A Message to Girls About Their Bodies
Ten Declarations for Girls to Live By
1. If you feel distress, know that your body is not the problem. Hiding, binding, or removing your breasts will not solve your distress.
2. Do not believe that taking drugs and cross-sex hormones will make you better or more authentic than you are right now. There is no need to pretend to be someone else; you are good enough and lovable just as you are. Be brave and be yourself.
3. You were born in the right body. Learn to be friends with your body. Do not turn against your body; it is your ally and needs your protection.
4. Your natural body and health will not work well if tampered with. Treat your body with care and respect. Good health is priceless, so guard your body and preserve your health.
5. Do not become chained with dependency on industries or ideologies that wish to control, use, and profit from you for life. Reclaim your own life and autonomy today because in the decades to come, you are likely to regret losing yourself and your natural body to those entities.
6. Strangers and online influencers are not your friends and rarely have your future health and well-being in mind. Do not listen to people who advocate that you should alter or modify your body. You cannot count on them to support you. They will disappear if you don’t follow their ideology, and if you ever question their ideas or pathway, they will strike out against you.
7. Becoming a woman, and possibly a mother, is a great honor. Do not betray or abandon your unique femininity and sisterhood with other women. Embrace it with your own style and personality as you move toward this special opportunity to shine bright, gay or straight, as a powerful woman.
8. Do not give away your power to others who are promoting radical ideas and barely know you. You and your body deserve better.
9. Hone your critical thinking skills and adaptive coping strategies for long-term resilience, sound mental health, and success in life.
10. Do not turn your back on your family, especially your mother, grandmother, and the female mentors and matriarchs who came before you. Treat your heritage with respect. Let your ancestors be proud of you.
This would be great to share with my daughter (if you don’t mind) even if I think she’s going to resist; she’s so into this ‘cult’; firmly believing she’s not a girl and acting on it in many ways, sadly…
I pray and I hope; in God’s time.
Thank you.
Great advice to live by. This, rather than a “gender Unicorn,” should be taught in school.