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let’s just hope this Shawn fella overplays his mentally ill hand early and peak transes the entire Biden administration before inauguration.
yep, yep, gimme rainbows if you must, but it’s usually contact with a troon that sends normies off down the trans ally to terve pipeline.
perhaps Shawn will use black women as an argument pawn (ie ‘black women have on average, higher bone density than white women, thus mentally ill men are ENTITLED to all the sports trophies’) and Kamala will have him Michael Cohened?
edit to avoid double post:
the pronouns in bio thing was group think in action. Kamala looks like a tit now because she’s the last one standing: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/...s-day-twitter-elizabeth-warren-julian-castro/
yep, yep, gimme rainbows if you must, but it’s usually contact with a troon that sends normies off down the trans ally to terve pipeline.
perhaps Shawn will use black women as an argument pawn (ie ‘black women have on average, higher bone density than white women, thus mentally ill men are ENTITLED to all the sports trophies’) and Kamala will have him Michael Cohened?
edit to avoid double post:
the pronouns in bio thing was group think in action. Kamala looks like a tit now because she’s the last one standing: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/10/...s-day-twitter-elizabeth-warren-julian-castro/
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This is funny. The story goes that tranny is so hot he has caused several mass-shootings at weddings in Pakistan. However there is an underlying subtext that he ripped people off, which is par for the course for trannies all over the planet:
Helen of Troy meet Chahat from Kohat. In a development that appears straight out of a tragicomedy, a member of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa cabinet has ordered the expulsion of the transgender dancer from the district for being a ‘threat to law and order’.
In a statement issued earlier this week, the K-P chief minister’s science adviser Ziaullah Bangash also directed the district administration and police to take legal action against Chahat. The orders were issued after the dancer was termed responsible for the death of five persons during a wedding function.
The incident is said to have involved two parties, both of which took a liking to and sought the attention of Chahat. Reportedly, one of the parties became enraged seeing Chahat spend too much time with the other. An exchange of fire subsequently erupted, that left five dead and three others injured.
“This is something common. One party wanted Chahat to be with them during the wedding and the other party wasn’t happy with this. This is what caused the exchange of fire,” Cantt Police Station House Officer Qismat Khan told The Express Tribune.
Locals claimed this was far from an isolated incident, as some 19 people in total have died in similar circumstances at several weddings. According to them, Chahat had been invited to dance at all of them.
“They [Chahat and other transgender community members] tend to invite certain friends of theirs from other areas to functions they are asked to perform in,” a senior police official said. “The motivation is that the presence of their ‘friends’ will help them generate more money.”
“But this creates a conflict of interest,” the official added. “They end up in a situation where they both owe time to the people they invite and the people who asked them to perform at the function in the first place. One side inevitably finds itself ‘unfairly neglected’."
When contacted, Ziaullah Bangash said orders for Chahat’s expulsion were issued because of pressure from locals.
“I was in the district to offer prayers for the deceased and I was surrounded by locals who insisted that they would take matters into their own hand if the government didn’t offer a solution,” he told The Express Tribune.
“The crowd was charged and I feared this would have an impact on the law and order situation. This was why I issued these orders just to pacify the situation,” he added.
Kohat Police has decided to expel famous dancer Chahat and her colleagues from the district under Maintenance of Public Order law after a firing incident at a music program in which five persons had lost their lives.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister’s Adviser on Science and Information Technology Ziaullah Bangash has directed the deputy commissioner and district police officer (DPO) to conduct thorough investigation into the firing incident at the music program in Kaghazi area of Kohat and take strict action against the culprits.
On Monday, Ziaullah Bangash visited the residence of those who lost their lives in the incident to offer condolence with the bereaved families. The area elders and notables demanded action against dancer Chahat and her colleagues who, according to them, are creating problems in the area by indulging into controversial things. The elders alleged that it were the dancers at the party who triggered the fight which eventually resulted into the loss of precious lives.
Ziaullah Bangash directed the police and district administration to expel Chahat and her friends from Kohat under the MPO law and take action against them under the law. The CM’s adviser said no one will be allowed to disturb peaceful environment in Kohat and rest of KP. The area elders alleged that the dancers cause problems at functions, therefore, their activities must be banned.
