> Excuse me, a toddler? A toddler and any kind of sexual connotations?
Her words: “As a toddler, Jackie always headed for the dolls in toy shops.”
In her Tedx talk, Green says that as soon as her baby boy “got mobile” “he was gravitating to things that you would think are stereotypically female”. [...] “the Polly Pocket and My Little Pony”, she says, and then quickly adds “that was fine – but not for Dad”. Green’s then husband disapproved of his son playing with My Little Pony toys and therefore banned them from the house.
> I have no idea what you're talking about, but you're packing a lot of red flags in that sentence.
Adults projecting their gender insecurities and stereotypes onto children should raise red flags.
> I know too many people for whom transitioning has been a very real solution to think it might be "hard to say" if it really did.
What do you mean by transition? Sex-change operations or "social transition"?
Because if you mean the latter then a main part of it is to act in a way your internalized gender stereotypes wouldn't have let you, so of course kind of by definition you'll feel better. But it's hard to say the transition caused the improvement because they're also changing their expectations for themself at the same time. Could they have simply dropped the regressive stereotypes they were inflicting on themselves without declaring a new identity?
I would save the phrase "it works" for something that we know works better than a null intervention and doesn't introduce any new problems.