Gay Patriot has a great post on an issue that is seemingly ignored by the media in mass as well as the low-information general public. And that is that The Learning Channel is attempting “to show how normal and healthy it is to be a transgender teen.”
- Meet Jazz Jennings! Although born male, Jazz is a transgender female and has been living as a girl since kindergarten. Parents Jeanette and Greg have spent the years finding doctors to treat their daughter, while fighting the discrimination and misconceptions associated with what it means to be transgender. But, now that Jazz is 14, she is on the brink of the biggest challenge of her life: high school…. (TLC)
GP quotes a NewsBusters story noting that TLC says the “normal and healthy” life of a teen transgender is defined as “addicted to anti-depressants, emotionally unstable and generating massive drama for everyone around you.”
Continuing GP says:
Mom (to Grandmother): So I have to stop at the drug store to get this medicine as soon as possible, because she told me this morning, ‘Oh mom, I’m out of my antidepressants’.
Jazz (birth name: Jeanette Jennings): Sucks to think that I have to rely on medications to be emotionally balanced. My body is crap, and I feel it.
Mom (to camera): It’s very, very clear when Jazz is not herself. She…it’s like a light switch…she turns off and she turns on. Between the drugs that are given to her, and the side effects and the depression that she battles, she’s predictably unpredictable.
Hmmm, maybe giving massive amounts of hormones and psychoactive pharmaceuticals to mentally unstable adolescents is not such a good idea.
If Jazz is upset now, wait until Jazz finds out normal straight teenage boys are just not into “girls” with penises.
I guess teaching people to love and accept the bodies they are born with is just not an option….
The NewsBusters article goes on to point out how the family views discrimination:
…Mom (to camera): In the Liberty Council letter, there’s a long list of negative things they say about Jazz and our family that just aren’t true. They also called Jazz a boy, and refer to her as my son. We’ve never experienced discrimination like that….
It is the whiner generation raising a worse generation.