Growing Up with a Trans Parent with Emma Thomas, from Children of Transitioners | Episode 169

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  • čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
  • Sasha and Stella warmly welcome Emma Thomas to the show highlighting her significant role as an advocate for children of transitioners. Emma talks about growing up with an AGP dad, the importance of safeguarding children, the misinformation around chestfeeding, and her hope that autogynephilia is treatable or preventable.
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Komentáře • 280

  • @widerlenspod
    @widerlenspod  Před 8 dny +8

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  • @juliaeimer6924
    @juliaeimer6924 Před 6 dny +19

    As a woman, you‘re basically shamed if you take a pain killer while pregnant or breastfeeding, you must not be selfish, baby’s needs first etc…. but if you‘re trans, it is okay to take all kinds of drugs, even chemotherapy, and still get praised for nursing and passing on all these drugs to a tiny human bc it feels sooo good for yourself.

    • @Lilyloo82
      @Lilyloo82 Před 3 dny +3

      @@juliaeimer6924 this comment 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

  • @marycrawford9428
    @marycrawford9428 Před 8 dny +35

    Every time I hear of trans women inducing lactation to ‘feed’ a baby it distresses me.
    Seriously, how would we feel if we realized the dairy farmers were using hormones and chemicals to transition their bull calves and doubling their milk herds that way? Would we want to drink that milk and give it to our families?

    • @scorpina69
      @scorpina69 Před 3 dny

      Cows and other farm animals have been induced with hormones for decades!

    • @insidiousmischka
      @insidiousmischka Před 2 dny

      Because it’s child abuse.

    • @BoomerTelly
      @BoomerTelly Před dnem

      Those are autogynephiliacs with a fetish for lactation. Absolutely revolting.

  • @HellCatt0770
    @HellCatt0770 Před 9 dny +47

    We’ve all seen the BBC propaganda films with the happy teenage kids so, so, so supportive of dad becoming a ‘woman’. Imagine how trapped those kids are?!
    Such a roller coaster interview! Emma made me laugh, cry and rage at the injustice. I hate this is done to families and now it’s celebrated too!

  • @merg-vh5sx
    @merg-vh5sx Před 9 dny +98

    The Trevor Project disclaimer inserted by CZcams. I can actually vomit at the state of it.

    • @jayadams9794
      @jayadams9794 Před 9 dny

      Why are you watching this then if you pro child transition.

    • @lavienestpasunlongfleuvetr2559
      @lavienestpasunlongfleuvetr2559 Před 9 dny +14

      Send them feedback to complain about their ignorance.

    • @arawilson
      @arawilson Před 8 dny +10

      Pops up when a guest is a gay person too.

    • @AndyJarman
      @AndyJarman Před 8 dny +4

      I didn't get that - I'm in Australia

    • @HanFace89
      @HanFace89 Před 8 dny +1

      I just sent some strongly worded feedback that will likely be ignored. Trevor IS conversion therapy FFS - conversion INTO trans.

  • @msshrill3681
    @msshrill3681 Před 9 dny +55

    Emma is phenomenal. Thanks to her for sharing her story. Brave and brilliant

  • @ejd5261
    @ejd5261 Před 8 dny +16

    This was wonderful! I think the most important thing Emma said, among many important things, was “please tell me why I/children like me don’t deserve our health” in regards to subjecting babies to the male milk/synthetic hormone/heart drug cocktail or testosterone in utero.
    It cuts through the narcissistic adults’ identity concerns and gets to the core issue: hurt yourself if you insist, but you don’t get to hurt kids. Thats not allowed, regardless of anyone’s identity.

  • @user-tf2rj2jm2n
    @user-tf2rj2jm2n Před 9 dny +37

    Brave woman,Emma.Dreadful story of child abuse.It’s terrific that she is sharing her story.

    • @ceeceebeebee889
      @ceeceebeebee889 Před 8 dny

      She keeps saying "the sexual element of it"-- IT"S ALL SEXUAL; there isn't "just" one elemental that is sexual, it's all perverse and by design so.

  • @siobhannoble8545
    @siobhannoble8545 Před 9 dny +96

    This is like telling a child they're sick when they're not. That has got to be a form of child abuse.

    • @merg-vh5sx
      @merg-vh5sx Před 9 dny +8

      Yes. Activists have been calling it Munchhausen's by proxy for ages.

    • @christinenazario2565
      @christinenazario2565 Před 9 dny +9

      Munchhausen by proxy has been around for decades, it is in the DSM five. Basically a parent and or caregiver that puts their child through continuous medical testing they go against Dr. recommendations would be diagnosed with Munchhausen’s by proxy. Sometimes these children die as a result. It doesn’t necessarily focus on transitioning their children, it can be really any kind of harm to their children medically

    • @sharonw2008
      @sharonw2008 Před 9 dny +10

      It's definitely gaslighting their children and is dangerous as they know the truth but have to lie to themselves and everyone around them. This leaves them open to other abuses too 😢

    • @christinenazario2565
      @christinenazario2565 Před 9 dny

      100% agree! Now these kind of abuses that would make it to child-welfare for investigation are now ignored and even celebrated

    • @Catmom-gl5nt
      @Catmom-gl5nt Před 8 dny +3

      @sharonw2008 that is an excellent point! A similar phenomenon that this reminds me of is when children raised by parents who exhibit irrational fear and high anxiety, they lose the ability to judge what is legitimate danger from irrational. Taught to fear everything, they cannot differentiate genuine threats from imagined in everyday life. How can you expect someone to establish healthy boundaries and expectations when they are taught as a child to deny the reality before them and instead be forced to call it up when it’s down and say when it’s night?

