The clinic became overwhelmed
But remember: it’s not social contagion, it’s not it’s not it’s NOT. It’s absolutely medical physical brainical; it’s so real you can touch it. It’s not in the mind, it’s in the body.
The small Midwestern gender clinic was buckling under an unrelenting surge in demand.
Last year, dozens of young patients were seeking appointments every month, far too many for the clinic’s two psychologists to screen. Doctors in the emergency room downstairs raised alarms about transgender teenagers arriving every day in crisis, taking hormones but not getting therapy.
The clinic opened in 2017.
It was the only place for hundreds of miles where distressed adolescents could see a team of experts to help them transition to a different gender.
I wonder if the distressed adolescents had any chance of seeing a team of experts who could, alternatively, help them come to terms with their sex. I wonder if they got to see any experts who would advise them not to “transition to a different gender.”
But as the number of these patients soared, the clinic became overwhelmed — and soon found itself at the center of a political storm. In February, Jamie Reed, a former case manager, went public with explosive allegations, claiming in a whistle-blower complaint that doctors at the clinic had hastily prescribed hormones with lasting effects to adolescents with pressing psychiatric problems.
Well, that answers that question. No, they didn’t, or at least a lot of them didn’t.
The turmoil in St. Louis underscores one of the most challenging questions in gender care for young people today: How much psychological screening should adolescents receive before they begin gender treatments?
Let’s ask more questions like that. How much psychological screening should adolescents receive before they cut their own heads off?
Maybe, just maybe, adolescents shouldn’t be getting “gender treatments” at all. Maybe the whole thing is embarrassingly stupid ideological nonsense which has nothing to do with medical treatment and should be discouraged.
Shaped by ideas pioneered in Europe, these clinics have opened over the past decade to serve the growing number of young people seeking hormonal medications to transition.
Why is the number growing? Why weren’t masses of young people doing this 50 years ago? What is the role of these “ideas” pioneered in Europe?
With its psychologists overbooked, the clinic relied on external therapists, some with little experience in gender issues, to evaluate the young patients’ readiness for hormonal medications. Doctors prescribed hormones to patients who had obtained such approvals, even adolescents whose medical histories raised red flags. Some of these patients later stopped identifying as transgender, and received little to no support from the clinic after doing so.
Oops! Oh well. Send in the next patient.
Pediatric gender medicine is a nascent specialty, and few studies have tracked how patients fare in the long term, making it difficult for doctors to judge who is likely to benefit.
So they err on the side of wrecking the patients’ bodies. How very Hippocratic Oath.
They started slowly, and then sped up.
When Dr. Spack and Dr. Edwards-Leeper opened the Boston clinic, they hewed closely to the Dutch approach. In its first five years, the clinic treated just 70 patients.
Similar clinics opened around the country, diverging over time from the strict Dutch protocols into an affirming approach that prioritized a child’s inner sense of gender.
Thus creating a horror show.
C’mon, we all learned our lesson during the Satanic Panic that we should always believe the children, they know who they are!
Why are the adults so ready to believe that kids are female on the inside while male on the outside (or vice versa?) Why is this more easily believed than the children may have had abuse in their past and tie the abuse to their bodies, and think that by changing their sex they can get a clean slate? Why don’t they look into the idea that perhaps the suicides of “trans kids” are due to the same bullying and isolation that gay and lesbian kids were subjected to – rooted in being non-conforming? Why would anyone think that doing the pronoun thing for kids prevents them from being bullied and beaten? The sudden inability for professionals to ask these sorts of questions is simply astonishing. It’s easier to believe that kids were born the wrong body for their soul than it is to actually look into why this might be happening.
Many of the cases of kids reporting satanic ritual abuse turned out to be their interpretation of other types of abuse.
The Province of Ontarioa has now placed a guidance that if the children request different pronouns than their sex, the parents should be involved. Mass suicides have been predicted by the cult.
Becuase parents should not be involved or kids will kill themselves for not living in a trans-accepting home.
If the US can hold out against the metric system for 230 years why is it suddenly so vulnerable to these other Jacobin ideas pioneered in Europe?
Whatever happened to that talking point about how “trans people’s brains look different on an MRI”? Did it get shoved down a memory hole when people pointed out that, if true, we could use that as a diagnostic criterion?
Yes, if “being born in the wrong body” were a real thing, there would (presumably) be some sort of test for it. We don’t count on anorexic’s self-diagnosis for measuring their weight, we use a scale. Is there anything beyond the claims of self-diagnosis and the influence of social contagion to support the existance of “transness” to begin with? Something beyond the hard-ons of a few AGP males? Something definitive and clinical? You’d think that this is something that would have been worked out before treating teens’ psychological issues with life-altering drugs, and mutilating, sterilizing surgeries. But that’s just me. All these doctors must know what they’re doing, right?
I hope that people were at least aware enough to realize that if they believed that one, then they couldn’t protest when men like Lawrence Summers or Sam Harris made statements about how women’s brains don’t have the same capacity as men’s brains or something stupid like that.
Don’t like male chauvinists arguing about ladybrains? Then don’t pretend that “transwomen” have ladybrains.