Interview With Tina Traster
The journalist and documentary-maker Tina Traster takes us through what happened when she wrote a piece for Psychology Today about trans-identified teenagers. The piece was up for a grand total of 3 hours before trans activists succeeded in taking it down. The full story is even crazier.
I wish everyone would stop referring to "trans kids". That begs the question of what actually is going on with the children who are having emotional and mental problems about their bodies and about how they are treated by those around them because of their sexed bodies, who are now immediately assumed to "born in the wrong body". These are not "trans kids'. These are children who are uncomfortable with how they are expected to behave because of their biological sex, and uncomfortable with their bodies because of that.
Great Interview. Depressing, but I have high hopes for a Documentary. Love a good doc. I also wish people wouldn’t call it ‘top surgery’ or ‘bottom surgery’. Let’s call top surgery what it is - a double mastectomy of healthy breast tissue. ‘Bottom surgery’ just sounds like a Viz cartoon to me. Horrific. Such clean and ‘cutesy’ names for body mutilations.