Of course Jesse Singal felt the need to Weigh In on the other Jesse being a decent parent to a trans daughter Because as we all know the TERF philosophy is staunchly defend the right of parents to make the best decisions for their kid Until it's the wrong one
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TERFs love to accuse trans people of weaponizing suicide the way abusers do and it never gets through their thick fucking skulls that THEY MADE THAT THE ONLY OPTION Cis people wouldn't just let you do what you wanted with your own fucking body unless the alternative was death
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Jesse is advocating monstrous abuse here -- "You should've pushed back on that and kept telling your daughter she was a son and seen if she started cutting or something" -- and treating it like the humane, common-sense, scientific way to raise a kid God fuck him
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The "suicide argument" has always been a corner people back into "If you don't let gay people be gay, some of them will kill themselves" "If you don't let women work outside the home, some of them will kill themselves" It's a last resort nuclear argument
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And it fucking sucks because no one should want to have to go there We should be having the conversation of just *letting people do what they want and be happy* before suicide even gets on the table But fucking gatekeepers won't let you, they demand proof you're really serious
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And yeah, they're right, most people won't kill themselves For all of history most gay people just kinda sucked it up and found a way to deal with societal homophobia while continuing to live Most "hysterical" women adapted to a sexist society without going Full Medea
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But so the fuck what Why should people accept that that kind of life is the best you can fucking do How much of a piece of shit do you have to be to *congratulate* yourself over this fact "Well they all said he'd kill himself but instead he lived a long and godly life"
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"He may have been deeply unhappy and constantly denying a part of himself, but that's just life as a grownup in this tough world we live in Can't coddle the kids, gotta prepare them" Eat shit and die you abusive fuckface demon from hell
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Sad and not uncommon
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That's, "If she drowns, she's not a witch," level of science.
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