Inquisitor Owen
Owen Jones quote-tweeted a woman who is worried about her 16 year old daughter, whose friends are encouraging her to think she’s trans.
I’m not sharing his tweet but here’s what he said:
Some of those anti-trans activists you see online inevitably end up having trans children.
And when they fail to affirm their children for who they are, they risk causing them massive lifelong damage in the form of mental distress and all of its often terrible consequences.
Not a decent thing to do to a woman worried about her kid. The comments underline why.
This is horrifying. Demonizing a woman and accusing her of damaging her child because she doesn’t want her to fall into a cult that could lead to mutilating herself and ending her fertility, not to mention other major life long problems.
I think I’ll rewrite Jones:
All parents have to pick up the pieces of the damage inflicted on LGB children by the trans bullies.
And:
All GC feminists have to pick up the pieces of the damage inflicted on GC feminists by the trans bullies.
This type of response is par for the course for mothers on most of the internet. It’s awful. I’m still not sure what should be done about it. It’s doesn’t matter the subject. Discuss anything about children and accidently post against the community morals, people will accuse the mother of abuse and worse. The only places that doesn’t happen are moderated forums where it isn’t allowed. And even in those places, you can still feel attacked and piled on. It’s just one more category of ways to make a woman feel bad about herself. I occasionally see similar arguments levied against fathers, but not routinely.
“Anti-Trans Mother:” “I’m perfectly fine with you dressing and living however you please, but you’ll always be my daughter whom I love. There’s no such thing as ‘transgender.’”
“Anti-Gay Mother:” “I’m perfectly fine with you loving and marrying another woman, and you’ll always be my daughter whom I love. There’s no such thing as a ‘lesbian.’”
Hmm. Now that I’ve set the two similar positions side-by-side like that, I can’t see the damage inflicted by homophobia either. Something seems off. Can’t put my finger on it.
Most parents of children who are being groomed by the trans cult don’t speak online, because they know predatory creeps like Jones will try to stoke up a witch-burning.
Is it possible for anybody to unroll Kavanagh’s thread and post it where it’s legible outside the twittersphere? He seems to have some good points.
This is why TRA’s deny that de-transitioners exist. They deny the existence of de-transitioners because de-transitioners are evidence of the dangers of empty-headed, automatic affirmation.
Not automatically affirming is said to be exactly the same thing as “conversion therapy” for LGB kids. But it’s rarely the case that a kid is only imagining they’re same-sex attracted. And even if they were, somehow, imagining same-sex attraction, there’s zero consequences for that.
But if you have a daughter who has been made to hate her body and her second-class status as female join the tidal wave of FTM transitioners who regrets it later, or a lesbian daughter or a gay son going through a phase (rooted in homophobia or not), or a child who thinks they’re trans for any reason who later regrets it, there are permanent, life-diminishing consequences.
The status of the vast majority of ‘non-men’ at some point in their lives. Society makes us hate our bodies and our lives, and now they’re telling us we can just escape that by declaring a different gender. Sure. That’s gonna really work. My depression would automatically clear up if I suddenly realized I was male, and so would the disrespect I receive on a daily basis.
Kids are being made to believe that depression (for whatever reason you are depressed) is because you are in the “wrong body”, not because things are shitty and need to be fixed, or not because you might have a lot of issues. And for god sake, don’t try to change society to make it better for women, no, remove yourself from the group.