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Kimberly Ruelle's avatar

Jeanette, you do realize that every single aspect of Jazz’s surgery has been on TLC, but here you are coaching Jazz not to get graphic so as not to scare other kids from the same amazing surgery they too can experience. That woman! And by the way Jeanette….. stop micromanaging every aspect of Jazz’s life.

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Matthew's avatar

It's crazy how the evidence of the abusive nature of the treatment is so public and clear, yet ignored by most. The disgust in telling the truth about the complications is fully wrong, yet it's aired with no outrage except for the gender heretics (like here). IMHO, this is a great example of the answer to "How could that happen?" when reading about the history of lobotomies or witch trials. Look at trans stuff to see how things like that happen in the present.

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North Country's avatar

I wonder how much Jeanette, Jazz and all shown participants were paid by TLC. Does anyone know?

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Gillian Robinson's avatar

I support "jail jeanette"

God this is horrific.

Thank you for your epically accurate coverage of all of it.

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David Williams's avatar

Jail Dad, too.

I'm all for equal treatment under the law.

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alison's avatar

ye the dad who keeps quiet..

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Margie's avatar

Jeanette is a disgusting woman. She needs to be locked up

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Kristine Roser's avatar

This episode, which I had not seen before, is very transparent. Does Jeanette actually hate her son? There is nothing of kind parenting in her interactions with Jazz here. She is single minded in her promotion of the Family Business. Her every word and look sabotages him.

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North Country's avatar

The obligation Jeanette put on Jazz! Once the cameras started filming and famous people started paying attention to this mother, there was no going back for that poor boy.

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Ms No's avatar

I think the Birkenstocks look nice with the dress. It feels as though Jeanette always has to criticise Jazz just for the sake of it, just to keep him malleable and insecure and doubting his own judgement. She is constantly giving him the impression he can't be trusted with his own decisions. How are we supposed to believe she let him take the lead on his gender identity at 2 when she can't even let him choose his own shoes as an adult?

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Exulansic's avatar

Exactly. Jeanette's strategy was to coach him to say he's a girl when he was very young, condition him to fear growing up, gaslight the shit out of him so he fears challenging her or reconsidering his own choices or even MAKING his own choices, and otherwise coercively control him. When he says being trans was not a choice, he's correct. It was imposed by his mother who wanted attention because she is the one who feared her own aging and irrelevance.

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letterwriter's avatar

Lots of girls wear the dress and the sandals exactly like that. More than wear twee little dress sandals I think. Just another sign of Jeannette's pathology, and I think also that she doesn't believe he's a girl. A girl might be ragged by her mom for wearing birks, but ... it would be different somehow.

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Maximus295727's avatar

It really does seem like Jeanette so concerned in this interview that it’s aftermath is about what effects it’s gonna have on her. It is a strikingly revealing moment. I am a little shocked that more people didn’t see it for the monstrous behavior that it was.

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C M Houston's avatar

I only know about jazz from watching it via - Exulansic = She's been as cut off from the real world as Shelly Miscavige. Just glaze over the bad parts. OMG. AS Rachel Maddow would say "This is not sustainable". Tick tick tick. How much longer does this nut job Munchhausen monster mother think it's going to take before Jazz finally rebels. He never got the chance to rebel. I'd be interested in how much her financial worth has increased due to exploiting the fuck out of her child. She's not only a monster, she's a bitch on top of it.

It doesn't make any sense. If you went to a doctor and they withheld a possible other explanation for your condition. It would be grounds for a malpractice suit. This is the opposite. A therapist is threatened with the loss of license for offering any other possible explanation for the discomfort of a child or teenager.

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dialectical lesbian's avatar

Really fucking disturbing.

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Bunty's avatar

FFS, I bought Birkenstocks last year, and wear them with maxi dresses, does Jeanette want Jazz to wear clothes that make him look like a hooker?

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