TT Exulansic Youtube

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I've been watching TT Exulansic's videos on YouTube having seen a link to them on here. I have learnt so much - what she is sharing is so necessary in terms of this debate. I'm also finding them really upsetting. I'm so shocked by what I've seen and just wanted to talk about them here. If you haven't watched any yet, please do.

I have a condition which has meant having plastic surgery to make my body look more 'normal'. I've had multiple, very painful surgeries which have left me in a degree of chronic pain but ultimately, I have achieved my goal in that I now have a much more normal looking body which it is easier to go through life with. These surgeries have had a clear medical benefit beyond my appearance being changed, just to be clear. I have a medical condition which has objective markers. There is evidence having gone through these surgeries, I will now have better physical health in my old age and will be less likely to experience certain complications which the condition can end up causing so the benefits definitely aren't just cosmetic - it's just the cosmetic benefits meant a lot to me as a patient. My body was 'wrong' and that was badly affecting my mental health and so I've put myself through a lot to make it look 'right.'

So there I am with having gone through this journey and so I think watching these videos on YT feels that little bit more personal in some ways, even though I don't have gender dysphoria and my surgeries were completely different. I knew already that things like constructing a 'penis' out of someone's arm was utterly barbaric and had a high failure rate and I knew there could be complications with attempting to construct a vagina. I just had no idea how frequently there were complications and how dangerous this journey is. I suddenly have the view that it must be almost impossible to go through them safely - at the very least you are risking fissures and strictures and those can lead to serious complications. Just taking testosterone is likely to lead to heart damage, too. There are going to be so many people who go through these operations and who die prematurely because they end up with sepsis or other infections.

I just watched the latest video on Jazz. I felt sick to my stomach at that one in particular. How has this poor kid got any kind of future? Jazz is severely depressed, 150 pounds overweight, has no sexual functioning at all, has already experienced multiple surgeries and complications and is likely to experience more. It's a crime to be doing this to vulnerable young people. If Jazz hadn't had these surgeries, we'd be looking at a young man embarking on a degree at Harvard, perhaps at the beginning of a journey where he felt comfortable with his sex and his sexuality. He'd be out having fun. My surgeries were so incredibly tough but on balance, they were worth it and while I'm in pain here and there, I don't have any additional complications which will actually threaten my life. That isn't the case with trans surgeries. Surgeons are literally butchering healthy bodies. They must know they are. How have things been allowed to go in this direction? (I know the answer to that really)

Sorry, I think that should be 100 pounds overweight. That's still enough to put Jazz at significant risk.

I know,, its crazy to think that 'trans' people are also included in the long list of losers in all this.
Sometimes I wonder if, as a society, we have lost our minds.

I've been watching her stuff too in the past few weeks since I read about her here on Mumsnet.
I agree with the majority of what she says but there are a few videos where I think maybe she has some issues going on herself (though it may just be her quirky sense of humour). I'm not keen on the very short 'funny' videos because I think it detracts from the seriousness of the issue, but on the whole, I have learned a few things from her.
There have also been a couple of times I've questioned some of the medical information (I'm from a science background) so I would just be aware that its worth checking before accepting as gospel.

I think she's great. Not saying she's perfect, but she is very very good. So many of her vids are so distressing to watch thought. Plenty of pausing or only half watching because there's only so much of this abuse and self-abuse you can watch.

I have started to watch her videos too. She has a really interesting background knowledge. No, she is not 'perfect' but then no one is. And her background does give a different perspective.

I watch some of her videos too. It’s eye opening to see how far America has gone. I saw a couple with a ftm where the surgery costs were currently running at $650,000! I like her clever quirkiness but she makes me wary for some reason I have not yet identified - perhaps because I think she’s very religious?

She's not very religious. She's an atheist, but she has experience of churches, and is very well educated, and very good at examining the very peculiar specific beliefs in the varied sections of Genderism. As I understand it she has had some health issues herself, and is a detransitioner and well as medically trained and qualified as a speech pathologist. She has an exceptionally dry delivery, and I suspect her sense of humour, which tends towards the absurd and satirical, might jar for some people. I love it, and given that her compassion for the people being treated so, so badly by the quack doctors is clear, I appreciate the light relief it provides.

Sometimes she really jars with me, but you can't really argue with the content of the videos which are horrific.

The worst thing for me is how those featured speak about their multiple surgeries and multiple failures and the huge costs involved as if it is completely normal and expected. As the OP noted surgeries are usually (always?) undertaken to improve health, it seems to me that almost without exception these sorts of surgeries cause harm.

I've been watching her for a few months as she started cropping up in my YT. I find her incredibly engaging and end up watching longer videos than I intend to - a lot of accounts like Mess and Karen White just go on too long for me even when they're interesting.

She's funny and an important voice pointing out that (especially in the US) these doctors don't want these surgeries to work - they want patients for life.

The Desmond is Emaciated episode this week was incredibly haunting although I think it may have been taken down. The interview footage of that poor child sat next to Michael Alig was horrific.

I watched a couple of her items, then I just couldn't watch any more. It's just too upsetting. Cowardly I know. At the same time, what can I do about it? Children and young people are being misled, sometimes by their own parents... :(

The Desmond one has been re-edited and uploaded again to Odysee.

