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I have been summoned!
So, let’s see…
( hellamomzilla )
Well said.
I would add that the critical side also simply says, “Leave kids alone and let their healthy bodies alone.”
Simply says? Only that?!
Oh, no. No no no. You assholes say a HELL of a lot more than that, as even the records on our site here show.
To say that the so-called “critical side” only says that thing is kind of like saying that a certain German chancellor and leader from the 1930s and 40s had only wanted a more humane treatment of animals and that he wanted to bring back dignity to his people.
This used to be considered the gold standard — raising healthy children. Now you’re only a good parent if you agree to cancer drugs and wrong sex hormones and massive cosmetic surgery, all in the oxymoronic name of “authenticity.”
While we’re on the topic of certain German chancellors and their followers, guess who also wanted to “raise healthy children”? For a certain interpretation of “healthy”, of course. The words “Strong Aryan” and “Aktion T4″ come to mind.
Okay, fiiiine, you don’t actually want to gas us. True.
But seriously, what is “healthy”?
We tend to think of bodily health as something good and desirable — and not without reason. Generally, it is that way.
But people also have differing views of what constitutes “healthy”… or “good”. And this is very relevant here.
Do we want peak health at all costs? Or, to use a not unrelated example, do we want exceptional children? Physically, intellectually?
Some people insist on those things. Even to the point of terrorizing their own children.
And sure, those kids often do end up absolutely outperforming their peers. Just as often, they end up completely broken.
But even the “success” stories there come with a cost. Often a tremendous one.
Those perfect, intellectually powerful, physically super-fit and extremely disciplined young people? They tend to have scars, traumas, frustrations. Deep ones.
That doesn’t mean they’ll end up hating their parents (though sometimes they will). It’s not uncommon that they think that their parents’ iron-fisted discipline was actually a good thing, and they’re grateful for it.
But that doesn’t mean that the scars aren’t there. That these kids, now young adults, aren’t deeply broken and dysfunctional in many ways.
Or that the real perfection foisted upon them by their single-minded parents was truly a good thing.
So tell me, what is our goal here? A happy child? A cisgender child? A physically healthy child, or a mentally healthy one? A well-adjusted child, or an exceptional genius of a child? A child who is their own person, or a child who ticks our boxes for what a child should be?
What do you do when you can’t have it all? Which do you choose?
And that’s not even considering that we have very different ideas on what some of those terms even mean.
Now you’re only a good parent if you agree to cancer drugs and wrong sex hormones and massive cosmetic surgery, all in the oxymoronic name of “authenticity.”
Anyone can paint something with maximally unfavorable terms in order to smear it. Like you do here, and like other TERFs do.
And no, it’s not just about authenticity. Though there’s certainly that, too.
It’s also about happiness. Health.
Yes, health.
Physical and mental health are intertwined. And I know your kind think that gender-affirming care has only negative mental and physical health effets, but that is merely an artifact of your carefully constructed and bordered worldview.
If our mental health suffers, especially chronically, so will our physical health. It is inevitable.
As for the effect of “cancer drugs and wrong sex hormones and massive cosmetic surgery”, yes, there are some negative consequences.
Infertility, for one.
Possible health problems like increased cardiovascular risks, too.
But as someone who has been on “cancer drugs” and “wrong sex hormones” for a while now, I can testify to the HUGE benefits of it. Like finally feeling good in your own body in a way I could hardly imagine.
And yes, i know the risks and tradeoffs. I accept them, fully.
It’s not perfect. But why would it have to be? Life ain’t perfection.