This simply shouldn’t be an option. Whether there is happiness over it in the moment or not, given that there are no criteria to determine who would benefit (anyone?) from having healthy body parts removed. No young person should have to “take responsibility” for something any rational adult would see is at high risk for tremendous regret. Is this really the best medical care we can offer young people in distress? Feels like something they’d have done in the Middle Ages.
There are people who feel that they were born in the wrong bodies, and for whom getting those operations is a happy milestone. To me, of course, it seems unnatural to be so unhappy with your natural body that you want to remove parts of it. My concern when looking at that picture is that the young woman may have done it for the wrong reasons -- e.g., because she thought that being male would open up the doors of privilege for her, or perhaps she is a Lesbian but wasn't able to find a girlfriend. As the trans women Debbie Hayton and Blaire White keep saying, no one should transition who doesn't have actual gender dysphoria.
I saw a video on YouTube made by a detransitioner who had had her breasts removed, and whose voice had also dropped from taking testosterone. In the video, she was bravely taking responsibility for what she had done and was obviously trying to make the best of it. She didn't say that she was glad that she was now a woman without breasts or with a deep voice, but (if I recall correctly) she did seem to suggest that those things suited her in some way. One wonders, of course, if the full-on regret for what she did will some day hit her. Never being able to breast feed her babies (if she has any) will probably be a hard moment for her.
What makes me angry is that there are trans activists who are glad to sacrifice young women like the one in the picture in order to increase their numbers or to prove a point (though I'm not sure what point they are trying to prove).
What purpose does it serve to post intimate pictures that will almost certainly be regretted in a few years? Would someone re-posting pictures of you when you were in the midst of self destruction for their followers to judge have helped you out of that self destruction?
I guess it kind of reminds me of young girls and women posting pictures of themselves that fit patriarchal standards of highly objectified feminine beauty. But this is the opposite side of the same coin: being so defined by these standards that females alter their appearance surgically.
I also have to bring up breast-binding again. What is viewed in other countries as harmful is viewed in our own as "affirming", same with FGM vs. gender nullification surgery.
This simply shouldn’t be an option. Whether there is happiness over it in the moment or not, given that there are no criteria to determine who would benefit (anyone?) from having healthy body parts removed. No young person should have to “take responsibility” for something any rational adult would see is at high risk for tremendous regret. Is this really the best medical care we can offer young people in distress? Feels like something they’d have done in the Middle Ages.
Joy? This is the definition of sadness.
16 years old.
There are people who feel that they were born in the wrong bodies, and for whom getting those operations is a happy milestone. To me, of course, it seems unnatural to be so unhappy with your natural body that you want to remove parts of it. My concern when looking at that picture is that the young woman may have done it for the wrong reasons -- e.g., because she thought that being male would open up the doors of privilege for her, or perhaps she is a Lesbian but wasn't able to find a girlfriend. As the trans women Debbie Hayton and Blaire White keep saying, no one should transition who doesn't have actual gender dysphoria.
I saw a video on YouTube made by a detransitioner who had had her breasts removed, and whose voice had also dropped from taking testosterone. In the video, she was bravely taking responsibility for what she had done and was obviously trying to make the best of it. She didn't say that she was glad that she was now a woman without breasts or with a deep voice, but (if I recall correctly) she did seem to suggest that those things suited her in some way. One wonders, of course, if the full-on regret for what she did will some day hit her. Never being able to breast feed her babies (if she has any) will probably be a hard moment for her.
What makes me angry is that there are trans activists who are glad to sacrifice young women like the one in the picture in order to increase their numbers or to prove a point (though I'm not sure what point they are trying to prove).
Very sad. Even sadder for this to bring "joy"
What purpose does it serve to post intimate pictures that will almost certainly be regretted in a few years? Would someone re-posting pictures of you when you were in the midst of self destruction for their followers to judge have helped you out of that self destruction?
I guess it kind of reminds me of young girls and women posting pictures of themselves that fit patriarchal standards of highly objectified feminine beauty. But this is the opposite side of the same coin: being so defined by these standards that females alter their appearance surgically.
I also have to bring up breast-binding again. What is viewed in other countries as harmful is viewed in our own as "affirming", same with FGM vs. gender nullification surgery.