Amanda jette knox

I'm a bit sorry for her too, though she really annoys me. Trans widows are a real thing - women whose husband has transitioned and expected them to go along with and centre his "womanhood" and they've said no. RJK/AJK's situation shows what can happen if you do try to embrace it and be "cool" with it and show the world you're not a nasty old bigot. She's had to put up with all sorts and she's increasingly desperately trying to embrace it more and more because there are horrible consequences for anyone who makes themself an ambassador for genderism and then backs out. The only way she can centre herself in her own life instead of her spouse, is by having her own special trans identity too.

It's funny how changing your mind about being trans and detransitioning is hated by the GI movement, but changing your mind in the direction of becoming more and more trans is fine. Either way, you must have been wrong about what you were, logically, but as long as you're going deeper in, you'll be celebrated. It must be incredibly hard to let yourself have any doubts.

I have a relative on this pathway - not the same story but a middle aged former lesbian who decided they were NB, then "transmasc" and is now a trans man. They are seriously overweight and I'm very worried about the health risks of them taking T at those levels, plus posasible surgery complications. It is never a good time to flood your female body with T but even worse when you're older.

It's only prescribed within the female range (i.e. very small amounts) and only for loss of sexual desire when all other approaches have failed. It's also not actually licensed for this use and has to be prescribed off-label.

As far as I understand it lots of menopausal women take testosterone. Presumably the dosages are different.

I wonder if a wispy beard might help with the duck face.

Who needs to be cool? I would rather be articulate and powerful. Not a people-pleaser.

As a middle aged woman who has recently started (actual) replacement hormone therapy, I can only imagine the absolute havoc cross-sex hormones are wreaking on Knox's body.

And has a complicated love life.

I hope she has a big bed.

Middle aged woman on HRT gets haircut, writes awful book.

Even the DM gets confused, at one point referring to husband when IPSO probably requires them to say “wife”.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12740041/Trans-author-Rowan-Jette-Knox-puberty-treatment.html

I like to think of her as my polar opposite.

But hey, if the middle aged are jumping on this trend then it’s got to be on the way out.

Ha yes, nothing kills a trend more than middle aged women getting into it.

This is so true. Being at the cusp of middle age, I’ve noticed my friends who were always desperate to be cool are the ones who’ve really swallowed this nonsense. My friend who spent her entire 30s with various colour dreads has now declared herself a transmasc whatever that is. But I suppose Amanda has books to sell as an added incentive. I seem to remember certain parts of her lovely cuddly rainbow community were trying to cancel her for years for being a ‘cis’ woman and daring to write about trans issues.

But hey, if the middle aged are jumping on this trend then it’s got to be on the way out.

100 agree

Why can't she/ they just be a person who loves their husband and children regardless. I just don't understand this need to be labelled. Your husband is Trans. Ok... but still the person you met, married and love... identify as that then.

I don’t know how she keeps going with all that crap in her head. No ordinary person could function, surely? She must be getting her needs met by it all somehow, needs which to me (in that case) are unfathomable.

What's with the trend to feel sorry for people, when you know they're making bad decisions, have full agency not to, or certainly not to continue doing so, and who can walk a different path and do the right thing? For a change.

I feel sorry for her because everything she does screams out a woman who is struggling with life. Much like when people have extreme plastic surgery. Much like an alcoholic at a pub, they will always find people egging them on, and anyone sensible has probably long since moved on.

You are so so right @Backstreets - if you were cool you would think this / feel this / do this - is prime manipulation material to which see appears tragically susceptible. It's why there's a constant droning on about terfs being ugly and old.

The healthiest thing for her to realize is that she will never, ever, ever, ever, ever be cool.

She can put a tie and a fun hair colour on it but she’s still a middle aged mum with a husband that drove himself insane by watching porn and would rather get off with Frank from down the street in a wig than her.

The healthy reaction to this would be blind rage. That would have got her and the kids out and a judge could demand enough support to cut well into his Onlyfans budget. But she wanted to be cool. A mission doomed to fail.

@DuckDuckNo you're absolutely right there is no evidence whatsoever that a persons perception of themselves and what category they should fit into is in any way fixed or innate.

Being married to an agp man is easy and fun says woman who was by her own admission completely miserable.

My son and husband are women says woman who is sure she has nothing in common with them and therefore must be a man.

I don't know about a tie and a makeover but I do think she needs help. I just think the assertion that she's some kind of role model who has it all figured out sounds pretty preposterous.

Exactly! Children young enough to still believe in Santa absolutely have an innate gender identity that should be affirmed with puberty blockers, hormones and surgery immediately and we’re bigots for trying to prevent that, but it’s simultaneously fiiiiiiiine for an adult to go from straight woman to “lesbian” to “non-binary” to “transmasc” to full-blown transman.

Make it make sense.

And old enough to know better. Her poor mum. Toddler-league attention seeking.

I don’t feel sorry for her - she’s doing huge harm. She’s ghoulish

And how does all this fit with "kids know who they are" and "almost no one detransitions"?

Yep

I bet she ain't actually getting any

Yes, but the polycule is 2 more men. I guess she does all the dishes, and sleeps in the spare room