Why do you say “parents”, though? Has anybody ever heard of a father doing this kind of thing? It’s always the mother’s initiative. And it’s the same motivation. The mother is repelled by the idea of her daughter growing into a woman and enjoying her own body like the mother never did. So she prevents that by mutilating the daughter.
Have you heard of FGM? It’s always pursued by mothers and in very aggressive ways. The justification is, “this was done to me, and now I’m doing it to her.” They say it completely openly, and the look on their faces tells you everything. These women know they were robbed and they can’t stand the idea of their daughters having what they never could.
Of course, what I’m describing is a completely different phenomenon from when a middle-aged man in a very masculine profession suddenly puts a wig on his balding head and insists that everybody call him Rachel. That’s autogynephilia, and it’s an entirely separate thing. This has nothing at all to do with his childhood. That these very different phenomena get grouped together is unfortunate and confuses everybody.
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That sounds remarkably like one of the perennial arguments people use for sending kids to public school, even though it’s terrible. “I went to school there. It made me what I am today. How will my child be normal if he/she doesn’t go through it too?” Though I suspect John Holt is right about the real reason: Deep down inside, damaged adults want to damage children in the same way in which they were damaged, because they have never been able to to process the experience properly.
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-Me, ethyl.
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N’s father beat his children, explaining that they will get beat up throughout their lives anyway and it was his duty to prepare them for reality.
So yes, that’s exactly it.
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“perennial arguments people use for sending kids to public school, even though it’s terrible”
When did they get really terrible?
When I was being ground through the system it wasn’t great but it wasn’t terrible or dangerous…. I learned some stuff, was bored at times (a lot of the time), had some school friends… not the worst possible experience.
In civic terms I like the idea of public schools and wonder when/how it went off the rails…..
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Depends hugely on where you live
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In SA, the new black elite want to send their own children to the formerly whites only and now private schools. They also want the votes of the largely under qualified teachers union who “serve” anyone unlucky enough to go to a public school.
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“Has anybody ever heard of a father do this kind of thing?”
IIRC there was a guy with a transed little boy in social media (there may have been a wife in the background… I don’t remember).
I haven’t really heard of parents transing girls at all (I could be missing cases…).
It was my impression that most young women who decide they’re trans are trying to escape the burdens of being adult women…
Adolescence for males is largely about being beat up (by other adolescents and various authority figures and institutions). The light at the end of the tunnel is the end of the beatings and/or respect as an adult.
For females it’s a series of startling revelations…. more radical body changes than males experience and attracting the interest of lots of males (many of them gross) then they get to find out about menstruation, penetration, pregnancy and childbirth…. that’s a lot. For some, ‘trans’ is a way calling a time out for lots of young women (hopefully without medical interventions).
For a minority who find themselves sexually attracted to their female age peers it’s a way of avoiding the ‘lesbian’ label….
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