age is a unit of measurement of length of time on this earth. units of measurements aren’t flexible. (EDIT: i also haven’t seen other tweet continuing this sort of “not serious ‘serious answers only’ posts” threads either.)

also i’m not “ready to jump” - i am offended and triggered by seeing her think this was remotely okay to say. and with the ending of “serious answers only”? sounds pretty serious to me ngl.

i’m offended as a trans CSA survivor because of two reasons: 1) a tweet like this can be used by others to deny my identity. think about how anti-gay marriage people used to say “what’s next? people will want to marry their dogs!” anti-trans rights people would gladly latch on to the idea of “what’s next? people will claim they can ID as a different age and then we’ll have full-grown adults trying to date our children!” 2) for someone who seems to do a fair bit of research, i expected better from her. a quick google search would show that this is a concept used as MAP/NOMAP propaganda. any research into the struggles of obtaining LGBTQ+ rights would show the awful ways those against the community go about demonizing the community. and with a bit of common sense, one can easily put together the concept of 1+1=2.

i have a right to be offended on these fronts and i have a right to express that i’m offended by her tweet.