  • @garyweglarz
    @garyweglarz Před 9 dny +61

    I'm sorry, I have no problem with anyone living in their own fantasy world - but when they damage children by pulling those children with them into that fantasy world it's time to just say - "NO - we won't allow you to do that."

    • @marleenjansen4692
      @marleenjansen4692 Před 4 dny +1

      Don´t force the lie..on others pretending to be someone else is FRAUD.

    • @jj-bv3ui
      @jj-bv3ui Před 4 dny +1

      You know, if you personally can't understand something, that's on you, right? It's not like I can move to France and then be upset that I don't speak French. If you find this upsetting then you should interact with people who don't provide you with an echo chamber, you should interact with different people and understand them, because this isnt new and every culture has had trans people throughout all time and cultures. It's not that confusing, it's just been politicized for votes to distract us from real problems.

    • @garyweglarz
      @garyweglarz Před 4 dny

      @@jj-bv3ui I'm a retired clinical social worker who gladly mentored a young trans-female therapist before I retired. I was decades ahead of the "societal trend" of finally supporting LGBTQ rights. Some of my best friends are members of the community. That said - there has never been a time in human history that I am aware of where I as a male can wake up tomorrow morning - "feeling" and "identifying" as a female - and then demand access to women's rape shelters, women's domestic violence shelters, women's prisons, women's locker rooms, and women's sports - for starters. The arrogance exhibited by many in the "trans-activist" community in refusing to even discuss the traumatic impacts of placing a human being with a penis in the same rape shelter with traumatized women constitutes a very new, updated, "post-modern version" of "misogyny" - but misogyny nonetheless - that is glaringly apparent to anyone capable of balanced and nuanced thought. Having read 30 books on the topic over the last two years - from all perspectives - even grand dame Ms. Butler - I suspect that your "echo chamber" assertion would fall under the category of - "projection." Just a guess. : /

  • @AndyJarman
    @AndyJarman Před 8 dny +12

    Emma is astonishingly well adjusted, its as though her childhood was like a movie she starred in. She's so fluent in the subject that she can see the humour in the crazyness!

  • @caves7361
    @caves7361 Před 7 dny +11

    What an amazing articulate woman. No idea how she survived that childhood. Politicians need to listen to her.

  • @heybigbender
    @heybigbender Před 9 dny +45

    Only 25 minutes in and this is probably one of, if not the best conversation you've had on this channel. It's so refreshing to hear the BS identity side stripped away to reveal the old fashioned terms like dressing, crossdressing, all the lingo that sums up the problematic modern elements of gender. The addition of identity on top of that fetishistic lifestyle was the major turning point that led to what is now a pushback against trans ideology. They reached a level of social acceptance but that wasn't enough.

  • @irinas928
    @irinas928 Před 9 dny +28

    Emma is amazing! Very good conversation and super important! Emma and the Children of Transitioners and the thrapists deserve all the support they can get.

  • @peavy6106
    @peavy6106 Před 9 dny +36

    Thank you so much for this conversation. My father hid his cross-dressing from me and my sister when we were children--so I have some gratitude for that--but the co-conditions of self-obsession, narcissism, and misogyny were very apparent early on. He did eventually (of course) reveal his fetish to us as adults after our mother had passed away, and I do wonder how different that experience may be between AGP fathers and their daughters vs their sons. It has felt very much like he's attempting to specifically suck his female family into his self-talk/fantasy world.

    • @St.MartinofToursPrayToGodForUs
      @St.MartinofToursPrayToGodForUs Před 9 dny +7

      If you can, you should speak out about your experience. Obviously it's different, but your story should be shared, if/when you feel ready.
      I'm sorry for the loss of your mother. May she rest in peace!

    • @HellCatt0770
      @HellCatt0770 Před 9 dny +4

      What an awful experience. I’m so sorry. I hope you reach out to Emma. I think we will all be hearing a whole new generation of children of trans parents 😢

    • @defenestratorX
      @defenestratorX Před 5 dny

      Given the fact that you were told as adults. I say he was probably doing you a favor and made the right decisions by not trying to make it apparent early in life.
      If you still claim it's messed up and that you guys couldn't handle any kind of harsh truths about your own fathers AGP struggles then that has more of a bearing on maybe both you and your potentially your fathers own bearing of not raising you to handle the real world

    • @ddz1375
      @ddz1375 Před 5 dny +1

      ​@@defenestratorXwhy should his daughters be accepting of his abhorrent behaviors? His waiting for their adulthood has nothing to do with their maturation, dad probably had the fantasy idea that family has to accept you. Sharing your sexual proclivities with your children at any age is wrong.

    • @St.MartinofToursPrayToGodForUs
      @St.MartinofToursPrayToGodForUs Před 5 dny

      @@defenestratorX that's like saying someone wasn't raised right because they aren't accepting of their parent's pedophilic desires.
      Both of these things are paraphilias, sexual compulsions that are seriously problematic.
      And AGP is almost worse, because of its selfish nature, requiring everyone around the person to be ok with it. With pedophilia, there's a lot more social shame, so it's not as if the people around the perv needs to go along with their perversion.

  • @Gingerblaze
    @Gingerblaze Před 9 dny +25

    Very grateful you are addressing how these issues impact the families (parents, siblings and children). It is incredibly difficult for children to say anything about their experiences. when the culture is very much against hearing them.

    • @erinwest8060
      @erinwest8060 Před 6 dny

      Which is so weird because at the same time the media pushes the idea that children "know" their gender and we should listen to them, and that they must be heard
      Until it doesn't fit the narrative and suddenly silence.

  • @ruthhorowitz7625
    @ruthhorowitz7625 Před 9 dny +76

    OMG! That was eye opening!
    Heartbreaking!
    The more I learn the more anti transitioning I become. It's such a narcissistic thing to do.

