World to end in flames tomorrow. Trans people most affected.

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[–]SweetBabyCheeses 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Why on earth did this woman even have a kid if it’s so traumatic and dysphoric for her. Couldn’t they have adopted?!

[–]MarkTwainiac 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why on earth did this woman even have a kid if it’s so traumatic and dysphoric for her. Couldn’t they have adopted?!

I know your question is rhetorical. But is still is worth answering.

Freddy did not get pregnant coz Freddy wanted to raise a child; nor did Freddy become a parent in partnership with another person. Freddy got pregnant and had a child as a singleton for the PR value, in a calculated attempt to get a career boost, for the purpose of mounting a legal case seeking to change UK law so a woman could be listed as her child's father on the child's birth certificate, and so Freddy could be the star of a documentary ("Seahorse") about Freddy's experience as a "pregnant man."

Freddy's whole "career" as a journalist and profile as a "big cheese" British and internationally-recognized activist for the "LGBTQ-WTF?" has been entirely based on Freddy being a "pregnant man" and now is based on being a "female father."

Freddy is a dull, one-dimensional narcissist who has nothing else going for herself other than being trans and having had a child whilst trans. Which is why Freddy is now writing articles rehashing all the details of Freddy's own pregnancy and childbirth that occurred several years ago, and why Freddy is going to such great lengths to try to make Freddy's experience of pregnancy and birth relevant to, and emblematic of, the difficulties the COVID-19 crisis have created for women during pregnancy and childbirth across the board.

No doubt Freddy will be beating this same dead horse in 20 years when the poor child Freddy conceived and brought into the world to make a name for Freddy - and who Freddy now has the temerity to disdainfully call "Shrimp" in public, on the record - has left home and wants nothing to do with Freddy.

The way things are going on our planet, I am usually glad that I will probably not be alive in 20 years. But one thing I'll regret is not being here when Freddy's child "Shrimp" publishes his/her memoir about growing up as Freddy's child. Bet it will rank up there with Christina Crawford's expose of Joan Crawford, "Mommie Dearest." But at least "Shrimp" will have a plethora ready-made titles to choose from, such as "Daddy (of a sort) Dearest" or "Daddy (But Not Really) Dearest."

[–]Omina_Sentenziosa 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

But then how could they whine about how triggering it was for them and gain some sympathy?

[–]BEB 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A small Iranian study found that transgenders, and I'm pretty sure the study was just on TiMs, have a much higher rate of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. That explains a lot....

[–]grixit 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

After 10 long minutes, an unidentified nurse strode up. I stood to meet her, sensing trouble, praying she would whisk me straight into a side room. Instead, she stopped in front of me and just glared. The packed waiting room began to collectively stare at both of us.

“Do you want to know my name?” I mumbled.

“No,” she shot back, “I want to know why you’re holding that card.”

I'm dubious about that story. More likely, what the nurse said was something like "who are you holding that card for?". That should be a triumph for the writer, someone accepted her as a man and therefor not someone who would be pregnant. But, unfortunately, the nurse failed to study the latest version of the rules, namely that you must treat a patient as the sex they claim to be socially, while treating them as the sex they actually are, just not mentioning it. Failure to do either is transphobic.

[–]MarkTwainiac 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm dubious about that story

I doubt pretty much all of Freddy's stories.

Also, note that in this instance - as in all Freddy's fables - Freddy hypocritically assumes the gender identity and pronouns of the nurse! Freddy keeps referring to the nurse with "she" and "her" when for all Freddy knows, the nurse might be gender speshul too and go by he/him, they/them, xe/xir or any one of the many other novel pronouns Freddy's crowd says we all must inquire about and show "respect" for.

[–]889250 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Like other commenters I am super confused as to why the author would put herself through pregnancy, a 9 month long reminder of her biological sex, if it's "so dysphoric". Baffling.

This part is just super weird for me:

"I’ll never forget their rainbow ID lanyard, bearing several Star Wars badges. The thought of that behind-the-scenes coordination and consideration can still make me tear up with gratitude."

Shes having a goddamn baby, but she's so hyperfocused on her gender that a rainbow fucking lanyard and a not straight tech is enough to bring her to tears. Unfuckingbelievable. It must be a nightmare navigating the world for these people. A self imposed one so I really don't sympathize. Kids gonna grow up with a narcissist for a parent. That I do sympathize with.

Also birthing parent and birthing partner makes me so mad.