I think the woman is amazing. She's doing incredibly important documentation and analysis, and she's right, these 'medics' will be judged very harshly, rightly, by history and I hope, eventually, by the legal system. Enough now. The days of pushing this all under a rainbow rug are over.

For those who find the medical ones too much (and I completely understand that) her videos analysing the quasi-religious mechanisms and the homophobia inherent in much of the movement are less squicky, and imo, just as important, because thats how the victims believers are hooked in.

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I watched a couple of her items, then I just couldn't watch any more. It's just too upsetting. Cowardly I know. At the same time, what can I do about it? Children and young people are being misled, sometimes by their own parents... :(

Like Floral Bunting said there are different types of vids... try not to give up.

But also I disagree - it is not cowardly. A lot of those vids are as distressing to watch as when you stumble upon a real-life, clearly fatal, bit of dash-cam footage of a motorbike crash.

@ArtemesiaK

I watched a couple of her items, then I just couldn't watch any more. It's just too upsetting. Cowardly I know. At the same time, what can I do about it? Children and young people are being misled, sometimes by their own parents... :(

Exactly. I know I'm very naive about a lot of the things she details, and in this world where 'top surgery' or 'bottom surgery' is being sold as the end goal, it's so important to document the harsh reality of it all - these people are often going to be physically suffering for the rest of their lives, and it's been done deliberately by people only pretending to care for their welfare.

And with Desmond I just couldn't believe some of the situations his parents were putting him in, and that the media were complicit. Michael Alig is the 'Party Monster' who was involved in a murder and dismemberment he claims he was too high to remember happening. Who in their right mind would give them access to their child?! That broke my heart.

The one she has done about Jazz's new series is just heartbreaking. When she was talking about how, emotionally Jazz is basically still a child and will never mature beyond that, and you can actually see that in the footage. And then the discussion about Jazz's weight gain being partly to do with the fact that Jazz's endocrine system is completely and utterly fucked.

Also, interesting in that video is the bit about Jazz's brother saying that he is not sure if he would want to have sex with a transwomen who hasn't had 'the surgery'.....aye right

I too have just watched the latest Jazz video. It's just awful . How any tv station can film and air any more about this family I just don't understand.

I think her videos are excellent. She is clearly very angry at what is going on. I believe that she was taken in by the transgender movement herself at one point and that she even had her breasts removed, and this is one reason why she is so angry. Because she was a child with gender dysphoria and she thinks that children should get appropriate, not inappropriate treatment.

I think watching her videos has brought home to me just how far trans surgery has become so normalised and made mainstream by complicit therapists - some of what she captures is quite horrific.
It made me realise that I didn’t understand the possible risks and inadequacy of the surgical ‘solutions’ before, they are a lot more experimental and dangerous than I realised.
She trawls through the ‘victims’ of trans surgery who often have life limiting complications and have suffered inadequate aftercare. Trans people are seen often undertaking risky surgeries without really understanding the consequences.
The non binary student who has had her nipples removed is a memorable low point, how have we got here?

I think she's brilliant, even if her content can be hard to stomach. It SHOULD be hard to stomach. What the doctors, therapists and in some cases parents are doing to these young people is evil.

I've been watching her pretty constantly and have now exhausted all her videos so far.

I lover her "keep it in church" analogies and I did laugh out loud once when she said "this guy doesn't know which gender goblin has climbed inside of him while he slept".

Overall, I think the videos are an important work in collecting and commentating on everything that's going on right now. Her vaginaplasty and phalloplasty files are the most upsetting.

The Desmond one has been re-edited and uploaded again to Odysee.

Gone from there too. I've been working through her archive and hadn't got to that one yet 🙄 Oh well.

What’s her background? I saw a reference to her being a detransitioner, I didn’t know that?

Just a correction for others - @BraveBananaBadge you cite the wrong Karen in your post above - the YouTuber is Karen Davis (You're kidding, right?)
Karen White is the male who raped women in prison.

Back to TTexulansic, yes to everything said above. I've been looking for the Desmond video too, I hope that she manages to get it back up there.

People need to know this stuff, almost no-one else is saying it, leastwise not so clearly.

I've been watching her too. She's not perfect as said and sometimes I'm.a little unsure about what she's said.

But she's also pointed out things that I hadn't quite managed to completely grasp yet and made points I had missed.

Particularly one about JJ and one of the surgeries and how they were a minor in a room parents outside witg an unchaparoned male dr who was going to he looking at their genital area. I hadn't clocked that before and now, makes me shudder. Safguardung does not apply to JJ . Why isn't JJ entitled to the sake safguarding as everyone else?

Her latest video on them was very revealing. There was a look in the entire families eyes I've never seen before. Ethically I don't think the show should be aired.

What’s her background? I saw a reference to her being a detransitioner, I didn’t know that?

She talks about having gender dysphoria and having overcome it by a lot of talking therapy. She compares her own extreme of now being fine with the transitioners who have undergone surgery but are still highly upset by feelings of dysphoria. She points out that the whole point of the surgery is to reduce/remove those feelings, so if it doesn't do that and leaves multiple new physical problems it has actually made things worse.