    • @darielaaudry9193
      @darielaaudry9193 Před 8 dny +4

      I wish they would interview children of gay couples too. I hope this comment doesn’t get erased again…

    • @ruthhorowitz7625
      @ruthhorowitz7625 Před 8 dny

      @@darielaaudry9193 tell us!

    • @shannonsayshi
      @shannonsayshi Před 7 dny +5

      I agree.. it's similar to encouraging an anorexic to get liposuction and diet or someone w BIID to have a limb removed.

    • @darielaaudry9193
      @darielaaudry9193 Před 5 dny

      @@ruthhorowitz7625 czcams.com/video/CVxW9VQTHNk/video.htmlsi=RU83kBOQaDpcMhfP

    • @jj-bv3ui
      @jj-bv3ui Před 4 dny

      you're not really learning then, you're just seeking out echo chambers. You should interact with folks like myself who transitioned and it literally saved my health in a huge way not just mentally but physically. And I came out in 2003 so it's not new. It's just a politicized boogeyman subject that distracts folks from actual issues.

  • @prof.jezebel
    @prof.jezebel Před 9 dny +37

    It seems like a key challenge is untangling gender dysmorphia, autogynophilia, and narcissism. A big tell is how "woman" is seen and how others are respected. If women are seen as sexual caricatures, like drag queen performances, then this is clearly a fetishization of patriarchal objectification of women. If someone chest feeds a baby, prioritizing their own psychological needs over the baby's health and emotional development, this is clearly narcissism. Thank you for illuminating the complexity of these issues with empathy and reliable research!

    • @ohutton
      @ohutton Před 9 dny +1

      Its more than just narcissism, though that is the root of it. To force a baby to suckle on the hormone filled pus leaking from a fetish obsessed man's nipple is far beyond narcissism. Its psychotic, its endangering a baby for sexual thrills and validation. I'm not sure what the punishment for such a man should be, but it should be maximal.

    • @HellCatt0770
      @HellCatt0770 Před 9 dny

      I think ‘gender dysphoria’ is the result of cross sex ideation or obsession.

    • @AndyJarman
      @AndyJarman Před 8 dny

      "Trans" is definitely an umbrella "beard" to obscure the fact it's three four or five dysfunctional states that are preying on children as a source of moral integrity.

    • @Catmom-gl5nt
      @Catmom-gl5nt Před 8 dny +1

      @prof.jezebel Did you read about the HIV positive trans woman who chest fed his child? It was just in the papers. They don’t want HIV positive women feeding their babies as it increases contagion risk and this selfish monster subjected an innocent baby to not only a dangerous cocktail of artificial hormones, but also HIV tainted milk. If that’s not narcissism, I don’t know what is.

  • @ceeceebeebee889
    @ceeceebeebee889 Před 8 dny +18

    Babies are the ultimate props, as Emma said she was as a child and teen, for these absolute pervy narcs.

    • @AndyJarman
      @AndyJarman Před 8 dny

      As WPATH's SoC 8 demonstrate, the state of childhood is a source of innocence, something they crave like a succubus.
      It's psychopathy, it is what is meant by the terms "morally debased depravity" - this is the darkness you read about in the bible.

    • @Nico5890
      @Nico5890 Před 8 dny

      @@AndyJarman how dare you
      as someone who identifies as a succubus, I denounce those predatory misogynist males 👹🌙
      😂(only joking)

  • @rachelholmes245
    @rachelholmes245 Před 9 dny +27

    My grandchildren are going through this right now. I'm not allowed to see them anymore. 💔

    • @HellCatt0770
      @HellCatt0770 Před 9 dny +12

      I’m so sorry to hear that. It’s like the most evil scourge and yet we are expected to celebrate it!

    • @jayadams9794
      @jayadams9794 Před 9 dny +3

      In the end all the mothers will weep😢 all the fathers will kneel. But by then it will be too late.

    • @Karen-us3ls
      @Karen-us3ls Před 8 dny +6

      I am so sorry. I pray you will see them again as soon as possible. My heart goes out to you.

    • @ejd5261
      @ejd5261 Před 8 dny +3

      I’m so sorry!! I hope you are able to see them sooner than later, and will be able to tell them that their father’s depiction of women 1. Isn’t true and 2. Isn’t okay.
      Praying to the universe for you and your grandkids 🙏 💔

    • @RebeccaOCD
      @RebeccaOCD Před 7 dny +2

      I am sorry 😿

  • @AndyJarman
    @AndyJarman Před 8 dny +14

    When she described the "Edwardian blouse" I cackled out loud ! This MUST have been about the time Little Britain was popular? I mean, SERIOUSLY!?

    • @littleboots9800
      @littleboots9800 Před 7 dny +1

      "I'm a laydeee." 😂 introduced my daughter to Little Britain, she loved it.

  • @amandag5072
    @amandag5072 Před 9 dny +34

    It's child abuse. Children whose parent is AGP ahould be removed from that parent. There may not be direct SA, but there is still exposure to behaviours which amounts to the same thing. Thank you for talking about your experience, Emma.

    • @souxcasa
      @souxcasa Před 8 dny +4

      Some might call it grooming

  • @mikedowning4869
    @mikedowning4869 Před 7 dny +10

    I volunteered on London Gay Switchboard in the 80's and during training we met a TV who described it as merely a type of fetish like leather or rubber. There was never the idea that he actually was or wanted to 'become' a woman.

  • @saje239
    @saje239 Před 9 dny +23

    It’s not even recommended for women to breastfeed while undergoing chemotherapy because the drugs are so strong and dangerous. It’s dangerous for the infant! That story is twisted on so many levels.

