It's horrible for the children/adults she's scarring for life but it's also so horribly crass towards women who have had mastectomies for medical reasons - imagine scrolling through twitter looking for support after surgery and see this woman's tweets. Ugh.
She seems so gleeful at doing this to young people. I agree, I think lawsuits will come for her one day.
I’m guessing these kids are paying many dollars for the ‘privilege’
This is another thing that worries me. Depending on the specialty a surgical team in theatre can potentially be 10+ people, surgeons, drs, nurses, hcas, porters. How can they live with themselves? Do no harm, eh?
If Owen is gay, surely he would want to have a baby with a trans friends who is a f-m? They have to reproductive organs of a female but the look and gender of a male, so it’s a win win?
However he ends up with a child I feel sorry for the child because imagine having him as a parent. Smug person. Sticks his oar into any Twitter discussion and is a misogynistic (insert choice swearword here, lol ).
I think this is a really difficult one. On one hand, it's understandable for parents to feel hurt, betrayed, or grieving by a child coming out as transgender - even if they agree with it / are otherwise supportive. It must be very painful when a child doesn't understand this even though teenagers, in particular, can't always be expected to. (Aren't surnames, when used as first names, usually considered gender-neutral anyway?) On the other, I've been on support forums and blogs for parents of trans-identified teenagers and some of them come across as being angry that their child doesn't want to live the way the parent thinks they should. If transgenderism didn't cause this reaction, it would be something else - the child wanting to dress as a Goth or date someone mum / dad doesn't approve of, for instance. I was once on a site where a regular poster was convinced that if her daughter identified as trans, that must mean her daughter was a lesbian, even though her daughter had a boyfriend (i.e. an actual boy) and was happy with him. She seemed fixated on the idea that if she could encourage her daughter to sleep with another girl, that would make her be happy as a lesbian instead of identifying as trans. Which seems quite harmful if it wasn't something the daughter wanted to do. There seems to be potential for a lot of harm to be done on both sides from parents and children both feeling hurt but not able to communicate why
Yeah, some parents are awful but I think I automatically saw the middle name change comment from a more selfish point of view (the person didn't say the mother was opposed to them being trans, just that they would be upset about the name change) - my sister isn't trans but she is a raging narcissist and she changed her names (first, middle and last) to deliberately torment our parents so the whole flippant 'well, they'll just have to deal with it' struck a nerve.
That makes sense. Yeah, most surnames when used as a given name are considered gender-neutral anyway, looks like this one is just trying to deliberately piss off the parents. In that respect a lot of cases of teens/young people identifying as trans really are just like the way they used to become goths, punks, emos, skaters, etc. at similar ages. I wouldn't listen to anyone that insists there's no element of social contagion or peer pressure involved
Oh my goodness. Kind of proves our point doesn't it
