Those of us who have children & teens caught up in this are stuck, unable to speak out publicly because destroys our child’s right to future privacy.
Even if our children desist or detransition, we still cannot speak publicly because our child should be able to move on and leave as much of it behind as possible.
Those of us with a conscious try to avoid criticising Jazz and Jackie and the others like them, preferring to keep our criticism the adults involved, the doctors and the parents.
Jackie wondering why Posie is criticising Jackie’s mum, Susie and not Jackie-the-Child is strangely illustrative of the whole mess of paediatric transition.
I wish Jackie the best, but Jackie’s mum has used Jackie’s story as a tool to convince thousands of people, many of them teachers, that chemically castrating children is OK. It isn’t.
So Posie is right to criticise Susie (especially as those of us with children harmed by this are stuck in the shadows and need someone to do the speaking for us) and if the now-adult-Jackie (not even young adult!) wants to wade in to the conversation with a video filled with abusive swears at Posie, fair enough, but it does chip away at the ‘kids are off limits’ rationale we’ve all largely kept to this far.
Ultimately Susie gave away Jackie’s privacy by parading Jackie on TV (and laughing at Jackie’s underdeveloped genitalia on camera!) and if Jackie wanted to reclaim privacy, a name change and an ordinary off-camera life would’ve facilitated that. This video seems to make a strong case that Jackie does not want to be protected from criticism and at 30ish, that’s Jackie’s choice to make.
I’d love to see Jackie debate detransitioners like Ritchie or Watson, but Ritchie and Watson shouldn’t have to be in the public eye, not while they are physically healing from the horrors of trans ideology, some Of which are irreversible.