    • @AmericanAmy
      @AmericanAmy Před 9 dny +1

      It doesn’t matter if they’re trans I seen one the other day that’s HIV positive. We’re supposed to believe it doesn’t matter matters to us doesn’t matter to them.

    • @lavienestpasunlongfleuvetr2559
      @lavienestpasunlongfleuvetr2559 Před 9 dny +7

      There was also a man with HIV who breastfed an infant. These are some sick creeps we're talking about.

    • @joane24
      @joane24 Před 8 dny +6

      I couldn't calmly listen to that part. Not only the man's deranged behavior but also the indifference of the wider system. It's truly sickening.

  • @brittneyzarwel6242
    @brittneyzarwel6242 Před 9 dny +21

    20:49 😂😂 an AGp org called SHAFT! Sasha's reaction was the best!

    • @joane24
      @joane24 Před 9 dny +1

      I don't get the joke?

    • @christinadodd5780
      @christinadodd5780 Před 9 dny

      Shaft defination-long handle of a spear. 🍆 interesting name to call a group of trans women 🤔 @joane24

    • @souxcasa
      @souxcasa Před 8 dny +5

      ​@@joane24shaft is what a part of the male member is called. It's also a hyper male character from the... 60s I think

    • @joane24
      @joane24 Před 8 dny +3

      @@souxcasa Oh, thanks. Now I kind of regret for asking. 😅

    • @souxcasa
      @souxcasa Před 8 dny

      @@joane24 😂 it's a ridiculous name for a group that believes they are women. Sorry for disabusing you of your innocence there 😂

  • @MorePlausible
    @MorePlausible Před 8 dny +8

    First time hearing the term “grey rock”. Very interesting concept and practice.

  • @AmericanAmy
    @AmericanAmy Před 9 dny +14

    This is the first time I’ve heard the word cross-dresser in years it seems….. strange language changes so fast.

  • @allthefunofthefair
    @allthefunofthefair Před 4 dny +2

    This is hands down one of the best episodes you’ve ever made, and I’ve listened to them all! 😂 Emma is a wonderful person and it’s great to see how insightful and balanced she is in spite of her unusual upbringing. She speaks from a place of first hand knowledge and cuts through the crap. Love her.

  • @AmericanAmy
    @AmericanAmy Před 9 dny +10

    Interesting and much-needed conversation.

  • @lati_da
    @lati_da Před 9 dny +26

    Thanks CZcams for the f’d up context blurb about the Trevor project which is nothing to do with the conversation or topic

    • @St.MartinofToursPrayToGodForUs
      @St.MartinofToursPrayToGodForUs Před 9 dny +2

      I got the "conversion therapy" write-up... Whut?!

    • @HellCatt0770
      @HellCatt0770 Před 9 dny +2

      If you select the dots in the box, top right, you can send feedback and tell them how inappropriate it is! I did. Bloody annoying.

  • @dyoung1492
    @dyoung1492 Před 9 dny +14

    Shocking stuff! Safeguarding trashed in the bin!

  • @KizzleWizzleFizzle
    @KizzleWizzleFizzle Před 9 dny +16

    What a lovely lady and very interesting to listen to her recall her life. I also feel incredibly ill listening to the stories of child abuse and s*xual abuse to pander to the feelings of men and women. Society is turning its back on the most vulnerable. Thank you for sharing.

  • @Joanna-i6d
    @Joanna-i6d Před dnem

    Thank all of you for the time and effort you are relentlessly putting into pushing back against all of this. You are heroes!

  • @joane24
    @joane24 Před 8 dny +8

    To me the correlation of agp with narcissisim or egoism (however you'd prefer to call it) is clear. Considering that agp are heterosexual, their drives are naturally (i.e. according to the natural law) drawn to the opposite sex. But instead of giving yourself to another person in the loving union (for love is the mutual and selfless gift of self), you'd rather want to possess the other as the object if your own pleasure, even to a point of possessing all its qualities for yourself. So it's a complete _reversion_ of what selflessness and loving union with the other is supposed to be - rather, it selfish taking for yourself, and self-containing of the what one perceives as good and attractive.
    So it's basically the epitome of self-centeredness.
    It's like, imagine you enjoy a certain celebrity very much (just an example), but instead of appreciating _them,_ you want to take all the glory for yourself, you want to become the one you appreciate.
    Of course, in agp that's coupled with the sexual attraction and pleasure, but that's how it looks on a principle.

  • @Gingerblaze
    @Gingerblaze Před 9 dny +12

    Social workers and counsellors in Canada dd not help children historically in the past, nor now, as the "help" they provide is about how to accept and support their parents choice to transition.

  • @Atomb
    @Atomb Před 2 dny +1

    Thank you Emma and wonderful work Stella and Sasha. Incredibly story. All the best Emma. It can't be easy to pour our your heart, but I'm glad you did.

  • @cestmoi4532
    @cestmoi4532 Před 8 dny +4

    What an important conversation. ❤

  • @constructor5008
    @constructor5008 Před 9 dny +6

    Exulansic had a serie following the development of one baby from a "trans man" who never though could get pregnant having sex with a man, so kept having testosterone for a while. The baby seemed having developmental problems having his head up , fixing attention ecc. I don't remember everything but you may want to check it...

  • @Trobynski
    @Trobynski Před 9 dny +15

    Well, I had a friend who had his first ever baby at 54 yrs old and he was very jealous of his wife breastfeeding. I was shocked, i had never heard a man discuss this before. He really wanted to do it. And he was not AGP but I do suspect him to be a covert narc. I no longer friends.

