Balance
So the horrors will continue, just not at the NHS.
The director of a new private clinic has said he hopes to start prescribing cross-sex hormones within the “next couple of months” to teenagers questioning their gender. Dr Aidan Kelly is among several former staff from the Tavistock gender clinic who have set up a new practice that will provide private referrals for hormone treatment and reassignment surgery.
Gender Plus will charge £275 for a one-hour appointment, which can be booked via its website without an NHS referral. Anyone wishing to pursue hormone treatment to change gender must complete an assessment over six appointments, only one of which needs to be in person. The other five appointments may be over Zoom calls.
Six chats and you get to ruin your life, for only £1650.
The clinic, which operates from above a chicken shop in east London, is accepting patients for consultations only but is in the process of applying to register with the Care Quality Commission so it can also start prescribing hormone treatments, “where appropriate”, to people who identify as transgender.
If its application is successful, the clinic will be monitored by the watchdog, which will carry out unannounced inspections to ensure it is operating within regulations.
Tampering with children’s puberties is fine as long as it’s regulated.
The Tavistock was the NHS’s main gender identity service for young people, but it is being closed down after safety concerns.
Free enterprise to the rescue!
Kelly insisted that vulnerable patients at Gender Plus would not be rushed towards transition, adding that he was trying to find the “middle ground” in a highly contested area of medicine.
“I think extremes are really unhelpful. I think in any aspect of life, balance, thoughtfulness are really important and this area in particular, I think, needs that,” he said.
Yes, and by the same token, we need balance and thoughtfulness and a middle ground on cutting people’s heads off when we find them irritating. Some zealots say we shouldn’t do that at all, but I say we need a balanced thoughtful middle ground where only truly irritating people, as verified by our experts, will have their heads cut off.
Oldest saying in business: 1. ‘There’s one born every minute;’ 2. ‘A fool and his money are soon parted.’
So, when we’re talking about extremes here, what do we mean? Is one extreme just handing out the hormones to everyone with a valid credit card, while the other is listening to people of good sense who say there is no such thing as being trans?
Or, how do they measure whether someone is truly trans and could benefit from hormones? Is there a gendersoul checker machine, a “t-meter” that works like the Scientology “e-meter,” measuring trangrams in pre-clears? Do they followup to check to see if one becomes clear after a certain number of months of treatment or do we just look to see if they pass? I think someone could make a lot of money if they applied to concepts of chirporactic to trans treatment. Realign the spine to realign gender! It only takes 12 treatments administered weekly, with monhtly followups after that. Acupuncture could also work to align the she-chi with the he-chi.
@Mike Haubrich, #2
“chirporactic”
That’s hilarious!
Hard to tell from the article if this clinic is also proposing to do referrals to other treatments, i.e. counseling. There’s no mention of it, and the fact that this clinic is apparently going to be staffed by Tavistock alumni gives the impression that this clinic is going to be like the “medical marijuana clinics” that used to operate in California, where astonishingly it turned out that 100% of “patients” had some condition that required the medicinal use of marijuana. But there’s a strong editorial slant to the article (I’m not sure why the fact that it will operate over a chicken shop is relevant, seems like just a cheap shot) so I’m hesitant to draw any conclusions.
But you left out the important part. With every hormone treatment, patients get a coupon for 50% off a chicken dinner.
Totally not what Tavistock was doing.
Screechy: I’m sure that GenderPlus will be happy to refer for counselling if any clients request it. I’m equally sure that everyone who walks through the door will have the attitude of “I did NOT pay £1650 for a counselor to try to change my mind, the customer is always right, now GIMME MY FUCKING HORMONES”
AND MY CHICKEN!!!
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In Arizona the diagnostic condition required is to afford the $300 fee for the medical marijuana card. I mean, in this modern world everyone has at least some anxiety.
Mike, I won’t link it here, because I don’t want it to auto-embed, but on YouTube you can find a video of a song by my favorite musical comedy duo, Garfunkel & Oates, called “Weed Card,” on this topic.