Amanda jette knox

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What is up with this bizarre woman???

@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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

100 agree

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.

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.

I like to think of her as my polar opposite.

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

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

And has a complicated love life.

I hope she has a big bed.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I, honestly, try to ignore this woman and her freakshow family. But, this seems to have all started with her child. The kid was well down the trans pathway at only eleven! How did that come about? Iirc it's Canada so, possibly, school? As the father subsequently decided he was trans though, I wonder if the call was actually coming from within the house?

^^ Can we all just stop to agree this is officially the best ever MN post?! 🤣 🤣

I feel a bit sorry for her too, annoying as she is. She’s so desperate to be cool, as said above, but her efforts are just cringeworthy. What is it with middle-aged women doing this? I have a friend too: around 50, has gone through various gender identities like NB, queer, trans masc, poly, etc. She’s married to a man who also has (daft) identities. I think he only joined in because of her.

All I think when I look at them is that they’re trying to distract themselves from ageing. Yes, peri and menopause itself is hard, yes you don’t feel yourself, yes your body shape might change, along with your skin - but becoming trans/NB/queer just emphasises these things. To me, it’s alack of confidence not confidence.

It is never a good time to flood your female body with T but even worse when you're older.

Actually I'll qualify that because worst of all is when you're a minor and it will mess with your puberty really badly. But apart from that, doing it in middle age or later will compound things like increasing heart disease risk.

I think a lot of 'trans' stuff seems to be attempts to transcend the body. I would not be surprised if a lot of 'dysphoria' stems at least in part from a fear of death/mortality.

Ironic as I'd be very surprised if cross sex hormones don't shorten life expectancy

They are such a grim looking bunch.

The trans youth dont tend to be overly attractive, the middle aged have no hope.

I know I shouldn't be mean about peoples appearances but they are selling themselves as "Sex people" and there is something really depressing about older people needing to be hip and sexy.