    • @Gingerblaze
      @Gingerblaze Před 9 dny +2

      That is not an unsual experience for new fathers. It does not signal AGP nor does it mean they are narcissistic at all. It is quite a normal response as they admire that when a baby is first born, their wives are often the parent which the baby prefers (for obvious reasons of a mother being uniquely capable of providing the babys nutritional needs) but also because it may be the first time the husband has had to divide her attention away from the husband. It is quite normal for new fathers to feel some jealosy. In healthy couples, this can be mitigated as fathers can be encouraged to participate in other ways in caring for the new baby and mothers can express respect and admiration for the new fathers commitment to their new family.

    • @Trobynski
      @Trobynski Před 8 dny

      @@Gingerblaze i dont think mothers should be attending the needs of an emotionally immature husband wjilst she is busy with a newborn. Grow up, suck it up and get on with being a responsible father.

    • @jenniferplatts174
      @jenniferplatts174 Před 7 dny +2

      Met a man who refused...yes he refused ...his wife wanting to breastfeed, because he couldnt do that....and ...'and its not fair' comment from him. We all thought he was a controlling sicko...now i wonder if he was secretly AGP, because he also wanted to inhale gas during delivery in time her contractions. !!!!!! We told him he had to leave the birth unit, he was interfering with our care of her. Narcissim absolute or fantasy stuff ?? Scary man, that one. Listening to Emma...maybe the poor baby grew up in a houshold like hers. Dreadful. 😢

    • @Trobynski
      @Trobynski Před 7 dny +2

      @@jenniferplatts174 I am equally astounded to hear this! How did men get to this level of weirdness? 🫣

    • @ddz1375
      @ddz1375 Před 5 dny

      ​@@GingerblazeWhat a pathetic and weak man to be jealous of an infant instead of having pride and wonderment at what he helped create. He will never bond with the child in a proper manner if he cannot conced that his wife's breaststroke are not his sole property or sexual plaything but the sole source of life for the child. Pathetic.

  • @jenniferdouglas-craig1095

    Great interview!! Thank you!

  • @AmericanAmy
    @AmericanAmy Před 9 dny +6

    I think watching certain kind of bad videos shall we say at a young age may push a lot of people into this. I think it’s possible I really do and not just us other things too, and it gives them a bad image of woman if they’ve never been around women, especially in an intimate way.

  • @AmericanAmy
    @AmericanAmy Před 9 dny +5

    I haven’t even gotten that far into the video, but I think this is an important conversation because we don’t have to hear from the children of people that have went through this. 2:15

    • @Catmom-gl5nt
      @Catmom-gl5nt Před 8 dny +2

      We can’t, if we heard the harm it caused it would derail the narrative that “your truth” is all that matters. The difficulty is, the Trans lobby forms the argument as though theirs are the only thoughts and feelings that matter, whereas in reality, the world does not revolve around them and other viewpoints are equally valid.

    • @AmericanAmy
      @AmericanAmy Před 8 dny +1

      @@Catmom-gl5nt they just had it. I know what you mean most places in most people are not gonna have this conversation.

  • @silylily1212
    @silylily1212 Před 8 dny +2

    Very interesting and not often shared point of view. Thank you for helping me better understand this experience.

  • @rethaf4387
    @rethaf4387 Před 8 dny +4

    Hi, Sasha and Stella! Are you aware that, when I (and probably most of your other viewers) access this CZcams video, CZcams added a link at the top linking to The Trevor Project, about conversion therapy?
    (I took a screenshot if you are interested.)

  • @carolcollins6243
    @carolcollins6243 Před 4 dny +1

    Thank you for this episode. I have a niece who is married to a man who has transitioned to a woman as a treatment for alcoholism. This person was raised by an abusive alcoholic father so as a young child this man had created a female imaginary friend who he found to be very comforting and protective. When my niece confronted her husband about his alcoholism, he meditated on the issue for a month. He came to the realization that his female imaginary friend was a real person who was living deep in his core. To combat his own addiction he concluded that he needed to free this woman and let her live through him. My big concern has been for their four children. Adults can do whatever stupid things they want to do so long as it’s not illegal and not harming anyone else. But in this situation are there people who are being harmed?

    • @S2023.
      @S2023. Před 4 dny

      Exposure to an alcoholic parent is harmful. Will your neice remain married and will husband now identifying as a trans woman be able to focus on the children's needs over their own process. I bet not.

  • @alisonmary1443
    @alisonmary1443 Před 5 dny +1

    In my 63 years I have never heard the likes of this, I actually thought this video was going to be another run of the mill pro trans. Hearing your story shook me but I also heard hope for others as the brutal reality was exposed. Thank you Emma Thomas for sharing.

    • @christinadodd5780
      @christinadodd5780 Před 4 dny +1

      "Gender-a-Wider Lens" has many great episodes! I usually listen to their podcast when I'm cleaning or doing chores. Last week's episode was excellent, too!

    • @alisonmary1443
      @alisonmary1443 Před 4 dny +1

      @@christinadodd5780 Thank you, I will be watching more and your suggested video.

  • @LolaMarigold
    @LolaMarigold Před 9 dny +2

    Wonderful insightful interview

  • @MorePlausible
    @MorePlausible Před 8 dny +1

    Thank you Emma for sharing your story.

  • @bulldogklaus47
    @bulldogklaus47 Před 9 dny +8

    perhaps it might be useful to look at this depraved behavior as a form of exhibitionism, a practice that *is* indeed punishable under the law

  • @ddz1375
    @ddz1375 Před 5 dny +3

    The problem with western medical and psychological practices is that there is a proclivity to have people "feel" better and not truly get better or be better people. The puch for acceptance as one is instead of facing and changing the problem is a paving stone on the road to oblivion.

  • @oliverhug3
    @oliverhug3 Před 9 dny +1

    Great episode.

  • @linzilou3714
    @linzilou3714 Před dnem

    This is a very important interview.

