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Brenruth's avatar

This article solely focuses on race but there is, at least, one other important issue and that is transgender ideology and its effect on children and young adults. Therapists and medical personal are increasingly required to provide "gender affirming" care which may result in use of irreversible hormones and/or surgery for minors or young adults that may not have long-standing gender dysphoria as the term was commonly understood. We should provide open, loving and supportive medical and psychological care but not ideological care that leads in only one direction. We should not suppress inquiry and research about the exponential increase in surgeries on young women, permanent effects of treatment and later regrets.

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madaboutmd's avatar

The lawsuits are starting to be filed and may well be the only thing to reverse this horrendous practice. I have a friend whose 14 yo biological daughter identifies as male. My friend can't find a psychologist to peel the layers of this onion; only affirms. Maybe in his subconscious he thinks that his biological mother (open adoption situation), who has since married and had three sons, would not have chosen adoption for him if he had been born male. We'll never really know unless and until she/he discovers it or grown away from this belief. Meanwhile adoptive mom/dad have firmly said no to hormone blockers or surgeries until 14 yo is of adult age.

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Harry Potter's avatar

God bless those parents! I am disgusted by the push to teenage girls who have questions is to start them on gender change treatment/procedures. And while I don’t think doctors, teachers, counselors should be pushing these girls, all it takes is an involved parent to intercede. As I think about it we don’t see too many questions about “where are the parents” when these awful things are happening to children.

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madaboutmd's avatar

And it is a daily grind to push back from every direction. My friend honestly believes (like so many profiled recently on 60 Minutes) that this is a phase, hence absolutely no hormone blockers or surgeries until she/he is 18. As I heard once on a podcast, transgender individuals need a lifetime of surgeries while gays and lesbians (obviously) do not. It's no wonder there's no pushback -- $$$!

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Harry Potter's avatar

Yes it is mostly about money for these witch doctors aided by useful wokeists. Again where are the parents? It’s not alright for schools and medical professionals to be encouraging these girls. But that could be overcome by engaged parenting.

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madaboutmd's avatar

The parents are woke.....until they (literally) wake up one day to their kid's suicide or reversal to original body or both.

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Harry Potter's avatar

How awful. To think their own parents will not protect these kids.

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Beeswax's avatar

It's not that simple. I agree that the situation is barbaric and awful. But I also know that parents are often convinced to acquiesce to a child's wishes because they're been told that suicide is the next step if the child doesn't get their way. (There is no evidence for this, but sometimes it's all a parent needs to hear.)

Parents are now deliberately locked out of the process. The schools will support a child's wish to transition against the parents' wishes. Abigail Shrier discusses this in respect of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Girls can get testosterone shots behind their parents' backs and are given public assemblies to announce their new gender to the entire school without the parents' knowledge. And ponder this: in Canada, a man named Richard Hoogland recently spent time in prison before pleading guilty for refusing to obey a judge's order that he not speak to the press about his daughter's medical transition, which he opposed:

https://thepostmillennial.com/father-who-was-jailed-for-violating-gag-order-about-childs-medical-gender-transition-pleads-guilty/

Yes. Parents can now go to prison for not supporting a child's medically-sanctioned mutilation.

I also recommend Angus Fox's extraordinary multi-part series in Quillette, "When Sons Become Daughters," about the parents of male-to-female transitioners. We should be careful before we lay the blame at the feet of parents. Sometimes they're drunk the kool-aid, but other times quite the opposite is true.

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Susan Lapin's avatar

This is a huge problem. It isn't just a problem with children and young adults. What about a doctor being medically responsible and asking an individual who identifies as a male about "his" menstrual cycle - something that is medically relevant and could help diagnose an ectopic pregnancy for example-while knowing that there will be an ethics complaint because of not accepting the transgender identity.

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Nancy Robertson's avatar

LOL -- Haven't you gotten the message that men (called the "birthing person") can now have babies, too. They deliver them through the "front hole" and then do "chest feeding."

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Nancy Robertson's avatar

I would love to see Bari and Abigail have a serious discussion about the skyrocketing number of teenage girls who claim they're trapped in the wrong body and are prescribed male sex hormones and top surgery.

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