A heavy foot on the scales
Read with one set of assumptions this is a story of a woman bravely fighting to help her trans son. Read with the opposite set it’s the story of a woman hell-bent on having her daughter mutilated.
In terms of the real, material world that we know something about…the first set of assumptions is fantasy-based.
For over half an hour on a March afternoon, Arkansas legislators, activists and pediatricians outlined reasons why they considered gender-affirming health care dangerous, arguing in support of a bill that would ban transgender minors from accessing that care.
Notice the careful and misleading way CNN frames it (as always) – as “gender-affirming health care.” In reality it’s sex-denying medical malpractice.
The mother from Bauxite had listened as proponents of the bill claimed transgender teens like her son are too young to receive hormone therapies, which can help trans boys develop sex characteristics that may reduce their gender dysphoria.
Translation: The mother from Bauxite had listened as proponents of the bill claimed transgender teens like her son are too young to receive cross-sex hormones, which can help girls who identify as boys develop male sex characteristics, which may or may not make them feel more at home in their bodies, and which they may come to regret in a few years.
The establishment view now is that cross-sex hormones and surgeries are definitely, absolutely, unquestionably always required for children who think they are the other sex, always beneficial, always problem-free. It’s not even a maybe yes maybe no thing, it’s an absolutely yes thing and you’re evil if you’re not so sure.
At one point, the representative who introduced the bill likened gender confirmation surgery, a treatment that is not part of the standard care for transgender minors, to genital mutilation.
Because it is comparable. It may work out well for some, but the risk that it won’t is massive. It really is a drastic thing to do to a kid, and it’s not evil to point that out.
When Evans got to talk she started with saying the bill could kill her “son.”
“He is now able to live a happy and normal life as his authentic self,” she told lawmakers. “You will be taking that away from him, and it will cause him his imminent death.”
What she’s not keeping in mind is that she doesn’t know how her kid will feel about it in 5 years, 10, 20. The teenage years aren’t the most stable ones.
Evans had anticipated that the bill would pass. She quickly scheduled a mastectomy for her son.
Aka “yeeting the teets.”
From the article:
Let’s look at this. Young adolescent girl suffers from severe depression. Emotionally dependent on how they look, and on everyone in the world recognizing that they are really a boy. Demands powerful drugs and surgery. If they don’t get that, they’ll kill themselves.
Yes, this sounds like a mentally stable, well-adjusted 14 year old
patientconsumer more than capable of self-diagnosis and self-prescription.Exactly. It’s shocking watching adults fail to see this.
We’re at a place where drugs and surgery almost no one would give to children perhaps even a decade ago are required to prevent death. Surely this level of fragility indicates a failure of natural selection’s test?
Will no one instill any sort of resilience on their children?
“Gender medicine” is the newest Orwellian term for the constellation of experimental drugs and surgeries being pushed on children. Singal uses the term, and I feel my eyebrow inadvertently rise every time I hear it from him. And while he’s quite clear that he thinks the evidence for positive outcomes when “prescribing” such “medicine” to children is mixed-to-non-existent, he doesn’t seem to see how profoundly disordered the ideology is which makes the claim that “gender” needs “medicine” in the first place.
Such a stunning and brave woman. I wonder if her daugther would rather have been an “indigo child” than have her breasts removed.