Ziaullah Bangash confirmed the demand from the area elders, saying that they have demanded ban on such music programs which invite female dancers. He said the elders are of the view that such music programs are causing problems of law and order.
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This is in Urdu or something but it probably explains what happened.
There's an interview with the expelled tranny here:
It says he is a eunuch; I think in these countries trannies tend to get their balls chopped off for about 50 cents when they are teenagers.
I had a look through a whole bunch of FB / YT stuff, and it seems like they get these trannies in to wedding parties where they are watched by (exclusively) men. The men wear their traditional goat-fucking Mohammadean clothes, and there are no vagina people anywhere to be seen.
Some idiot Democrat will no doubt tell us how enlightened Pakistani goat fuckers who bring AK47s to wedding parties before shooting each over which one has the right to the hired man-pussy.
I can only imagine that if they let any actual dancers with vaginas dance at these parties, they'd be raped and murdered, so they have to make do with trannies as substitutes.
Some social media links to them and their associates:
Remember that castrating gay males is super-progressive, and if America follows the example of enlightened societies such as Pakistan and Iran, then we can enjoy similar in the future.
Pakistan is a failed Islamo-state, and this part is within the areas of Taliban influence.
Someone should tell them that traps are gay and that the Sharia punishment for liwat is death.
Helen of Troy meet Chahat from Kohat. In a development that appears straight out of a tragicomedy, a member of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa cabinet has ordered the expulsion of the transgender dancer from the district for being a ‘threat to law and order’.
In a statement issued earlier this week, the K-P chief minister’s science adviser Ziaullah Bangash also directed the district administration and police to take legal action against Chahat. The orders were issued after the dancer was termed responsible for the death of five persons during a wedding function.
The incident is said to have involved two parties, both of which took a liking to and sought the attention of Chahat. Reportedly, one of the parties became enraged seeing Chahat spend too much time with the other. An exchange of fire subsequently erupted, that left five dead and three others injured.
“This is something common. One party wanted Chahat to be with them during the wedding and the other party wasn’t happy with this. This is what caused the exchange of fire,” Cantt Police Station House Officer Qismat Khan told The Express Tribune.
Locals claimed this was far from an isolated incident, as some 19 people in total have died in similar circumstances at several weddings. According to them, Chahat had been invited to dance at all of them.
“They [Chahat and other transgender community members] tend to invite certain friends of theirs from other areas to functions they are asked to perform in,” a senior police official said. “The motivation is that the presence of their ‘friends’ will help them generate more money.”
“But this creates a conflict of interest,” the official added. “They end up in a situation where they both owe time to the people they invite and the people who asked them to perform at the function in the first place. One side inevitably finds itself ‘unfairly neglected’."
When contacted, Ziaullah Bangash said orders for Chahat’s expulsion were issued because of pressure from locals.
“I was in the district to offer prayers for the deceased and I was surrounded by locals who insisted that they would take matters into their own hand if the government didn’t offer a solution,” he told The Express Tribune.
“The crowd was charged and I feared this would have an impact on the law and order situation. This was why I issued these orders just to pacify the situation,” he added.
Kohat Police has decided to expel famous dancer Chahat and her colleagues from the district under Maintenance of Public Order law after a firing incident at a music program in which five persons had lost their lives.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister’s Adviser on Science and Information Technology Ziaullah Bangash has directed the deputy commissioner and district police officer (DPO) to conduct thorough investigation into the firing incident at the music program in Kaghazi area of Kohat and take strict action against the culprits.
On Monday, Ziaullah Bangash visited the residence of those who lost their lives in the incident to offer condolence with the bereaved families. The area elders and notables demanded action against dancer Chahat and her colleagues who, according to them, are creating problems in the area by indulging into controversial things. The elders alleged that it were the dancers at the party who triggered the fight which eventually resulted into the loss of precious lives.
Ziaullah Bangash directed the police and district administration to expel Chahat and her friends from Kohat under the MPO law and take action against them under the law. The CM’s adviser said no one will be allowed to disturb peaceful environment in Kohat and rest of KP. The area elders alleged that the dancers cause problems at functions, therefore, their activities must be banned.
Ziaullah Bangash confirmed the demand from the area elders, saying that they have demanded ban on such music programs which invite female dancers. He said the elders are of the view that such music programs are causing problems of law and order.
