Full disclosure...no, I haven't watched TLC in more than a decade. I can't remember the last time I tuned into that network. It's possible that I never have; but, I'm assuming that I did. Still, if you have an IQ above room temperature, you probably don't spend a lot of time with your eyes glued to the screen when TLC is running any of their programs.
The thing is, some of the latest stuff to come out about Jazz Jennings shows precisely how evil this network is, and the complete failure of every fucking adult in every fucking room.
I am going to refer to Jazz Jennings by her preferred pronouns. I'm not claiming that she's not legitimately gender dysphoric. I have nothing but sympathy for Jazz.
My anger is entirely placed on the people who knew that they were doing something wrong, and did it anyway -- and the people who supported them.
I posted quotes from Jazz's mother the other day that were reprehensible. Still, one clip from the show showed Jazz's mother chastising her for talking publicly about medical complications regarding her bottom surgery.
Really think about that. Jazz's mother was irate that her daughter was telling the truth, and opening up about something that was difficult for her. Her mother seemed to be much more committed to the narrative that trans-sex surgeries for minors is a good idea than she was for her child's well-being.
On that note, I have a serious question for a lot of you. Do you think that a responsible parent would approve of her child getting a tattoo if he or she wanted it, or smoke a cigarette, or take a shot of whiskey? Jazz was too young to do any of those things when they cut her balls off.
Jazz's own surgeon was on record acknowledging that biological males that transition as young as Jazz will never experience orgasm.
In fact, one of the complications with Jazz's surgery was due to the fact that she was pumped full of drugs to prevent male puberty and development; so, her penis never developed to a stage that it could be properly inverted to create a vagina. Are you freaking activists still gonna tell us that puberty blockers don't have long-term effects, and they're just a "pause button" now?
What the hell are we doing?
If the mostly straight, cis activists just had one or two bullshit ideas, it'd make sense; but, we're letting an entirely incoherent, contractory ideology butcher our kids.
The first people who will defend cross-sex procedures for kids are the first people who will chastise anyone for talking about traditional perspectives of masculinity and feminity. Okay, if you can be a girl with a penis and a full grown beard, why the fuck didn't you just say that to Jazz instead up pumping her full of drugs, and surgically removing functioning parts of her body? If you can be a man with a vagina and breasts, why aren't we telling that to the kids instead of putting them through double-mascetomies at the age of thirteen?
Is this all out of concern of equity in sports, or some bullshit like that? Well, no, because these same people claim that height and wingspan and the size of the heart and the size of the lungs and bone density don't give males an advantage in sports. Of course, they're wrong; but, beyond that, they're being inconsistent again.
We all failed Jazz. I wish nothing but the best for her. I hope that she can find herself, and be happy with who she may become.
All that said, I'm really at the end of my tolerance.
I have a friend that I've known since I was a kid, who was particularly feminine, and liked to play with my sister's dolls while his brother, my sister, and I were all pretending to shoot each other. He's now a happy, healthy gay man. If he had been born into a radical leftist family, they would have pumped him full of drugs and cut his balls off.
Kids aren't items that you carry around like Paris Hilton with her dogs. Kids lack wisdom, and the ability to consent, and they take things literally even when they're meant figuratively. They don't, and shouldn't, know what sex is, or have the capacity to understand what it is to have children of their own, or to relinquish that ability. What kind of psychopath do you have to be as an adult who will sterilize a child with the reasoning that the kid told you that that was what he or she wanted at the time?
Hanlon's razor is out the window for me at this point. Nobody is this stupid.
The Washington Post recently published a survey (not a study, mind you) claiming that the overwhelming majority of trans people were happy with the procedures that they weren't through. Of course (basic logic), detransitioners don't identify as trans; so, they were left out of the survey. As usual, they asked the question broadly. They didn't ask if there were certain procedures that people regretted. As somebody who actually listens to trans people, I'm aware that a lot of them are happy with their transitions, but unhappy with certain medical procedures that have left them sterilized, or in chronic pain, or a multitude of other problems.
We know that more than half of all children with gender dysphoria grow out of it through puberty. So, anybody who is supporting puberty blockers for young children is playing a game of blackjack with the lives of young children. I won't tolerate that. I can't.
The illiberal Left might be the most vindictive, hateful group in Western culture. I'm fully prepared for the onslaught of people calling me transphobic. I don't care. Use your brain. At what point did I say anything that expressed a generalized aversion to trans people? Did I misgender anyone?
No, my gripe is with the monsters that are butchering children.
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