This will be an unpopular thread in some quarters.
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If a person is a legal adult, a parent can still advocate for their well being, but you can't expect others to believe your adult child was harmed if they don't believe that themselves. This is why adult detransitioners' writings and opinions carry more weight than parents.
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Medical transition is not going away. That Pandora's Box is wide open & some ppl are going to choose it & persist. Some may even be happy with that choice. Of course a parent would prefer their child be happy in their own skin, w/out drugs, surgeries, irreversible changes.
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Desistance is not a dirty word, though trans activists & some clinicians have succeeded in making it one, with their rhetoric that it's "transphobic" to believe it's preferable to desist than spend a lifetime as a medical patient, risking irreversible interventions one may regret
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So it's not wrong or "transphobic" for a parent to wish for desistance. But some adults will go on to transition. Some--but not all--will detransition. Whatever they do, it helps no one to claim they are irreversibly ruined human beings, only worthy of being wept over or mourned.
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Replying to @4th_WaveNow
I’m not sure I’ve ever heard a parent say that transitioned people are ‘only worthy of being mourned or wept over’. Nor is it only young people over 18 who are undergoing irreversible physical procedures.
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The thread was not about minors, but about how to approach and talk about those who have the legal right to access these interventions--especially when they vociferously deny they were harmed.
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