The Truth About Jazz
Jazz Jennings is held up as proof that affirmation of a trans identity in kids is a success. The truth is far darker. He was misled by ghoulish parents and a culture that celebrates them.
A shorter version of this post will be published on Spiked Online next week. I’d been meaning to look more intensively at the story of Jazz Jennings for some time so I was delighted that the Spiked commission forced me to do that. I hope you agree with me that there are some genuine revelations here that are ….rather gobsmacking.
As a paid subscriber you get much more here than the Spiked readers get because it contains both video content and what I think is a remarkable discovery ….a clip of Jazz Jennings using his original name of…Jaron and after he had supposedly transitioned.
He quickly corrects himself but looks shamefaced. I personally think it suggests young Jaron was bullied into the trans narrative. Decide for yourself.
This article also contains more background about the rather fruity therapist that Jazz’s mother claims convinced her that Jazz (Jaron!) was really female.
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Jaron Jennings at age 3
In 2003 a mother from Florida, Jeanette Jennings, noticed her son, who was a year and a half old, kept opening up his onesie. To most parents this might not have seemed like a big deal, but Jennings became convinced her son Jaron was trying to make his onesie into a dress. So began what would quickly become the rollercoaster career of an icon of the trans lobby. Given a new name Jazz Jennings would socially transition at the age of 5 to a “girl”, become a teenage darling of America’s liberal media and at age 14 front his own hugely-successful reality TV series, ‘I Am Jazz’. Now on its 8th season the series has charted the lives of Jazz, his friends and his family as well as the long and complex medical procedures of his “gender reassignment”, from puberty blockers to eventual castration and the creation of a “neo-vagina”.
If we are to believe the trans lobby, for whom Jazz is now a prominent advocate, he is walking proof of the importance of early “affirmation” of transgender identity in children. But like so much of the propaganda churned out by the strangest social justice movement in history the true story of Jazz is darker than we have been led to believe. At age 21, Jazz is now a tragic figure. Obese, depressed and often suffering from anxiety attacks, he has struggled to form anything remotely like an intimate relationship.
It was in 2007 that Jazz was introduced to the public at large in a special edition of 20/20, the storied ABC prime-time news series. In ‘My Secret Self Complete’ Barbara Walters interviewed three families with children who were convinced they had been born in the wrong body.
The show began with a cute 6 year old who we were told believed he was a girl, Jazz Jennings. What’s remarkable watching the show now that we have all learned to be much less trans-gullible is how Walters accepts everything Jazz’s mother, Jeanette Jennings, says at face value. Yet this is a reporter who had the chutzpah to ask Muammar Gadaffi why everyone thought he was mad.
One obvious example of this failure to exercise normal journalistic scepticism is when Jeanette Jennings alleges her son, at the age of 4, told her he wanted God to replace his penis with a vagina. I once asked my dad how I could get laser vision like Superman. He told me to finish my dinner. If only Jeanette Jennings had done the same her son Jaron might still have his genitals. Instead she looked up the DSM, the bible of mental health, and became convinced her little boy was a transgender female. “I diagnosed her before ever taking her to see a professional and then had it confirmed”, she would often say.
In the show Jennings lays out the path she thinks her six year old boy will travel which she says will bring him happiness including ‘sex change’ surgery. You’d think a mother would take a lot of advice before telling her son he would be happier once he lost his weenie. Not so Jeanette.
She went online and found the British organisation called Mermaids which we’ve all come to respect, naturally, for its utter dedication to factual evidence. Later Jazz would say that the controversial group gave his mum confidence to socially transition him. Of course they did.