Thank you for this insightful and deep analysis of the current glamorization of double mastectomies for young girls. It always amazes me how effective advertising and propaganda can be, especially with the complicity of almost the whole medical industry. Kids don't stand a chance....
I'm so sorry to hear that you have been going through cancer treatment; I send my best wishes for your healing and recovery. My mother had a double mastectomy for breast cancer in 1975, before treatments improved and I was always struck by her bravery in the face of this disfiguring surgery. She opted not to have reconstruction and lived another 40 years. Watching the current fad for "top surgery" I am outraged that anyone would do this voluntarily, and your analysis of the motives and rationale ( such as it is) makes a lot of sense. I also wonder if the opiates given post-op are part of the appeal, too... self-harm is quite contagious.
Many wealthy women had a wet nurse feed their babies, and this was a status symbol. The biology of the female body has been treated as something to disdain.
This mixed up mess just disgust me as it did over 11 years ago where a young Butch Lesbian announced to an Organization of women I belonged to that she just made the switch, and had her breasts removed. She pulled up her shirt showing off the handiwork. I felt sick to my stomach. Another Butch Lesbian who transed.
AT THE SAME TIME in the same community, a beloved Lesbian Elder just had a double mastectomy due to Breast Cancer. We put a party on for her for a fundraiser since she was self employed and needed the money for her medical bills. It just sickened me one would brag about having her perfectly healthy breasts removed, while the other had no choice to be rid of the Cancer.
And many of these FTMS do have fundraisers so they can go get them removed. Whole thing sickens me. I did NOT come out, stay out as a Butch Lesbian.and DykeAmazon Warrior/ Witch, Feminist, Tradeswoman, Martial Artist teaching women self defense, OUT LOUD N PROUD to celebrate young would Butch/ Tomboy Lesbian women.having their breasts removed so they could imitate men!! Every time it's a punch in the gut and one less Lesbian ally or our progeny of passing on our Lesbian.wisdom and Mysteries to our youth. Butch Lesbians used to mentor the next generation...now that link has been utterly broken.
Theyd rather imitate straight or Gay Dudes...NO THANKS. While sadly many women including Lesbians, suffer from breast cancer and the horrendous drugs, surgeries, radiation they have to take for a cure. It utterly disgusts me!!
That's a good way to put it " a punch in the gut." My own double mastectomy a few years ago saved my life, but it was horrible. I see these girls and feel pity but sometimes I feel angry too. I'm not proud of that.
Thank you for speaking out and writing such an insightful and important piece. I wrote my final paper for my psychology degree on self-harm in adolescent girls - or Non-suicidal Self Injury (NSSI) as it was being called at the time. This was a long time ago and before the rise of ROGD. I also had severe trauma and emotional distress myself as a young woman and have had dissociative issues including eating issues, self harm issues, and an obsession with the way my body looked. I was involved in the modeling world and Hollywood for a long time and I think, for me, it was really about controlling the image and what people would see when they looked at me rather than see my pain and vulnerability. Even now I find it hard to write the word ‘vulnerability.’
Your analysis strikes me as completely accurate. I find it so distressing to know and understand and see these things that the young women and girls are going through yet be completely unable to talk sense into anyone who is weirdly blinded by the trans ideology. This includes friends and many adult women who are therapists and should know better. How a therapist who is a trauma therapist can look at a young woman covered in self-harm scars and validate her idea that she was ‘born in the wrong body’ just boggles the mind. Or how a surgeon can cut off the breasts of a clearly emotionally disturbed girl. I thought “First do no harm” was a thing in the medical profession.
I used to wonder how the Aztecs could practice child sacrifice and think it was a good thing - or numerous other cultures do such repulsive things to other human beings - and now I think that for as advanced as we believe we are our group cultural behaviour has not changed that much.
I am so sorry you are going through this painful cancer diagnosis and treatment. It truly is courageous to talk about it with such openness and use your own experience to try and reach and inform others. I truly hope that your doctors can treat your cancer successfully and save your breasts and your life and I look forward to reading many more of your wonderful insights into this terrible mind contagion that our young girls are exposed to.
