Why can't kids be fucking kids and figure out what they are when they're old enough and not have any kind of political bullshit pushed on them?
gender identity forms early. parents of transgender children say they see signs of it at 18 months. i knew something was terribly wrong by the time i was four and what it was by the time i was nine.
There is nothing wrong with assuming that a child with an age in the single digits is not capable of making an informed decision about a set of medical actions that will have life-long consequences. Children don't think about the future that way because their brains are undeveloped. No one is saying a child can't believe he/she is the wrong gender. No one is saying that all legitimately dysphoric people had pushy stage parents who brainwashed them into believing they were meant to be another gender. What we're saying is that there are some crazy people out there pushing their children into this in order to get attention, and since that can't be ruled out as a contributing factor, medical intervention to change the gender of a child is wrong and should not be legal. Debi Jackson is the transtrender version of Lacey Spears. Lacey is in prison for murdering her son. If she hadn't killed him while using salt to poison him and make him ill, she'd probably still be blogging about his illness for pity points.
that's an awfully serious allegation i would have to see a lot more evidence to accept. i've been watching this very closely for many years and talked to a lot of people since coming out about myself in about 2010. most of my generation couldn't even transition until we got totally clear of our parents and couldn't unless we were willing to suck a lot of dicks and getting our butts reamed out to support ourselves and pay for the transition.
today, the majority of the kids are not in supportive environments. the jackson, jennings, maine and maison families are the exceptions. one of the concerns of adult activists is at what age is it possible for the children to petition the courts to force their parents to accept their expressed gender identity.
i think the pediatricians have it pretty well worked out for those single digit aged kids. there are no gender confirmation procedures of any kind performed on them until they start them on the blockers at about 11 and still then, nothing irreversible is going to be done until they start the cross sex hormones and they've been on them for a while. plenty of time for the individual to decide if this is something right for them since they have been socially transitioning since kindergarten.
And a meal ticket.
You can be as batshit progressive as fuck and still not be out there chasing media appearances and book deals.
what's wrong with chasing media appearances and book deals?
It will be on your forehead.
Anyway, the fact that this person goes by TransgirlMom on Twitter is telling as hell, she has no identity outside of her child, and she sees said child as nothing but a progressive checkbox that's been ticked.
WTF? so what? she's nowhere near as bad as brittney kade's mom and stepdad. or how about the way corey maison's mom is playing her kid? did you watch the petras family publicly transition kim into a pop star? how about the jennings family? these children are blazing trails like nobody has blazed other than people like lynn conway,
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christine jorgensen, april ashley and caroline cossey. they're winning court battles all over the place with a big win this past week. cut the parents some slack unless they're really harming the kid, which these people don't seem to be doing. these trans kids are happier and more self confident than i've ever seen transgender people. look at the power capri culpepper is radiating, for instance. they're a huge inspiration to us older trans women and our own lives are rapidly improving along with them.
Ole Tommy boy is a cow, don't worry about it. Peep out his thread if you're interested.
tommie is a bossie, not a bull, thank you. for anybody interested in being respectful, i'm an intersexed two spirit with an extremely unpleasant male persona i don't like to have to put on. i like to be just called tommie and leave my gender out of it, but prefer she and her, sister or other female specific labels. i don't respond much to people who call me tom and use male pronouns and when i do, it's barely civil.
When I was 11 I was a tomboy. No dresses, no pink, lots of Pokemon. If you asked me if I wanted to become a boy at that age I probably would have said yes, because I didn't fit in with most girls my age and felt like an outcast because of it, but being put on hormones would have been a life wrecking mistake. I'm not trans, I've never experienced dysmorphia. Even when I was at my most tomboy-ish I still wanted to be recognized as female.
Avery probably feels the same way. He may not have fit in with other boys. When you're a kid who doesn't fit in with their social group "becoming a girl" or "becoming a boy" might seem like a simple solution to all your problems, but Avery doesn't understand the consequences he'll have to face years down the line.
i would have to interview her to argue with your assessment. everybody is uniquely crafted and there is a lot of variance in the presentation of symptoms. the current medical position is that sex is determined by the genitals, gender by the brain and they're not hard wired to each other. there are numerous brain centers identified as associated with male or female behaviors and very subtle differences between cis male and trans female brain structure and chemistry have been noted. not nearly as much is known about the FTM transgender condition. i haven't been scanned yet, but my hormone panel came back low normal for female. additionally, masculinity and femininity appear on a sliding scale, not one or the other, as i'm sure you can relate to, being a tom boy.
i didn't know i wasn't female until i got my first buzz cut and dressed up in a silly sailor suit instead of curls and my cousin's pink dress for my sister's first birthday at age 3 and 9 months. i had vivid dreams as a child of giving birth and being the house frau with a small brood of kids and a big sturdy man in a quaint little country cottage outside of chicago. pretending to be male caused me no end of heartache and a lot of violence in my home with my parents and siblings, so i have to lean toward avery being for real when she says the best part of being a girl is not having to pretend to be a boy.
I'm hearing about more of these sorts of stories these days. Marriage breaks down and mother decides the boy is now a girl. Boy gets away from mother and then goes back to normal again.
Angry at men because her relationship failed? Angry at the ex-husband and the child represents that? Undiagnosed mental issues?
These poor kids. It just breaks my heart.
the daily mail is not a credible source and that is a very serious allegation. have you got links to some reliable documentation of instances of women who feminize normal boys without their consent that's not a tabloid or porn site? gender dysphoria is a very real medical condition that HRT and GRS are showing amazing success rates at relieving. i have never been more at peace with myself and have people responding to me so well as i have since deciding to live authentically. the ignorance level some of you are showing to the true nature of transgenderism is pretty pathetic. i have never seen an instance of that except in fiction.
there are only two cases i know of that were all wrong all the way through and they are walt heyer, who detransitioned and is now promoting conversion therapy and a person whose penis was converted to a vagina because of a botched circumcision and he was never able to adapt to being female because his brain wasn't wired for it.
