This is the only thing I’m going to say about Debbie. And it includes minor Powerleveling.
I have family members I’m closed to, whom I trust, who are degreed experts in things.
I have kids. None of those experts, whom I love, trust and respect, could cause me to think I don’t know my own child, or that suicide would be in the future. The only exception would be somebody with an actutalvmedical degree saying my kid has a mole that looks bad, or whatever. Then I’d go to a derm, but this brain shit? Nope.
Sure, I’d listen, I’d research, but ultimately whatever to happened would be my and my spouses decision. Nobody could scare me with phony statistics (which they all are), or horror stories, or anything.
I have seen enough of Jeannette to know that she also makes her own mind up. It might be wrong, it has been wrong, she drinks too much because it was wrong-but all responsibility rests on the parents.
So IMO Debbie didn’t play that much of a role. She gave Jeanette some ideas, sure. She talked about her research. But Jeannette, as the parent, did what she wanted-and in that day and age a child who supposedly was in the “wrong body” was not unknown, at least on the coasts. Jeanette wouldn’t even have said anything to her family member if she wasn’t going down that road.
If TV and media hadn’t been involved, they all would have had no skin in the game and it could go back to being a phase, and Jaron would have fucked more girls than Sander. But the media attention, letters, accolades, the idea that they were making the world better-all made backing down that hard and his Jeannette in the ego.
This woman Debbie has been given outsized importance compared to her role and it’s time to let this idea go.
Now the issue is Sander wandering the country being a creepy pickup artist while he looks for a bride, Jazz’s obesity to cover up his destroyed body and where that will lead, and how based DeSantis is on this issue of letting toddlers read books like Jazz’. Until they do something important, this thread will be minor gossip while we wait, as always.