But there were problems
I’m reading a piece about Jazz Jennings’s “affirmation” surgery. Had to take a break for a minute to cope with the revulsion. They didn’t know what they were doing but they did it anyway – how progressive.
Jazz Jennings has had a tougher transition than her doctors expected. In the last two years, the teen reality star and LGBTQ+ activist has undergone multiple gender confirmation surgeries, and her doctors are now revealing more details about what went wrong in the new season of TLC’s I Am Jazz, People reported.
Why did the doctors expect a not so tough transition? Why would that be easy? It turns out there was no reason for them to think that other than the fact that they wanted to.
In the episode clip, Jazz’s doctors, Marci Bowers, MD, and Jess Ting, MD, speak to Jazz and her family about the previous surgeries. Bowers admits Jazz “has had a very difficult surgical course,” in the show. “She had a very incredible first surgery—it went seemingly very well, but there were problems. And that prompted a second surgery, which I was not a part of, unfortunately.”
“Taking Jazz on as a patient for surgery, we knew it was going to be a one-of-a-kind surgery,” Ting explained in the clip. “We don’t have the experience of having said we’ve done 50 of these. I was just not expecting her to have a complication as severe as what she did have.”
That’s one place I had to pause to take deep breaths. They had no experience, they knew it would be “a one-of-a-kind surgery” i.e. AN EXPERIMENT on a living child and they did it anyway. “Oh Jess isn’t this exciting, it’s brand new, we’re going to cut his genitals off!” “Oh Marci, it’s so exciting, we get to try to create a vagina from nowhere!”
“This has been a real journey, hasn’t it? We knew it would be tough—it turned out tougher than any of us imagined,” Bowers tells Jazz’s family. “I think in hindsight we would have never sent you home from the hospital. You know, easy to say now. When I wasn’t here when you had problems and had to go back, I can’t tell you how stressful that was.”
Aww was it stressful for Bowers? That’s heart-rending.
Jazz went through her initial gender confirmation surgery in June 2018. Doctors had to use a new technique because she started using hormones at such a young age. Since she hadn’t developed enough tissue to construct a vagina, Jazz’s doctors used tissue from her stomach lining.
That’s where I stopped reading. It makes me want to bang my head against a wall.
Let’s see if I can get through a little more…
Jazz experienced complications and had to return for a follow-up procedure. “There was just an unfortunate event and setback where things did come apart, and there was a complication,” she told the outlet. “I had to come back in for another procedure, but it was just all part of the journey. The good thing though is that it was only cosmetic and external so it wasn’t too dramatic.”
There is no “good thing” though. The kid was mutilated for a fantasy.
Final paragraph:
Jazz came out as transgender at age 5 and has been sharing her transition in the TLC series I Am Jazz and on her Youtube channel. FYI: Gender confirmation surgery gives “transgender individuals the physical appearance and functional abilities of the gender they know themselves to be,” according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
No it doesn’t. Gender confirmation surgery does not give trans people the functional abilities of the gender they aren’t. Trans women can’t get pregnant, to name the most obvious missing functional ability.
The whole thing is an atrocity.
Marci Bowers also appears in this Reuters piece, which is an interesting, and also infuriating, read.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-outcomes/
Here is the worst thing he (Bowers is a trans male, not a woman[1] ) says.
“However, Bowers, WPATH’s president, is among several gender-care specialists who say patients are ultimately responsible for choices they make about treatment, even as minors. They should not be “blaming the clinician or the people who helped guide them,” she said. “They need to own that final step.””
So it is the kids’ fault if they believe the bullshit they are fed? But you told them it would be fucking fairy dust and unicorns, and empowering indeninnny, and anyone who said there would be any downside, let alone multiple severe downsides, is a NaziTerfBigot. It’s Bowers’ responsibility as a physician, and thus his fault, for any consequences that emerge as a result of his utterly irresponsible advice.
I hope WPATH are bankrupted in the courts. It’s only a matter of time, if they are this cavalier about putting children through the gender meat-grinder. It cannot come soon enough.
[1] Source for Bowers being a trans male, though it is not a secret. https://web.archive.org/web/20120206104553/http://www.sfbaytimes.com/index.php?sec=article&article_id=5745
Oh goddddd. I saw a mention of that Reuters piece, that’s what sent me looking for a refresher course on Jazz Jennings before reading it, and I was so appalled by the refresher course that I forgot all about the Reuters piece.
