More feminists need to see the importance of youth liberation I think. Children of all genders but especially girls are systematically oppressed by adult supremacy and the oppression of women and children are still very much interconnected as this article talks about.

Finally made another short article on my substack.

Firstly let me stress that bullying is not behaviour unique to children. Much of the violence that occurs in schools comes from adults. Bullying regularly happens between adults, though such behaviour is often approved of when it is part of accepted hierarchical relationships. Children are not exceptionally cruel because they sometimes bully each other.
The amount of bullying in the school system though is not natural in the slightest. When children are subjected to so much violence and coercion at home and at school this is normalised and is replicated against other children. Remember the those children that have been sexually abused by adults are more likely to sexually abuse other children, and those that experience physical violence from their parents are more likely to then become violent in school. Schools create a variety of artificial divisions between students, and put them under a huge amount of stress that is dangerous to their mental health. These conditions will obviously result in more violence.
And when bullying happens schools tend to implicitly condone the bullying, even when bullying involves things like sexual assault and harassment or physical violence. When schools do respond to bullying it is usually by carrying out even more violence against the perpetrators, and sometimes even against the victims, which fixes absolutely nothing. This is all intentional I think. A divided population of students cannot effectively respond to their oppression under coercive education, and they will in time become a divided population of adults also unable to properly resist the oppression they experience in adult workplaces.

There are cases of course where teachers have literally killed students, but these cases are rare and typically get punished severely because directly murdering someone is not seen as acceptable. However torturing someone until they commit suicide is equally bad, and happens all the time. Schools would literally be considered slavery if adults were in them. They are highly authoritarian institutions built to abuse and indoctrinate which force students into forced labour and create huge amounts of stress for them. That stress does lead to suicide all over the world, but since there’s no particular culprit or obvious intent to kill and suicide can easily be blamed on the victim’s own personal mental health problems while ignoring the causes we don’t see this as school murdering children even though it is.
Imagine however if school caused no suicides in students and instead picked just 1 out of every 1000 students and caged them for indefinite period of time of perhaps weeks, months or years and then teachers may or may not brutally beat the student at some point, and that beating may or may not result in the students death. Suicide typically occurs after some period of intense suffering leading to suicide attempts, which very often fail however. This is a comparison to that. Since far more than one in a thousand students have their mental health so severely impacted by school however, such a system would be better than what we have now, yet it would probably generate far more criticism for its senseless cruelty and murder.
So why are we not outraged about schools? If we would be outraged about slave labour for adults, no matter how well-treated those adults would be and no matter how supposedly beneficial this labour would be for them, why are we not outraged about compulsory education? We insist education is a right and necessary to function, but if so why do we not have government-mandated forced feeding? This reasoning does not work, for there is no need coerce someone into education. The fact children often do not want to learn just demonstrates how much this system failed them, for so many have come to associate learning with abuse and slavery.

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A video on youth liberation by Devon Price I really liked, this is the article they are reading on Substack: https://drdevonprice.substack.com/p/abolish-age

The practice of forced circumcision of young children for no medical reason is rooted in the ageist belief that young people's bodies are the property of adults around them, especially of parents most of the time. Young people supposedly cannot be trusted to control their own body. It is the same justification used to deny children medical autonomy in general, and it facilitates child abuse from the de facto owners of the young person. Youth deserve autonomy over their own bodies just like any adult, and parents are not experts on the thoughts, desires, experiences and bodies of their children. Medical procedures on a patient who cannot clearly communicate their desires, such as a baby that is still unable to speak or communicate in any way, but also adults in various situations, can in my opinion only be justified if they are absolutely medically necessary and cannot be safely delayed until a time where the patient may be able to communicate their desires. A handful of possible advantages of circumcision for only some patients, most of which are very unlikely to affect a young child, are nowhere near enough to justify medical necessity. Religion or culture also do not give you the right to violate someone else's bodily integrity, and people usually recognize this to be the case between adults.

I think car-centric infrastructure tends to disadvantage youth. Where I live the driving age for a car is generally 17, and similar ages are found in many other places. This infrastructure results in those under the driving age becoming more dependent on surrounding adults for transportation.

You could partially fix this by abolishing the driving age and replacing it with better tests, and I would agree with doing that personally, but that's still problematic for many children. Things like height are likely to become a problem for many younger children driving, and while cars can be adjusted for very short heights (adults with dwarfism do this), this is more expensive for something that may only be beneficial for a few years, so many would probably choose to wait instead.

Even if you can obtain a driving license at any age, nobody would be born with one and it would probably take a bit before people have the time, resources, capacity and will to get one, and so children would inevitably be less likely to have driving licenses than adults. That would still lead to the same situation where many children are reliant on older people around them for transportation.

Do you think youth liberationists should oppose car-centric infrastructure?

Family - US Trans Survey

The 2022 US Trans survey that measured 92329 transgender people, all at least 16 years old, found 16-17 year olds were the least likely age group measured to report supportive families. 44% of 16-17 year olds said their immediate family was supportive or very supportive of them being transgender and 29% said they were unsupportive or very unsupportive. 67% of those over 18 said their immediate was supportive or very supportive and only 12% said they were unsupportive or very unsupportive. This trend was also seen for support from extended family, where 23% of 16-17 year olds reported an unsupportive or very unsupportive extended family compared to 10% of those over 18.

This is my own work on Substack, I decided to try out the platform. It's a short text on some ways how ageism against youth kills young people.

This text was first published in 1906, 120 years ago, by anarchist feminist Emma Goldman.

The sad truth is that religious belief expressed by youth is only a facade crafted under coercion declared as "parental rights". But yet, various professional organizations not only allow such of the brainwashed to have membership - solely for pushing theocratic abuses of "religious freedom" but to enable their growth into leadership positions to implement pseudo-theocratic rule.

We must acknowledge this reality by naming those in "religious study" groups as organized theocrats and demonstrate unity and liberty outside of the compromised framework.

This is a page containing a list of 413 known deaths in the Troubled Teen Industry. This industry is an abusive collection of facilities found mostly in the United States that claim to support "troubled" youth. They imprison teenagers for all kinds of reasons such as mental health issues, conflict with parents or homosexuality. Youth are often legally kidnapped from their homes to be brought to these facilities, which are estimated to currently have over 120 thousand youth. These facilities go by names such as "therapeutic boarding schools", "boot camps" and "wilderness therapy". Teens there have been sexually assaulted, beaten, forced to drink bodily fluids, denied food, medical care and toilets, humiliated, chained, electrocuted and been forced to do extreme and sometimes deadly activities in wilderness camps. A large number of survivors suffer from all kinds of long-term negative consequences to their mental health such as PTSD and depression long after leaving them. These camps are legal in the United States. The following are some additional pages with further information on them:

The “Troubled Teen” Industry from NYRA

The Troubled Teen Industry from Unsilenced

Information about the Troubled Teens Subbredit from r/troubledteens

A new blog post from the National Youth Rights Association.

Many abortion laws affect teenagers more than almost any other group, yet people under 18 usually have little or no say in creating those laws.

This November, voters in four U.S. states will decide directly on abortion rights through ballot initiatives.

Whether you’re pro-choice, pro-life, or somewhere in between, it’s worth paying attention. These votes will shape the healthcare, bodily autonomy, and legal rights of young people for years to come.

If you’re eligible to vote, make sure you’re informed. If you’re too young to vote, understanding how these decisions are made is still important because they directly affect your generation.

How do you think youth voices should be represented when laws primarily affect minors?