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This is in Urdu or something but it probably explains what happened.
There's an interview with the expelled tranny here:
It says he is a eunuch; I think in these countries trannies tend to get their balls chopped off for about 50 cents when they are teenagers.
I had a look through a whole bunch of FB / YT stuff, and it seems like they get these trannies in to wedding parties where they are watched by (exclusively) men. The men wear their traditional goat-fucking Mohammadean clothes, and there are no vagina people anywhere to be seen.
Some idiot Democrat will no doubt tell us how enlightened Pakistani goat fuckers who bring AK47s to wedding parties before shooting each over which one has the right to the hired man-pussy.
I can only imagine that if they let any actual dancers with vaginas dance at these parties, they'd be raped and murdered, so they have to make do with trannies as substitutes.
Some social media links to them and their associates:
Remember that castrating gay males is super-progressive, and if America follows the example of enlightened societies such as Pakistan and Iran, then we can enjoy similar in the future.
Pakistan is a failed Islamo-state, and this part is within the areas of Taliban influence.
Someone should tell them that traps are gay and that the Sharia punishment for liwat is death.
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Surely race is still the civil rights issue of our time, as it has been for decades? Wouldn't this Summer's BLM activities attest to being the most pressing issue? People aren't protesting or rioting on the back of dead transgender people. African Americans make up about 15% of the US population - whereas the figures for transgender people seems to be around 0.5%. Surely to focus on the 15% initially would have a larger impact on the progression of civil rights? Regardless of whether somebody agrees with the BLM movement and ethos, just from a logical point of view it makes sense to do it this way. If you are on a boat and there is a hole in it the size of a bowling ball and one the size of a pea, you deal with the bowling-ball-sized hole first... Ahhh who am I kidding, Biden is just pandering to whatever his handlers think make him look good - I can't trust a career politician to actually hold solid personal positions and values, but instead to walk the tightrope of saying the right things but not going too far that they can't be walked back if the wind changes direction.
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Very few trans supporters have any idea what trans really are, do, and want. Biden is no exception. He thinks they’re just gigagays, so fucking gay that they cannot function in society. The absolute gayest of gays, so weak and gay and effeminate that other men instinctively just want to destroy them for being such complete gays. Thus, he perceives these gigagays dressing up like girls to be protective camouflage.
And being so fucking old and unable to do his own research on topics like this, he’s going to be entirely unable to do anything except give in to the extremists.
And being so fucking old and unable to do his own research on topics like this, he’s going to be entirely unable to do anything except give in to the extremists.
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Joe Biden stood up to the Pharaoh and said "Let those tranners go! My son needs a footjob while smoking that sweet, sweet nigger rock!"
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What makes you guys so sure the dems were "captured" by the trans lobby, and just aren't batshit?
Do you think they were "captured" by black, female and gay/lesbian lobbies as well?
Do you think they were "captured" by black, female and gay/lesbian lobbies as well?
round robin
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Did you forget about this?
This was everywhere during the BLM protests and all over some tranny who got killed by other blacks, not even police lol.
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Well to an extent yes, but blacks, females, and gays and lesbians have always been around. Tranny shit has not. The institutional capture has been extreme, accelerated, and can be observed in every western democracy. The Dems, like their sibling parties in the UK and much of the rest of Europe, are the political group in their respective countries most easily captured by a parasitic kink group masquerading as The Most Vulnerable. The right does not fetishize and thus encourage vulnerability. Vulnerability, to the liberals, is the most desired attribute to claim, because it elevates you and makes you untouchable.
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It gives political leaders a non-issue they can get voters to fixate on. "We can't handle poverty and homelessness (things that affect tens of millions) until we reach some arbitrary, undefined point regarding black trans women (affecting hundreds, maybe a few thousand). If you compare how many homeless are killed, or how many people who died of poverty and then compare it to how many trans women (or more specifically black trans women) are murdered, then the pressing issue becomes obvious. But saying black trans women are being murdered and you disapprove of that is easier than saying we need to pull 10s of millions out of poverty and following up on it.
Tranny shit has been around for quite some time, it just never got the center spotlight.
