Victory Girls
Marta Hernandez
Nov. 20, 2018
I was having dinner with a childhood friend (also an immigrant) a few weeks ago. She’s a female and about as liberal a person that I know. She was telling me about her stepson, who decided a couple of years ago that he was trans, and being a good progressive couple, she and her husband immediately sought to get the boy some help. Thankfully that help did not come in the form of gender reassignment surgery – something that British psychiatrist Bob Winters has recently described as “one of the darkest chapters in medicine.â€
My friend doesn’t remember the dark days of our childhood because she and her family escaped when she was tiny, so she and I have very different perspectives on life. This is probably why she is very much progressive – she doesn’t remember our childhood in our nation of birth, or the hell we went through trying to escape that socialist shithole. She and I have a great relationship, and we can actually talk politics without wanting to throat punch one another, but I will admit that when she was telling me about her stepson, I feared they would be making a decision that would destroy that child’s life.
So when I read Dr. Winters’ column, I thought about this poor kid, and I was grateful that my friend and her husband’s reaction wasn’t to snip off the boy’s giblets, but rather to get him into counseling.
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