  • @bronzevixen
    @bronzevixen Před dnem

    This was incredible. I grew up with a cross dressing dad. Didn’t go as far as to transition and we def didn’t talk about it at home. It was just accepted. He would wear men’s clothes if anyone came to the house and mostly when we were younger but as we got older he was in women’s clothes more and more until he found some clothes that were almost gender neutral like culottes and blouses where he could almost say they were men’s clothes. He was a paranoid schizophrenic too so there was a whole raft of other issues that honestly made the cross dressing almost the least of all the problems. That said this was in the 70s and 80s and it was a deep deep shame at the time. I feel lucky that he didn’t have the internet otherwise he absolutely would have called himself a trans woman and wanted us to call him mum. My brother and I were so lucky that my mum was so strong and kept us all going through it all.

  • @nicoledickens2366
    @nicoledickens2366 Před 7 dny +2

    32:26 NPD can't be cured. However trans can be prevented by teaching kids feminist analysis and explaining patriarchy, both the good and bad of it and the effects on both sexes. We must take a feminist anthropological look at society (insert James and Peter's not alls).
    Similarly with all culture bound disorders explaining the sociological reasons and giving kids a meta cognition to analyze themselves and society is still vital and despite the mental health graft, still isn't be taught well.

  • @elizabethmartinez4086
    @elizabethmartinez4086 Před 9 dny +1

    Very interesting!

  • @marthastrayton
    @marthastrayton Před 8 dny +5

    Your observed experience about trans women, is most interesting, that these TW find biological women strange and are distant from them!! They are men deep down….

    • @Nico5890
      @Nico5890 Před 8 dny

      Totally. I have met many, and all are misogynists.

  • @ienekevanhouten4559
    @ienekevanhouten4559 Před 8 dny

    Wootwoot! I am really interested in this, for personal reasons. Learning to be more discreet in my old age. Thanks so much for everything you do.

  • @L_Martin
    @L_Martin Před 7 dny +2

    I see a lot of parallels with “emotional incest”, where for instance the parent will have no boundaries with the child, will adultify the child, tell them in graphic detail about their s* life, walk in on the child in the bathroom repeatedly, do a lot of stuff in short that treats the child like a quasi-romantic partner.
    We understand why a child in THAT situation should be able to name what is happening and be removed from the situation. This AGP dress-up and involving of the child is no different.
    I do not think there is a “cure”, it is just like BPD.

  • @user-rv7ph1jl5y
    @user-rv7ph1jl5y Před 9 dny +4

    We need to start a gender anonymous 12 step group.

  • @sylviarogier1
    @sylviarogier1 Před 7 dny

    Love Emma!!

  • @mikedowning4869
    @mikedowning4869 Před 7 dny +2

    22:00 SHAFT ? Now I've heard it all 😅

  • @Lilyloo82
    @Lilyloo82 Před 8 dny +3

    Why is the Trevor Project advertised above the comments???

  • @laurarivero-fisher3128
    @laurarivero-fisher3128 Před 9 dny +1

    Emma, you are also a FEARLESS protector. I love you deeply…

  • @missp498
    @missp498 Před 8 dny +1

    I had an aquaintance at a college I went to who's father did this in her late teens. She told our frind group and I could see the anguish it was causing, the fear. Luckily fo her, her mother and her and the rest of the family all stuck together and supported each other. They were definite greiving their DAD. It was actually quite harrowing. I remember feeling it was quite a selfish act but still felt sorry for him. He just kept saying it was what made him happy and how he deserved to be happy. I never saw the man but I can almost guarantee that he would not have a hope in hell of passing as a woman. His kids were scared he was going to be attacked and they were going to be attacked. At least ther is not that problem so much now. Or perhaps there is.

  • @christinadodd5780
    @christinadodd5780 Před 9 dny

    Interesting story!

  • @laurarivero-fisher3128
    @laurarivero-fisher3128 Před 9 dny +1

    It’s NOT TRICKY!!! The children must always be protected from abuse and neglect 100 % of the time. I’m a Fearless child protector. My memory came back at age 55. I was molested by my step father who I knew since age 3. He gave me a complete confession when I forcefully confronted him. Age 5 to 11. I have no memory of my childhood…

  • @AmericanAmy
    @AmericanAmy Před 9 dny +4

    All those adults around a child. 22:22

  • @labeaulieu2465
    @labeaulieu2465 Před 8 dny +2

    How about exploring how trans women often are partnered with disabled dependant woman who can not leave their caretakers? Is this deliberate preditory behavior or a form of love or a healthy matching?

    • @CC-hx5fz
      @CC-hx5fz Před 6 dny +3

      You'd also have to look at how the definitions of disability have broadened. Most of the transwomen that I know transitioned before 2000. They transitioned much later in life and all had been married. I say had been because these transitions began after their wives died (and/ or any children were grown up). It's almost a cliche that, at a time when everyone was normalised into the idea that they should be married, transwomen (and some gay men) were drawn to partners who were older. Older women and disabled women were not thought of as sexual in the mid to late 20th century. So, maybe more of a partnership with men who weren't very sexual, or heterosexual?

  • @user-rv7ph1jl5y
    @user-rv7ph1jl5y Před 8 dny +2

    What does Emma suggest we do for family and friends who are suffering with this experience. I know several people who are very isolated and traumatized.

  • @linzilou3714
    @linzilou3714 Před dnem

    What an amazing woman

  • @AmericanAmy
    @AmericanAmy Před 8 dny +8

    Using your own child to “affirm” you. 🤦‍♀️

    • @Karen-us3ls
      @Karen-us3ls Před 8 dny +3

      That is Narcissism. Transsexual or not, that is what it’s like for the children of narcissistic Fathers. You only exist to shine a light on your Father. That was my experience too. It’s excruciating and destructive. I identify strongly with this lady.

