Skipping The Puberty Blockers: American “Transgender Children” Doctors are Going Rogue gendertrender.wordpress.com

“Last month, in a program specifically addressed to medical students, Dr. Johanna Olson, director of the LA Children’s Hospital transgender children clinic, admitted that she has been “skipping the blockers” and placing children as young as twelve directly on cross-sex hormones, starting with her very first patient…

Prior to her work transgendering children Dr. Olson …used her medical credentials to testify against a …platform to lower the voting age. Dr. Olson testified that the brains of those under eighteen were not yet competent for the complex decision making involved in choosing a political candidate. “

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A 17-year-old is too immature to vote, but has the wisdom to make a medical decision that will require lifetime treatment, and permanently alter the brain and body. 

Ok….

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Fashions and fads in medicine ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

This article was published in 1925. I’m working on another, longer post on the subject of medical fads, but for now:

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Fashions in medicine we have, and shall continue to have. But it requires a lens tinted with humour to recognize them and examine them with the proper degree of detachment…

…Once they get started, however, one can see how they keep going. The chief factor is the herd instinct, the desire to be in the swim, to be “up to date. ” Further, the public demand for a treatment that has become fashionable, helps to keep it alive. 

Fashions are also maintained by the cures which they effect at the outset of their career, for there can be no doubt that every fashion does effect some cures. It does so, we know, through the power of faith and suggestion, which is the meaning of Trousseau’s well known advice to a patient, ‘Take this while it is still curing.’ But by and by when the novelty has worn off, the cures cease. “ …The history of medicine is full of the growth and decline of fashions,…

One should not envy the fashionable doctor, rather should one wonder at him. He leads a life of slavery … His position, too, on a pinnacle is always precarious. He has, it is true, his little day, but he is apt to wake up one morning to find that his worshippers have stampeded en masse overnight to some newer shrine of the fickle goddess Fashion. 

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Anonymous asked:

re: your post on Blake Brockington's suicide, something that the trans community absolutely refuses to discuss is how much they themselves promote the "transition or suicide" narrative to young gender-questioning people. the blog "Transgender Reality" is documenting cases on reddit where often very young teenagers are egged on by peers and older trans people to go from "I don't really feel like a boy/girl" to "if I don't get hormones now I'll kill myself" in literal days. it's frightening.

4thwavenow answered:

I have read every post on “Transgender Reality,” and there is no question that some in the transgender community are heavily indoctrinating young teens who just have questions about their identity and gender. I think kids who are socially isolated are especially vulnerable to online pressure.

 I agree—it is terrifying, and the most scary thing is that very few people are raising the issue as you just have. Thank you. Here is a link to the site for those who are not familiar with it:

http://transgenderreality.com/

vulvapeople:

kiwipally:

Do we, as multiple societies, need to have a discussion on how the internet affects young people to such a marked degree? My society has rules on how advertisers are and are not allowed to market to children using television, but the internet seems to be much more influential and is completely unregulated.

I don’t know if there’s a way to regulate the Internet reliably though.

The only alternative I can see is from the medical side, trying to make it standard that a kid who seems to be intentionally threatening suicide to get what he/she wants is denied transitioning until that behavior stops.

Although, given that one of the preeminent gender therapy pediatricians in the U.S. has been abandoning long-accepted standards for treatment of dysphoric children (administering cross-sex hormones to kids as young as 12, against the accepted standard of 16), I’m not really sure how well that will work either.

In the end, I think this is likely to be “settled” in civil court when adults start suing doctors for sterilizing them as children.

I think there may well be lawsuits in the future brought by people sterilized as children, but I also have to wonder about young adults over the age of 18 (the age of consent in the US for medical decison-making) and into their early 20s, making such permanent choices. I heard from a parent recently who only learned of her 21-year-old daughter’s/FTM’s complete hysterectomy via her offspring’s YouTube channel. I’m sure there are many similar stories.

As far as I (used to) understand it, young adults are generally discouraged from making decisions about future child-bearing, the conventional wisdom (until recently?) being that those decisions might change; destroying one’s opportunity to reproduce is not a decision to be made in youth unless there is a compelling reason to do so (e.g., it would be dangerous to get pregnant due to health reasons). While it may not be lawsuit territory, it seems strange that many doctors seem to be going along with these sterilization decisions, if the confessional YouTube evidence (and I’ve watched many of these videos) is to be believed. 

I have a friend who, at 23, was certain she didn’t want to bear children and planned to get her tubes tied. She is now (at 41) the excellent and proud mother of a 9-year-old son. He is the light of her life, and she is very glad she didn’t go with her original plan. I just generally don’t understand why, on the one hand, neuroscience has reached a consensus that neuronal adolescence lasts until the mid-20s, but on the other, we are allowing younger and younger people to make such monumental, permanent medical decisions.

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