Have you watched her TED Talk? It's honestly jaw-dropping. She explains it very directly: her son was very effeminate, she was fine with it, just thought he'd grow up to be gay. (Which is kinda crazy to begin with-- who thinks about their kids sexuality when they're like 2?)

But the dad, however, was NOT okay with it. The dad took his Barbie dolls away and forbade him from playing with "girls" toys or wearing "girls" clothes. Dad tried to make the kid act like how he thought a boy should act.

Is it any surprise he started saying he wanted to be a girl? Permanently taking a child's toys away is really extreme, it sounds silly to us as adults but in their young lives with almost no possessions toys are VERY important to a child. Susie also mentions that Jackie asked his grandma to buy him dolls and hide them from his parents.

Clearly, that was proof that it was necessary to castrate the child and pretend he's a girl. Playing with a fucking doll. That's how rigid the father's gender stereotypes were and how the mother reacted -- not to protect her child from the asshole father, but to go whole hog on the transing.

And now, Jackie is permanently sterilized, never to have biological children of his own. Puberty blockers mean he never went through male puberty, but despite what transactivists want you to believe, there is no magical pill that can give you puberty of the opposite sex. Thus he never produced mature sperm. Since age 16 when his mother whisked him away to Thailand for illegal (at the time in the UK, and now in Thailand as well) child SRS, he now has a surgical hole they call a vagina -- but without the function or sensation of a natal vagina -- that must be dilated or "used" regularly for the rest of his life lest it close up. He must take HRT for the rest of his life. And was this childhood castration worth it? His face, after countless surgeries, is in that uncanny valley spot where he looks neither male nor female, even though he clearly thinks his self worth comes from looking like a conventionally attractive woman.

The stories of Jackie Green and Jazz Jennings (who went through a similar treatment) send chills down my spine. It's grotesque child abuse paraded about publicly as something to celebrate. And why? Parents desperately clinging to heteronormative ideas, that they think permanently neutering and mutilating their children is preferable to having a gay son or lesbian daughter.

It's one thing when people transition as adults. I view that a bit like I do smoking cigarettes -- it still seems pretty harmful to me but if they choose to do it and they're happy with it knowing the trade-offs then hey, go nuts. But a child should never be put through this...