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Yesterday, I visited my mother and explained to her why I had changed my stance of trans issues suddenly. We never really talked about it openly before. I had been taught to mistrust her by the trans community growing up. I decided it was time to do away with that too. Thread.
I explained to her what I had learned about transitional procedures, and how the information on the science behind it had been purposefully restricted from me to keep me from making an informed decision. I told her I felt the community had become violent and cult-like as well.
I went on to talk about puberty blockers and how the community has been falsely claiming they are harmless and reversible when in reality they are putting GNC kids on a chemotherapy drugs with permanent adverse health affects, and how it's progressed to the point that refusing-
to do this to your child when they say they're a boy/girl is equal to child abuse, and they want your children taken away from you if you won't do it. She balked at this and asked me what the end goal was. I told her that the intended path is that they will take blockers, and-
go on to get procedures such as top surgery, bottom surgery, and possibly additional plastic surgeries for cosmetic reasons such as facial feminization. She asked me if it was also child abuse to deny these procedures for minors, and I told her yes. And despite all the-
Information I had dumped onto her she had only one question after that: "How much do these surgeries cost?"
So I told her the truth. They cost tens of thousands of dollars.
She clarified "And if I don't, they should take away my child?"
I told her "Yes, they believe its abuse"
So I told her the truth. They cost tens of thousands of dollars.
She clarified "And if I don't, they should take away my child?"
I told her "Yes, they believe its abuse"
And all she had to say to that was a very pointed and succinct observation.
"Somebody is making a lot of money off this, aren't they?"
And in an instant I understood exactly why nobody wanted me to talk about this openly with my mother. She isn't on social media. She was never-
"Somebody is making a lot of money off this, aren't they?"
And in an instant I understood exactly why nobody wanted me to talk about this openly with my mother. She isn't on social media. She was never-
conditioned into believing these things, never experienced the direct social pressure to conform to these beliefs. She plainly sees things as they are, without guilt, without hesitation, because she has never been reeducated into no longer trusting her own cognition.
That was where that conversation ended, simply because we had things to do, but I felt that was okay because the core of what needed to be put across had been said. I no longer consider myself trans because I found out the whole thing was a massive scam, and she could see it too.
There was no lengthy discussion needed. No diagrams, no reeducation, no relearning what "man" and "woman" and any other common word means to fit the narrative. All I had to do was lay down some verifiable facts about the situation, and the truth jumped out at her.
My mother has no history in feminism, radical or otherwise. She has no skin in the game of TRAs vs TERFs. She doesn't even know what those words mean. What she does know is what decades of living as a poor adult human female of color has taught her first-hand. I'm glad we talked.
