My favorite color is purple, and pasta is the love of my life. I wear lots of athletic wear and I love any kind of movie where things blow up. The majority of my friends are boys. I'm tell it how it is, I'm never quiet, and I can turn into an ugly, blubbering idiot pretty easily.

I'm a girl. I love to shop at Aerie and get my $25 gel manicure every few weeks.

I drink cheap pink moscato and the left side of my room is also lined with sparkling Christmas lights. If I'm wearing mascara, the look is not complete without a dash of liquid eyeliner. When I walk into Francesca's, I head right to the clearance rack so I have something to wear on the rare occasion that I decide to look like I'm not on my way to Soulcycle.

If you read the article "Sorry To Burst Your Bubble, Liberals, But Biology Isn't Up For Debate" last week, you may notice a lot of similarities between how I started this out and how the first few paragraphs of that article went.

The author spent the majority of her article rebuking yet another article, "PLEASE, Stop Throwing Gender Reveal Parties For Your Kid," which she thought was quite a hoot. She didn't understand why people were up in arms about gender assuption.

Yes, a baby may be born a certain sex, but that doesn't mean that will be the gender they choose to stick with as they continue to grow and develop throughout their lives.

Accepting someone's gender has nothing to do with biology. Sex is the way you were born, defined by the genitals and hormones you have. Yet gender is how you express yourself: the way you dress, the way you act, the identity with which you are most comfortable.

This article basically says it's okay to stereotype children.

Yes, I agree that children are young, inexperienced, and lacking in wisdom. But they won't always be that way. As a baby, their sex may be male or female, and until they grow older and learn, we don't know what their gender might be.

The thing that really left an aching in my heart was when the author said that allowing children to choose what gender they want to be leads to "confusion, exclusion, and psychological issues."

But does she stop to think of the alternative? Would you rather have your child live a life where who they truly are is stuck inside because you refuse to let them live their truth.

I'd argue that not allowing a child to express their true gender is what leads to confusion, exclusion, and psychological issues.

No one is saying science is wrong. Sex is sex. But gender is first and foremost how we express ourselves in society.

Sex and gender are not one in the same, and I refuse to believe otherwise.

This isn't a joke. This isn't funny. And the author's repetition in saying she is humored by the entire concept is offensive to members of the LGBTQ+ community and their allies.

This isn't liberals trying to take over society. This is people trying to let other people just be people.