Thread by @TwisterFilm

1./ Words fail me. This disturbed person says “he” is now a gay man. Born female “he” asked surgeons to create a suppurating roll of flesh “he” calls a penis harvested from “his” thigh. An op with a 50% fail rate with as many as 12 corrective follow ups.👇
nymag.com/intelligencer/…

2./ In “his” pre transition life as a journalist “he” wrote about organising their own violent abuse in order to “deal with PTSD” they claimed to be linked to a Haitian woman’s rape. That woman complained bitterly about her story being misused. 👇
amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/24…

3./ It was a disgusting article that left many wondering if there wasn’t something wrong with the journalist. A “queer” therapist claimed to have recommended the journalist’s own abuse at the hands of a male friend; not as some freaky S&M fantasy but as healing ritual. 🤦‍♂️

4./ What compounded the sense of disbelief was the total disregard for normal journalistic safeguards and the rights of the actual rape victim. The journalist live tweeted the real victim’s journey to a doctor just after the rape, and revealed her personal details and name.👇

5./ Have we come full circle? In the late 1960s, before the Stonewall riots, the great Barbara Gittings began her fight to liberate gay people from the accusation of mental illness. Now the LGBTQ+ movement has embraced behaviour that must strike many as pathological.

6./ For some, surgical transition may be a way to find accommodation with their body. But it is now being promoted by disturbed adults as a ritualised form of painful self harm. That’s bad enough. That it should be socially acceptable enough to be a front cover shames us all.