I'm thinking back to when I was ten, twenty-odd years ago. I had no interest in boys, all I wanted to do was ride my pony and read books. Why are (some) parents so keen to sexualize their young children? How has this become normalized?
Maybe take your own advice luv
I am gay. If one of my children came to me at ten years old saying they were anything other than straight, or any kind of trans, I would privately note that I was glad they felt they could tell me, remind and reassure them that I love them and support them always, and then wait to see how they felt a bit later on, without making a big song and dance about any of it, because for goodness’s sake, they’re TEN. Things can change and I’d hate for something I said when I was ten to become something I was held to, something cool for my parents to show off how “forward-thinking they are”, something that was medicalised or broadcast all over the place.
TiM is a trans identifying male, ie a man playing at being a woman.
BIB You’ve hit the nail on the head, it’s self-mutilation, self-harm. I am astounded that there are surgeons that will do this for people and it’s ok. It’s unnecessary and at best cosmetic (although the results are not pretty). It’s not going to change the fact she’s mentally unwell. Where do we draw the line then? Years ago I nursed a patient who had been sectioned for his own safety because he had delusions his eyes were evil and wanted to destroy them. Would one of these surgeons perform an enucleation for him? He sure as shit was in more mental distress than these women, and would have felt relieved to have it done. He’d attempted suicide because of the feelings he had. Rather than mutilate and blind him, the doctors treated his psychiatric problems. It wasn’t a quick fix like chopping off a pair of boobs but it was what we do for someone with harmful mental delusions- we protect and help them, not encourage them and make a profit from their distress. My mind boggles at the ethics (or lack thereof) involved here.I was quite upset when I saw her post about having had a non-essential double mastectomy on Instagram.
Always found her quite funny and sharp - but now I can’t see past the fact she’s fallen into the ‘authentic self’ trap with surgery and can’t accept the fact she’s a lesbian with no need to mutilate her body in this way.
She could have carried on with androgynous short hair, sharp clothes and no one would really have cared - but she’s wrecked her body for good with this and she’ll have young, impressionable people looking at her pics and thinking it all looks so cool and easy to do when it’s anything but.
The comments on her post are all the usual ‘stunning and brave’ mob - like she’s the new messiah because she’s cut her body up in the name of being real. In truth, a really good caring therapist would have helped her get to the bottom of her identity issues and steered her away from gender affirmative care. It’s anything but.
This has made me more angry than I thought - apologies for the rant.
. It seems that equality and diversity are only important when it comes to ensuring that men and their sexual fetishes are accommodated at work 
Probably didn't think there might actually be lesbians on this thread.
Think of it another way: no child is born into the wrong body. Not one. No one is born with a gender essence that sometimes goes awry.
I’m not as eloquent as others on here but I got memes so
Well pretending to be a another culture is very different from pretending to be another gender. One involves assuming the identity of a traditionally marginalised group and the other involves assuming the identity of a traditionally marginalised group. So obviously very different for ......reasons. So this is why Rachel Dolezal is to be shunned and Susie Eddie Izzard affirmed.
out there 