Imagine being Jazz Jennings at 30, 40, 50.
I am sure you will have some thoughts on the piece. The rest of it is better than that quote, it is not all cheerleading bullshit like normal. But as you can see some of it is.
But hey, it’s christmas, it can wait, I am going to log off and have a couple of drinks.
All the best.
Hoo-boy, I have thoughts all right. Thank you for the reminder. Enjoy the christmas drinks!
How utterly horrible. That poor, abused child.
And yet they’ll continue to screech that “hormone treatments are reversible!!” and cause no harm, and that “gender confirmation surgery” somehow alleviates anguish.
CB@1: my god. When I was five years old, I trusted the adults around me. If I had been held to suffer for life for decisions that I might otherwise have made for myself at that age, it’s unlikely that I’d still BE alive. I hope those “surgeons” get sued into oblivion.
5!!!! Jesus fucking Christ! Where the fuck were the responsible adults? Looking at TLC and Youtube contracts, turning their child into a monetized freak show. Joseph Merrick (aka The Elephant Man) suffered from a rare but naturally occuring condition; Jazz Jennings is suffering from something avoidable that has been foisted upon him. Under normal circumstances this would be Godwinning myself, but how is this different from the butchery of Nazi doctors, apart from getting some form of “consent” from the victim?
Seriously. I’m fuming.
“Imagine being Jazz Jennings at 30, 40, 50.”
I expect a starkly diminishing chance of that child reaching those ages. Few children have been through as much trauma by the age of 10, far fewer reach 20 with any semblance of mental health. When the inevitable happens, it will be ‘transphobia’.
I don’t even remember much from when I was five; why would I believe I could make good decisions at that age? I didn’t make good decisions at ten – well, some of them probably were, but it wasn’t a given. At twenty, I was doing a better job thinking through my decisions, but I still made mistakes (like marrying my ex!).
I am now 62, and I am not sure I would feel capable of making such a life altering decision. This is not a decision a five year old can make, and I don’t think it’s a decision a 105 year old could make well. To transition is to try to live a lie.We all do that to some extent, but when I put on a different face for work, I just change my clothes from my weekend clothes to business casual, add a scarf and a hat, and go. All of those changes can be taken off, and I can live as my “authentic self”, whatever the hell that may mean. I think I have about 400 “authentic selves”, depending on the day, the month, that state of my chaotic life, and how much wine I’ve had.
Exulansic covered Jazz Jennings quite a bit, the absolute tragedy of it. I think her parents should be up on charges. It’s morbid and grotesque that there was a television series about this.
After Jazz Jennings got “bottom surgery”, “she” got super depressed, had to delay going to college, and gained 100 pounds:
https://pagesix.com/2021/11/02/jazz-jennings-humiliated-by-100-pound-weight-gain/
Great success!
Can you imagine someone not getting resources from a TV show trying to prop them up so they could do another season having to deal with this on their own?
@11 And by her, I mean his. The show about him started when he was just 15 years old, but his parents green lighted all kinds of medical “interventions” much earlier. The parents milked it for entertainment value (cha-ching!), but I’d call it child abuse, child endangerment, mutilation, and a few other things. I feel sorry for the kid.
If a child “comes out as transgender at age 5,” my immediate reaction is: Munchausen by proxy.
There’s that but there’s also just plain old childhood pretending. I did a lot of childhood pretending to be a cowboy n stuff, along with pretending to be Heidi in the Alps n stuff. Lots more cowboys than Heidis. These days parents may be primed to see that kind of thing as a Sign and go from there.
In the old days, parents with the resources might have sprung for a pony. Nowadays? “Bottom surgery.”
My mother fixed up my tricycle to be a pretend pony. I loved it.
Now there’s something that ought to make even an ardent trans activist pause for thought, if they are at all intellectually honest. We are told that puberty blocking and sex hormone therapy needs to be permitted pre-puberty so as to maximise the female or male resemblance. Yet here we have a drawback: not enough tissue for the neovagina. Presumably this refers to an underdeveloped penis, as the neovagina being lined with everted penile skin implies its depth is determined by penis length.
So, early hormone therapy = much more complicated and invasive surgery.
To think trans activists argue that transitioning is no more drastic than letting a child go through puberty. Small wonder Jazz went through severe depression while transitioning, anatomy ‘coming apart’ is NOT FUCKING NORMAL! “Not too dramatic” my arse, this is defensiveness borne of long term grooming towards a particular goal of the parents.