Perspective: “I wasn’t trans, so neither are you” is a common fallacy among even well-meaning adults
The story blew up for a lot of reasons. The teen — or someone who said they were the teen — took to Twitter to dispute Caroline’s account, then someone who said they were Caroline took to Twitter to quibble publicly with their child. Journalistic ethics were debated and questioned; it was a giant mess.
J.K. Rowling seemed to use a version of this when, in 2020, she published a long manifesto about transgender issues on her personal website. “If I’d been born 30 years later, I too might have tried to transition. The allure of escaping womanhood would have been huge,” she wrote, adding that internalized misogyny as a teenager could have persuaded her “to turn myself into the son my father had openly said he’d have preferred.
I first encountered a version of the Puberty Sucks fallacy nearly a decade ago, when interviewing a nonbinary teen and their mom. As the teen described an innate bodily awareness that began in toddlerhood — instinctively standing in the middle of the room when a preschool teacher instructed boys and girls to line up on either side — the teen’s mother kept turning the conversation back to the superficial matter of clothing.
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