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True Tea. Your questions, my brutal honesty.
Hey guys it's Kat and it's time for your daily
dose of True Tea.
Today I am drinking, once again, lemonade
and iced tea by Golden Peak, an amazing, classy
brand that's extremely expensive that I'm
positive you could not afford, darling.
Anyways let me know what's in your mug in
the comment box below. And let's just jump
right into today's question.
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So I like this question, because it's one
that I am going to be answering very organically
because it's something I think about every
so often and this is gonna to be my most organic
answer ever.
So. First of all I want to say that I think
that a lot of the times we have a tendency
to as a society shelter children a little
bit too much. And what I mean by that is,
alot of the times we will say things like
"oh they're not ready. They're not ready.
They can't possibly undestand."
But children as very, very observant. Okay.
Children are, you know, amazing. Children
as so honest. I remember I did, um, I wrote
a children's theather play, um, in high school
and you know kids will let you know what they
like and what they don't like. And they are
so honest and they are so brutal. And sometimes
it hurts. You know. But it's--- great because
they're young and they have that degree of
honesty that , you know, I think a lot of
adults we learn not to have anymore.
Um so I want to start it with that because
I think that a lot of times when it comes
to gender, people don't realize that as adults
we impose these ideas about gender onto children.
I remember when I was a child very, very young.
I used to go to private Christian school.
Me a private school girl? [Laughs]
But I used to go to private Christian school,
and I remember. I have this distinct memory
of when we would play tag, right? Um it was
boys against girls all the time. Boys against
girls boys against girls. And I was always
on the girl's team. Always. You know?
And I think that they understood that I wasn't
like them, but at the same thing they knew
that something about me said that I was like
them.
Um and I remember I remember a girl being
like "well you know you're basically a girl
so you can be on my team."
You know? So I feel like um children um understand
these things I think a lit- I know in a lot
of ways a little bit better than adults do.
I think that kids are a little bit more open
to things than we realize. And so while I
don't have kids you know I do children's media
but I don't have chi- I don't have kids. Um
I feel like you shouldn't necessarily feel
afraid to discuss these things. I don't feel
like, you know, I don't feel like you should.
Because Trans people exist. I can tell you
right now that there's so much more Trans
visibility now than ever. Like I mean we've
always been around, but there's so much of
it now.
I know so many people from my c- from my high
school that have transitioned. Um which is
really fascinating to me um cause I was like
THE Trans person from my school but now there's
like three or four.
Um. But you know I know that in ten years
it's gonna be so much more. So I feel like
educating your children young is a good idea.
If anything to help deprogram some of the
more harmful um aspects and ideas about gender
roles. You know? If anything I've always been
a huge fan of gender neutral parenting. You
know allowing your kid to basially say if
this is how I want to feel today, if this
how I wanna do, if this is what I wanna wear,
allowing them to do it. Of course you don't
want your kid to be harassed but I think personally
slapping your kid's hand all the time and
telling them "no, no, no, no" can have an
effect that I know you don't intend, um them
um them having but it can have a really negative
effect. I know for my personally I was effected
by that and still resent my parents to some
day- to this day because of it.
So yeah, I- I- I feel like that's basically
what I have to say. I - you know, give kids
more credit than we give them. I think that
kids deserve a lot more credit than we give
them. You know, I'm not a parent so I almost
feel like I can't necessarily answer, but
my general answer is I don't think it's too
young. I think that kids are gonna be more
aware about this and you're probably gonna
be shocked about how aware they are of these
things.
Um so yeah. Also kids are smart today. I mean
children are so smart today. They have so
much more access to information than I did
when I was a kid. Kids are smart, right? Either
they're gonna learn it on their own or you're
gonna teach them. You can decide which one.
Anyway on that note I think that's my True
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