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A story about a trains child: Two interpretations

https://news.sky.com/story/i-dont-want-to-grow-facial-hair-transgender-girl-eight-has-sleepless-nights-about-growing-up-as-a-boy-12586845

In this we have a YouTuber who, over the course of his YouTube career seems to have pivoted away from shitposting into "more serious" videos about -- what else of course -- gender and mental health.

Now a big soybearded 40-year-old cishet white dude, he's taken the only road available to him and has declared himself non-binary and transed his son.

Seriously, read some of this horrifying shit:

Jonathan spoke of how Edie had told him of "sleepless nights" after seeing a video about puberty.

She [his male child] told him "I don't want to grow facial hair", and asked him: "I'm going to have babies when I grow up, right? I'm going to be a mummy?"

"As a parent, I don't know how to answer that question because it's really sad to see a child just questioning it all," Jonathan said.

I mean, I guess the answer is you just lie to your child and tell him, no sweaty, you can be a girl and have babies and titties and no beard and live life on easy mode just like mommy!

"And then you get cisgendered people who have no experience to say that's wrong."

Darn right I have no experience in confusing and grooming my son into believing he will be a mother one day. Can still tell a fricked up groomer-abuser when I see one though.

So that's my interpretation. I wonder what the :!marseytrain:s of /r/transgenderUK think of it?

Proof the media can post decent and positive stuff when they want to!

The bit where she says about wanting to be a β€˜mummy’ and have β€˜babies’ has broken meπŸ’”

The part about being a mother really broke me, I transitioned relatively young and the fact Ill never have my own children still is very raw.

As expected, it's all super wholesome. A few concerns about using the trans child to support their YouTube career, but no concerns about two trans identities just suddenly popping up and leading to YouTube success.

So once again we see how it never happens but when it does happy it's super wholesome, despite two trains above expressing the deep distress that sterilising themselves at a young age brought on.

This child needs therapy, but unfortunately trains are campaigning to ban it. Grooming your toddler into believing he's a girl because he doesn't want a beard is super wholesome. But trying to rollback that childhood dysfunction is heckin hate crime.

Every time I try to be less transphobic, trains somehow make me even more so.

Edit: found a very sensible and insightful take from a train forum. Apparently this guy is the exploitative influencer type I suspected:

https://old.reddit.com/r/honesttransgender/comments/u0po1r/i_am_extremely_worried_about_the_trans_child_in?sort=controversial

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I still can't understand how a 7 or and 8 year old truly decide that they are trans...or their sexuality for that matter.

Women at the age of 40+ have hard times understanding that they never actually liked peepee and only married one because of societal pressure.

And yet, a 7 year old watches a Barbie movie once, and they are a trans girl somehow.

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Very clearly grooming, even if not the sexual sort. It is so easy to brainwash a child, whether that's having them support the same team as you, the same religion, instilling the same values, etc. or making them think they're trans.

This kid says he doesn't want a beard and doesn't like football like the other kids. Neither of those are flags that he's a :marseytrain2:. I was shit at football and hated playing it because of that and I remember being distraught when I got my first pube because being a child is a fricking good gig. I can't imagine the damage it would have done if my parents tried telling me that meant I was a girl, instead of actually just being completely normal.

Fricking :!marseytrain:s man. And honestly the fact they're out protesting to make giving this lad therapy illegal really makes me want them all to die.

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'This kid says he doesn't want a beard and doesn't like football like the other kids. Neither of those are flags that he's a πŸš‚πŸšƒπŸšƒ.'

I see similar framing bullshit on other stuff on reddit too.

I believe that having certain haircut is now lesbianbaiting if you go by logic of actuallesbians subreddit.

They are trying to make it into an issue of a similar magnitude as mayos wearing cornrows.

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Well rightoids have their whole religious bullshit.

I guess neolibs had to have something similarly negative towards young people.

Problem is this one affects then physically too.

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Lol @MenAreWorst got a chud award for posting in this thread

Better stop posting

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