dress like boys do so because they are possibly (or potentially) transgender is a sure-fire way of deterring some of the girls from wearing trousers for fear of bullying, and a massive ‘have-at-’em’ to the bullies themselves.