It’s been a while since we’ve scanned the news feed of Teen Vogue.

Layered amongst the stories about the Kardashian-Jenner clan (this is partially why our country is in the toilet), comes an article accusing all “transphobes” of being “chicken”.

Seriously, what the CLUCK…?!

The Teen Vogue interview features Liv (Olivia) Hewsen who was born female but now identifies as non-binary. So, here we are. We have Brazilian Butt Lifts on one page and a confused individual talking about top surgery on the other. This was not enough for Teen Vogue, who had to show off a “stunning and brave” semi-topless photo of Liv with a medically mutilated breast.

Lexi Mcmenamin pens the Teen Vogue piece on Liv Hewson. Lexi also identifies as “nonbinary” and with they/them pronouns. Lexi’s name has graced our pages before. She praised the Defund The Police agenda back in 2021. She also wrote an op-ed/reminder to young people willing to read the trash in Teen Vogue last summer urging guys, gals and non-binary pals to continue to mask up because we were “still in a pandemic“. Lexi outdoes it in the latest; likening the Showtime series, “Yellowjackets”, of which Hewson is a part, to what is happening in our current world of today.

These are questions that Hewson and I, as nonbinary people, find endlessly relevant in our political moment. American politics are hyper-focused on LGBTQ+ children, especially trans children, to the point of attempting to ban their existence. This ideological and legislative push is cannily framed as ‘in defense of children,’ but in reality it seeks to punish deviations from a cisgender, white, heterosexual norm — consequently punishing anyone, including and especially children, who deviate.”-Lexi Mcmenamin, Teen Vogue

Dear? Can we just go back to outfit pairings, prom dresses, relationship advice based on the monthly horoscope and random beauty advice such as “don’t style your hair with earrings on”? Alas, no, we cannot.

During our childhoods, we never heard about transness or gender-affirming care as anything other than a punchline; now we’re living in a time when a 2024 presidential candidate compared puberty blockers to chemical castration before deriding top surgery on a debate stage.”-Lexi McMenamin, Teen Vogue

Is DeSantis wrong on this assessment? You be the judge:

Lexi couldn’t care less. This article is more about her than actor, Liv Hewson and (her) choice to mutilate the mammaries. (Sigh. Save the TaTas is so 2018.) McMenamin rolls with this:

Conservatives talk about trans children as a historical anomaly, a failure of modern society, a social contagion, an impossibility; but people like Hewson have already lived otherwise.”-Lexi McMenamin, Teen Vogue

Side note: if you tell your 6 year-old that he or she can be anything they want to include a different gender without either understanding the gravity of that statement or the potential pitfalls of the decisions surrounding this statement, YOU, have failed as a parent. If you allow your kid to read anything Teen Vogue writes and believe anything these crazies have to say, you have, yes, failed as a parent.

The writers and editors in the Condé Nast building pushing this agenda upon teens and young adults who read this tripe would argue with you. They would tell you that “you’re just chicken” because you’re a “transphobe”, which is Lexi’s main point in this write-up. Let’s clear something up, straight-away. A “phobia” is defined as a fear of something. In the world of masked, confused kids with septum piercings, purple hair and zero fashion sense (who also identify as a they/them/whatever), I would argue that I am FAR from afraid of them. In their world, however, this makes me (and possibly you) a transphobe. In our reality, this makes us afraid FOR them and their futures but the left refuses to see this any other way. We’re all hateful bigots in this regard.

After a whole bunch of talk about the “Yellowjackets” series, Lexi and Liv talk about Liv’s decision for top surgery. It’s completely normal, you transphobes:

Lexi: I want to ask you about your top surgery. Our culture is petrified of assigned female at birth people getting top surgery; conservatives and TERFs say things like, ‘Girls are mutilating their bodies’ or ‘What if they regret it?’

Liv: It’s really misogynistic: ‘These girls couldn’t possibly make this decision correctly and will need to be stopped from doing terrible things to their bodies.’

When people talk about gender-affirming surgery using words like ‘mutilation,’ that’s not very nice. Is that how you think about people who’ve had surgery for other things? It’s a disgust reaction, and I do not take disgust into account as a legitimate point of discourse. I don’t have to entertain it and I’m not going to. It’s a waste of everybody’s time, it’s knee-jerk, it’s not grounded in reality, and it’s not useful.”-Teen Vogue

Take one look at the first photo of Liv Hewson in this article and tell me that her body is not mutilated. Of course, Hewson made this decision as an adult, but this is not what Teen Vogue is alluding to. They are targeting young people who may not be of age to both make such decisions or understand the gravity of an invasive procedure such as top surgery.

The piece drones on with more self-congratulatory/”living my best life since I cut my boobs off”, feel-good BS. “We’re here to stay”, they say. Yep, they are, along with the horrible theater and aesthetics of it all and as much as they have a right to call this craziness “self-care”, we also have the right to make our own assessments. But there is one thing that we cannot overlook when we peruse Teen Vogue. They are coming for the kids.

So, here we are. From articles on Kamala Harris championing rights to kill off babies (damned be those “extremists” who want to preserve life, to the Brazilian Butt Lifts of the Kardashian-Jenner clan, to top surgeries and Mutilating the Mammaries. This is what our young adults are seeing on the pages of Teen Vogue. A vast wasteland. It may make you afraid. But I would argue that those who are afraid for our young people are far from “chicken” status.

Featured image: Tim Evanson on Flickr.com, cropped, Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0)