Tea at Trianon: A Detransitioner’s Pregnancy Journey

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Saturday, July 20, 2024

A Detransitioner’s Pregnancy Journey

From Independent Women's Forum:

As a result of cross-sex hormones and the removal of her healthy body parts, 26-year-old detransitioner Prisha Mosley assumed she was infertile. That’s why, when a doctor treating her for post-transition hormonal issues asked if she could be pregnant, Mosley laughed.

“I was sad and thought it was impossible,” Mosley said. “I told him that I was sure I couldn’t.”

But Mosley had missed her last period and thought that perhaps she was being paranoid about her ability to get pregnant. So on her way home, she bought three pregnancy tests. When the tests came back positive, Mosley sent a photo to her boyfriend asking if her eyes were working.

Eight months later, “It still feels that unreal,” Mosley said.

On June 3, Mosley gave birth to a healthy baby boy via c-section. She is among the first wave of female detransitioners to embark on a motherhood journey filled with healing and new beginnings, but laced with more medical experiments and unknowns. (Read more.)