Tamara Pietzke exposed the dangers of ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors. Then, she lost her job. She reveals the cost of speaking out—and why she has no regrets.
I emailed the free press awhile back. I also live in Washington and I’m an LMHC. If you need help setting up a Private Practice for Psychotherapy I would be happy to explain it. The nice thing about our profession is you don’t have to have a boss if you don’t want to.
So proud of these women and what they are doing/have done. And to the FP and folks like Abigail Shrier, and JK Rowling who step up and use their platforms to push for honest dialog on this matter- thank you! Moral courage is in short supply, but these people give me hope.
“If anybody’s interested, they can contact the LGBT Courage Coalition at our website and we will help link you directly to a pro bono attorney”
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This isn’t really criticism since I understand why you have to do this, but I really wish we would stop perpetuating the idea that “LGBT” is a legitimate way to categorize people other than for the purpose of Marxist conflict theory.
Also it’s somewhat insulting to the L and the G people since the T is a group of folks who are suffering from severe mental illness and the B people kinda just like to party a little too much.
I hope she finds a good lawyer and sues them. It doesn't matter whether her boss admitted that she was fired for being a whistleblower. It's the proximity to her article that is telling plus how suddenly the parameters of her job changed and that she was deemed unfit for those parameters. I wish her luck.
I live in western Washington and recently tried to find a counselor for my daughter. It is impossible and a big reason for that is that counselors do not want to treat teens and be forced to provide only pro-transition care to any kid who even mentions gender. They’d rather not provide the counseling than get caught up in that. It is awful.
I am one of the alphabet people who vehemently opposes all of this transgender nonsense. There has always been legitimately gender dysphoric people, and they have a right to live how they want, but they have been a tiny slice of the pie. It's crystal clear that what's happening now is a politically motivated social contagion that is literally destroying lives and bodies. This will be the largest medical malpractice scandal in history, mark my words
The evidence was pretty clear 30 years ago that cosmetic surgery and hormones dont really fix anything. They DO make normal sex and normal reproduction impossible, but amount in total to creating an itch that can no longer be scratched.
Kids are stupid and easily manipulated. They are also mercurial. The most irresponsible possible behavior is facilitating them in making permanent decisions based on what, empirically, are nearly always passing moods.
Suicide in the cliche is a permanent decision made in response to temporary problems. So too is cutting your balls or breasts off.
And empirically, suicide risk goes UP with the cosmetic surgery and hormone approach. Why wouldnt it? The end cannot be achieved and what these poor people did have they have lost.
To Tamara and Jamie, your honesty and bravery are humbling and encouraging. Thank you for standing up for the voiceless children and opposing these crimes against humanity.
Tamara's ex-boss demonstrates the cowardly behavior found in so much of the corporate management structure which seems so often predicated on fear:
Fear that I'll lose my job.
Fear that I'll lose my house.
Fear that I'll lose my 401K and retirement.
Fear that I'll lose my kids college fund.
I'm not a religious person nor do I belong to any church, but I believe we have a soul, and that should be the thing to be in fear of losing, not some job. What a coward.
Kudos to Tamara and Jamie for their courage and willingness to stand alone and put it all on the line, they've kept their souls.
I'm so happy that TFP is providing a platform that these people feel comfortable coming to. There is a reason they are not going to Fox News or The Daily Wire or Breitbart etc. I'm not disparaging those platforms, but TFP seems like a very neutral, nonjudgmental place people who worked in these clinics can come to and receive support.
We only need about a thousand more of both of you.
Parents are desperate for rational support for their gender-questioning/confused kids. This is a gaping hole. There are a few therapists known in parent support circles for taking a non-ideological approach, even in CA and they’re often fully booked. I don’t think therapists are quite clear on the bogus “conversion therapy” warnings in this arena, so being clear on what’s allowed, and how to let clients/parents know your perspective, is important. Of course, teens will “therapist-shop” if all they want is a green light for hormones. I’m not sure if even a skilled therapist will be able to mediate this.
If I had a son or daughter who was asking these questions, the idea that there's a therapist out there who is willing to help work through the concepts seems ideal.
The last thing I'd want to do is to apply some label and force it to stick. Healthy children question everything if they're in a caring environment. They're only looking for reassurance and boundaries most of the time.
If all they get is a declaration and a handful of drugs, that's doing them a great disservice. Same thing with depression. And any number of issues that seem so quickly to be answered by a long-term commitment to the pharmaceutical industry.
I hope that, eventually, clinics like the ones mentioned here are investigated for their connections to pharmaceutical companies.
I am willing to bet that I disagree with these ladies on multiple issues (yes, I am making assumptions). That does not preclude me from respecting their courage and convictions. Standing up to power is tough. It is much harder when that power is from parts of your community. Being willing to be othered by your own 'side' is something I wish more of us were willing to do. I feel like part of why our parties are so broken is because we have gotten to the point that people are not willing to call them out when they cross the line. So we just keep letting them move the goalposts, far from where we want them to be. These ladies decided to say "no!". Good for them. I wish them well, as I cannot imagine how hard it must be to restart your lives when so many people are burning bridges to you.
The fact that Tamara showed courage on a topic that makes the most powerful people cower is a lesson in how wokeness, which started with kind regard to others, has been transformed into an evil eating machine, a destroyer of reputations and income. Why don't you all woke people take your feel-good guilt and STFU. It's a matter of our collective survival in the face of fascism, including yours, you nitwits.
