these people will confess their child’s immeasurable stupidity before accepting maybe you can’t just kinda turn trans from looking at and playing as girls. well, maybe if he stopped looking at vaugely feminine coded video game skins and started looking at men like a real cis straight man he would have turned out just fine!

“oh no! my child saw two men kiss for one (1) second! will he have his entire sense of human society and social interaction annihilated irrecoverably for the rest of his life and turn gay caused by his inherited inability to process incoming information, leading to an immediate internalization of anything?”

Labels are just a convenient way to efficiently communicate the general idea of, in this case, a person’s gender identity and to create a community. If any one person doesn’t like to use a label, thats fine! But yes we do need labels. Its just a normal part of language, really.