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In other news, water is wet

Let the children be themselves

no fucking shit

‘trans kids feel better if they can be themselves’

‘dogs feel good when you don’t hit them’

‘you don’t feel hungry if you eat’

People are making fun but we all know a horrifying number of parents actually do need to be told this and seeing it for probably the first time in their entire lives in an ordinary news outlet can get them thinking.

Considering how many people ONLY believe something once a scientific study demonstrates it, no matter how self-evident or common-sense it may seem, yes, someone did need to do this research and publish it.

Every time a study like this comes out people have this attitude like it’s a bunch of clueless, stuffy old scientists wastefully demonstrating something everyone “already knew” but the truth is studies like these are by people who passionately want to make the world better by systematically debunking common foundations of prejudice.

idk to me it sounds like the sarcasm of a lot of trans people tired of living in a society where we are often told that we cannot possibly know what is good for us and the fact that it takes a panel of scientists to convince cis people to let us live

that’s a real and valid frustration. we are capable of recognizing this as a good thing while also expressing the frustration that it had to be done at all – if transgender people were permitted to be the experts in question, these studies would have been done and published decades ago