‘I was having a much better time as a girl in that parallel life’

You can do that, but you don't call it journalism and you don't have to do one piece for every piece of actual journalism.

Actual journalism should be given the weight it deserves. This is a massive medical scandal. Should that be equal to what Lucy says. If you care about Lucy and people like Lucy you still should be putting the medical scandal front and central and with shit loads more column inches.

....isn't there a name for this....??? 🤔

Disagree. Whether we like it or not, people like Lucy exist, and have a right to share their stories. It's up to us what we make of the stories, and it's up to the media to provide balance between different views.

I mean, I don't think wanging on about feeling electric shocks to your crotch on seeing yourself as a woman is necessarily going to be a big persuasive argument, but, you know, Lucy does Lucy, you do you, I do me.

This is both sideism which plagues modern media. It's not journalism. It's opinionism.

Journalism is about reporting reality and holding power to account.

Opinionism is cheaper and good for generating clicks.

The Guardian's commitment to opinionism has long been known. It's why Little OJ STILL has a job against the mountain of evidence of his appalling behaviour.

A story that will be very familiar to Trans widows and those of us who have read their experiences.

“…wanted to see myself as a woman in the act of love…”

There’s a name for that isn’t there? 🤔 No, silly me, it doesn’t exist.

Over the years I consumed an impressive amount of material on transgender matters, from clinical studies to personal accounts to journalistic exposés to porn.

So, yet another man who wanked his way into a 'female gender identity'.

[...] my lifelong desire to be a woman. It was, first of all, impossible.

The only reasonable part in this whole sexist claptrap of a piece.

If I am going to a store or a bank and there are multiple clerks or tellers, I pick the youngest one because I know they’ll be intimidated.

There you go Luc/ Lucy, fixed it for you.

Yep, so predictable.

so Lucy didn’t know how to behave in bed as a man - but did manage to father a son. Right

wanted to see myself as a woman in the act of love
Yeah bet he did 🤮

If I am going to a store or a bank and there are multiple clerks or tellers, I will pick the youngest one because I know they’ll be nice

Creepy and gross

This article is The Guardian/Observer's ritual obeisance to their TRA staff because they've dared to publish a Hannah Barnes piece on the WPATH scandal. Whenever they're forced to cover news which is in any way critical of gender ideology I immediately assume there is going to be an OTT pro-trans piece for 'balance' and here it is.

Judging by the photo of Luc just before transition I don’t think many people would have guessed he was about to become “ a very attractive person , (typically used of a woman)”, so I guess the joke concerns the “unexpected and unpleasant definition” .

Oh I see…..🤦🏻‍♀️

Dictionary definition of bombshell

noun
1.an unexpected and surprising event, especially an unpleasant one.
"the news came as a bombshell"

INFORMAL
a very attractive person (typically used of a woman).
"a twenty-year-old blonde bombshell"

That's a classic Duper's Delight smirk "Lucy" is wearing there.

Grim.

In my parallel life as a bloke, I'm a billionaire.

🤮

Oh,The Guardian.

Say no more.

I've noticed this too. They all want to be "girls" not women. Girls haven't (yet) experienced the true realities of womanhood and men never will so it doesn't matter to them, and many non AGP men too.

So I walked into this knowing what the outcome would be

Unlike the wife who presumably walked into the marriage thinking she had a life partner who'd been honest about themselves before they committed to her.

And how convenient that declaring the marriage dead happens to coincide with the life stage where most middle aged men try and trade in a domestic life and wife for a flashy lifestyle/girlfriend/car.

There's an interview here as well.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/09/interview-lucy-sante-i-heard-her-call-my-name-memoir-of-transition-book-coming-out-trans

There's a wife and child (of course).

In your book you say coming out to your wife and your son was the single most difficult thing about transitioning. How did they react?
It wasn’t hard coming out to my son at all, actually. He’s completely straight but he’s known trans kids since he was 11. He’s of that generation that just accepts it. If I am going to a store or a bank and there are multiple clerks or tellers, I will pick the youngest one because I know they’ll be nice. And my son, well, I’ve been an empty nester for a month now after he moved to Boston for a job, but he was living with me from choice. So I guess he likes me. Coming out to my partner, though, that was extremely difficult because I knew that our relationship was doomed. We’re still best friends, still very much in each other’s lives, but I knew the romantic component of our relationship could not survive. So I walked into this knowing what the outcome would be.