The reason the YouTube comments are still open is because the production company that produces and distributes her podcast is in control of that channel. Someone on staff uploads the episodes, and maybe they, or an intern, monitor comments when they have time. Tess plays no role in it (though I'm sure by now she's complained about it).
Mata Hari: "I don't know if you've been to the Farms yet, but her turning [Bowie] out as trans seems to be the next agreed upon step in her desperate bid for attention/relevance."
Mata Hari, whoever you are, you obviously participate here, so I can can go ahead and tell you what a massive fucking retard you are, safe in the knowledge you'll see it.
The possibility of her trooning out Bowie is not widely agreed upon; in fact, I suspect it's a minority view here. So shut the fuck up about what "the Farms" thinks; we're not an autistic hivemind.
Tess is a selfish, Narcissistic cow who lives to indulge her favorite pleasures, and ditches her kids on whoever will take them so she can do just that. Given the opportunity to go hang out with other adults--especially successful ones who enhance her status by association--she'll choose that every time, over hanging out with her kids. If she could leave Bowie to fend for himself for a night, or a long weekend, without getting into huge trouble, I have no doubt she would; instead, she relies on her orbiters to babysit.
Narc moms manifest in different ways. Tess is the kind who clearly resents her kids for having actual needs that she has to meet, at the expense of doing what she wants to do. She's the kind who makes a display of the parenting she can be bothered to do, but is neglectful in crucial ways. She's the emotionally abandoning type, who leaves her kids constantly wondering what they have to do to win her elusive and unpredictable love and favor.
So far, all the Narc moms I see trooning out their kids are the smothery, overly-enmeshed, emotionally incestuous variant--the kinds who make a big deal of what a great and loving mom they are, and appear to do everything for their kids. They're controlling, micromanaging helicopter parents, constantly telling their kids what to do and how to do it, and creating continued dependency by being the constant solver of their kids' problems. Go read the Jazz Jennings thread--that's a classic troon mom, right there.
Troon moms are the kind of Narcs who are willing to spend hours dragging their trooned-out kid to medical appointments, sitting in waiting rooms, making sure the kid gets all their meds on schedule, etc., because it's all in support of their self-image as supportive, enlightened mom of a special child. Anybody who marvels at how brave and amazing their kids are is telling them, by proxy, how brave and amazing they are. They bind their identity to their child in a way the neglectful type--Tess--does not.
And there is just no fucking way Tess is going to do everything required to troon out Bowie because it's not immediately pleasurable for her; it requires too much time and puts too much attention on him; all of that medical stuff is more than her sluggish fat brain can be bothered to think about; and it would shift other people's attention from her to Bowie, and to a degree she would not be able to tolerate. He's a cute accessory she likes to show off on occasion (when she's not bitching about him), but her identity is centered on being a model, not on being the best mom ever.
So Bowie will have long hair until he finally gets picked on for it by other kids and takes scissors to it himself. I see nothing else about him, his clothes, or his toys that even remotely suggests she's pushing him to be more girly. She may do some embarrassing bullshit like claim he's non-binary, but that doesn't require that she actually
do anything.
tl;dr: There will be no Bowie troon saga because it would detract from eating cake and running away to party in Palm Springs.
