“surrounding the long-term effects of these drugs, which had previously been touted as totally reversible.”
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This reminds me of Ketanji Brown Jackson saying she didn’t know what a woman was because she’s not a biologist.
You don’t need to be a doctor to know that taking testosterone has permanent effects. Almost all of medicine is just reading things and then remembering the thing you read. Same with lawyers. You aren’t designing microchips, guys. You went to the library.
“I’m not saying we shouldn’t use blockers. But they should be a last resort. Therapy should come first.”
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I appreciate the bravery required to say this publicly as a doctor, given the mobs of deranged perverts and savages who have taken over our medical institutions. But in reality these drugs should never be used because all of this is totally psychotic.
At the very least, if you’re going to recreationally dose yourself with hormones you should have to sign a waiver indicating that my taxes will not be used to pay for any of the extra medical shit you are going to require going forward.
Great reporting! While the article is about a medical scandal, the underlying issue is the state of journalism in America. MSM has lost its way, and is no longer trusted. There are too many things they collectively don’t report on that worries me. Thank you for The Free Press.
Bari Weiss asks Hannah "but for whatever reason, you decided to step into the most controversial topic in the world."
Controversial? For whom? This is lunacy and the fact that the lunatic left in America has embraced it - Including the senile imbecile who rules us and slurs that it's "gender affirming care" - doesn't make it any less insane. Or hideously barbaric.
Our medical "profession" has already covered itself in shame for its lies, deceits and craven surrender to authority during the ChiCom launched pandemic. But their shameful sins are in the abuse of children in the Salem-like "trans" mass psychosis transcend even that abominable depravity.
“ It’s important because they’re children. It’s the rest of their lives, and adults need to protect children.”
And there you have the crux of the problem: American society has become so out of balance with regard to ethical standards and morality, so seduced by a sick cohort ranging from Hollywood to Boston Children’s, that this fundamental principle of protecting the most vulnerable in society is being lost. Is there anyone who now doesn’t understand how devastating the practice of aborting otherwise viable infants is to the human soul? Connect the dots.
On "gender affirming care," Barnes says: "For some children that will obviously be the right path." No, Hannah Barnes, it is obviously NOT the right path for any child, period, no a thousand times NO. You are saying this because you are afraid to state the obvious, rather like calling George Floyd's death a "murder." Floyd was not "murdered." At best it was manslaughter or negligence but it was not murder. The word "dysphoria" has been co-opted to mean something it doesn't. Children can realize that they are gay around four years old. That is not dysphoria.
Next: Of what possible use is a GENDER CLINIC? Seriously. Break it down. What would anyone expect to happen at a GENDER CLINIC? Why would anyone take a CHILD to a GENDER CLINIC?
"These are professional people who’ve dedicated their working lives to helping young people" AT SOMETHING CALLED A "GENDER CLINIC." "Somehow, because this is a gender clinic, the same questions that we would ask normally were not welcome."
Right. Because there is absolutely no use for anything called a "GENDER CLINIC" other than enabling young people to feel confused about their "GENDER."
"And he said, look, I’m not saying we shouldn’t use blockers. But they should be a last resort." Sorry, NO. Blockers should not be used PERIOD. What in the hell are they talking about, "time to think" about a necessary process of development. This is wrong, wrong, wrong. But what would anyone expect? It's A GENDER CLINIC. An entire operation devoted to GENDER.
"It said there was no agreement on what the purpose of the blocker was." Well, I can tell them. The purpose of the blocker is to screw up the body so that cross-sex hormones are the only alternative.
"....and the NHS is now closing GIDS, the Tavistock gender clinic. It was meant to be shut by now, but it’s going to be another year, they say. March 2024 is the latest they’ve given." Another year to do what? Talk to kids about their "GENDER"?
"It’s really strange that any scrutiny is seen as hateful when actually the reverse is true." Actually, it's not "strange" -- questioning anyone about their mythical "gender" has been promoted in the media as "HATE." So an entire generation of people is being encouraged to see opposition as "HATE."
"Absolutely trans people face real transphobia and bigotry." Transgender people are really just people who do not want to be what they ARE. Enabling this is NOT helpful. Period. There isn't a single medically altered "trans" person out there who passes. Not a single one. The whole thing is a FARCE.
"The judge of a civilized society is how we protect the most vulnerable. " Protecting the most vulnerable means never walking them through the door of a GENDER CLINIC. How these entities even came into being is one for the annals of history.
I think all “gender-affirming care” for minors and adults should be banned.
I know most people fall into the “you-do-you” camp when it comes to what grown people do with their bodies, but for what other mental illness do we insist on “affirming” the patient’s delusion?
It is not compassionate or ethical to pander to the mentally ill’s desires.
They need help coming to grips with reality, not “affirmation” trying to go against it.
Miriam Grossman, MD, Psychiatrist, is another warrior against “gender affirming care”. She doesn’t mince words about her outrage over what is being done to kids.
