The surgeons have been working flat out
Stephen Whittle, self-important, admits how risky and drastic all this “transitioning” is, apparently without noticing he’s doing so.
By “patient” and “patients” she means young girls.
Mangling female genitals is “complex and requires several procedures” and it’s risky, so don’t you dare say it shouldn’t be done.
RIP first do no harm.
She. Stephen Whittle is a woman, probably dying early as a direct result of the drugs and surgeries she’s so keen to inflict on others.
“grs for TM is complex & requires several procedures”
Yeah, something like wash, lather, rinse, repeat. Tedious but really pretty simple if it weren’t for those interfering busybodies. Just don’t mention the lifetime medicalisation. Oh, and, as tigger rightly points out, the death.
tigger – ugh, yes – SHE indeed. For some reason I have a particularly hard time with Whittle, even in the very act of rejecting her claim to be a man.
Ophelia: Names are linked to sex so strongly that our own linguistic facility hinders telling the truth. We actually have to fight decades of language mastery to avoid speaking falsehood. Saying, “Jennifer likes his present,” would require conscious effort for me, for example.
Very true, but somehow I have extra trouble with Whittle. Maybe the beard? The name plus the beard? It’s annoying.
Also helping is the fact that Whittle passes as male quite well, which triggers our habitual ‘he’. Trans men have a much easier time passing as men than the reverse, thanks to testosterone’s strong push towards facial hair and even skeletal change.
So the beard makes my brain go splat.