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The entire "trans kid" phenomenon is basically a whole subculture of kids swearing they'll hold their breath until they DIE if you don't give them what they want, and parents saying "oh snookums I don't want you to die, have whatever you need." There's a reason all the trans teen suicide research is about attempts, not completions, and makes absolutely no attempt to even discover whether an attempt was serious or nominal.
I don't think that it's an accident, but I also don't think all the parents who are transitioning their kids are doing it because they genuinely fear suicide. For many of them, I think the suicide idea is their magic "get out of sensible parenting free" card, allowing them to go full Munchausen's with an air of smug superiority because "better a live daughter than a dead son."
I've talked before about how many "parents of trans kids" have the story about finding their son just about to cut off his penis, but how there are no reports of actual injury or auto-amputation of this sort in the medical literature or news stories. It's always about mommy heroically coming to the rescue just in time, a story that wraps up with a bow the clear and immediate need to do something, and which makes the "treatments" of transition look less brutal than the alternatives.
For parents like Jaron's, the suicide statistics and horror stories of traumatized kids are shields, the only thing between them and a societal rebuke for mutilating a boy because he had a princess phase at age 3.
I don't think that it's an accident, but I also don't think all the parents who are transitioning their kids are doing it because they genuinely fear suicide. For many of them, I think the suicide idea is their magic "get out of sensible parenting free" card, allowing them to go full Munchausen's with an air of smug superiority because "better a live daughter than a dead son."
I've talked before about how many "parents of trans kids" have the story about finding their son just about to cut off his penis, but how there are no reports of actual injury or auto-amputation of this sort in the medical literature or news stories. It's always about mommy heroically coming to the rescue just in time, a story that wraps up with a bow the clear and immediate need to do something, and which makes the "treatments" of transition look less brutal than the alternatives.
For parents like Jaron's, the suicide statistics and horror stories of traumatized kids are shields, the only thing between them and a societal rebuke for mutilating a boy because he had a princess phase at age 3.