I emailed the free press awhile back. I also live in Washington and I’m an LMHC. If you need help setting up a Private Practice for Psychotherapy I would be happy to explain it. The nice thing about our profession is you don’t have to have a boss if you don’t want to.
Nobody shoves ideology down my throat anymore
So proud of these women and what they are doing/have done. And to the FP and folks like Abigail Shrier, and JK Rowling who step up and use their platforms to push for honest dialog on this matter- thank you! Moral courage is in short supply, but these people give me hope.
“If anybody’s interested, they can contact the LGBT Courage Coalition at our website and we will help link you directly to a pro bono attorney”
——————————————————-
This isn’t really criticism since I understand why you have to do this, but I really wish we would stop perpetuating the idea that “LGBT” is a legitimate way to categorize people other than for the purpose of Marxist conflict theory.
Also it’s somewhat insulting to the L and the G people since the T is a group of folks who are suffering from severe mental illness and the B people kinda just like to party a little too much.
Please ignore this. Carry on.
I hope she finds a good lawyer and sues them. It doesn't matter whether her boss admitted that she was fired for being a whistleblower. It's the proximity to her article that is telling plus how suddenly the parameters of her job changed and that she was deemed unfit for those parameters. I wish her luck.
I live in western Washington and recently tried to find a counselor for my daughter. It is impossible and a big reason for that is that counselors do not want to treat teens and be forced to provide only pro-transition care to any kid who even mentions gender. They’d rather not provide the counseling than get caught up in that. It is awful.
I am one of the alphabet people who vehemently opposes all of this transgender nonsense. There has always been legitimately gender dysphoric people, and they have a right to live how they want, but they have been a tiny slice of the pie. It's crystal clear that what's happening now is a politically motivated social contagion that is literally destroying lives and bodies. This will be the largest medical malpractice scandal in history, mark my words
(not like you need a magic 8 ball to see that)
The evidence was pretty clear 30 years ago that cosmetic surgery and hormones dont really fix anything. They DO make normal sex and normal reproduction impossible, but amount in total to creating an itch that can no longer be scratched.
Kids are stupid and easily manipulated. They are also mercurial. The most irresponsible possible behavior is facilitating them in making permanent decisions based on what, empirically, are nearly always passing moods.
Suicide in the cliche is a permanent decision made in response to temporary problems. So too is cutting your balls or breasts off.
And empirically, suicide risk goes UP with the cosmetic surgery and hormone approach. Why wouldnt it? The end cannot be achieved and what these poor people did have they have lost.
To Tamara and Jamie, your honesty and bravery are humbling and encouraging. Thank you for standing up for the voiceless children and opposing these crimes against humanity.
Amazing courage 🙏
We need more people in this country that demonstrate this type of courage.
Tamara's ex-boss demonstrates the cowardly behavior found in so much of the corporate management structure which seems so often predicated on fear:
Fear that I'll lose my job.
Fear that I'll lose my house.
Fear that I'll lose my 401K and retirement.
Fear that I'll lose my kids college fund.
I'm not a religious person nor do I belong to any church, but I believe we have a soul, and that should be the thing to be in fear of losing, not some job. What a coward.
Kudos to Tamara and Jamie for their courage and willingness to stand alone and put it all on the line, they've kept their souls.
I'm so happy that TFP is providing a platform that these people feel comfortable coming to. There is a reason they are not going to Fox News or The Daily Wire or Breitbart etc. I'm not disparaging those platforms, but TFP seems like a very neutral, nonjudgmental place people who worked in these clinics can come to and receive support.
We only need about a thousand more of both of you.
Parents are desperate for rational support for their gender-questioning/confused kids. This is a gaping hole. There are a few therapists known in parent support circles for taking a non-ideological approach, even in CA and they’re often fully booked. I don’t think therapists are quite clear on the bogus “conversion therapy” warnings in this arena, so being clear on what’s allowed, and how to let clients/parents know your perspective, is important. Of course, teens will “therapist-shop” if all they want is a green light for hormones. I’m not sure if even a skilled therapist will be able to mediate this.
If I had a son or daughter who was asking these questions, the idea that there's a therapist out there who is willing to help work through the concepts seems ideal.
The last thing I'd want to do is to apply some label and force it to stick. Healthy children question everything if they're in a caring environment. They're only looking for reassurance and boundaries most of the time.
If all they get is a declaration and a handful of drugs, that's doing them a great disservice. Same thing with depression. And any number of issues that seem so quickly to be answered by a long-term commitment to the pharmaceutical industry.
I hope that, eventually, clinics like the ones mentioned here are investigated for their connections to pharmaceutical companies.
I am willing to bet that I disagree with these ladies on multiple issues (yes, I am making assumptions). That does not preclude me from respecting their courage and convictions. Standing up to power is tough. It is much harder when that power is from parts of your community. Being willing to be othered by your own 'side' is something I wish more of us were willing to do. I feel like part of why our parties are so broken is because we have gotten to the point that people are not willing to call them out when they cross the line. So we just keep letting them move the goalposts, far from where we want them to be. These ladies decided to say "no!". Good for them. I wish them well, as I cannot imagine how hard it must be to restart your lives when so many people are burning bridges to you.
The fact that Tamara showed courage on a topic that makes the most powerful people cower is a lesson in how wokeness, which started with kind regard to others, has been transformed into an evil eating machine, a destroyer of reputations and income. Why don't you all woke people take your feel-good guilt and STFU. It's a matter of our collective survival in the face of fascism, including yours, you nitwits.