I have a friend who cuts herself. Her arms are a patchwork of criss-crossed scars from years of self mutilation. From a distance she looks like she’d been burned, with the twisted, molten look of her flesh. From up close, you can see how much she has, at times, hated herself. Even though she’s beautiful, she has hated herself enough to make herself ugly. She feels she deserves to be ugly.
I too have gone through this phase. Briefly, leading up to the Dark Time, in 2009. I got told I “scar like a black girl,” so instead of faint white lines, I have slug-like pink worms where I hurt myself.
But at no time could I imagine my parents (should they still be with us) or my beautiful friend’s parents, handing us razor blades to cut ourselves with. In fact, loving parents (and even less-than-loving parents) would go out of their way to prevent their children from harming themselves. Why, in this day and age, a fetus is practically fitted with a helmet in utero, so as to protect it from harm in childbirth. One kid has a problem with peanuts, and the Nutzis ban PB&J for a 20 mile radius. Kids have never been so protected as in this day and age.
They’ve also never been so indulged. Junior wants pot? Let dad bring some home. Little Jane wants to fuck? Mom says do it in the house, under the loving watchfulness of the family.
And if you want to cut yourself, here’s a razor:
Six children in Britain will be given jabs to delay the puberty on the NHS because they are convinced they were born the wrong sex.
The injections – to be administered monthly – will postpone the physical changes of adolescence giving them more time to make decisions about their identity.
It will also make any sex-change operation far easier should they decide to permanently swap gender.
Where are the medical ethicists in all this? Have they been co-opted by some GLAAD-handing organization somewhere?
I cannot fathom how even the most die-hard trans-supporting people could abide by the genetic and eventually genital mutilation of children.
The decision to move within one gender or another is an adult decision, and shouldn’t even be considered in children. Let them remain asexual as long as they can, before the politics of sex consume them as it does all adults.
And more importantly, no parent should be handing their child a razor blade to self-mutilate with.
