Susanna Rustin on Elliot Page

[ArabellaScott]

An excellent Twitter thread from Rustin (the Guardian), here.

'Major surgery is being promoted to young women all over the world as a route to liberation ("a freeing freeing experience") while medical, anatomical reality vanishes into euphemism'

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Yes it is all very sinister.

It's quite fascinating that Hollywood once major promoter of breast implants, is now being used to promote mastectomies on healthy breasts.
As always follow the money.

Hm, and it's always women's bodies that need to be altered. And womens' bodies always need to be altered.

Is Susanna Rustin a Guardian employee? Surely she'll have to be burnt for such heresy?

I really hope more people will start looking at the huge amounts of money being made from troubled young people here. There's a reference to it at the end of today's Observer interview with Dr David Bell too: 'given his politics – Bell describes himself to me as a “Corbyn-supporting Jew” – he has been most shocked by the reluctance of the left to engage with the issues. “They think this is to do with being liberal, rather than with concerns about the care of children. Mermaids and Stonewall [the charities for trans children and LGBTQ+ rights] have made people afraid even of listening to another view.” It surprises him that the left is unwilling to consider the role played by big pharma. In the US, a journal that published a paper about the effect of puberty blockers on suicide risk recently had to disclose that one of its co-authors received a stipend from the manufacturer of another drug.'

@jay55

It's quite fascinating that Hollywood once major promoter of breast implants, is now being used to promote mastectomies on healthy breasts. As always follow the money.

''My voice is clear as a bell in every scene!' How big tobacco bought the big screen. Study reveals how stars of golden age were bankrolled to wax lyrical about habit' Guardian 26/9/2008.

"Top surgery" needs " " - makes absolutely no sense to a lot of people

On the subject of Orwellian language, “gender-affirming healthcare” needs a special mention. What a euphemism for “surgically modifying healthy body tissue”

@LazyHorizon

On the subject of Orwellian language, “gender-affirming healthcare” needs a special mention. What a euphemism for “surgically modifying healthy body tissue”

Yes, it's used as the default Newspeak in headlines and articles from Associated Press, 'the definitive source for independent journalism from every corner of the globe.'.

‘I feel like I haven’t gotten to be myself since I was 10 years old’

ironically Elliot looks about ten years old

Does top surgery include removing the mammary glands ?

I just googled it . So some but not all .