01-03-2017, 07:52 PM
Let's take a few steps back, and look at this. I agree that children should not be "taught" what gender to be, but this idea (not the book)
seems to be about acceptance of different sexualities.
I can see sort of where this is coming from - in India, you have hijras and in Thailand ladyboys, who do not feel happy with their sexuality, and they are not ostracised/beaten in the way that gays were.
If at a certain age you decided that you no longer want dangly bits, or want to be a boy then that is your choice.
This is why in the last ten or so years, I have met and encountered a large number of "lesbian grannies" as I call them - women who have been married and had kids, and then grandkids and then they decide they have had enough of conforming to society and find a same sex partner, which they would have done when growing up if society had been different - but it wasn't in their time.
As Bob Dylan sang "The times they are achangin' "
seems to be about acceptance of different sexualities.
I can see sort of where this is coming from - in India, you have hijras and in Thailand ladyboys, who do not feel happy with their sexuality, and they are not ostracised/beaten in the way that gays were.
If at a certain age you decided that you no longer want dangly bits, or want to be a boy then that is your choice.
This is why in the last ten or so years, I have met and encountered a large number of "lesbian grannies" as I call them - women who have been married and had kids, and then grandkids and then they decide they have had enough of conforming to society and find a same sex partner, which they would have done when growing up if society had been different - but it wasn't in their time.
As Bob Dylan sang "The times they are achangin' "