The Day I'd Had Enough of Media Bullshit

LETTER TO JANICE TURNER (and some of the horrific commentators) Today is the day that I hit an all-time low in terms of your distorted and dangerous comments about transgender people. How we can be in 2017 and be publishing toxic bullshit that defines an entire group of humanity solely by the contents of their pants leaves me both breathless with astonishment and incandescent with rage.  I am the mother of an 11- year old trans child and we have known since she was 4. We let her find her own way, explore her identity and didn't get third party specialists involved until it became a major source of fear and anxiety for her around 8 years old. Many people in society accuse us of child abuse, or "persuasion", or for hurting our child emotionally and setting her up for a lifetime of genital mutilation and hormone pumping. Let me tell you some of the realities Janice. This is a DANGEROUS AND PERNICIOUS LIE WITH FATAL CONSEQUENCES and you are perpetuating it. Until you a