I made this post originally as a response to to PandhandleNutter's comment in which Scott was referred to a guy and a he, but Pan has suggested I make it a stand-alone comment so more people will read it. So here goes:

We all feed into this madness and toxic gender ideology by referring to Scott as a guy and a he.

I am glad Scott Newgent is speaking out on behalf of kids, and I wish Scott all the best. Still, I think it needs to be noted that Scott did not fall prey to gender ideology as a vulnerable girl or young woman, when Scott's brain had not yet fully developed and Scott couldn't have known any better.

Scott was a fully-grown up out lesbian over age 40 who already was parent of three young children when she decided to jump on the trans bandwagon and start subjecting herself to massive medical harm. (I say Scott was "over age 40" coz in some accounts Scott says she was 41 when she decided to start transitioning, whereas elsewhere she says she was 43.)

Here Scott says 41: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrIoIyCeORXUtKk7hpQYl3A Here Scott says 43: http://www.cbc-network.org/2020/04/im-transgender-and-i-oppose-the-medical-transition-of-children/

What's more, Scott had her disastrous phalloplasty surgery in 2017, when Scott would have been 44 or so. In 2017, the dangers and often/usually disastrous results of phalloplasty surgeries were well known and well-documented:

"Phalloplasty: The Dream and the Reality" from 2013: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3901910/

"Postoperative Imaging of Phalloplasties and Their Complications" from 2014: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.13.12190

A review of 81 cases published in 2005: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226229352_Radial_forearm_phalloplasty_A_review_of_81_cases

"Unfavorable Results and Complications in Phalloplasty Surgery" a chapter in a medical textbook published January 3, 2017: https://abdominalkey.com/unfavorable-results-and-complications-in-phalloplasty-surgery/

A review of 85 MtF phalloplasties published in 2004 found that 60 of the 85 patients had major post-op complications. And out of 85 patients, only 16 were able to have sexual intercourse without use of a prothesis: https://bjui-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1464-410X.2004.05262.x

Scott also chose to have her surgery done by Curtis Crane, who by 2017 was already being sued by a number of people for malpractice for botched genital surgeries. The fact of these lawsuits has never been hard to find; all the court documents are online:

https://trellis.law/cases/party/%22CURTIS%20N%20CRANE%20MD%22/

In February 2017, lawsuits against Scott's genital surgeon were being discussed publicly on Tumblr:

https://truth-about-transition.tumblr.com/post/157626027041/i-read-your-lawsuit-couple-of-questions-youve

Another Tumblr blog from 2017 in which the lawsuits and charges against Crane for botching phalloplasties are discussed then minimized and brushed off by two TIFs. One said:

Having read ALL the suits myself, I never want to downplay other guys’ suffering, and I realize many of the complications seems like they could have been prevented in the aftercare, which Dr. Crane did not catch. So my perspective is that I will take his words with a grain of salt, because he is a great surgeon, that’s something that’s hard to deny. Whether technique, experience, or practice, Dr. Crane is admittedly one of the best right now, and I understand it is impossible to be the best without being critiqued.

In response, the other said:

Interesting perspective considering you confronted him about it. Here’s my hesitation: having read some of these lawsuit claims, what strikes me most is that Dr. Crane didn’t seem to take his patients’ complaints seriously. They all seemed vocal about their issues and he appeared to write them off, and in some cases the extent to which those patients suffered could have been prevented or nipped in the bud through more conscientious aftercare and listening to the patients. Complications I expect, but I’m not sure if he’s exactly right that all these things do get covered under informed consent, hence why he’s being sued, but I’m not in any way an expert in law, but there’s something to be said for reasonable levels of risk. Anyway, I’m personally still on the fence...

https://zero-ohms.tumblr.com/post/159517326301/phallo

The surgical self-harm that Scott decided to do in Scott's mid 40s was done at great cost to Scott's physical and mental health, and I imagine it has had and will continue to have many ill effects on her children too, especially the daughter(s).

What's more, it seems the nearly $1 million in medical bills that Scott racked up for all this harmful treatment was paid for by Scott's health insurance. Meaning the financial costs were borne by all those who paid premiums, not by Scott alone.

Again, I am glad Scott is speaking up on behalf of kids, and I wish Scott well. But Scott's story shows the holes in the TRA claim that "adults should be allowed to do whatever they want to their bodies coz it has no impact on other people - and it doesn't cost others anything either." I think when a person has young children and their surgeries are paid for by pooled community resources (government health care like the NHS, Medicaid or Medicare, and private insurance) other people, and society at large, have every right to question the wisdom of allowing adults to subject themselves to such enormous medical harm in pursuit of a deluded fantasy that they can change sex and need to significantly alter their bodies through artificial means in order to be "authentic" and "live as their true self."

What's more, people who spend years/decades taking cross-sex hormones and subject themselves to life-changing, medically unnecessary surgeries in youth or middle-age are setting themselves up for a host of medical issues that will most likely rear their heads later in life, particularly in the senior years. This is bound to bring more needless suffering to themselves and their children - and most likely will cost tax-funded health systems like Medicare a bundle too.