Norway makes "transphobic" speech illegal
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Cross-dressing kinks have been around. There were mollie houses in 17th+ century England, there were Roman emperors with the kink.
To compare that to modern political troonery is...nah. Even though the roots of this can be traced to the 70s, the accelerationism really took off between 2013 and 2015.
Race, sex, and sexual orientation have always been around. Cross dressing as a kink probably has a lineage similar to a lot of kinks. But troonery, no. An Otherkin it is illegal to laugh at. That is what a troon is.
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The difference is that the movement didn't start as Black Trans Lives Matter. It started as Black Lives Matter and then the trans lobby and ultra-wokes piggybacked in on the movement to try to force their agenda rather than one of general racial equity/equality/whatever. If the movement had been solely BTLM at the start, it wouldn't have reached the scale of activity that BLM has reached. I agree the trans aspect was very visible during the BLM protests, but I think part of that is because of them being used by woke people and the media for photo opportunities etc. The trans movement are just trying to force themselves into an existing movement and center themselves as the most oppressed and therefore most important. See also the new pride flag that features trans and BLM colors taking over nearly half of the existing rainbow flag - the rainbow flag that was supposed to represent everyone in the LGBT community regardless of which letter they fit into and what ethnicity they are.
round robin
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Yeah.
It's really blatant and ugly. Note the fact that the BLM/trans colours are bisecting the existing flag, symbolic of a group of people forcing their way into something they don't belong in.
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Or find out who molested them.
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EDIT: Target has restored the book. Never saw the coming.
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Transphobe had her book removed by Target. A victory for Peace, Love and Understanding!
As an aside, the tranny who brought the book to Target's attention has privated its account, but there are claims in that Twitter thread that it has called for and praised the death of police officers. Unfortunately it is privated in the archive somebody else did as well.
Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters - The book in question. Still available at Amazon and Wal-Mart. For now.
Interview on Joe Rogan
Some of the more thoughtful GoodReads reviews...
Edit: This might be the start of something. SJWs getting salty. Guess the Nazi bookburning comparisons are hitting a bit too close to home.
edit2: write up in the Federalist.
Target Swiftly Bans Book On Behalf Of Anonymous Twitter User Crying ‘Transphobia’
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Transphobe had her book removed by Target. A victory for Peace, Love and Understanding!
As an aside, the tranny who brought the book to Target's attention has privated its account, but there are claims in that Twitter thread that it has called for and praised the death of police officers. Unfortunately it is privated in the archive somebody else did as well.
Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters - The book in question. Still available at Amazon and Wal-Mart. For now.
Interview on Joe Rogan
Some of the more thoughtful GoodReads reviews...
Edit: This might be the start of something. SJWs getting salty. Guess the Nazi bookburning comparisons are hitting a bit too close to home.
edit2: write up in the Federalist.
Target Swiftly Bans Book On Behalf Of Anonymous Twitter User Crying ‘Transphobia’
Target Swiftly Bans Book On Behalf Of Anonymous Twitter User Crying ‘Transphobia’
Target Swiftly Bans Book On Behalf Of Anonymous Twitter User Crying ‘Transphobia’
NOVEMBER 13, 2020 By Madeline Osburn
An official Target company Twitter account announced Thursday they had removed author Abigail Shrier’s book, “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters” from the retailer’s “assortment” after an unverified Twitter user complained the book questions transgender ideology,
especially the concept of irreversible hormonal and surgical experimentation on minors.
“I think the trans community deserves a response from @AskTarget @Target as to why they are selling this book about the ‘transgender epidemic sweeping the country.’ Trigger warning: Transphobia,” wrote the user.
Target thanked the user for bringing Shrier’s book to their attention.
Target did not respond to The Federalist’s request for comment on the reason for removing the book, nor whether the book would be removed from store shelves and online.
Shrier’s book is not about sexual orientation or transgender adults. It examines the growing social phenomenon of transgender identification among teen girls and how underage medical “transitions” can be a form of self-harm.
“Girls who might have encouraged each other in bulimia, anorexia or cutting are today deciding they have ‘gender dysphoria,’ pushing for hormones and surgeries—and easily obtaining them,” writes Shrier.
Target is not the first corporate entity to censor Shirer’s book. When the book was released in June, Amazon barred Shrier’s publisher from running ads for the book because it contained copy and content that “infers or claims to diagnose, treat, or question sexual orientation.”
