Non-binary in Huddersfield
A 25-year-old from Huddersfield has implored people to help them become comfortable in their own skin by donating money for life-changing gender reassignment surgery.
Pan Hollingworth, who was born in Leeds and moved to the West Yorkshire town in 2010, came out as non-binary 10 years ago after previously identifying as genderqueer.
They realised during childhood there was a “disconnection” with either gender as they did not conform to being male or female. After researching online, they then found a term which they could relate to.
“I was online quite a lot as a 16-year-old and I just came across this phrase,” Pan said. “I came out as genderqueer first as I knew I wasn’t a girl but also that I wasn’t a boy.
So then what surgery is required? If you’re neither then what surgery can you possibly “need” in order to match your chosen Gender Idenniny?
Maybe the idea is just to chop off everything that protrudes, and seal up everything that opens? So a non-binary assigned male gets his bits chopped off and a non-binary assigned female gets her bits sewn up (much as in FGM) and her tits chopped off? The aim is the doll under the clothes look? That smooth immaculate band of plastic between the legs?
Assessments with clinicians cost up to £300 each time, with surgery costs set to be as much as £9,000. To help with the costs, Pan is asking people for help in their fight to raise enough money for “top surgery” which will entail a double mastectomy or chest reconstruction surgery.
So Pan can’t get the annoying tits chopped off on the NHS?
“It would be unbelievable if people could help and it would mean the absolute world,” Pan said.
“It is so important and there are tons of people that are creating GoFundMe pages and I’m just one of them.
“It’s massively important for people to get the health care they need, especially with the NHS underfunded and understaffed.”
Well yes, it is important for people to get the health care they need, but cutting off healthy breasts because the breasts-haver claims to be “non-binary” is not actually health care.
“Gender Iden Ninny” sounds like a useful nickname.
I had to read that first sentence twice because I couldn’t tell who was helping whom feel comfortable in whose skin. And that’s a sentence where the context helps to work it out – presumably everyone involved is wearing their own skin. We’re all going to Pronoun Hell in a handbasket if this takes hold.
I believe that I’ve read that even before all the gender stuff, modifying one’s body to be “smooth” was a known fetish.
I’m reminded of the “Human Being” mascot from Community.
I’ve spent most of my adult life modifying my body to be smooth, to cover those unsightly ribs and abdominals.
The top of my head’s pretty smooth. Does that count? And there’s only one of them. That would not be “binary,” right?
They didn’t like either set of patriarchal, sexist stereotypes? Good. Neither do I. Doesn’t prevent one from having a sexed body, though. Language is important.
Uh oh. There’s your first mistake.
What does that even mean? Using your own words, how would one recognize this condition in oneself? In others? And how does this relate to your sexed body?
Raising money is the least of your problems, and the real problems will not be solved by surgery, however it’s funded. You are waging a war on two fronts, against reality, and against your own body. You will never win. Reality cannot be bullied or cowed. It doesn’t care what you want or what you think. If you “win” against your body, you die.
The media outlet reporting this story has included a helpful glossary of genderist bullshit to indoctrinate (or at least confuse) its readers. Let’s play along!
I seriously doubt it.
I might not know them because they’re wrong or made up. The likelyhood of anything from Stonewall leading to an improvement in my “understanding” is close to zero..
Perhaps this should have started with definitions of “man” and “woman.” It would clarify whether the discomfort has anything to do with sexist stereotypes. As it is, I’m with Jesus & Mo’s barmaid: we’re all “non-binary.”
WRONG. LOOK AT THE WORD: BI= two. SEXUAL = sex. That means “people attracted to both sexes.” “More than one” only insofar as you mean TWO, like it says in the “bi” part of the word. And sex, NOT “gender.” How can you be trusted with words if you can’t even get the fucking syllables right.
As far as Stonewall’s activism is concerned, “T” is the only one that counts, but if they were to be honest and dropped the other letters, they would no longer be able to benefit from its parasitism of the gay rights movement, nobody would know what they were talking about anymore, and they would lose even more support.
Damn those doctors, nurses and midwives for failing to see the Magical Gender Essence in the delivery room. It’s all their fault! Good thing that there are places like Tavistock to medicate and carve the bodies of these distressed people so that they conform to their preferred, bullshit sexist stereotypes! Wait. What is “gender?”
Wait. What is “gender?” You’ve used it twice now, without defining it. How does differ from bullshit, sexist stereotypes?
A “gender” is not a “sexuality.” People are gay, straight, or bi. That’s it, that’s all, that’s everything. Stonewall used to know this.
An almost useless catch-all term that includes people who don’t even want to be labeled trans. And don’t even ask about all the rest of you fuckers that we’re goung to label “cis.”
Note that “genderqueer,” that extraordinarily meaningful, insightful, and powerful term, the accidental discovery of which helped launch the downward spiral of Pan Hollingworth’s pursuit of surgical solutions to mental problems, is nowhere to be found on this list. Perhaps because it is meaningless, incoherent, and contradictory genderbabble?
The same way you join Q-anon.
“Pan” oh my fucking god.
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