Hannah Barnes is a brilliant journalist-bravo for digging into this emotionally laden topic. BW-in keeping with The Free Press- thanks for keeping me well informed on so many topics that are poorly covered elsewhere. I read TFP first thing every morning. I think HB’s reporting has put into meaningful words what many have been sensing but have been unable to articulate well. I need to read her book.
Over thirty years ago, I remember reading about John’s Hopkins University which ran one of the largest Gender Programs anywhere. After a number of years, they concluded that ‘gender surgery’ did not ‘cure’ patients of gender dysphoria and even aggravated their condition. It disbanded the surgical unit and refocused on talk therapies. Why haven’t doctors and other medical professionals learned from their experience? Don’t they read medical journals? The only conclusion one can make is that there is money in these surgeries and woke ideology to inflame the issue. As Anti-Semetic Rep Ilhan Omar says, “it’s all about the Benjamins”.
Its great to see brave reporting on the medical scandal at Tavistock. Lets hope that we start seeing this same journalistic bravery focused on the COVID vaccines and the true number of adverse effects, injuries and deaths at some point.
The science is damning. The entirety of gender affirming care is scientific codswallop. It is, arguably, fraud. Cherry picked data that elides death, wild misrepresentation of results, highly questionable measures, complete lack of controls, and inability to confirm results in follow-up studies.
This "care" is a medical lie, wrapping a fantasy of sex reassignment in a word, "gender". It cannot be done. This is criminal medical malpractice.
I say this as a scientist who has tangled with prejudice against gay and trans identification, that I believe can have a biological basis in natural chimerism.
Towards the end of the interview, Bari said that she received feedback about "picking on trans people." It's not about individual trans people. No one really cares what adults do. The problem is that a toxic ideology has been embraced by institutions. Everything from the manipulation of language which is dehumanizing and confusing, to exposing this ideology to kids, to bullying anyone that doesn't agree, and even criminalizing parents for not "affirming" their child's leftist construct of gender, etc. The left is using the trans issue (along with other issues) to wage a cultural revolution that violates free choice, individualism and even freedom itself.
“Absolutely trans people face real transphobia and bigotry”
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No they don’t. They are the most pampered group of people on earth.
What they face is a society that has decided to endorse and facilitate their self-destructive mental illness, which does them no favors.
“surrounding the long-term effects of these drugs, which had previously been touted as totally reversible.”
——————————————————-
This reminds me of Ketanji Brown Jackson saying she didn’t know what a woman was because she’s not a biologist.
You don’t need to be a doctor to know that taking testosterone has permanent effects. Almost all of medicine is just reading things and then remembering the thing you read. Same with lawyers. You aren’t designing microchips, guys. You went to the library.
“I’m not saying we shouldn’t use blockers. But they should be a last resort. Therapy should come first.”
———————————————————-
I appreciate the bravery required to say this publicly as a doctor, given the mobs of deranged perverts and savages who have taken over our medical institutions. But in reality these drugs should never be used because all of this is totally psychotic.
At the very least, if you’re going to recreationally dose yourself with hormones you should have to sign a waiver indicating that my taxes will not be used to pay for any of the extra medical shit you are going to require going forward.
Great reporting! While the article is about a medical scandal, the underlying issue is the state of journalism in America. MSM has lost its way, and is no longer trusted. There are too many things they collectively don’t report on that worries me. Thank you for The Free Press.
Bari Weiss asks Hannah "but for whatever reason, you decided to step into the most controversial topic in the world."
Controversial? For whom? This is lunacy and the fact that the lunatic left in America has embraced it - Including the senile imbecile who rules us and slurs that it's "gender affirming care" - doesn't make it any less insane. Or hideously barbaric.
Our medical "profession" has already covered itself in shame for its lies, deceits and craven surrender to authority during the ChiCom launched pandemic. But their shameful sins are in the abuse of children in the Salem-like "trans" mass psychosis transcend even that abominable depravity.
“ It’s important because they’re children. It’s the rest of their lives, and adults need to protect children.”
And there you have the crux of the problem: American society has become so out of balance with regard to ethical standards and morality, so seduced by a sick cohort ranging from Hollywood to Boston Children’s, that this fundamental principle of protecting the most vulnerable in society is being lost. Is there anyone who now doesn’t understand how devastating the practice of aborting otherwise viable infants is to the human soul? Connect the dots.
BW: Here in the U.S., this feels like a very partisan issue. I don’t think it actually is, but I think it feels that way to a lot of people.
Bari, there is not a single conservative who supports “gender affirming care”. This is all on your team.
On "gender affirming care," Barnes says: "For some children that will obviously be the right path." No, Hannah Barnes, it is obviously NOT the right path for any child, period, no a thousand times NO. You are saying this because you are afraid to state the obvious, rather like calling George Floyd's death a "murder." Floyd was not "murdered." At best it was manslaughter or negligence but it was not murder. The word "dysphoria" has been co-opted to mean something it doesn't. Children can realize that they are gay around four years old. That is not dysphoria.
