I think I get you, though I have more experience with the overanalysis side you describe. It’ll be important for those close to those kids (particularly teachers, parents, and medical professionals), but not everyone else particularly needs to know the itty bitty details. For a lot of us, it’s more important that you stand by us even if you don’t fully understand, than to try too hard to be “validating.”
I think I’ll take that as a “Relax Dad, the kids are alright”. And I get to feel all happy that I successfully communicated something over the Internet without actually really knowing any of the right words, so bonus.
Then again, I’ve also found attempts to make the public, “understand what something is like,” tends to fall hilariously flat on its face, so I’m not really optimistic that trying to explain a deeper understanding than “she’s trans” is all that helpful.
Erm, well, I have high hopes for this thread at least 😉
Thanks.