![]() ![]() Partly what we’re seeing today is the generational reaction: Kids raised with hypergendering are rejecting the rigid gender roles and rules from Girl Power to non-binary. ![]() Not long after this generational reaction to hypergendered childhoods began, there was an increasing awareness about trans kids and a rather sudden exponential explosion in kids identifying this way. Sporty, feminine girls are still with us, they just aren’t dressing as masculine as they used to. The “sometimes tomboys” who might have played flag football but still worn a ponytail-she might have been able to assimilate into the next wave of gender culture by way of Sporty Spice. ![]() Extremely gender nonconforming kids have always existed, and seem to appear in many societies (though in societies where there are categories for them and an acknowledgement of the relationship between same-sex attraction and this nonconformity, there seems to be no gender dysphoria). That means that the hypermasculine girl-sometimes called “always tomboys”-who had been provided cover under the tomboy umbrella, no longer had that refuge, that explanation. So the first thing that happened to tomboys was: They went out of style. ![]()
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