LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Just be yourself in your body
Attention, young people: The folks in your schools with the "genderbread" diagrams are confusing you on purpose. It's a scam. Don't fall for it.
You were born male or female. This reality was recognized and duly recorded. A gender was not "assigned" to you as though plucked from a hat. The eyeball test conducted at the moment of your birth is 99.982% accurate, a lower rate of error than many lab tests.
"Male" and "female" are just words to describe the reality of human reproductive dimorphism-a thing that existed before the human race invented language. It only describes your body.
Neither of the two sexes (there are only two) comes with an inherent set of colors, hobbies, interests or activities. We used to call that sort of idea "sexist."
Nowadays, it is fashionable to say that "gender" is some sort of inner sense of self that makes you like certain games, toys, sports, haircuts, clothes, etc., rather than others.
This is not "gender," however. It is called "having a personality."
No one is "born in the wrong body." The scammers want you to become a $500,000 lifetime medical profit-center by telling you otherwise. But we don't have to adopt interesting new pronouns to become the people we already are.
Just be yourself in your body. Never trust anyone who suggests you are anything else.
Matt Osborne Florence
Source: twitter.com