Look at this. Look at her smiling face, her swinging hair, her cheerful smiles and nods. Look at the extra smile she gives when she says “a hysterectomy is the removal of the uterus.” Look at the grin she gives when she says the Fallopian tubes are attached to the sides of the uterus. Look how enthusiastically she shakes her head, making her hair bounce, when she says “people getting gender-affirming hysterectomies do not have to have their ovaries removed.”
It’s a thing out of nightmares.
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Good on them for giving more meat to that awful woman… Lovely…
Just a few days ago someone I know on Facebook was saying ‘I would be against minors getting procedures that sterilized them, but that’s not happening anywhere’. The comments were a hate fest towards ‘transphobes’
I think I’m actually going to have nightmares from this one.
The happy, flouncy affect is straight up nightmare fuel from a dystopian horror in which you’re helpless to stop a brutal, gory tragedy.
No thank you.
People are sometimes shocked how young I was to have a total hysterectomy and unilateral oophorectomy, followed a year later by the removal of the second ovary. I was 37/38; I had pre-cancerous tumours on my ovaries, and a family history of female relatives dying from ovarian cancer. So I went through a surgical menopause approximately 15 years earlier than I would have had a natural one, and although I have been very careful to maintain bone strength (through watching my dietary calcium intake and as much exercise as I can manage given my physical disabilities), I am well aware that I am at much higher risk of osteoporosis, and dementia, and heart disease (I already have heart disorders as a result of catching glandular fever, EBV, as a teen).
And now they are jauntily offering all this horror-show for ‘gender-affirming’ (i.e. sexist ‘you’re not feminine enough’) reasons to teens. Presumably together with exogenous testosterone, which will further damage her remaining organs and suppress her œstrogen levels even more.
I have no words.
It’s just horrific. Literal stuff of nightmares, as Nullius says.
The economist Milton Friedman made the observation that people are generally a lot more parsimonious when spending their own money than when spending other peoples’. Perhaps that observation fits expenditure of lives as well as it fits that of money.
A hysterectomy is somehow ‘gender affirming.’ Yeah, right. And of course, the early years of puberty have always been noted for the wisdom of decisions made at that stage of life, and it has been generally agreed across the history of rational thought that it is downhill all the way from there.
So good to get in early, and get it done and over with. Yeah, right. Again.
Such a weird presentation. Bouncy, upbeat, casual… while talking about irreparably changing a minor in preference to counselling. Also, she mispronounced the oo of oophorectomy; each o gets its own syllable but she pushed them together as ‘ooh’. I’m sure she’s just a PR rep, but ffs it is not a good look for a hospital.
No I think she’s a surgeon – I think a caption says so on the clip somewhere. I wouldn’t have been quite so appalled if she were just a PR hack.
Frances Grimstad has a page on the website of Harvard SOGIE (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression) Health Equity Research Collaborative.
The Harvard page has a link to what was evidently her page in the online staff directory of Boston Children’s Hospital – but surprise, that one has been wiped. However, there is still an entry for her on another page, under the heading ‘Engagement in LGBTQ research’:
Ah yes, the clip names her and says she’s MD/MS right at the beginning.
“Boston Children’s Hospital – where the world comes for answers” let’s hope that’s just an empty slogan.
Removing children’s reproductive organs identifies as “optimizing reproductive health outcomes” now? What next, amputating legs is the way to optimize mobility outcomes?