    • @AmericanAmy
      @AmericanAmy Před 8 dny +1

      @@Karen-us3ls sorry your childhood was like that. It’s sad with some self-esteem is so low. They neither child to validate them.

  • @AmericanAmy
    @AmericanAmy Před 9 dny +2

    Seems like someone would put some resources in to how to keep men from developing AG to begin with….. that could be helpful….. 30:31

  • @ditta7865
    @ditta7865 Před 8 dny +2

    The more and more I hear about these men and this condition. The more my black and white thinking goes that people with certain disabilities and mental illness even though I have a disability, should not have children and people with certain conditions where they're so selfish should also not have children. It seems we're creating a generation of trauma and hurt for these people when they should be having a safe loving household.
    The same for if these people have partners they should never be able to marry or have anyone because all it is is about abuse and control.

  • @nicoledickens2366
    @nicoledickens2366 Před 7 dny +1

    44:30 my sister, who can't have children, experienced lactation drop from my children just through contact; and some fathers do experience Couvade Syndrome. If there are babies humans will feed them.
    (But yes, they tell women to not take anything -even to avoiding spicy food-yet men doing only-fans with a baby is just A-okay. Retched.)

  • @nicoledickens2366
    @nicoledickens2366 Před 7 dny +1

    25:09 I experienced this as the little professor/Jesus preaching in the temple- and now looking back, I think this is a huge red flag for parentification.

  • @jac9366
    @jac9366 Před 7 dny +1

    I think you would all find it interesting to listen to Benjamin Boyce's interview with a man struggling with his AGP and his struggle not only to understand his condition, but then inability to get what he views as appropriate treatment unless he identies as trans, which he has cone to disagree with, but finds he has to do to obtain the medication which keeps his life manageable... 29th May 2024 The Anguish of AGP

  • @queenjasminetemaiharoa7009

    Even though you say you weren't s**ually abused, it still sounds like emotional incest to me😢💔

  • @Catmom-gl5nt
    @Catmom-gl5nt Před 8 dny +3

    Children are no longer allowed to state that the Emperor has no clothes.

  • @billmartins5545
    @billmartins5545 Před 6 dny

    I once was friends with a middle aged AGP when I was barely an adult. He had three young kids and a dysfunctional marriage. I wonder how the kids turned out. I now see he was a very selfish person with how he treated his family, but to me, at the time, he was a really good friend.

  • @dreimalnein22
    @dreimalnein22 Před 9 dny +2

    reminds me of one daughter in a similar setting who wrote a book, who told us (i think at Transparency or Benjamin Boyce) how her father opened up on his death bed about his doubts and thoughts he might have destroyed his family. I once looked/listened for it again but didn't hear it. It wasn't Cath Loyd in EP64 of Transparency... I have the feeling it might have been Emma Thomas 3 years ago, the daughter had a similar nuts childhood situation. But at Minute 34 it seemed her father is still alive. Who was it..? I didn't find an older Interview with e.g. Benjamin Boyce...

    • @Serin-ee6no
      @Serin-ee6no Před 9 dny +5

      Maybe "My Father, Transwoman" from the channel "Women's Rights Network" here on CZcams. I also remember that little death bed moment, i actually randomly think of it ocasionally, although i don't remember the rest of the interview that well.

    • @dreimalnein22
      @dreimalnein22 Před 9 dny

      @@Serin-ee6no yesss, it must have been this one! Thank you so much, dear Serin - I have the same reoccurring memories. It's such a deep argument in Emma's so touching experience with distant resemblances to my own upbringing like some of Joe Burgo's young AGP case descriptions and also the childhood and story of Call Me Sam who detransitioned after 25 years, who's father was also trans, and who has three gems of dialogues with Cori Cohn published here on CZcams.

    • @littleboots9800
      @littleboots9800 Před 7 dny

      ​@@dreimalnein22Call me Sam's father was trans too? Wow, I mustve missed that somehow.

  • @panagiotisikos9483
    @panagiotisikos9483 Před 5 dny

    At least you have a dad and a mum. Other children are more confused 😕

  • @QHarbin
    @QHarbin Před 2 dny

    So, I see a warning about "Conversion Therapy" by Trevor Project under the video. I have seen ads for hormones for transgender people on other videos critical of medical transition. Who or what is responsible for posting these messages or ads on CZcams? Can an organization target a channel like Wider Lens? Anyone know?

    • @widerlenspod
      @widerlenspod  Před 2 dny

      We have no idea. And I wish we knew a way to remove it.

  • @maureenparnaby1912
    @maureenparnaby1912 Před 6 dny +1

    Please list the books and authors mentioned at the end Thanks

    • @christinadodd5780
      @christinadodd5780 Před 4 dny +1

      They have links to the guest's books and websites in their header below the video.

    • @maureenparnaby1912
      @maureenparnaby1912 Před 4 dny +1

      Thanks Christina; I looked before posting but couldn’t see them. I’ll check again!

  • @constructor5008
    @constructor5008 Před 9 dny

    Some foster mothers who know they will be having a new born they use this drug to incentivate lactation.
    It is also use in mothers who are having problems to increase they quantity of milk because the baby has problems to lactate ( physical problems)

    • @Catmom-gl5nt
      @Catmom-gl5nt Před 8 dny +2

      And it’s not really healthy then. My mother is a NICU nurse and while she supports breast feeding, she supports a fed baby more. She has seen too many women who can’t produce enough milk insist on breath milk only which results in failure to thrive. If you love your baby, all you should care about is the baby getting the nutrients it needs, even if that means supplementing with formula.

