Sorry to clog the comments but this little story rather encapsulates the nonsense and the feminist roots. Lucy Spraggan is I'm sure unknown in Canada however in this she talks of being "Max" until puberty interrupted her fantasy. In fact its not actually true that she couldn't have had such surgery (its been available if rare since the 1970s because it is pretty brutal). However its probably just as well she wasn't taken down that route! What is interesting is how she "frames" it. As if having your hair cut and wearing "boxers" (and no doubt boys clothes) is being a boy. And then she "slips" by suggesting she climbed trees, but recovers her feminist stance by then saying such behavior isn't boyish at all! So if behaviors arn't "gendered" we are left with her liking being "Max" and this largely consisted of "performing" being a boy by copying hairstyles and clothing. In a sense the epitome of self -identification. Gender as a performance. metro.co.uk/2023/07/19/…

Now having been in social work (adults) for over 40 years there is nothing new about all sorts of "trans" and though most focus has been on males who transition in various ways from transvestitism to full on sex change, there have also always been females doing the same and in a way its easier for them to do as Lucy did and attract less attention. Female attire being much more designed to attract attention and be expressive for one thing. But it really is "gender" and "queer" theory that catapulted this from a largely ignored undercurrent in society to one of the "big issues" of the past decade.