Jen!
witch hat hacker 
"how will i explain trans people to my kids" you see johnny, some people are just intrinsically sick as fuck and cool as hell, so they dress how they want and name themselves how they want and sometimes hack their own bodies to look how they want instead of letting other people tell them what to do
tbh seems like the specific hangup people have when they say "how will i explain trans people to my kids" is the fear that the kids will then go hmmm that sounds cool actually i wanna do that
chris martens@haskal exactly. this is why i think “no one is gonna try to trans your kids” is disingenuous. like, if what you mean by someone transing your kids is actually your *kids* figuring out for themselves that they’re trans, instead of doing so well past wrong-puberty, then yeah, i *do* want that actually
jonny (good kind)@chrisamaphone
@haskal
ya nobody needs to trans the kids, they're already queer as hell and if we actually let them do half the shit they want to do we would unlock even more exquisite genders as yet unimaginable
@haskal
ya nobody needs to trans the kids, they're already queer as hell and if we actually let them do half the shit they want to do we would unlock even more exquisite genders as yet unimaginable
Officially Tara 🕷️ 
🌹@haskal it's so funny because in my experience, kids are the most accepting. they don't gaf.
the most confusion/pushback I've had from a kid was one of my kid's classmates when i told her i was his mom (because she had already met his other mom) but even then once i specified i was his *other mom* she was like "oh ok".
kids parents, on the other hand, are not so nice. it's always distressing to me when my kid starts playing with another kid on a playground and they're into it until their parents come and herd them away while glaring daggers at me.
dammit, I'm here as a fellow parent, not a predator. uggggggh.
ahimsa@tarajdactyl @haskal Such a good example!
Kids do have questions, but unlike adults they usually don't have any hidden agenda, just curiosity and/or confusion.
Kim Astronut@tarajdactyl @haskal my friends son would introduce his trans mom as “this is my mom but I still call her dad because she’s cool.” Her son had a better attitude than some adult friends who just could not accept her for who she is.
@KimAstronut @haskal yeah my kid was 3 when i came out and he pretty seamlessly started calling me "mom".
@tarajdactyl @haskal that’s glorious! Kids see us for who we are 💖
Eve (?), she/her (?), secret spooky romulan (?)@haskal "£50, I'll tell you how to tell them. £100, I'll come your house and tell them for you."
jgillman@haskal “some people are just intrinsically sick as fuck and cool as hell”
LMAO literally perfect. Change nothing 👏
jmeppley (he/him)Also: "how will i explain trans people to my kids" You won't. Your kids know more than you do. Learn from them.
kira :3@haskal it's true, shortly before i told some friends about the new pronouns (but had been Doing What I Mf Want in my personal life for a While by then) a friend introduced me to some of his friends by saying "this is chris, he is very cool and does whatever he wants" i was like 
EndlessMason@haskal cool kids book, have you found an illustrator yet?
sanfierro@haskal "sick" not in the primary sense, I suppose, or?
LisPi@haskal That's not a bad tl;dr actually.
Neat.
[object Object]@haskal yeah I don't find it especially difficult to explain to my kid when he's asked LGBT-related questions. It's at least no more difficult than answering questions about heterosexuality.
I DID find it difficult to answer his question about why people were fighting each other in a movie I watched about WWI. So if conservative politicians are really worried about "difficulty of explaining something to a child" when making policy, I hope they'll reconsider next time they want to start a war.