Candace Owens interviews a trans woman with a horrific story
This is far outside of my normal narrative, but this interview needs to be shared far and wide, if for no other reason than to get some pressure to get (hopefully pro bono) legal help for Briana Ivy. What happened to Briana—entirely the fault of the medical system—during and in the aftermath of her transition was horrific and sadly, is not uncommon.
I have what can best be described as mixed feelings about Candace Owens. But this interview is a must watch and is the best thing she’s ever done. It’s the first time I’ve seen Candace show true compassion. Some great lines: “These doctors are activists first.” (Sound familiar?) “You are a paycheck to them.” It’s also a fascinating look at what truly happens when someone is “retained in care” in our corrupt medical system, for life.
Please watch this and share it. It’s worth your time, I promise.
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Rebecca, thank you for sharing this heart-wrenching interview, which needs to be widely viewed. What gets me is the implicit homophobia of the trans promoters. Brianna (while still a boy) was so affected by anti-gay comments and bullying that she was misled into believing that she would be happier turning into a girl/woman than being a gay man, and that it would be possible to do so, neither of which ended up being true. Why could no one have assured her (while still him) that there's nothing wrong at all with being an effeminate boy/man or gay man, and helped her/him find other less disastrous ways to address the emotional pain she/he was experiencing at age 14, prior to starting hormone treatments.
To me it's most important to emphasize to children that there are many ways to be a boy or girl, and that their body and way of expressing themselves, are just right for them, so that they don't start hating their body. (Anorexia is another example of girls hating their bodies.) Briana was so desperate to change her body and saw no other way, with cruel and unethical medical professionals leading her and her parents down into the abyss with false promises that could never be fulfilled. The physical and emotional trauma that was meted out to her is disgraceful. May she grow strong and use her experience to reach others and save them from the same fate.
25 years ago, many parents and I did a lot of work at my children's high school combatting homophobia among students and other parents, so that the small number of out gay kids would be accepted, and those still in the closet wouldn't feel scared and ashamed. My daughter helped start a gay-straight alliance there. Are those efforts all now being subverted??
That was kind of an astonishing interview. I had not heard of Candace Owens nor her podcast before but felt she did a very good interview here. There are so many things going on here it's hard to know where to start. Jordan Petersen has been very vocal about the transgender 'movement' specifically speaking to how the medical system is harming young people, and no doubt this is exactly what he's been speaking about. He believes the medical system is victimizing young people, believing that it's taking young vulnerable gay kids and pushing them towards being transgender. I don't know what the truth is here though, certainly in this case with Briana the case could be made she was just a very effeminate gay boy.
It's interesting because I wasn't exactly effeminate as a teenager, I certainly also experienced aspects of what she talks about. For instance, hating sports, preferring to hang out with girls and not liking the stereotypical boy things in school. But at the same time I never had a sense I was in the wrong physical gendered body. I liked being masculine, although I did never felt like I measured up to a masculine ideal, being masculine is what I've always known is the right thing for me. I've assumed that a transgender person had an equally strong sense that their internal sense of self didn't match to their physical apparatus.
However, it's clear Briana's story is a cautionary tale where drastic surgeries can't be allowed for minors who haven't had time to sort things out. It's clear there were not nearly enough safeguards to prevent a mistake from happening.
There's a lot of pushback right now in segments of the larger LGB community over including transgender people within the movement and I think this is one of the reasons for that. I've seen a lot of horrifying pictures show up on Twitter of body mutilating surgeries for FTM transgender folks having large chunks of flesh taken from forearms and I just couldn't grasp what was happening.
This is a tough area.