Together on a path
The Children’s Hospital of Manitoba appears to be a nightmare.
I’m reading it, and it’s horrifying.
Mary [a pseudonym], a vibrant 10-year-old with bright eyes that always seem to be smiling, is a beacon of creativity, kindness, and artistry. She’s a dancer and musician, expressing herself through the beauty of movement and sound.
No he’s not a musician ffs. He’s ten. He likes music, he’s learning music, he makes music, but he’s not a musician. He dances, but he’s not a dancer. If he plays hospital he’s not a doctor; if he plays school he’s not a teacher.
It’s a nitpick but maybe not just a nitpick, since treating children as if they can make monumental decisions about changing their sex is a massive part of the problem here. Children are children, not tiny adults.
Mary thinks she was about seven years old when she began to articulate feelings of longing to be a “real girl.” Femininity – dresses, rainbows, and girl roles in games and on screen in Disney movies – felt like the only areas that truly aligned with her identity.
That’s how it is with children. They try on stuff. They play. They create involved fantasies that they act out. That doesn’t mean you have to remove their genitals. You shouldn’t remove their genitals.
In Mary’s journey of self-discovery, her family stands as pillars of love and support. “They love me, and I love them, and they support me,” she beams.
Is that how tens talk? I wouldn’t have thought so. It sounds like therapy-speak. Since when do children think of their parents as “supportive”?
Dr. Bhatla suggests strategies to support youth awaiting healthcare, including social transitioning. This involves changes in dressing, hairstyles, and the use of special garments like binders to alleviate the discomfort of being in the wrong body.
And replace it with much sharper discomfort, up to and including broken ribs.
Despite the challenges, Mary envisions a future aligned with her true self.
No doubt he does, especially with all these lunatic adults telling him there as such a thing as his “true self,” but the likelihood is he will hit a wall at some point. Sentimental glurge about his true self isn’t magic.
Even at age 10, the prospect of a future boyfriend worries her, wondering if or at what phase of dating she’ll need to disclose her journey. And she worries, a little, about never having a baby – but says her plans to be a famous actress won’t allow time to be a mom anyway.
He was never going to have a baby. Also, “plans to be a famous actress,” like plans to become a girl, are just plans. Lots of people want to be actors, and most of them fail.
It’s horrible watching these deranged adults encouraging this poor kid to ruin his body.
Oh sweet Jesus. The kid’s worried about future boyfriends? Chances are he’s gay. Just let him be and he’ll figure it out.
“Mary” might be a singularly captured 10 year old – but far more likely a creation of ChatGPT?
The teachers at the primary school I volunteer at refer to students engaged in whatever subject they’re learning as ‘doing’ that subject – e.g. they’re writers, scientists, mathematicians, etc. I actually like it – they are, admittedly, on the very first rungs of the ladder of mastery of the subject, but they are engaged in doing it – they are writing, doing math, doing experiments, etc. – and I think it gives the kids some pride and confidence in their learning as well as communicating to them that they’re on a path and that there’s a perceivable continuum between themselves and practitioners (I mean, we all started somewhere). But, as seems ubiquitous in anything to do with gender ideology, there’s a difference between playing/pretending and taking something with utter literal seriousness. (I personally have less patience for people who have a bachelor’s degree in my subject, or God forbid have taken a couple of courses or read a couple of books about it, saying they are practitioners of that subject when they have zero idea what is involved in doing original work in it and have never done any.)
I despair for all the ‘Marys’ out there – how can we as a society work so hard, and so cheerfully, to destroy these kids’ lives? And what’s going to be the cost over the next decades?
Canada really has become a left-wing fantasy, even the parts whose actual populations are indistinguishable from American MAGAists. Its public slide into woke totalitarianism is a wonder to behold, in the ancient meaning of such.
Having been a ten-year-old boy, and remembering how boys treat each other at that age, and remembering wishing that I could be a girl then because they weren’t treated that way, I understand this child’s feelings. But that behavior is transient. Boys grow up and become men, and learn that we are valuable as we are and that we don’t need to care if someone belittles us. Parents need to encourage this young fellow to accept himself as he is, not as he wishes he could be. It will be a crime of enormous proportions if they medicate and sterilize this child, as so many other well meaning but idiot parents have done to such innocent children.