Anyone on the left (actually anyone at all) who can't see any danger here - US health companies are some of the most profitable in the world, this is a new(ish) market with vast potential for growth - please have a think. I hope Elliot will find peace and fulfilment
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But this glossy Hollywood promotion of a "having your breasts removed could save your life" narrative (with children's lives referenced explicitly) is disturbing. What I see (among other things) is capital looking for places to flow and finding human bodies =natural resources
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*I should have said young females (rather than women). It's not my intention to misgender young trans men. Also Elliot Page, I don't know why I used first name only. I hope Elliot Page will be happy
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But it's not only trans men who will be influenced by a celebrity story like this. We know from Keira Bell that some young women and girls who aren't trans are susceptible to suggestion that altering their bodies will improve them, take away distress
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The mainstream is becoming bolder and more sinister by the day.
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When Angelina Jolie got a mastectomy, everyone understood what a huge procedure that is....
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I think ‘top surgery’ and ‘bottom surgery’ should be banned in any newspaper style guide. Cutesy euphemisms for serious procedures.
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Exactly. Call it what it is. A woman who has her breasts removed because of a cancer diagnosis has a bilateral mastectomy, not top surgery. If it’s life saving why do you need to downplay the severity of the surgery by softening its procedural name?
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And they seem so happy after it - looks like the perfect panacea to cure all their woes; o
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Oprah should grow a spine, it is deeply worrying that she chooses not to.
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