Transitioning Away From the Gender Cult
A look at doctors who are pushing back, other unaddressed underlying mental health iusues, and a reminder that it doesn't reduce the risk of suicide.
The Tranny news hasn’t exactly been positive in recent months. I know, how could it get worse than WPATH admitting the chemical and surgical interventions they advocate are dangerous and don’t reduce suicide (but make them lots of money)? Suicide is, after all, a foundational argument for messing with other people’s children.
That’s not a gimme to parents or other nonprofessionals who bought in; it’s just that the majority of kids these days find themselves in transgender grooming mills doing business as Public Schools (soon, ironically, to adopt another role as a mental institution) but none of you is innocent. From educators to therapists, to moms with Munchausen by Proxy, you are guilty of crimes against children, humankind, and God, and “I was just following orders” or “I didn’t know any better” won’t get you past the ‘afterlife’ palace guards (assuming you believe in such things).
I’ve covered the suicide lie, but given what is at stake, it can’t be stated often enough, and recent events have catapulted it back into play, at least from where I’m standing. Hundreds of doctors in the UK are leaving the British Medical Association (BMA) over its refusal to acknowledge the Cass Review. For those unfamiliar, it is the most comprehensive, long-term review of gender therapies, and it concludes they do nothing or more harm than good. In response, the NIH stopped the use of hormone therapies on children to transition them. But the BMA, a properly captured woke outfit, isn’t having it.
New Study Confirms that If You Leave Gender-Confused Kids Alone … They Grow Out of It
Puberty blockers are dangerous. Even WPATH admits they can lead to cancer, heart problems, and death. BMA has asked that the NIH lift the ban, to which more than one thousand British doctors have responded with … umbrage.
“By lobbying against the best evidence we have, the BMA is going against the principles of evidence-based medicine and against ethical practice,” the doctors wrote, in an almost unprecedented broadside against their own union in protest of the BMA’s brazen transgender activism.
Across the Pond, in America, Dr Steven Williams, the president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), “told NewsNation: ‘I don’t perform gender-affirming care in adolescents, and the reason why is because I don’t think the data supports it.
‘So at my practice, we don’t even entertain that.’
He’s got a lot of support: the Cass Review and the NIH, France, the Netherlands, the American College of Pediatricians, and even the Pope (who is woke). A tide of experts is questioning the entire enterprise (directed at children), which leads me to this snippet from an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience. The guest is Jordan Peterson, and while the two-hour interview is wide-ranging and excellent, this bit inspired me to revisit the topic today.
Peterson observes that, clinically, everyone knows but is afraid to admit it. That they are abetting the butchering and sterilizing of children for no good reason and no improved outcome.
“I am so appalled by my compatriots. They know that this gender dysphoria pathology is a lie. They all know it. And they won’t say anything. Now, partly they won’t say anything becasue the consequences for saying something are not trivial. But the consequences for not saying anything are that people like Chloe Cole end up with their breasts cut off when they are fifteen. Right. Well that actually matters.”
He goes on to note that professionals have to self-censor. They can’t say what they think because they will come under attack and likely lose their livelihood.
“And it’s really appalling for psychologists becasue all of the psychologists who are properly trained, they know that all of this is a lie. Not just a lie. A malevolent, vicious, and destructive lie. Everything about it’s a lie. …
No one who is educated as a psychologist believes that to be true (that untransitoned kids are more likely to commit suicide). No one. At a minimum, if you’re educated, what you understand is that underneath, gender dysphoria is something more substantial which is a proclivity toward depression and anxiety. If you are depressed and anxious, you have a higher risk of suicide.
Peterson goes on to cite what should be obvious to at least professionals. Girls going through puberty are body-focused, and most are unhappy with the state they are in. Any depression or anxiety is normal (not at all new socially or clinically), and as the Danish study linked above observed, if you leave them alone, they grow out of it—almost every one of them. Assuming you treat those few who experience depression and anxiety for depression and anxiety, none of them needs dangerous puberty blockers or irreversible surgery that will make them more suicidal, not less, becasue you didn’t treat the problem, and in all but a few very rare exceptions, you made it worse.
If the foundation of the gender cult is to reduce suicidal ideation, it fails on all fronts. It doesn’t do that. What it does is neuter kids to make therpaists, doctors, and hospitals wealthy. We can only hope that medical professionals continue to rise up and push back. That the cultural tide acknowledges that this is dangerous and wrong and the world stops mutilating kids in sacrifice to some woke social justice god.
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As regards adolescents especially, the AAP needs to demonstrate with measurable stats for decreased suicides-- and as you point out decrease in suicidal ideation-- to prove their claim that affirmation is suicide prevention. Instead, once again research is confirming suicide is increased following gender medicine. https://substack.com/@faithkuzma/p-148245735
Thought experiment: If we made people pay for what they use -- which would include surgeries, drugs, talk therapies, and so on -- what percentage of the things you're worried about would simply disappear?
That is, how much of this is directly related to the fact that anything pay for with taxes must necessarily become political in nature, to ultimately be controlled by the people who are best at playing and winning political games, who are necessarily the people whose behavior is constrained by the fewest principles?
If we stop paying for the game, they have to stop playing it. And if we keep paying for it, they win. It's really that simple.