Except, of course, he did. Not only that, his regret was suppressed because it goes against the narrative.
JK Rowling has backed a young British man in a freedom of speech row after Twitter deleted his account of how he was ‘castrated’ during gender reassignment surgery that has prompted him to sue the NHS over the operation in a historic legal action.
The man has claimed that doctors did not warn him of the drastic outcome of the body-altering surgery which has left him infertile, incontinent, with no sensation in his crotch and feeling like a ‘sexual eunuch’.
He said on Twitter: ‘The minute I woke up from surgery, I knew I had made the biggest mistake of my life.’
There are two distinct issues here. The first is the act that this man had no idea what he was letting himself in for, when even a cursory research would have told him. GRS involves removing the testes, so of course it means becoming a eunuch, hence infertile. It also involves inverting the penis to create a faux vagina. The body rejects this new opening as if it is an open wound, so the owner of this mangina will have to use stents on a regular basis to keep it open. Other complications involve loss of sexual feeling and in some cases issues such as incontinence and fistulas. It is not a decision to be taken lightly. Indeed it is brutal to the point of barbarism. Dysphoria is a real issue for some people, however to treat it with this barbaric mutilation is positively medieval.
The second issue here is one of big tech censorship. Having made a life changing decision and regretting it, Twitter does what Twitter does best – pressed the big red censor button. Can’t have people going against the trans narrative, can we?
Many of his tweets describing his ordeal were deleted – but in a show of support JK Rowling shared them with her 13.9million followers on Twitter.
Oh, she’s going to be in trouble again. However, she is uncancellable, so a good advocate to have.
Sharing the harrowing details of the case, Ms Rowling claimed they were removed after reports from other Twitter users.
Well, of course they did. I’d expect nothing else from the twatterati.
Stephanie Davies-Arai, founder of Transgender Trend, a group advising parents on transgender children and young adults, said: ‘It is hoped this will force a re-think by the NHS about this kind of barbaric surgery on patients who are told by medics it will help them.
I think that slowly, surely, we are seeing a backlash building. When that dam bursts, it won’t be pretty.
And there was me thinking that the ‘lived experience’ of Transgender people was the ultimate truth, and to deny it was akin to genocide or something. Guess not, eh?
Why would anyone commit to something as drastic as that without doing any research into what he was letting himself in for? There must be endless case studies of people who have had this operation before him. I suspect that there was negligence on the part of the surgeons involved, probably if they were honest and up front about the likely outcomes they would have a lot fewer takers.
I don’t know of the details of this case. In general I have found the NHS to be good at warning about the consequences of surgery and treatment most of the time. But I can also see how a mumbled warning, behind a mask, about the consequences couched in medical terms might not register very strongly. Or how a ‘helpful leaflet’ might not have been read.
I suspect a frank YouTube style video might be the best way of ensuring ‘informed consent’.
We’re already seeing that backlash. It’s all around us.
“[J K Rowling] is uncancellable, so a good advocate to have.”
Twitter deleted the account of the President of the United States. Nobody is uncancellable.
They can’t take her wealth away. They can’t destroy her job. She is uncancellable for exactly the same reason I am.