After Target’s announcement, Shrier noted the retailer’s eagerness to make books disappear on behalf of woke activists.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a feminist and human rights activist, tweeted that she was horrified by Target’s actions.
Watch Abigail Shrier discuss her book on The Federalist Radio Hour here:
An official Target company Twitter account announced Thursday they had removed author Abigail Shrier’s book, “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters” from the retailer’s “assortment” after an unverified Twitter user complained the book questions transgender ideology,
especially the concept of irreversible hormonal and surgical experimentation on minors.
“I think the trans community deserves a response from @AskTarget @Target as to why they are selling this book about the ‘transgender epidemic sweeping the country.’ Trigger warning: Transphobia,” wrote the user.
Target thanked the user for bringing Shrier’s book to their attention.
Target did not respond to The Federalist’s request for comment on the reason for removing the book, nor whether the book would be removed from store shelves and online.
Shrier’s book is not about sexual orientation or transgender adults. It examines the growing social phenomenon of transgender identification among teen girls and how underage medical “transitions” can be a form of self-harm.
“Girls who might have encouraged each other in bulimia, anorexia or cutting are today deciding they have ‘gender dysphoria,’ pushing for hormones and surgeries—and easily obtaining them,” writes Shrier.
Target is not the first corporate entity to censor Shirer’s book. When the book was released in June, Amazon barred Shrier’s publisher from running ads for the book because it contained copy and content that “infers or claims to diagnose, treat, or question sexual orientation.”
After Target’s announcement, Shrier noted the retailer’s eagerness to make books disappear on behalf of woke activists.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a feminist and human rights activist, tweeted that she was horrified by Target’s actions.
Watch Abigail Shrier discuss her book on The Federalist Radio Hour here:
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Another company to boycott.
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BlueIris04 / TheBlueIris / Ten BackeTransphobe had her book removed by Target. A victory for Peace, Love and Understanding!
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As an aside, the tranny who brought the book to Target's attention has privated its account, but there are claims in that Twitter thread that it has called for and praised the death of police officers. Unfortunately it is privated in the archive somebody else did as well.
Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters - The book in question. Still available at Amazon and Wal-Mart. For now.
Interview on Joe Rogan
Some of the more thoughtful GoodReads reviews...
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Edit: This might be the start of something. SJWs getting salty. Guess the Nazi bookburning comparisons are hitting a bit too close to home.
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edit2: write up in the Federalist.
Target Swiftly Bans Book On Behalf Of Anonymous Twitter User Crying ‘Transphobia’
Target Swiftly Bans Book On Behalf Of Anonymous Twitter User Crying ‘Transphobia’NOVEMBER 13, 2020 By Madeline Osburn
An official Target company Twitter account announced Thursday they had removed author Abigail Shrier’s book, “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters” from the retailer’s “assortment” after an unverified Twitter user complained the book questions transgender ideology,
especially the concept of irreversible hormonal and surgical experimentation on minors.
“I think the trans community deserves a response from @AskTarget @Target as to why they are selling this book about the ‘transgender epidemic sweeping the country.’ Trigger warning: Transphobia,” wrote the user.
Target thanked the user for bringing Shrier’s book to their attention.
Target did not respond to The Federalist’s request for comment on the reason for removing the book, nor whether the book would be removed from store shelves and online.
Shrier’s book is not about sexual orientation or transgender adults. It examines the growing social phenomenon of transgender identification among teen girls and how underage medical “transitions” can be a form of self-harm.
“Girls who might have encouraged each other in bulimia, anorexia or cutting are today deciding they have ‘gender dysphoria,’ pushing for hormones and surgeries—and easily obtaining them,” writes Shrier.
Target is not the first corporate entity to censor Shirer’s book. When the book was released in June, Amazon barred Shrier’s publisher from running ads for the book because it contained copy and content that “infers or claims to diagnose, treat, or question sexual orientation.”
After Target’s announcement, Shrier noted the retailer’s eagerness to make books disappear on behalf of woke activists.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a feminist and human rights activist, tweeted that she was horrified by Target’s actions.
