Detransitioner testimony in the House
Their stories are powerful stuff. You can easily see why the left, and some activist doctors and transitioners, want to silence and harass these people and others like them.
Because I’ve been following YouTube videos made by de-transitioners for a long, long time, I’m familiar with both of the people whose testimony is described in these two articles: this one as well as this. But you would do well to follow the links and read them, as well as watch this short video:
The lawsuits began a while ago, and they just might be the thing that stops this in its tracks. Here’s an article describing one of those suits:
Soren Aldaco, 21, filed the medical negligence and malpractice lawsuit (pdf) on July 21 in Tarrant County, Fort Worth, against five medical providers and their employees.
The lawsuit named Del Scott Perry with Texas Health Physicians Group, Sreenath Nekkalapu with Mesa Springs, Barbara Rose Wood with Three Oaks Counseling Group, and Richard Santucci and Ashley DeLeon with Crane Clinic as defendants.
The medical providers allegedly pressured or encouraged Ms. Aldaco to receive “treatments” that included cross-sex hormones when she was 17 years old in 2020 and the removal of both of her breasts in 2021, according to the lawsuit.
Ms. Aldaco claimed that doctors “recklessly, if not intentionally, overlooked or ignored” her history of depression, anxiety, and autism.
Chloe Cole – the woman in the video I posted – is suing, too. Here’s an article about her lawsuit. These people are just the tip of a very large iceberg.
A well-known case in England has had a rocky road, with detransitioner Keira Bell’s team losing the case on appeal (see this) because the doctors and minors’ parents were said to have the last word on the subject. Nevertheless, the Tavistock Clinic, which was the centralized gender treatment center in London, has been closed for about a year:
In July 2022, the NHS decided to close GIDS (the Tavistock Clinic) and replace it with regional healthcare centres in 2023, following the release of an interim report on the provision of gender identity services for children and adolescents conducted by paediatrician Hilary Cass.
Whether the clinic’s replacements will be any better remains to be seen.
It’s horrific what’s been done to these people, and is being done to many others. I pray that those who have belatedly come to their senses can reestablish their sense of identity, and find their path forward.
To Dems/progs Chloe is the enemy.
The testimony of Paula Scanlan (concerning worthless U Penn and Lia Thomas) was also very interesting. What is most dispiriting, of course, is that this madness shows no sign of abating, nor will future generations be able to comprehend this manifestation (amongst many others) of our current cultural/political insanity.
The raw face of evil is what these young people faced. God have mercy on them, and his justice prevail over the liars, deceivers and destroyers.
Saw a video of her some while ago, I still can’t believe the medical field is destroying kids lives to get them into the Cultural Marxism religion.
Can only hope someday they make the doctors who do this pay hard.
Imagine a mother or father who would conspire with ‘medical professionals’ to mutilate their own child based on a whim they planted in their child’s mind.
@ Erasmus: you don’t have to imagine that they exist, and there is no way I can imagine what they are thinking – nor do I want to.
https://notthebee.com/article/cnn-runs-sympathy-piece-for-family-that-has-to-flee-florida-because-they-want-to-transition-their-child
Another very sad story —
https://notthebee.com/article/this-17-year-old-girls-story-of-regret-over-her-gender-transition-hits-the-hardest-of-any-ive-read
Hi, Neo. There is a small typo in the post’s title.
AesopFan–
Texas is another state being targeted by the Alphabet People as hostile to transitioners. Here’s a sob story about a family that left Texas out of fear that the family would be split up if the parents sought “gender-affirming care” for their child:
Susan has a 7-year-old transgender daughter, Elsa, whose parents asked that she be referred to by a pseudonym for safety reasons, who they say may one day need such care. Elsa’s parents describe her as wise beyond her years. She had expressed that she was a girl from an early age and guided her parents through her gender journey – asking to wear dresses, change her name, and to be referred to as a “daughter” by her parents. . . . Susan and her husband Brian, who asked that their last names not be used for safety reasons, decided the family needed to move out of Texas in light of the child abuse investigation threats. They say they weren’t sure how far the government would go to separate families like their own or affect Elsa’s access to care as she gets older.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/genocidal-transgender-people-begin-flee-states-anti-lgbtq/story?id=99909913
Note the use of the term “genocidal” to describe Texas’ legislation.
@ PA Cat > This verse is getting a lot of play these days.
Isaiah 5:20
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Not as brief, but just as relevant:
2 Timothy 3:1-7
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Philip Sells:
Thanks, fixed.
Erasmus:
That doesn’t describe the majority of these parents. It is actually quite common for the children to get the idea in school, or in talking to peers, or especially online. The parents are often reluctant, but are “persuaded” to give permission by therapists telling them their child will kill him or herself if the parents don’t let them transition. Chloe Cole and many others have said their parents gave permission because the supposed “experts” in the field asked the parents, “Would you rather have a dead daughter or a live son?” They are basically told it’s the only way to save their child’s life.
I suppose we can write off therapists’ necessity to abandon personal likes and dislikes in their professional role. They can do what they like and the field is so…um…fuzzy that none can say them nay, and, indeed, it is even evil to try.
But the people with the knives and prescriptions….
Gullible parents, or Munchausen mothers, or AWFL looking to top having a gay kid as a fashion accessory might go along with the therapist, if they have the “right” one.
But the people in the OR…..
I keep going back to the Slenderman Stabbings. Think anybody would have told the parents their kids might kill themselves if they were forbidden to murder a friend? Not certain now.
More seriously, though, some kids are vulnerable–see Slenderman Stabbings– for one or another reason and that is what needs to be addressed.