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- Feb 21, 2018
My thinking is along the Special Children theory. While the "never leaving me!" points are pretty good, imo the main motivation for transing Jaron is this:That has never been confirmed in the Bloshinskys' official narrative.
Jeanette *believed* she was pregnant with a girl, because of the way her body changed (in the same way as it did when she was pregnant with Ari, bot comparable to when she was pregnant with the twins). There are still many people today who blieve you can tell the sex of the unborn baby by the "way the mother carries" — none of them are scientific, classify them under "old wives tales".
On top of it, Jaron's sex could not be determined by the ultrasounds Jeanette got. Then her friends and family did the "Pendulum Swing Test" (which has the reliability of a fortune cookie) and she was even more sure she was expecting a girl.
I don't think Jeanette wanted a girl and only a girl and that is why she was so adamant on Jazz's being transgender. There were more factors at play, in my opinion.
However, one thing that has always stood out to me, might be of importance as to why Jeanette now (not from birth or in very early childhood) wants to keep Jazz dependent on her. When the twins were in their senior year of high school (not even in college yet), she was lamenting how she suffered from "empty nest syndrome". When Sander and Griffen finally moved out to attend college, they shared a room and didn't contact Jeanette as often as she'd liked them to. She was not pleased with that. Both boys even dared to grow a beard without telling Jeanette and she was all up in arms about it when she discovered it on their next video call.
She has said plenty of times before Jazz's gradution was even near that she would miss her baby when Jazz would go off to college, because then all of her children would have left the nest. Greg and Jeanette even went condo shopping in one epidode as their plan was to move out of the house that would be too big for just the two of them. It might have been Greg's idea, though: he seemed content with smaller condos, but Jeanette wanted enough bedrooms in case her four kids came to visit them. They still live in their old house.
Having a "special child" was probably one of the more contributing factors for believing Jazz was transgender and the transition that followed than Jeanette's desire to have another girl.
1. Ari is first child, as well as a girl. Having your first child gets you special attention from EVERYONE (see: Sammie who is trying to get that by lying about being preggers).
2. Second child is twins! So everyone goes ooh and ahh over the uniqueness of twins. This would be right about after the glow from Ari would have most likely finally faded.
3. Third child is.... just a normal boy. Now addicted to the attention (and narcissism making her think she DESERVES the attention) she tries to figure out how to make him "special" to others. Hmmm, there's this thing about trans going around...
If Jaron had turned out to be normal gay kid, it wouldn't really have given as much attention to her, as when he would've realized it would be during puberty, when he is strongly his own person. But starting the trans young, when he is still viewed as a part of her, it gives her that attention.
I'm curious what would've happened if she had another kid. Would she ignore Jaron? What would she do to make the fourth child "special", now that trans isn't as special as it used to be?