Watch Abigail Shrier discuss her book on The Federalist Radio Hour here:
Austen James Backe
b. 1995
1132 S Eagle Circle #D
Aurora, CO 80012
His screenname is taken from Suspiria. He’s a big horror movie fan obsessed with the tranny classic Sleepaway Camp.
Austen hasn’t even been in girl mode for a year yet.
Engaged to a woman:
Here he is in 2019:
“Male”
Congrats Target. You’ve succumbed to calls for censorship from a straight white man.
some Sketchy dude
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How HBO's Transhood Normalizes the Experiences of Trans Kids
“I hope that the documentary opens people’s eyes and opens people’s minds"
time.com
Hair is important to 18-year-old Jay, from Kansas City, Mo. Before the age of 12, he was severely bullied in school for having long hair and wearing clothing typically marketed to boys. “Cutting my hair was one of the biggest things that happened to me through the transition because it made me feel like I am me,” he says. “I am Jay.”
The new HBO documentary Transhood, out Nov. 12, follows four transgender children and their families over the course of five years. In the film, viewers see how Jay expresses his identity, particularly in two scenes with his barber, who is also a trans man. It’s these scenes that help to normalize, for viewers, the transition process for children and young people, emphasizing that it is a social process first, during which they may alter their hairstyle, clothing or pronoun preference before considering medical changes.
The four young people director Sharon Liese followed in her hometown between 2014 and 2019 show different facets of what it can mean to be trans or gender fluid. Viewers follow Leena, 15 when filming began, and her family as they navigate her later adolescence, the disappointments of her first relationship and her goal to have gender confirmation surgery when she turns 19. Liese also follows Avery, who was 7 when filming began, as she sits for a portrait for the cover of National Geographic’s 2017 “Gender Revolution” issue and faces the pressure that comes with media attention. And in the story of Phoenix, who was 4 when Liese started filming, we see how children’s relationships with their gender identity are not always clear-cut. Phoenix initially says they are a “girl-boy” and later identifies as a girl, before identifying as male at age 7, and Transhood follows Phoenix’s parents as they respond to their child’s evolving identity.
“It’s not unusual that kids know [that they are trans] when they are young,” says Liese. “People ask me, how do kids know when they are four years old? I quickly realized that is not the question. The question is, how do you not believe them?” This was true for Jay, who says he understands why people might have these questions, but who knew that he was trans when he was 5. “It’s not something you just decide. It’s something you discover about yourself,” he says.
As a Kansas City native, Liese knows the midwestern city well and was able to deeply embed with the four families she followed. The location was also a backdrop for the shifting attitudes around and support networks for trans people. While the Midwest, broadly speaking, is a more politically and religiously conservative part of the U.S., Kansas City, like many urban areas, is more progressive, and is also home to the Transgender Institute, an organization that provides resources and support for transgender people and their families.
Through the Institute, Liese met Jay and his mother Bryce, as well as Avery and her mother Debi, who was raised as a Southern Baptist conservative and never expected to become an advocate for LGBTQ rights. “I just realized that these stories really weren’t being told and there wasn’t that kind of trans representation, over time, about kids,” says Liese. While depictions of transgender people onscreen appear to be evolving for the better, with more transgender people both in front of and behind the camera in critically acclaimed films and series including Orange Is the New Black, A Fantastic Woman and Pose, they largely focus on transgender adults.
Following the families over several years allowed Liese to see the young people as they grew up and experienced different triumphs and challenges. A pivotal moment in the film shows Jay and Bryce on the phone to Jay’s girlfriend Mildred, after photographs of Jay pre-transition circulate on social media. The storyline shows the difficult decisions trans people often make about disclosing their identities. A lot of trans people do hide. That’s our natural thing to do, because we are so scared,” says Jay. “It is definitely hard to come out to someone that you care about. You wonder if they are going to run or stay.” Although Jay and Mildred, who was one of Jay’s first relationships, part ways after that scene in the film, Jay says Mildred contacted him after recently watching the film and told him how much she enjoyed it. “It was definitely the hardest thing I think, to come out to her during the film, and that was the first person I ever told,” he says.
Liese says that this scene with Jay was “such a pivotal and huge moment for the film, because it can represent what can happen, and what happens frequently” when trans people disclose their identities. “There’s no good guidelines other than ‘when you want to’ when it comes to disclosure. It’s not cut and dry,” she says.
