Jazz Jennings Has Earned My Respect !
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Jazz Jennings
RockGrey — 11 years ago(September 01, 2014 02:06 PM)
I admire this young lady for having the courage as well as the confidence as well as the lack of ego that goes along with her decision to be who she has. I think she has such intelligence, grace, creativity, kindness, and confidence that she deserves to be respected for having this confidence.
Anybody want a peanut ?- Fezzik, " The Princess Bride " ( 1987 )
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Lea72 — 10 years ago(December 25, 2015 06:23 AM)
That's how little you know. It is a requirement of anyone transitioning from male to female to see a psychiatrist. In fact in one episode of I Am Jazz, we see Jazz talking to her therapist.
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smjensen312-158-669840 — 9 years ago(June 10, 2016 09:44 AM)
That's how little you know. It is a requirement of anyone transitioning from male to female to see a psychiatrist. In fact in one episode of I Am Jazz, we see Jazz talking to her therapist.
Actually, it's how little you know. There is no medical procedure that actually converts a male into a female (or a female into a male). Jazz will be a castrated male, even if she lives as a female and continues to take hormones for the rest of her life. Her artificial vagina will have to be dilated regularly with a dildo or through intercourse or it will close up like a pierced ear without an earring. It is not a natural orifice. Her chromosome pattern will always be male. If her doctors have not explained this to her, they are even more dishonest and money hungry than I suspect.
Your assertion that transgendered people receive thorough psychological screening is dubious, given that over one third of transwomen engage in prostitution or work in other aspects of the sex industry. Many more have overlapping mental health issues and substance abuse problems (the belief that one is actually a member of the opposite sex, anatomy and chromosomes notwithstanding is itself delusional). Doctors who do this type of plastic surgery have a highly lucrative business, and finding a doctor who will perform this surgery (which ordinarily would be considered a grotesque mutilation) is less of a problem for incipient transsexuals than getting the money to pay for it. Jazz may be fortunate in that she has supportive (if misguided) parents and no overt psychosis or substance abuse, but since the age of two she has had the belief that she is a girl drilled into her head, along with the belief that the solution to her problem is to be completely castrated and to have artificial genitalia constructed. No two year old could understand the implications of such surgery. I would be willing to bet that alternatives to this bizarre and mutilative surgery (the most obvious being to accept herself as a gender atypical male) were never really considered and her therapists have encouraged her to see surgery as a panacea. -
jtyroler — 9 years ago(June 26, 2016 02:44 AM)
You are assuming that Jazz has XY sex chromosomes. I don't know if she's had testing for having a chromosome makeup that's other than XX or XY, but there are a number of alternative chromosome groupings for sex chromosomes.
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smjensen312-158-669840 — 9 years ago(June 27, 2016 08:00 PM)
Most transgender people are normal genetically and anatomically before they transition. Moreover, assuming for the sake of argument that Jazz is intersex, there is still no surgery or treatment that would render her a female- she would remain sexually ambiguous. Indeed, within the intersex community there is a growing consensus that children should not be forced to accept surgery that reduces the sexual ambiguity (which in their case, is normal).