I follow a lot of child development influencers on insta, a lot of the focus is on early years. Thankfully I haven’t come across any that go anywhere near gender but there is a lot of talk about identity and self expression esp at toddler age. It just hit me there how limiting all this focus on gender is and how it’s based on absolutely nothing. This balls of your true self ‘within’, well what is that? Toddlers are inquisitive, emotional, irrational, curious, playful. As they grow they have interests and passions. How is obsessing about your gender and what pronoun someone calls you an interest or a passion? There’s a whole world out there with loads of amazing things to be fascinated and obsessed by. But liking nail polish and long hair if you’re a boy and feeling a bit different because of it does not mean you’re a girl but what else are you into? Maybe it’s dancing, gymnastics, dare I say even football. Because girls can like football don’t you know? I’m rambling again but I’m trying to get to my point, that we seem to have lost interests and hobbies and our own personalities and it’s being replaced with gender identity which is so regressive I don’t understand how no one can see it.