The additional burden
Newsweek tells us never mind about the cancer patients, the people thrown out of work and unable to pay rent, the bus drivers and supermarket workers and delivery drivers taking the risks – focus your attention instead on The Most Marginalized Of All.
With empty toilet paper aisles and shuttered businesses, some of the effects of social distancing and other pandemic measures have been readily apparent. But the pandemic has less visible consequences unique to vulnerable communities, like the additional burden placed on transgender people.
Transgender people are vulnerable, you see, unlike the rest of us. Women for instance – women are not vulnerable at all. Bitches.
Widespread closures and the strain placed on health care systems have thrown up obstacles to trans people like Tally the Witch author Molly Landgraff, who has experienced disruptions to her hormone replacement therapy (HRT) as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
There is paragraph after paragraph of detail about Landgraff’s tragic struggle.
Dr. Alexis Chávez, psychiatrist and medical director of The Trevor Project—an organization focused on preventing death by suicide among LGTBQ youth—shared with Newsweek some of the less visible likely effects for trans people pursuing gender affirming medical support and medication during the coronavirus pandemic.
Apparently without pausing to ask if people should really be making a fuss about “gender affirming medical support” during a global emergency.
Self-quarantine isolation imposes a psychic burden that can be especially acute for trans youth.
No it doesn’t. Trans youth are not the people most burdened by self-quarantine; not even close. Being trans is not a category of thing that is made far more desperate by self-quarantine. What is? Being ill, frail, unable to walk, poor, parents of small children, in mourning, afraid – and on and on. Young people who think they’re the other sex do not come anywhere near the top of that long list, and they should refrain from whining about their idenniny right now.
While nearly everyone has experienced disruption to their plans during the coronavirus shutdown, for trans people the disruptions can be central to their identity and relationship with wider society.
In other words “sure, it’s inconvenient for other people, but for trans people IT’S A JILLION TIMES MORE SO. The usual narcissistic bullshit, in other words.
Now is not the time.
In addition to the narcissism, there’s the encouraging of suicidal ideation during a stressful time. This is supposed to be a big no-no.
“You know who’s going to kill themselves? These people are going to kill them selves, that’s who! Yes, you — you over there, obsessing and worrying and focusing on your ability to “pass” and be validated and just being able to live with yourself without wanting to cut your wrists every time you look at your horrible, disgusting body which prevents your ability to be who you are! This pandemic is a crisis going to set you off!”
Just not a good idea.
“hormone replacement therapy” seems an odd way to phrase giving a man hormones at levels that he never had naturally and was never meant to have naturally. Just saying.
But Southwest88, it’s replacing the hormones that they should have had.
My cancer treatment follow-up has been delayed.
Besides, if ‘feeling’ you have or need hormones you don’t actually secrete is reality. No actual therapy should be required.
JtD, sorry to hear that. My partner knows someone in the UK in the same boat. All the best.
This is brilliant, and deserves widespread public exposure. Everything that these trans cultists are whining about during the pandemic should be put on billboards in letters eight feet tall (like the marvellous Led By Donkeys tweet billboards). Let them be exposed using their own words. Let’s bring everyone to Peak Trans, including those who have been blissfully unaware of their existence until now.
Let everyone see the narcissism, the breathtaking selfishness of a cult which has no thought for anyone with genuine problems. Can’t get dialysis or cancer therapy? Not nearly as important as getting hair extensions (yes, really!).
This page takes the biscuit when it comes to clueless narcissism (and parasitism for sympathy based on the genuine struggles of those who are LGB).