Agreed. We have to step back and think BEFORE we cut off healthy body parts and inject synthetic chemicals into perfectly healthy teenage bodies. Shouldn't there be a really compelling reason for any such treatments? Why are people not thinking about this?
what an original slant on the usually depressing topic of transing kids. cute victorian kitten taxidermy! brilliant, insightful, thought provoking. thank you. your writing rocks.
Jan 14, 2023·edited Jan 15, 2023Liked by Shannon Thrace
there are some compelling reasons to cut off bodily parts: cancer, appendicitis, gangrene are three. but for a whim or a fashion statement? no. this is a logical extension of plastic surgery which started out as a noble way to correct the disfigurement of war injuries. but once surgery gets monetized, you have to continually expand your market first by telling insecure women that they could be happier, secure better mates, get leading roles in movies if they had bigger tits, smaller noses, higher booties.
then when women are somewhat "liberated" and don't feel the need to turn themselves into some guy's wet dream, you need to find new customers so why not turn boys into girls and visa versa?
Shannon, this is so true. We must protect all children, teens, and young adults from the "transgender" poison and slash meat grinder. This is a sick movement funded by the billionaire autogynephiles and their well funded minions.
I think finding out how the clinicians pushing this insanity were able to convince themselves it was all good, important work will be incredibly important but ultimately very disappointing — they just aren't capable of critical thought. I do think many surgeons can't consider whether what they're doing is ethical or harmful (and then there are monsters who just need to be locked up). I think they're like craftsmen — they see a surgical "problem" and then use their tools and skills to fix it. There is a pathological distance from their patients. Maybe it's necessary in order to cut people open. I don't know. Therapists and endocrinologists and the general gender docs don't seem to have the capacity to understand the issues. There's a blindness and an acceptance compounded by the inability to critically examine thier own actions and thoughts. I've worked with docs in other fields/circumstances, and it's the same thing in terms of the inability to admit when they've gotten something wrong. Something about the training and the status. I think the doctors are beyond redemption. They can't even recognize that they're kittens, let alone that they're skinning them.
I think your standard-issue "progressive" liberal, and I know many, can't even think about what they're supporting beyond the surface-y feel-good BeKind™ messaging because to do so is to open the door to aligning with us "bigot/TERF/transphobes." It's not even an option. It's why No Debate has flourished. Try getting your garden-variety denier on Twitter to look at anything that challenges their reality and they either won't, or they'll deny that it's real. The last one I tried to shift responded to my references and facts with, "It's all lies." When I asked her to pick something that she didn't believe, she said "All of it." There's no movement in people like this. They're not rational.
Always found it really disturbing that people are so strongly against the deaths of animals like cats or dogs or other things they think are cute but okay with the deaths of the animals they like to eat.
If cuteness is all that gets an animal respect then that is a serious indictment on the ignorance and superficial stupidity of a lot of humans.
Oh and no I am not a vegan - I love meat. I just find it hypocritical that some animals seem sacred and some do not all based on their looks. If we are happy to kill some then we should be happy to kill any.
Well, will these trans widows' stories make it into the museum of morbid concepts? How about a hall of deadnames? thanks for this, Shannon! From Ute Heggen, another trans widow author.
I remember visiting the Potter Museum in Bramber, Sussex, when I was a child in the sixties. It was indeed rather "icky" - as well as the tableaux of small animals and birds there was a two-headed lamb - and I'm not sure quite why my parents took me there. But it certainly made an impression and I had wondered what had happened to the exhibits.
Agreed. We have to step back and think BEFORE we cut off healthy body parts and inject synthetic chemicals into perfectly healthy teenage bodies. Shouldn't there be a really compelling reason for any such treatments? Why are people not thinking about this?
what an original slant on the usually depressing topic of transing kids. cute victorian kitten taxidermy! brilliant, insightful, thought provoking. thank you. your writing rocks.
there are some compelling reasons to cut off bodily parts: cancer, appendicitis, gangrene are three. but for a whim or a fashion statement? no. this is a logical extension of plastic surgery which started out as a noble way to correct the disfigurement of war injuries. but once surgery gets monetized, you have to continually expand your market first by telling insecure women that they could be happier, secure better mates, get leading roles in movies if they had bigger tits, smaller noses, higher booties.
then when women are somewhat "liberated" and don't feel the need to turn themselves into some guy's wet dream, you need to find new customers so why not turn boys into girls and visa versa?
Shannon, this is so true. We must protect all children, teens, and young adults from the "transgender" poison and slash meat grinder. This is a sick movement funded by the billionaire autogynephiles and their well funded minions.
Bravo! Well done!
I think finding out how the clinicians pushing this insanity were able to convince themselves it was all good, important work will be incredibly important but ultimately very disappointing — they just aren't capable of critical thought. I do think many surgeons can't consider whether what they're doing is ethical or harmful (and then there are monsters who just need to be locked up). I think they're like craftsmen — they see a surgical "problem" and then use their tools and skills to fix it. There is a pathological distance from their patients. Maybe it's necessary in order to cut people open. I don't know. Therapists and endocrinologists and the general gender docs don't seem to have the capacity to understand the issues. There's a blindness and an acceptance compounded by the inability to critically examine thier own actions and thoughts. I've worked with docs in other fields/circumstances, and it's the same thing in terms of the inability to admit when they've gotten something wrong. Something about the training and the status. I think the doctors are beyond redemption. They can't even recognize that they're kittens, let alone that they're skinning them.
I think your standard-issue "progressive" liberal, and I know many, can't even think about what they're supporting beyond the surface-y feel-good BeKind™ messaging because to do so is to open the door to aligning with us "bigot/TERF/transphobes." It's not even an option. It's why No Debate has flourished. Try getting your garden-variety denier on Twitter to look at anything that challenges their reality and they either won't, or they'll deny that it's real. The last one I tried to shift responded to my references and facts with, "It's all lies." When I asked her to pick something that she didn't believe, she said "All of it." There's no movement in people like this. They're not rational.
Excellent, Shannon. Thank you.
There are parallels in the vivisection debate of the late 19c. Donovan Cleckley wrote about it:
https://www.thedistancemag.com/p/gender-reassignment-and-the-island
Always found it really disturbing that people are so strongly against the deaths of animals like cats or dogs or other things they think are cute but okay with the deaths of the animals they like to eat.
If cuteness is all that gets an animal respect then that is a serious indictment on the ignorance and superficial stupidity of a lot of humans.
Oh and no I am not a vegan - I love meat. I just find it hypocritical that some animals seem sacred and some do not all based on their looks. If we are happy to kill some then we should be happy to kill any.
Well, will these trans widows' stories make it into the museum of morbid concepts? How about a hall of deadnames? thanks for this, Shannon! From Ute Heggen, another trans widow author.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQk0ekQKv84&t=49s
I remember visiting the Potter Museum in Bramber, Sussex, when I was a child in the sixties. It was indeed rather "icky" - as well as the tableaux of small animals and birds there was a two-headed lamb - and I'm not sure quite why my parents took me there. But it certainly made an impression and I had wondered what had happened to the exhibits.