At one point, Jazz’ parents admit they embraced the medical side of his transgender conversion out of fear.
Snow: Why not just let nature take its course and deal with this when she's an adult?
Mom: Because she might not be alive. She might not make it to adulthood. And she'll tell you that herself. Going through male puberty would probably be the worst, most devastating thing that could happen to her, and then undoing male puberty is very difficult. You can't take the height away. Your brow juts out like this. You can't take that away. You have to get rid of the beard, which is very, very painful, getting your Adam's apple shaved, everything. It's a huge cost, too. Not everybody can afford that. You can get female feminization of your face and you can look like a completely different person, but the cost of that's exorbitant. So to have to put her through that would be cruel. Cruel.
Snow: Now the clock is running a little bit, right? You're maybe four years away from a really big decision about surgery.
Dad: So, that decision, to me, is a decision that jazz will make. And that will be something that -- you know, we'll support her in whatever decision she makes.
Snow: You guys take a lot of criticism. You've heard it all, right? You've heard people say, "How could you possibly know?" "Parents can't possibly know when a kid is that young." "Parents are pushing their kids."
Dad: But those people haven't walked in our shoes as parents. And they haven't walked in jazz's shoes as a child. And they really don't know what they're talking about. In fact, you know -- and I wouldn't know what they're talking about if they were telling me their family's story.
Mom: You know, I don't say anything, but I'm like, "If somebody told you your kid had a 50% chance to attempt suicide if you allow them to go down the path that you think is right, then, you know, what would you do?" You want to go the other path, the path where your kid is happy. I mean, who wants to play with those odds? I wasn't about to.
No parent wants their kids to die, and I can’t lay claim to being the world’s greatest parent. However, is it really good parenting to sit there and say, “Well, our child is engaged in something that is morally reprehensible and recognized as a serious psychiatric disorder. But hey, he might kill himself if we try to talk him out of it. So, let’s buy him a tiara?”
Not that Jazz’s parents are morally opposed to his lifestyle, as we will see in the next clip. But I could have sworn that a big part of being a parent is telling your child when he’s wrong. Not just letting them do whatever they want out of fear of rebellion or confrontation.
Also, this scene implies that the risk of suicide in Trans people is only really there if you try to suppress their trans urges, and not allow them to be who they really are. That is completely wrong. In 2003, a Swedish study found that the post-op mortality and suicide rates for transsexuals were infinitely higher than for the population as a whole.
And these are people who had gone through the reassignment surgery, which Jazz hasn’t even done yet. In other words, these people were ten times more “authentic” than Jazz, and were still so riddled with grief that they killed themselves.
Of course, the left will whine that these rates aren’t high because of mental illness. But because of the ostracism and hate that Trans people get on a regular basis.
However, note that this study was done in Sweden. Which has been one of, if not the most overtly accepting Western nation when it comes to transgenderism. So the idea that social ostracism is responsible for these tragic numbers is highly suspect.
Point being, embracing transgenderism can be every bit as dangerous, if not more, than suppressing it. Which again, lends credence to the fact that what we’re dealing with here is a mental disorder, and not merely a sexual identity crisis.