Originally posted by Surtur
They also grow out of it because people aren't insane and they know that just because you call yourself a dinosaur it doesn't make you a dinosaur.Problem is they aren't telling these kids that their feelings are irrelevant when it comes to gender.
Are you male? Do you identify as a man? Is it important to you that other people see you as a man? Is there anything anyone could say to you to convince you otherwise?
You have an internal sense of self, and it is fixed. David Reimer is proof of this.
As an infant, his penis was destroyed during circumcision, so he was sexually reassigned, and raised as a girl. Despite this, he knew he was a boy, and rejected his female socialization.
He did not know he was born male, he had no male genitals, and he still knew he was a boy. He was raised a girl, he had female genitals, and he still knew that was not his gender.
Some of you have had your gender so policed by external actors that you are terrified by the notion that your gender could be influenced, changed, or revoked by external factors.
If you know you are a man, you should also be secure in the knowledge that there is nothing that can change that.