There is a syndrome called, “body integrity disorder.” People with this, insist that a healthy body part MUST be removed. Any doctor who would entertain this idea would be called a “quack!” Today, we call them compassionate, caring physicians when a CHILD demands that they remove a penis or breasts. This is nonsense and needs to be s…
There is a syndrome called, “body integrity disorder.” People with this, insist that a healthy body part MUST be removed. Any doctor who would entertain this idea would be called a “quack!” Today, we call them compassionate, caring physicians when a CHILD demands that they remove a penis or breasts. This is nonsense and needs to be stopped. The alarming rate of gender dysphoria, particularly in girls, can be directly related to social media. These troubled young women need intensive counseling and understanding. Adolescents have felt discomfort with their bodies since the beginning of time. While some of these children, may truly be transgender, the majority of them will come to a different understanding with time and maturity.
As a school nurse, I know that puberty blockers are not REVERSIBLE! They can lead to many problems if taken too long, including lack of brain development and infertility. We need to counsel and insist on patience while treating gender dysphoria in order for the brain to develop and sort out these decisions. This is the least that our children deserve. Too many of these children who have made radical decisions as a teens are having regrets as adults. They wished that someone had counseled them to wait until their bodies had sorted themselves out. Unfortunately, many of them visited today’s version of the quacks that I mentioned earlier.
Speaking of another type of body dysphoria, I remember when anorexia was the psychology issue du jour for young women. Rather than agree with these young women that they were the fat girl they saw in the mirror and giving them gastric bypasses, we hospitalized them and gave them psychological counseling and sometimes even gave tube feedings to prevent them from starving themselves to death.
The completely opposite approach to the "gender dysphoria" trend is shocking in comparison. There are social reasons for that (the rise of the Woke, for one). But I have to wonder, cynically, if part of the difference is that supporting an anorexic kid's body delusion ends with a dead kid, whereas supporting this new delusion is profitable: the need for hormone therapy for life means these kids will be patients for the rest of their lives.
There is a syndrome called, “body integrity disorder.” People with this, insist that a healthy body part MUST be removed. Any doctor who would entertain this idea would be called a “quack!” Today, we call them compassionate, caring physicians when a CHILD demands that they remove a penis or breasts. This is nonsense and needs to be stopped. The alarming rate of gender dysphoria, particularly in girls, can be directly related to social media. These troubled young women need intensive counseling and understanding. Adolescents have felt discomfort with their bodies since the beginning of time. While some of these children, may truly be transgender, the majority of them will come to a different understanding with time and maturity.
As a school nurse, I know that puberty blockers are not REVERSIBLE! They can lead to many problems if taken too long, including lack of brain development and infertility. We need to counsel and insist on patience while treating gender dysphoria in order for the brain to develop and sort out these decisions. This is the least that our children deserve. Too many of these children who have made radical decisions as a teens are having regrets as adults. They wished that someone had counseled them to wait until their bodies had sorted themselves out. Unfortunately, many of them visited today’s version of the quacks that I mentioned earlier.
Speaking of another type of body dysphoria, I remember when anorexia was the psychology issue du jour for young women. Rather than agree with these young women that they were the fat girl they saw in the mirror and giving them gastric bypasses, we hospitalized them and gave them psychological counseling and sometimes even gave tube feedings to prevent them from starving themselves to death.
The completely opposite approach to the "gender dysphoria" trend is shocking in comparison. There are social reasons for that (the rise of the Woke, for one). But I have to wonder, cynically, if part of the difference is that supporting an anorexic kid's body delusion ends with a dead kid, whereas supporting this new delusion is profitable: the need for hormone therapy for life means these kids will be patients for the rest of their lives.
Brain swelling. Osteoporosis. The side effects of puberty blockers are just beginning to be understood, and it's quite frightening.
weak. weak bones at 15? walk more. that will do it