Another detransitioner speaks
This young Canadian woman tells the story of how easy it was for her to get drug and surgical treatment to transition at a very young age. It not really an unusual tale, either, and it shows the degree to which the medical and psychology establishments have betrayed children and parents:
As in almost all binary choices, like justice guilt, or covid infection tests, there are two possible errors about really being trans:
False positives – a person claims to be trans but is not, will be less happy if they transition.
False negatives – a person doesn’t feel right in their body, but accepts their genetic sex (and would be happier if they transitioned).
The numbers of errors are likely different for different sexes and different ages.
Not yet enough talk about these errors, and even less data about them.
And in most areas, not enough discussion about how the system will have some of both types of errors, and usually a decrease in one type of error increases the other type.
There has been something like a 4000% increase in girls wanting to transition. That is insane. Mostly, it is because adolescent girls are nuts. I remember forty some years ago, there was an ENORMOUS spike in depressed adolescent girls winding up in psychiatry wards.
“it shows the degree to which the medical and psychology establishments have betrayed children and parents:” neo
“If there is no God, everything is permitted” Dostoevsky paraphrased
“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law” Aleister Crowley, English Occultist
“Gender affirming care” for minors is wrong except for the small number of children having biological anomalies. Providing hormone treatments and surgery to minors outside those special cases should not be done, period.
In other news, the attorney general of Tennessee “is leading a coalition of state attorneys general demanding U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland respect the First Amendment rights of people who criticize irreversible transgender treatments for minors. The thirteen attorneys general write in response to a letter to Garland from several medical organizations [Neo posted previously about the demands of the AMA, the AAP, and the Children’s Hospital Association for prosecution of critics of “gender-affirming care”] which called for investigations and prosecution of those who criticize the medical establishment’s current treatment of adolescent gender issues. Specifically, the organizations called for the prosecution not just of those who commit or threaten violence against clinics, but also against those who ‘provoke’ such threats. The coalition of AGs emphatically agrees that anyone engaged in violent crime or threats of violence should be prosecuted by the appropriate authorities but is equally adamant that the federal government cannot investigate or prosecute critics for their speech. Even if criticism of pediatric transgender treatments might provoke strong reactions, it is still entirely protected by the First Amendment. . . . The letter argues that the best way to ensure the best health outcomes for children is to permit criticism of current practices. . . . Joining Tennessee in the letter are the attorneys general from the following states: Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, Nebraska, South Carolina, Texas, and West Virginia.”
https://www.tn.gov/attorneygeneral/news/2022/10/12/pr22-40.html
That was very painful to watch. How in the world did we ever get to this place? Will the people who are responsible for this madness ever be held accountable? The idea that a teen girl who is experiencing discomfort with her body would be rushed to take life altering hormone therapy followed by radical surgery seems so insane to me that if I had not heard this story over and over again I would not believe it. A society that supports this is depraved and is in serious trouble, but I guess we knew that.
Evil runs the Canadian NHS, it appears.
@ Scott > “Evil runs the Canadian NHS, it appears.”
Not the only place Evil has settled into residence.
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