Save the Tomboys

Viewing the entire world through the lens of transgenderism is a mistake. Help! We're going extinct: A crying plea to save the tomboys - Shout Out UK

What happens if you tell all girls who love sports that they are really boys? (Of course then you make them try to compete against actual, biological males, but that's another story.)

This is one woman's story of growing up as a Tomboy.

There are still a lot of tomboys, only it is not acceptable to describe us as ‘tomboys’ anymore, and the most genuine ones — the short-haired, trouser-wearing girls who trade their Barbies for action figures — are often told they are boys instead.

Is that really where we are?

Why assuming tomboy-girls are transgender is problematic

I was first introduced to this concept when I stumbled across the article: ‘The New Little Women Basically Proves Jo March is Queer’. Fearless, loud, and wonderfully herself, Jo March is my all-time favourite literary character because of her disregard for the gender roles attempting to trap her. Her power resides in her being a girl who — by viewing herself equal to boys at a time when the world told her otherwise — shows other girls that they can be whoever they want to be.

But now, she’s being called a boy — an assumption which solidifies the gender stereotypes we should be dismantling.

RTWT. (Hat tip to Gays Against Groomers.)