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AIBU to mention scrotum-waxing?

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FarNorth Fri 19-Jul-19 18:34:44

An important case is underway in Canada.
Should female beauticians be legally obliged to provide intimate waxing services to transwomen with penises (men)?

https://www.thepostmillennial.com/there-are-only-losers-in-the-sad-saga-of-jessica-yaniv/?fbclid=IwAR3IN1H7GEk9zlUFlgv2Rwn6utQgpjYFDKgpHWEaenRsfqybliZWWP5st10

Elegran Fri 09-Aug-19 08:16:56

Far North's exact words were " her mother was very against her young daughter who insisted . . ." still sounds to me as though the mother would have caused distress to her young daughter by being against her. If the mother had not put so much importance on the outward trappings of dress, perhaps the child would not have felt that she had to completely join the boys to be herself. Clothes are interchangable, bodies are not.

FarNorth Fri 09-Aug-19 08:22:27

I never tried to 'talk my daughter into wearing a dress'.
She wore the clothes she wanted to and I didn't tell her that any of them were 'girl' or 'boy' clothes.
If I had done that, she might have felt she must be a boy because of what she liked to wear (and her interests).
It amazes me that adults set so much store on clothes and hairstyles.

FarNorth Fri 09-Aug-19 08:26:03

Those were Faye's words, which I quoted, Elegran.
(You have put it much better than I did.)