Next: Of what possible use is a GENDER CLINIC? Seriously. Break it down. What would anyone expect to happen at a GENDER CLINIC? Why would anyone take a CHILD to a GENDER CLINIC?
"These are professional people who’ve dedicated their working lives to helping young people" AT SOMETHING CALLED A "GENDER CLINIC." "Somehow, because this is a gender clinic, the same questions that we would ask normally were not welcome."
Right. Because there is absolutely no use for anything called a "GENDER CLINIC" other than enabling young people to feel confused about their "GENDER."
"And he said, look, I’m not saying we shouldn’t use blockers. But they should be a last resort." Sorry, NO. Blockers should not be used PERIOD. What in the hell are they talking about, "time to think" about a necessary process of development. This is wrong, wrong, wrong. But what would anyone expect? It's A GENDER CLINIC. An entire operation devoted to GENDER.
"It said there was no agreement on what the purpose of the blocker was." Well, I can tell them. The purpose of the blocker is to screw up the body so that cross-sex hormones are the only alternative.
"....and the NHS is now closing GIDS, the Tavistock gender clinic. It was meant to be shut by now, but it’s going to be another year, they say. March 2024 is the latest they’ve given." Another year to do what? Talk to kids about their "GENDER"?
"It’s really strange that any scrutiny is seen as hateful when actually the reverse is true." Actually, it's not "strange" -- questioning anyone about their mythical "gender" has been promoted in the media as "HATE." So an entire generation of people is being encouraged to see opposition as "HATE."
"Absolutely trans people face real transphobia and bigotry." Transgender people are really just people who do not want to be what they ARE. Enabling this is NOT helpful. Period. There isn't a single medically altered "trans" person out there who passes. Not a single one. The whole thing is a FARCE.
"The judge of a civilized society is how we protect the most vulnerable. " Protecting the most vulnerable means never walking them through the door of a GENDER CLINIC. How these entities even came into being is one for the annals of history.
I think all “gender-affirming care” for minors and adults should be banned.
I know most people fall into the “you-do-you” camp when it comes to what grown people do with their bodies, but for what other mental illness do we insist on “affirming” the patient’s delusion?
It is not compassionate or ethical to pander to the mentally ill’s desires.
They need help coming to grips with reality, not “affirmation” trying to go against it.
Miriam Grossman, MD, Psychiatrist, is another warrior against “gender affirming care”. She doesn’t mince words about her outrage over what is being done to kids.
Hannah Barnes is a brilliant journalist-bravo for digging into this emotionally laden topic. BW-in keeping with The Free Press- thanks for keeping me well informed on so many topics that are poorly covered elsewhere. I read TFP first thing every morning. I think HB’s reporting has put into meaningful words what many have been sensing but have been unable to articulate well. I need to read her book.
Over thirty years ago, I remember reading about John’s Hopkins University which ran one of the largest Gender Programs anywhere. After a number of years, they concluded that ‘gender surgery’ did not ‘cure’ patients of gender dysphoria and even aggravated their condition. It disbanded the surgical unit and refocused on talk therapies. Why haven’t doctors and other medical professionals learned from their experience? Don’t they read medical journals? The only conclusion one can make is that there is money in these surgeries and woke ideology to inflame the issue. As Anti-Semetic Rep Ilhan Omar says, “it’s all about the Benjamins”.
Its great to see brave reporting on the medical scandal at Tavistock. Lets hope that we start seeing this same journalistic bravery focused on the COVID vaccines and the true number of adverse effects, injuries and deaths at some point.
The effects of these grotesque, mutilating surgeries on kids need full exposure to shock and wake people up.
If an 80 lb anorectic wanted gastric bypass surgery because she believed she was fat, would doctors do it? I used to think, Of course not! Now?
The science is damning. The entirety of gender affirming care is scientific codswallop. It is, arguably, fraud. Cherry picked data that elides death, wild misrepresentation of results, highly questionable measures, complete lack of controls, and inability to confirm results in follow-up studies.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2022.2121238
This "care" is a medical lie, wrapping a fantasy of sex reassignment in a word, "gender". It cannot be done. This is criminal medical malpractice.
I say this as a scientist who has tangled with prejudice against gay and trans identification, that I believe can have a biological basis in natural chimerism.
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/216874877_Dual-gender_macrochimeric_tissue_discordance_is_predicted_to_be_a_significant_cause_of_human_homosexuality_and_transgenderism&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjpg4CKxpCAAxUCM0QIHfmtBQkQFnoECAYQAg&usg=AOvVaw3jt1t7KE4hEvuTAOP-0wid
Towards the end of the interview, Bari said that she received feedback about "picking on trans people." It's not about individual trans people. No one really cares what adults do. The problem is that a toxic ideology has been embraced by institutions. Everything from the manipulation of language which is dehumanizing and confusing, to exposing this ideology to kids, to bullying anyone that doesn't agree, and even criminalizing parents for not "affirming" their child's leftist construct of gender, etc. The left is using the trans issue (along with other issues) to wage a cultural revolution that violates free choice, individualism and even freedom itself.