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Cis People Are Literally Dying To Reveal Babies’ Genitals
Cisgender people are taking their efforts to enforce the gender binary to new heights. Desperate to ensure friends and family members that their future child will most definitely be a GIRL (pink!) or BOY (blue!), they are creating and detonating actual explosives to announce this information. Store-bought and homemade devices— such as the “Tannerite gender reveal boom box kit” pictured above — have thus far resulted in a forest fire and at least one death.
And they call us trans people crazy and dangerous? These genital reveal parties are getting seriously out of hand.
Surely that was a typo; I meant “gender” reveal, right? No, I did not.
The sonogram shown to expectant parents — or whoever the parents entrust with this information — typically indicates the presence or absence of a penis. This blurry image reveals nothing about the future baby’s gender. More to the point, these minuscule, prenatal genitals reveal nothing about what cis people typically associate with gender:
- What clothing and hairstyles their future child will prefer to wear
- What toys they will like playing with
- What hobbies they will enjoy
- What sexual orientation they will have
- What academic subjects…