Many thanks and much compassion from a detransitioning woman who is grappling with body acceptance without her breasts and ovaries. The ease of access I had to removing healthy tissues vs. friends who have cancerous tissues being placed on absurd waiting lists is appalling. I’m in the aftermath of several body altering procedures and medical interventions that happened during a time I was clearly in much mental and emotional anguish. I should’ve been encouraged to go through grief counseling for the loss of my mother, therapy for the trauma I’d experienced around how I was treated/traumatized around my girlhood and womanhood—not offered pre-written consent letters and immediate referrals for surgeries. Embodiment is such a struggle for so many of us, and I wish these painful feelings on no one. I understand entirely why so many of us are attempting to flee our sex. We’re terrified of ourselves and being told there are medical solutions. Hindsight is 20/20.
Well said ,Amy. Praying for you in your battle against breast cancer.🙏 . Thank you for your bravery in fighting the horrors of gender ideology ,an evil movement designed to destroy humanity,starting with women and children. Good luck xx
It's hard to see any of this even after years of watching it now. My own double mastectomy is both a blessing and something I still have a hard time with. It's just been a few years, but I sometimes forget and then remember. In my dreams I always have my original breasts. Take care Amy, you're in my prayers.
My best wishes to you..it must be so difficult to think of having to he a mastectomy, though I understand that radical surgery for cancer is a thing of the past.
Your post on the double mastectomy of young girls was hard to read, and I had to scroll through the pictures of the mutilated bodies , which were truly nauseating. What an Orwellian world when scars are considered beautiful!These girls are truly demented ,and the industry feeding off these amputations make me think of vultures eating of the remains of their once beautiful bodies!
Of course , it’s highly lucrative for those vultures living off the insanity! There is something very evil about all of this! Just revolting!
Elective plastic surgery has always been allowed for minors, if their parents consent and, obviously, pay. It’s always seemed odd. How many parents bought their daughters breast “augmentation” surgeries?
Thank you for this insightful and deep analysis of the current glamorization of double mastectomies for young girls. It always amazes me how effective advertising and propaganda can be, especially with the complicity of almost the whole medical industry. Kids don't stand a chance....
I'm so sorry to hear that you have been going through cancer treatment; I send my best wishes for your healing and recovery. My mother had a double mastectomy for breast cancer in 1975, before treatments improved and I was always struck by her bravery in the face of this disfiguring surgery. She opted not to have reconstruction and lived another 40 years. Watching the current fad for "top surgery" I am outraged that anyone would do this voluntarily, and your analysis of the motives and rationale ( such as it is) makes a lot of sense. I also wonder if the opiates given post-op are part of the appeal, too... self-harm is quite contagious.
Many wealthy women had a wet nurse feed their babies, and this was a status symbol. The biology of the female body has been treated as something to disdain.
This mixed up mess just disgust me as it did over 11 years ago where a young Butch Lesbian announced to an Organization of women I belonged to that she just made the switch, and had her breasts removed. She pulled up her shirt showing off the handiwork. I felt sick to my stomach. Another Butch Lesbian who transed.
AT THE SAME TIME in the same community, a beloved Lesbian Elder just had a double mastectomy due to Breast Cancer. We put a party on for her for a fundraiser since she was self employed and needed the money for her medical bills. It just sickened me one would brag about having her perfectly healthy breasts removed, while the other had no choice to be rid of the Cancer.
And many of these FTMS do have fundraisers so they can go get them removed. Whole thing sickens me. I did NOT come out, stay out as a Butch Lesbian.and DykeAmazon Warrior/ Witch, Feminist, Tradeswoman, Martial Artist teaching women self defense, OUT LOUD N PROUD to celebrate young would Butch/ Tomboy Lesbian women.having their breasts removed so they could imitate men!! Every time it's a punch in the gut and one less Lesbian ally or our progeny of passing on our Lesbian.wisdom and Mysteries to our youth. Butch Lesbians used to mentor the next generation...now that link has been utterly broken.
Theyd rather imitate straight or Gay Dudes...NO THANKS. While sadly many women including Lesbians, suffer from breast cancer and the horrendous drugs, surgeries, radiation they have to take for a cure. It utterly disgusts me!!