“You can never go wrong by affirming your child”
As well as hoping that more trans and non-binary youth see themselves represented onscreen in Transhood, Liese also wants the film to show parents and others how to be allies and support people through transition. Jay agrees, leaning into the relationship he has with his mom, and hoping that the film can show parents of trans children that it’s important to check in with them and ensure that they are heard. Through Phoenix’s story, Liese shows that every journey is unique when it comes to gender. Although Phoenix’s parents eventually divorce and have different views on parenting Phoenix, Liese says that the message from that story “is that you really just need to love your kids, and let them lead, and that you can never go wrong by affirming your child.”
As is the case with children who identify as a different gender than the one they were assigned at birth, Phoenix had a social transition before puberty, changing aspects of his identity like pronouns and clothing. Some older children make the decision along with parents and doctors, like Jay did when he was 12, to take hormone blockers to delay puberty. These hormones effectively suspend puberty, and their effects are reversible if a person decides to stop taking them; if a person goes through puberty, physical developments like breast and hair growth are more difficult to reverse. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in three transgender youth has experienced a suicide attempt. A study published earlier this year indicated that that if transgender youth have access to puberty blockers, their chances of suicide and mental health issues in both the immediate and long-term decline significantly. Toward the end of the documentary, Leena, who was 19 when filming ended, discusses future plans for gender confirmation surgery with her parents and gender affirmation surgeon Dr. Marci Bowers.
For the parents featured in Transhood, navigating their child’s transition as a family is often uncharted territory. “When we started with Avery and her transition, we didn’t feel like there was anywhere to turn to, we didn’t know who to talk to or where to go, and we felt desperately lost,” says Tom, Avery’s dad, during the film. A landmark study by Dr Kristina Olson in 2019 showed that gender-nonconforming kids who go on to transition already have a strong sense of their true identity—one that differs from their assigned gender. The findings of Olson’s study emphasize the importance of affirmative models of care recommended by both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Family Physicians, which are focused on understanding and appreciating a young person’s gender experience in a non-judgemental way. These organizations also stress the importance of supportive parenting and social environments, as Leena and Jay experienced, when making decisions about their healthcare from their families and medical professionals. Transgender Institute also runs support groups, therapy and mentoring for its young trans community in Kansas City.
A call to action at a critical moment
Ultimately, the film is as much a call to action to advocate for legislation protecting trans rights as it is a portrayal of the complexity of transgender lives. During President Donald Trump’s tenure, various levels of government have enacted major changes impacting the rights of transgender people and LGBTQ people more broadly, including a declaration that requires schools in Connecticut to ban transgender students from participating in school sports and the rollback of an Obama-era federal rule that protected transgender people from discrimination by homeless shelters and other housing services.
Looking back on the film now, a year since filming ended, Jay feels he has changed a lot. He now feels more outgoing, and more open to talking about the documentary. He sees the film as a broader coming out, where more of the people he went to community college and graduated with will learn that he is trans and understand more about his experience. “I’m excited, and now I have the mindset that if people don’t like it, that’s O.K.,” he says. He also sees it as vital to show different aspects of what it means to be trans, and dispel some of the intolerance and misperceptions about trans people. “I can’t make everyone like me and understand, but at least they can watch this film, and hopefully they can see that [being trans] is O.K. and they don’t need to judge me for it,” he says. “I hope that the documentary opens people’s eyes and opens people’s minds.”
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If the film ends with half of the cast dying, does it count as a slasher film?
Edit: Also can be interesting to see how much of the cast is either manipulated by its parents, attention starved, autistic or all of the above.
Edit: Also can be interesting to see how much of the cast is either manipulated by its parents, attention starved, autistic or all of the above.
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This shit is just gonna get more and more prevalent. If people can't see how this is gonna eventually lead to pedo-sympathy and then pedo-acceptance, then you're either willfully ignorant or just plain fucking retarded, and it all stems from people "not wanting to hurt others feelings" or the mindset that "if it's not hurting anyone, it's okay". Soon enough, people are going to be legally allowed to marry minors because, as long as the kid consents, then "it's not hurting anyone".
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I wonder if it'll end like with David Reimer.