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Pretty much my response.
And then they wonder why their kids wonât talk to them and are taking the advice of strangers on the Internet, or do things like running away from fucking home and living on the streets because they get treated more like a human being than in their family.
That website is fucking dangerous.
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As if it isnât hard enough to come out or even just talk about this stuff with people that do care.
When did lying and faking interest help any kid, ever?
*rage swearing
*headdesk
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That brings back painful memories.
Age 2 - First time I said I was a girl, I donât remember it but other relatives say it was treated as a joke at first, when I didnât stop my parents (mostly my mother) became concerned.
Age 6 - I stopped talking about being trans because of school bullying, my parents thought I had grown out of it but I knew that saying anything would end badly.
Age 8 - I attempted suicide for the first time, parents took me to a child psychologist who worked out that something was bothering me but that I refused to talk about it. I think that was the right decision, considering that the treatment of trans children at that time was based on the disproved hypotheses of John Money and Richard Green (The TERFs still believe them).
Puberty - My mental health got worse, School bullies found out that homophobia and transphobia was a effective way to get me to react. Section 28 meant that the school did fuck all to stop it.
16 - My plans to get to university and transition there failed as my mental health finally gave up, I crashed out of my A levels and I spent most of the next three months staring at my bedroom ceiling.I told my Grandma about being trans, she said that she knew since I was 2 and she wondered when it would come up again. She was supportive. My mother wasnât, I was threatened with being thrown out of my home.
21 - I moved out of my parents and decided to transition as soon as I was settled in. My mother tried one last guilt trip on me, but she had no power over me at that point.
In the 20 years since, my mother realised how much she fucked up, partly from interventions by other relatives, partly from actually listening to me and other trans people. I just wish she had done it earlier. Too many painful, lost years.
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That is courageous of you to share. Thank you.
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I am sorry. I should have put a CN on that.
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CN? Sorry, dont know this acronym
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Content Note.
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From a friend who is an expert in this area of law:
âRead it. It is clearly language manufactured by one of the right-wing âmodel legislationâ houses (and probably literally written by one of their wholly-owned TERF subsidiaries). This is designed to be replicated across the country by sliding it under the radar of legislatures. Because terms such as âsex changeâ or âtranssexualâ or âgender identityâ are absent, there are just enough people out there who wonât notice it in time when it pops up in other states.â
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Anyone want to bet that his planned come-back wasnât going to be transphobic? Anyone?
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No
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Fuck.
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This is how The Handmaidâs Tale starts.
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I donât understand the implications. Do they propose to apply this only to trans youth or is it just a blanket undermining of youth informed consent?
Locally, our kids caregivers/hospitals started moving away from parental control of care at age 13, and completely removing it at 16. We only find out how our kids are doing if they tell us or show us test/diagnosis reports.
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Gillick competence applies to all children who are considered old enough to give informed consent. By removing it from trans children the door is left open to block access to contraception, abortion, even vaccination if the childâs parents are antivaxxers.
This is bad for all children.
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