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- Feb 21, 2018
How fucked in the head do you have to be to think "so mom can force him to keep his newly-created fuckhole open for use through an unending painful and humiliating process he abhors" is a valid reason to do an unnecessary and irreversible surgery on a minor?
I can see how a well-meaning parent can hear their tween/young teen in real emotional pain over alleged gender dysphoria and think they're doing the best thing by getting them on hormones/blockers. Both of these things have been touted as safe, effective, and necessary treatments that will keep them alive and happy now and can be undone in the future if they grow out of this phase. I can see how a well-meaning parent would let their GNC kid go by a new name and pronouns because that's also reversible. Even if the kids in school won't let them live it down, as soon as they graduate and introduce themselves to college classmates or co-workers it's over.
But this? I can't imagine being told the reality of SRS, being told your kid will undergo an invasive, painful, irreversible surgery for mostly cosmetic reasons, and that the best case scenario, the "this surgery went as well as any SRS surgery ever has" cases, he ends up with an open wound he has to keep open through a time-consuming process for the rest of his life, that there is absolutely no going back at this point, and being like "yep sign us up! I can't wait to sexually assault my minor son with dildos while he screams in pain before he's old enough to be out of my home!" There is no way in my mind that I can frame this as a parent thinking they were doing the right thing and this is harmless.
I can see how a well-meaning parent can hear their tween/young teen in real emotional pain over alleged gender dysphoria and think they're doing the best thing by getting them on hormones/blockers. Both of these things have been touted as safe, effective, and necessary treatments that will keep them alive and happy now and can be undone in the future if they grow out of this phase. I can see how a well-meaning parent would let their GNC kid go by a new name and pronouns because that's also reversible. Even if the kids in school won't let them live it down, as soon as they graduate and introduce themselves to college classmates or co-workers it's over.
But this? I can't imagine being told the reality of SRS, being told your kid will undergo an invasive, painful, irreversible surgery for mostly cosmetic reasons, and that the best case scenario, the "this surgery went as well as any SRS surgery ever has" cases, he ends up with an open wound he has to keep open through a time-consuming process for the rest of his life, that there is absolutely no going back at this point, and being like "yep sign us up! I can't wait to sexually assault my minor son with dildos while he screams in pain before he's old enough to be out of my home!" There is no way in my mind that I can frame this as a parent thinking they were doing the right thing and this is harmless.