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Trans Train

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BessyK · 27/04/2019 15:48

As the mother of a ROGD teen i'd like to share this documentary from Sweden (translated into English).
The Trans Train www.svtplay.se/video/22035454/uppdrag-granskning/uppdrag-granskning-sasong-20-the-trans-train?start=auto&tab=2019

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placemats · 27/04/2019 19:33

Watched this and posted the link on another thread. It's heartbreaking. Interesting that ROGD is not just confined to the UK.

Something is happening to our young female teenagers and it's toxic. The outcome is bleak.

Erythronium · 27/04/2019 19:22

Wow, they've even come up with a name for the bad feelings a medical professional gets when they irreversibly damage a child's healthy young body - "ethical stress'. Very stressful for them I imagine.

Sweden seem to have fallen even further down the trans rabbit hole, if they're going to allow 12 year olds to change "gender" and let 15 year olds be castrated as long as their parents approve.

How can all these psychiatrists and pyschotherapists not draw the parallels with anorexia, whose patients also experience extreme distress with their bodies? In that case the answer isn't to take away their patients food, so why is harming bodies fine when it's sexual characteristics that are causing the distress?

MIdgebabe · 27/04/2019 19:20

Misinterpreted the title. Made me think of transpennine railway. Which is across the Pennines. Which makes transwomen across women , not to or towards women at all, and more like cut across women which is what what bullying aggressive drivers do.

Melroses · 27/04/2019 18:15

I have just come from watching this, having found it on Twitter.

It really highlights the 'consensual' dilemma - that they will give hormones and surgery unquestioningly to young people with many problems (as young as 16 and mastectomy for a 14y old - yet that it will be the responsibility of that teenager if they later regret what has been done.

Where is the support? Support is helping the young person find out about all the aspects of what it is they want to do, the good and the bad and the indifferent, to make an informed decision. It is not unquestioning affirmation. You have to teach them to question everything in this world.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 27/04/2019 18:12

What happened to the Hippocratic Oath, and “First, do no harm”??

Genderfreelass · 27/04/2019 17:21

So sad but I think girls, (seems more girls being trans whereas men wait until midlife crisis 😕) realising the mistake and taking legal action may be what is needed to derail the train. If through legal action it becomes too costly to transition minors then it surely will have to stop?

TheChampagneGalop · 27/04/2019 17:12

*This brought home

TheChampagneGalop · 27/04/2019 17:09

The brought home how much T alters a girl's voice. Sametti got her breasts removed too. These are serious lasting changes. No one is ready to make this decision as a teenager, especially not at 14 (!!!!)

BessyK · 27/04/2019 16:39

The changes are permanent once our children begin following the medical pathway.

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NotTerfNorCis · 27/04/2019 16:27

Poor Sametti. She looks totally androgynous now and there's no going back.