  • @ailuyb
    @ailuyb Před 9 dny +8

    I wish this interview was longer and you asked Emma more detailed questions about what it was like to grow up in this kind of household. Or just let her tell her story without being constantly interrupted by Stella.

  • @mrlawilliamsukwarmachine4904

    Stella: “not a mistress”!!

  • @purpleprose1315
    @purpleprose1315 Před 2 dny

    In Clermont County hio a gay foster couple were charged with horrific abuse of their 5 foster kis. The "wife" isa man who identifies as a woman.

  • @darielaaudry9193
    @darielaaudry9193 Před 9 dny +2

    Do you accept testimonies of children of same sex couples of is that considered normal? And this the concerns of the kids are dismissed?

    • @darielaaudry9193
      @darielaaudry9193 Před 8 dny

      What is not respectful about this comment? You hear the testimony of a woman raised by a trans father. There are many testimonies of children raised by gay parents and very respectfully they talk about their suffering. Why is that a taboo???

    • @littleboots9800
      @littleboots9800 Před 7 dny

      ​@@darielaaudry9193the channel and the organisation is solely about trans and "gender" issues. If you want to hear about the experiences of kids with gay parents there are channels that exist I'm sure.

    • @darielaaudry9193
      @darielaaudry9193 Před 5 dny

      @@littleboots9800 not true. There are videos about aptomenophilia and other issue. Everybody is scared to death to touch the issue I mention, but it’s related. I already got my comment highlighted and it’s not hateful nor is it disrespectful. It’s just that they shut you down, without explanations. But people are being harmed.

  • @lesley-anneweir307
    @lesley-anneweir307 Před 4 dny +1

    How annoying is it that a post from the Trevor Project, a completely pseudoscientific lobby group, pops up under the videos your channel?
    I remember science so fondly. What a pity society has abandoned it.

  • @doryreality
    @doryreality Před dnem

    The reactions to men chest feeding confirms to me the advice to women breastfeeding is about controlling women. If you remove the controlling woman issue, then both groups would be getting told it’s fine to take whatever you want during pregnancy and breastfeeding.

  • @singingway
    @singingway Před 2 dny

    Y'all got really confused about whether you were talking about bio males or females. When the hospitals responded that they had helped a man breastfeed, the hospitals said "trans man" which means recovering breatsfeeding capability of a womans body.

  • @janebennetto5655
    @janebennetto5655 Před 7 dny

    ❤🇬🇧

  • @neshama44
    @neshama44 Před 9 dny +5

    I heard once when does being a woman become a feeling ? And i would add a look??

    • @krissyk9767
      @krissyk9767 Před 9 dny +3

      Yes I don't get it when a man says they feel like they're a woman. How would they know what being a woman feels like? What they mean is they like dressing up us a woman.

    • @Lollipop_Lexi
      @Lollipop_Lexi Před 8 dny +1

      Yes, the wonderful lawyer in the tickle vs giggle case in Australia told the court “A woman is not a thought”. Nor is a woman a hormone count, sexual organs, or their clothes and hair. That people are seriously reducing humans to these definitions, it’s shocking.

  • @insidiousmischka
    @insidiousmischka Před 2 dny

    This is so so so disturbing. It’s like a horror movie.

  • @catherinedyer9920
    @catherinedyer9920 Před 7 dny

    Why

  • @constructor5008
    @constructor5008 Před 9 dny +1

    Something I didn't understand is if this man was having chemotherapy .. he was getting horrible drugs

    • @Karen-us3ls
      @Karen-us3ls Před 8 dny

      That’s right, but in the NHS NOTHING matters more than an autogynophile’s feelings. Incredible isn’t it?

    • @CC-hx5fz
      @CC-hx5fz Před 6 dny

      The lactation is a side effect of an additional medication that suppresses nausea and vomiting.

  • @nicoledickens2366
    @nicoledickens2366 Před 7 dny

    40:12 looking at you r/breakingmom.

  • @llkoolbean4935
    @llkoolbean4935 Před 8 dny +1

    So wrong on so many levels. Good God what are we doing?

  • @juliereigoldstein
    @juliereigoldstein Před 9 dny +1

    I see a lot of talk about treating Gender Dysphoria (Or "Autogynephilia") via alternative treatments to medical transition. But can Sasha, Stella or anyone else provide peer-reviewed medical research concluding any of these alternative treatments to be effective at alleviating Gender Dysphoria or Autogynephilia? 🤔

    • @lavienestpasunlongfleuvetr2559
      @lavienestpasunlongfleuvetr2559 Před 9 dny +2

      There's certainly data to show that doing nothing is better than intervening in most childhood or adolescent cases of sex dysphoria.
      There isn't sufficient data to support hormonal or surgical intervention or social transition. It doesn't lower the risk of suicide, contrary to what the trans lobby claims, and it involves bodily mutilation and sterilisation. Most rational people would say, 'better to not mutilate than to mutilate'.

    • @dra2033
      @dra2033 Před 7 dny

      Why do trans activists deliberately make shit up? You didn’t even watch a solitary second of this video and your comment betrays that the fact.

    • @juliereigoldstein
      @juliereigoldstein Před 7 dny

      @@dra2033Can you cite a single peer reviewed study showing alternative methods of treatment advocated for by Sasha and Stella that concludes said treatment is effective at alleviating gender dysphoria long term? 🤔

    • @dra2033
      @dra2033 Před 7 dny

      @@juliereigoldsteinthere literally not even having that conversation tho

    • @Sofia_Monteiro
      @Sofia_Monteiro Před 6 dny

      Not a single minute in this conversation that conversation took place. Did you watch this?

  • @felicitymc8200
    @felicitymc8200 Před 5 dny

    They shouldn't be allowed to transition until their children are 18 and be able to get away if they want.