There was an article I read years ago (before all this woke shit started) with a title like "Congratulations on accepting your gay kid! But you still have to parent them!". Its author, who was himself an openly gay family therapist, detailed some of the absurd things he's heard parents of gay adolescents say and do when it came to "accepting" their children. One couple knowingly gave their 16-year-old son money for a fake ID so he could go to a gay nightclub. Another couple let their 15-year-old lesbian daughter date a woman in her late 20s. Others still refused to ground their kids for something as mundane not doing their chores because "I don't want him to think I'm using that as excuse to punish him for being gay." Not surprisingly on the other end of the spectrum were kids whose parents...y'know...parented them and actually thought enforcing basic rules such as curfews and good grades were homophobia.
The scariest part — to both myself and the author — was that although there were parents who were genuinely scared of the gay suicide boogeyman (I'm not trying to make light of that, just using that term to make a point), many of these parents genuinely thought that giving their kids fake IDs and such was in fact how you "parent" an openly gay teenager. They were shocked when this gay therapist actually told them they should have the same rules and expectation for the gay child as they do their straight children. If your straight son or daughter isn't allowed to have people of the opposite sex in their bedroom, the same applies to your gay son or daughter with people of the same sex. Finding a Playgirl in Junior's room is treated as no more or less acceptable than a Playboy. You get the gist. Basically, these parents thought common sense went out the window the minute their kids came out of the closet.
Although no mention was made of trans folk, the problem is basically the same with their parents. The scary part is that "accepting your child" has become mutilating them. Not to mention the people like Jeannette who knowingly induce the shit. I don't believe anyone really had to talk her into doing this.
As far as the trope about the two-year-old caught just before he castrated himself, I've never believed such stories. I know people say that kids have some awareness, but I just can't buy it. Even if a two-year-old boy insisted he was a girl, how would he know that girls don't have penises? When I was little (I'm an only child) and we used to go out to eat and we'd all use the restroom before we left, my mom would into the ladies' room and my dad and I into the men's. I don't think I ever questioned what that was about or what was in the ladies' room that dad and I weren't supposed to see. And I'm sure, despite what "experts" tell us now, is how most children that age are.
The most ludicrous part to me was always "When is the fairy going to changed my penis into a vagina?". I've heard that it's sometimes recommended when potty training very young children to actually name the parts outright, but in what context would a two-and-a-half three-year-old BOY have to know the word vagina and that women have them? If Jazz did say that, he was likely coached outright by Jeannette to do so. Kids have vivid imaginations and repeat everything, but this is fucking ridiculous.
