[cw: transphobia] I'm so tired that an article like this needs to be written.

No evidence that US schoolchildren are identifying a... like PLEASE why was this ever a thing

...idenfitying as animals

I'm not deleting and rewriting that again

(I know why it was ever a thing but I'm Tored.)

...

I'm Tired

ugh i hate that that was ever a thing

yeah furries are a thing but they wouldn't purr and meow in class, their classmates would give them too much shit for it...

And if there are children purring and meowing in class they're, guess what, PLAYING PRETEND. And they KNOW they are playing pretend.

actually yeah i just remembered when i was a kid, i would crawl around in the grass at school during recess and tell people i was a cat

this is how i discovered bees can nest underground but that's another story

Growing up, one of my friends wanted to be a dolphin. It was nothing to do with the trans agenda and everything to do with kids are weird as hell

“But I saw cat litter at a school” yeah some classrooms have them in case they’re in an active shooter lockdown for a long time it’s also used to block the door cuz the big buckets are heavy af signed - me, an actual teacher

Nothing to do with kids wanting to be cats and everything to do with schools not being safe

So, you know, maybe we could be outraged about the ACTUAL PROBLEM HERE

WHICH IS THAT THERE IS LITTER IN SCHOOLS IN CASE OF ACTIVE SHOOTERS

I ALSO DO NOT WANT THERE TO BE LITTER IN SCHOOLS but for very different reasons

Also like yeah I pretended I was a brontosaurus for a while and ate salad leaf by leaf god forbid kids be kids LORDT

nthing the "I pretended I was a wild animal as a child" cos I totally played pretend and imagined being a wolf in a wolf pack

children's minds work in mysterious ways and that kind of pretend play has nothing to do with trans anything or furries

My preschoolers all pretend to be animals in dramatic play or on the playground on a regular basis. They’re all also 100% aware it’s a game and also have the empathetic capability to treat their trans classmate with respect and validation unlike any individual who buys into/claims this bullshit

They tried to lick me once which I was not about tho

that's getting a little too into the roleplay