That's....how do these people sleep at night? Seriously. People call us hateful when we refuse to call men, women. Meanwhile, they're slicing up kids in this way.
The interviews with Jazz Jennings are frightful. The poor child liked sparkly things and I think wanted a girl's bathing costume when he was little. I imagine there was more to it than that, but essentially he was a wee boy who much preferred girly things. His parents got in with the trans-affirming crowd, the sort of people who say that a baby can communicate it's trans by (if a girl) pulling hair-grips out of her hair or (if a boy) unpopping his romper suit to make it seem like a skirt. (I am
not making this up.)
The parents seem to have regarded the kid as a meal ticket. He got his own TV reality show which documented his life as a "transkid" in real time. As he got older he was put on puberty blockers (gonadotrophin releasing hormone inhibitors, the sort of drug used for the "chemical castration" of dangerous rapists and the sort of thing that drove Alan Turing to suicide). This is supposedly to "buy time" to ensure the kid can make up his (or sometimes her) mind before committing to cross-sex hormones.
However, past experience is that the majority of gender-nonconforming children (up to 90% in some studies) will naturally grow out of it when they go through puberty and become happy in their natural bodies (although the boys in particular tend to turn out to be gay). Puberty blockers completely reverse this, with 100% of puberty-blocked children progressing to cross-sex hormones and life as an adult as the opposite sex. See above about the sort of life they're heading for. It seems that denying them their natural puberty denies their brains the maturation process that will cause most of them to desist from the belief that they're the opposite sex.
Also, having parents who are so invested in their "trans kid" - some have said it's a form of Munchhausen by proxy - what are the actual chances of them reverting to their actual sex when the parents are encouraging them to transition? How can a teenage boy actually cope with being a teenage boy if he's been brought up as a girl since he was a toddler? (I read an account by one of these mothers of "supporting" her "daughter" the night before he was due to start the puberty blockers. Even in her own account it was obvious the boy was having second thoughts and wanted to back off, but the smother love he was getting was too much to fight.)
I saw an episode of "I Am Jazz" where Jazz's medical consultation was filmed as part of the show. For God's sake, he was a minor. How is this possibly ethical? Anyway, the trans doctor was asking him about his sexual sensations. He had never felt sexual arousal and didn't know what an orgasm was. A fifteen-year-old boy. They were tracking him towards sex-reassignment surgery but his infantile genitalia had far too little tissue to construct a vulva and vagina. A procedure was suggested whereby the scrotal skin would be stretched by incremental injections of sterile saline or something like that, until Jazz was walking around with a football between his legs. The injections were said to be very painful. Jazz baulked at this, no wonder. I'm not sure what they eventually did, there was some talk of taking a bit of peritoneal tissue to avoid the smell that happens when intestine is used.
There was also the question of weight loss, because Jazz has an eating disorder, is significantly overweight, and the surgeons didn't want to operate until he'd lost several stones. It's a complete psychological nightmare.
Whatever they did, they were fashioning a eunuch into a living sex toy, in my opinion. If you don't go through puberty in your natural sex, you don't experience sexual arousal, and you're sterile. The "neo-vagina" is merely a sheath for someone else to put his penis in. It has no other function. And in order to keep it open for that purpose, the teenager has to learn to "dilate", that is to adhere to a strict daily regime of pushing a dildo into it to keep it from healing up. (Some doctors who do this procedure say it's best to do it before the kid is college-age because the dilation can be supervised at home while college kids might get careless and skip sessions.)
And that's their life, these boys-turned-into-sex-dolls. Synthetic female hormones to mimic a feminine body but they still may want breast augmentation, a couple of footballs on their chest it sometimes looks like. No possibility of children, not even as the father (and certainly not as the mother as they will never produce ova and they don't have a uterus and they'll never even have a period). No sexual sensation, no erectile tissue that could set off an orgasm.
And the problems down the line of bone density loss (I heard that one 20-year-old suffered multiple fractures after a fall recently) and increased risk of stroke, heart attack, high blood pressure and cancer. They stopped giving menopausal women HRT after a huge study showed a fairly modest increase in breast cancer risk. Nobody is even doing follow-up studies on the trans kids.
Jazz seems immature for his age, maybe no wonder, no puberty and the puberty blockers are known to take a few points off the IQ. He sometimes says he's looking for a boyfriend and sometimes that he's a lesbian, I'm not sure where it's at by now.
Now sex reassignment surgery in adult males is an entirely different kettle of fish. Yes there can be problems like the hair in the neo-vagina I mentioned, and a number of men have been mutilated by incompetent surgeons who didn't bother to retain some erectile tissue so that the patient could continue to have orgasms. And there have been other surgical disasters. But fundamentally it
can be done successfully. The patient can have a sex life as a woman, and he can store sperm in case he ever wants children and can find a woman to co-operate. This is not the case with the children.
This is all driven by the conviction that the most important thing is "passing". A boy who becomes a eunuch who has never gone through puberty has a much better chance of looking female. His voice won't break and he'll retain a boyish face rather than a man's face. Proponents go on about the critical importance of intervening before puberty ruins the poor "girl's" looks. The rest of it doesn't matter. And besides, trying to support the children into coming to accept their natural bodies is "conversion therapy" and is outlawed.
I think it's child abuse, and I think there are going to be some interesting lawsuits somewhere down the line.
ETA: Here's an article about the organisation that's pushing child transition in schools in Britain. It's run by a woman who took her own son abroad for SRS as a 16th birthday "present". The organisation is providing deeply problematic training and advice to schools, healthcare providers, youth organisations and government bodies.
Should Mermaids be permitted to influence UK public policy on 'trans kids'?
Also see this current story.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ear-old-pupils-sex-change-secret-parents.html
https://www.mermaidsuk.org.uk/press-enquiry-from-the-mail-on-sunday-25th-may-2019.html
https://twitter.com/MRKHvoice/status/1132653381141565441
https://www.transgendertrend.com/analysis-mermaids-press-statement/