That's a good way to put it " a punch in the gut." My own double mastectomy a few years ago saved my life, but it was horrible. I see these girls and feel pity but sometimes I feel angry too. I'm not proud of that.
Thank you for speaking out and writing such an insightful and important piece. I wrote my final paper for my psychology degree on self-harm in adolescent girls - or Non-suicidal Self Injury (NSSI) as it was being called at the time. This was a long time ago and before the rise of ROGD. I also had severe trauma and emotional distress myself as a young woman and have had dissociative issues including eating issues, self harm issues, and an obsession with the way my body looked. I was involved in the modeling world and Hollywood for a long time and I think, for me, it was really about controlling the image and what people would see when they looked at me rather than see my pain and vulnerability. Even now I find it hard to write the word ‘vulnerability.’
Your analysis strikes me as completely accurate. I find it so distressing to know and understand and see these things that the young women and girls are going through yet be completely unable to talk sense into anyone who is weirdly blinded by the trans ideology. This includes friends and many adult women who are therapists and should know better. How a therapist who is a trauma therapist can look at a young woman covered in self-harm scars and validate her idea that she was ‘born in the wrong body’ just boggles the mind. Or how a surgeon can cut off the breasts of a clearly emotionally disturbed girl. I thought “First do no harm” was a thing in the medical profession.
I used to wonder how the Aztecs could practice child sacrifice and think it was a good thing - or numerous other cultures do such repulsive things to other human beings - and now I think that for as advanced as we believe we are our group cultural behaviour has not changed that much.
I am so sorry you are going through this painful cancer diagnosis and treatment. It truly is courageous to talk about it with such openness and use your own experience to try and reach and inform others. I truly hope that your doctors can treat your cancer successfully and save your breasts and your life and I look forward to reading many more of your wonderful insights into this terrible mind contagion that our young girls are exposed to.
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Many thanks and much compassion from a detransitioning woman who is grappling with body acceptance without her breasts and ovaries. The ease of access I had to removing healthy tissues vs. friends who have cancerous tissues being placed on absurd waiting lists is appalling. I’m in the aftermath of several body altering procedures and medical interventions that happened during a time I was clearly in much mental and emotional anguish. I should’ve been encouraged to go through grief counseling for the loss of my mother, therapy for the trauma I’d experienced around how I was treated/traumatized around my girlhood and womanhood—not offered pre-written consent letters and immediate referrals for surgeries. Embodiment is such a struggle for so many of us, and I wish these painful feelings on no one. I understand entirely why so many of us are attempting to flee our sex. We’re terrified of ourselves and being told there are medical solutions. Hindsight is 20/20.
Well said ,Amy. Praying for you in your battle against breast cancer.🙏 . Thank you for your bravery in fighting the horrors of gender ideology ,an evil movement designed to destroy humanity,starting with women and children. Good luck xx
Thanks, Amy, for this great and really useful analysis.
I wish you all the best with your own battle against cancer.
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It's hard to see any of this even after years of watching it now. My own double mastectomy is both a blessing and something I still have a hard time with. It's just been a few years, but I sometimes forget and then remember. In my dreams I always have my original breasts. Take care Amy, you're in my prayers.
My best wishes to you..it must be so difficult to think of having to he a mastectomy, though I understand that radical surgery for cancer is a thing of the past.
Your post on the double mastectomy of young girls was hard to read, and I had to scroll through the pictures of the mutilated bodies , which were truly nauseating. What an Orwellian world when scars are considered beautiful!These girls are truly demented ,and the industry feeding off these amputations make me think of vultures eating of the remains of their once beautiful bodies!
Of course , it’s highly lucrative for those vultures living off the insanity! There is something very evil about all of this! Just revolting!
Wow. Powerful article. And so well written. Thanks for your great work. My thoughts are with you as you continue on your personal journey.
Elective plastic surgery has always been allowed for minors, if their parents consent and, obviously, pay. It’s always seemed odd. How many parents bought their daughters breast “augmentation” surgeries?