Chris James @chrisjames39366 - Twitter Profile

I was a trans child. My strongest memory was kneeling on these tiles at twelve years old, placing my father’s pistol in my mouth and trying to pull the trigger to end the pain. Puberty was kicking in, my body was changing into something grotesque, and the thought of living as a man was so horrifying. I survived that night, but not all of me did. I would proceed to spend the next decade blackout drinking and doing every drug I could get my hands on, trying to numb the pain. I was shorting out and damaging every relationship in my life. You cannot be a good human being and believe our public policy should require inflicting this on rare, actual trans children. It’s child abuse. And no, you can’t just say wait until 18. There is something about testosterone for actual trans girls that is just absolutely incompatible with happiness. Comorbidities WILL develop, and no, a trip to a therapist will not stop them from developing. Eating disorders, suicidal ideation, depression. There is a discussion to be had about drastically raising the standards for medicalizing children. But if the public policy you want is all or nothing, then you are signing trans children up for extremely difficult lives, trying to undo the damage inflicted on us.

BriannaWu's tweet photo. I was a trans child. My strongest memory was kneeling on these tiles at twelve years old, placing my father’s pistol in my mouth and trying to pull the trigger to end the pain. Puberty was kicking in, my body was changing into something grotesque, and the thought of living as a man was so horrifying.

I survived that night, but not all of me did. I would proceed to spend the next decade blackout drinking and doing every drug I could get my hands on, trying to numb the pain. I was shorting out and damaging every relationship in my life.

You cannot be a good human being and believe our public policy should require inflicting this on rare, actual trans children. It’s child abuse.

And no, you can’t just say wait until 18. There is something about testosterone for actual trans girls that is just absolutely incompatible with happiness. Comorbidities WILL develop, and no, a trip to a therapist will not stop them from developing.

Eating disorders, suicidal ideation, depression.

There is a discussion to be had about drastically raising the standards for medicalizing children. But if the public policy you want is all or nothing, then you are signing trans children up for extremely difficult lives, trying to undo the damage inflicted on us.

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Chris James @ChrisJames39366

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Trans children are innocent.

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Trans children need help.

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Trans children are here.

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Protect Trans children.

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camille. @girl_calamity

8 days ago

give minors hrt, and i don’t just mean puberty blockers

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Brianna Wu

@BriannaWu

10 days ago

I don’t just think last night were the death throes of MAGA. I think it was the beginning of the end of this gender critical cult as well. Yeah. There’s a substantial population of middle aged women with no hobbies obsessed with us. And men that masturbate to us and then try to take away our rights. That’s not going to change. But hating trans women is not going to continue being a path to political power. I cannot see this being a major issue in 2028. At least in this country. In 5 years we’ll remember this the way we think of the satanic panic of the 80s. All the writers that have tried to make careers obsessing about us will have to find beats with an audience. The one thing that could stop this horror from ending is the gender ideologues trying to undo the few compromises people in the middle want. Leave sports where it is. Let trans kids get hrt, but wait on surgery until 18. Stop trying to write sex out of law because no one thinks this non-binary stuff is real. MAGA got power because progressives mistakenly thought everyone agreed with their fringe politics of abolishing gender. They don’t. So don’t give them power by repeating these past mistakes. Trans people are safer when the public isn’t thinking about us this much.

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