And here I thought I didn’t need another reason to fucking hate TERFs lmao
Pretty much the ONLY correct information here is the idea that obesity can be coupled with malnutrition. It absolutely CAN be coupled with malnutrition, something people blatantly refuse to acknowedge, but we have NO WAY OF KNOWING that this is what’s happening here. There is absolutely nothing else here that is correct other than defending the girl from the hate she’s getting.
So let’s just deconstruct the rest of this fucking shit show.
“only a severely neglected child could ever end up like that”
Noooooope. Look I know you’re a terf which means you play fast and loose with facts, but this us absolutely, 100% emphatically incorrect. First off, the idea that ONLY overeating causes weight gain wouldn’t even be correct even if overrating was what caused weight gain (it doesn’t). Weight gain is caused by hormones, which is why weight gain is sometimes a symptom of an endocrine disorder or a tumor on the pituitary gland. Honestly, it amazes me how tightly people cling to this myth when we literally have evidence of people gaining weight due to hormones. This is also why DFAB people gain weight when going through menopause. Hormones. It’s all hormones.
For instance, they did a study on mice about it. They took a bunch and split then into two different groups. Both groups were allowed to eat what they wanted, but one group had their ovaries removed. The control group ate fewer calories than the experimental group, and the experimental group gained weight.
But the experiment didn’t end there. They removed the ovaries of another group of rats and put them on a calorie restricted diet. In this experiment, the rats with their ovaries removed ate the same number of calories as the control group…. But they still gained the weight!!!!!!!
Same number of calories, but their weight changed due to hormonal fluctuations!
The next group of rats also had their ovaries removed, only this time they were given hormone injections to compensate for their removed ovaries
They did not gain weight.
The myth is that we gain weight because we eat more. The reality is that we eat more because we’re gaining weight. This is why children begin to eat more before a growth spurt. Their human growth hormones are sending out signals, and their body is responding by taking in more energy.
Fat cells are greedy, and they will always steal food before it goes to your body’s basic functions. A fat person eats more because they need more energy to feed the fat cells that developed for one reason or another (again, typically hormonal), plus their body’s functions. This is why a fat person can be malnourished.
Everyone’s body is different, but our weight is regulated by hormones. One hormone that plays a very big part is insulin. It is literally a fat storage hormone. When you eat anything that becomes glucose, insulin is secreted in order to lower your blood sugar. While that insulin is present, your body will not release fat cells very easily. Some people, however, release more insulin than others in order to deal with the same amount of glucose. In this way, two people of similar builds can get on an identical diet with one gaining more weight than the other.
in other words, you have NO IDEA if this is typical for the first girl or if it’s typical of the second girl. Obesity is not a moral failure, not in the girl or her parents. I pray that you never have a child with weight issues because holy fucking shit will you fuck them up big time with this bullshit right here. Weight is not indicative of health, it is ONLY indicative of hormonal makeups. If anything, this little girl is a victim of people like you who spread false information about what causes obesity, and you need to shut the fuck up when you don’t know what you’re talking about. The fact that you call this abuse is fucked up and trivializes child abuse. Fuck you.