'My parents were told it was transition or die.' 👺
From a Genspect pop-up today on the second of their Detransitioner Diaries #2, about yet another young female victim of GAC titled: 'I had a double mastectomy at 14'.
I am presently writing a family fable for children that I started many years ago, and abandoned for more pressing projects, in a bid to de-stress from the party leadership and estrangement battles and try to ‘get out of politics’ altogether if I can, something I have been trying unsuccessfully to do for more than ten years now.
With this escape in mind, I was trying to ignore all pop-ups, whatever they were, and hope they disappeared, as some did. But when this child double mastectomy notification failed to pop off, I spent 14 slow minutes trying to write and ignore it in the corner of my screen, waiting for it to leave. But when it stayed, instead of cancelling it, I opened it…
I got this far into the 5min video from Genspect and learnt that a young girl, Claire, from Texas, who is now 20, was a lesbian tomboy child with precocious puberty, who had been assaulted at school by an older child when young and went on to develop an eating disorder and discomfort with her developing body as a result, then became convinced she was a boy and needed to medically change her body to feel better. This is almost a formula for young same-sex attracted girls caught up in the trans delusion in the modern, trans-captured West, not least in the US.
Her parents, as they also usually do, hesitated to ‘affirm’ this dangerous delusion for their young ‘gender nonconforming’, eating disordered child, but the gender therapist they saw together told them it was ‘transition or die’ for Claire, and so all three of them accepted the need for hormones then surgery, including a double mastectomy for her at 14, and testosterone at 15.
Having read about and watched many of these similarly tragic stories this year, and for some years before that, having another such story distract me from the light and whimsical, only ever so slightly feminist, fable for children I was writing, with its’ notification of child mutilation in the name of the mass delusion that sex ‘transition’ is both possible and positive, really hit me how bad and mad our world has become. When children are having healthy body parts removed by the thousands, as it seems are the numbers we are dealing with for girls, and their parents are being told in do or die terms, by health authorities (and so many others), that ‘transition’ is their child’s only hope of survival, and I find myself so used to reading about these girls, and a few, similarly poisoned and sometimes mutilated boys, that such a notification could seem almost commonplace to me, we know without any doubt that childhood has changed radically, perhaps irreparably, for the worse, and with it, so has parenthood.
I do enough reading on modern estrangement written by obviously caring estranged parents who were never abusive to their children in any sense a proper family therapist or child psychologist would recognise, and having lived as one such wrongly accused parent, to know that both childhood and parenthood for so many have radically changed. But I was still shocked again by this story, by its commonplaceness, on the one hand, and the feeling of despair for humanity it gave me on the other to know that such dark realities had become so common that they were all but normalised. The collapse of my former strong faith in left-wing politics, including feminism, as a once, fairly reliable mechanism for positive change, since they became the driving political force promoting and enabling it, has also been a reason to feel this radical cultural change is not recoverable. Claire’s counsellor was a woman.
Still, the reality that falsehoods fly and the truth comes limping after it (J. Swift) has been known by the clever for a long time, and so in that spirit I am refusing (today) to lose hope that the truth can’t, in its slower but surer way, if not sure enough, still save the children and parents ultimately. And Claire’s story does offer a glimmer of practical hope in that she later came to understand that what she had wanted at 14 was a breast reduction not a removal or any kind of transition. Though drastic too, a breast reduction could work as a much less harmful compromise for these girls struggling with body-image discomfort based on some real discomfort, including back pain, from her bust developing out of proportion to her body. But her female gender counsellor never suggested this option.
Claire also reports here that what she was most lacking when she and her parents were struggling with this decision and her body-image issues, was strong gender non-conforming female role models. She says:
‘What I actually needed was strong female role models who defied gender stereotypes, while still being comfortable as a woman.’
This is the image Genspect included with that statement:
But living in a ‘conservative’ town in Texas, she said all the women she knew growing up were teachers or ‘traditional housewives’, which she now feels was part of the problem and like being raised in the 1960s instead of the 2010s.
This tends to confirm that the pull between motherhood and ‘traditional’ wifedom, on the one hand, and a freer, less constrained female adult life that allows for more individuality, power and adventure, on the other, continues to frustrate and limit many women. Many of us tried to have it both ways and learnt that something has to give.
Of course plenty of mothers today do manage both career (with tertiary ed.) and motherhood, while few of us live these ultra conservative and traditional lives, but still, most of the feminists (Terfs) of my gen I personally know did not have children, and most of the mothers I know, including my three sisters-in-law, are not feminists or women with professional careers. This key challenge continues to expose the limits of both traditionalism and the feminist mission to ensure women have equal opportunities and rewards in the professional workforce. I don’t have the answers, indeed, but I know chopping off children’s breasts is not it.
Checkout Genspect for more excellent content on the battle to save our children — and their parents — from the delusions and harms of trans ‘medicine’.
