I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.

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[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 13 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

TL;DR: I didn't give a shit about my role in transitioning kids until I saw more and more girls being sucked in and mutilated by this.

So I started writing down everything I could about my experience at the Transgender Center. Two weeks ago, I brought my concerns and documents to the attention of Missouri’s attorney general. He is a Republican. I am a progressive. But the safety of children should not be a matter for our culture wars.

Except that it is, and it's mostly because progressives (like yourself) made it so.

[–]Newzok 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Changing one's mind is something to be encouraged. Don't judge a person for having been blind now that they can finally see...

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's not the change of mind that I have issue with, I'm genuinely glad for that. But I've never segregated my objections to transitioning children between boys and girls, it's wrong across the board.

However, this article's emphasis, almost to the point of exclusion, of how girls were affected by this? It (to me) absolutely reeks of that "women have always been the primary victims of war" thing that's become something of a meme. It feels (and I admit that I might be reading too much into this) that the author didn't care until she noticed that a demographic that mattered to her personally was starting to suffer negatively.

[–]Newzok 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah good point. Though, I think the reason of the emphasis is that females are way more susceptible to social contagion. Their numbers(ftm) have grown way more than males the last decade, to an insane degree. In just about every way, this shit fucks the most with women, ironically the most pro-trans part of the population.

[–]QueenBread 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't think it's about women being more susceptible to social contagion. I think it may be more about.... in life you will gain much more going from female to male than vice versa.