R180/R194 yes, it’s awful how people with complex congenital sexual conditions have been caught up in this cultural shitcano.

The little girl who was my best friend & babydyke pal in grade school (it was a very Peppermint/Marcy dynamic) has Turner Syndrome, a condition that affects only females. Essentially, TS occurs when one of a pair of X chromosomes is damaged or missing in some way, and it results in a female child who is short in stature and requires suppmentary growth hormones, suffers cardiovascular issues, may struggle with weight, and will be unlikely to reproduce or menstruate/ovulate thanks to ovarian damage or deficiency. In all other ways, though, the TS child is still legally and biologically a female human, as she lacks a Y chromosome, male bone density, naturally elevated testosterone etc.

My friend had long hair and big eyes with long lashes, a soft stomach, a voice with no bass, large breasts that grew in early—she was a girl who grew into a woman with an unfortunate but not debilitating disorder, and she was fine with it for years. If you didn’t know her well and saw her in a crowd or at a distance, you’d just assume she was a rather short squishy lesbian. While she got a little teasing at school about being short or lacking her period, most people were respectful and didn’t bully her. Some days I would be over at her house after school to watch TV or listen to music, and she’d casually be injecting her daily hormones, no big deal. That was in the 1990s and 2000s.

Fast-forward 20 years, and we have long lost contact. From her online profiles, I sadly see that she now believes she is a ‘transmale’, is saving up for scheduled top-surgery to remove her beautiful healthy breasts, and is on HRT as well as her meds (what kind of quack doctor signed off on that, I don’t want to know). The evil homophobic trendeology of today has convinced this poor gay woman that her manageable and hardly visible if slightly limiting disorder is actually a full-blown identity disorder/mental illness, that requires a lifetime of painful unnecessary surgery to treat, and that stands her apart from society far more than she originally was.

The worst part is watching this train wreck, knowing that it’s inauthentic, and a cry for help over something quite apart from ‘gender dysphoria’. Knowing her as I did, I imagine that she has likely turned to such extreme measures because she feels grief or loneliness, at not being able to meet the impossible heteronormative standards of womanhood society sets us. She may also be struggling to fit in to a fairly shallow and sometimes exclusionary lesbian culture, in ways I have not (though I have issues of my own, I’m medium-tall and slender and blond, so I can pass as ‘desirable’ in the ‘normal’ ways). Further, her mother has always been mentally unstable, which means she never had a strong reliable older woman to guide her through her turmoil. I feel terribly for her, and wish I could reach out, but she’s so deep into the lunacy that I know I’d be castigated and pushed away and punished by her for even suggesting an alternative.

We are losing brothers and sisters to this cultish madness. All I can do is cherish the memories I had with my former sister, and hope one day she wakes up and comes home.