Two mothers are suing the NHS, calling for equal safeguards and assessment protocols across adult gender clinics and those for minors, in order to safeguard vulnerable individuals seeking transgender healthcare. The Telegraph has the story.
NHS England (NHSE) is putting trans teenagers at “unreasonable risk of irreversible harm”, the head of a gender clinic will warn in a legal battle over treatment.
Two mothers are suing the health service over concerns that as soon as a teenager turns 17, they can transfer to adult gender clinics and be fast-tracked to surgery and sex-change drugs.
This is despite a recent crackdown on treatment for under-18s, including a ban on puberty blockers and a guarantee of assessment of underlying mental-health conditions and neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism before treatment is given for gender issues.
The mothers, who both have “vulnerable” teenage daughters seeking sex-change surgery, are now taking the case to the High Court in an attempt to force NHSE to guarantee the same protections at adult clinics.
Dr. Karl Neff, a consultant endocrinologist and the head of Ireland’s National Gender Service, will warn the judge that the treatment currently offered to adults in England “will not fully meet their needs or offer them adequate protection and thereby will place them at unreasonable risk of irreversible harm”.
The judge will hear that in 2019, 17 year-olds made up 18% of referrals to adult gender services, the largest single group by age. Since then, NHSE has written to all those of that age who were on the Tavistock waiting list telling them that instead they will go straight to the adult clinic. …
Anna Castle, one of the mothers bringing the case, said that “something needs to be done about the lack of evidence-based and multi-disciplinary care and the fact that our children and vulnerable people are being sent on a one-way pathway without having any of their other conditions considered”.
Ms. Castle, whose daughter suffers with ADHD, has autistic traits and decided she was a boy during lockdown, said that sex-change surgery ”is the most extreme decision anyone could make about their body”.
“But it has the least amount of safeguarding and preliminary investigation into whether it is actually necessary and then there is no evidence as to whether it actually helps,” she added.
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“ they can transfer to adult gender clinics and be fast-tracked to surgery and sex-change drugs.”
Right there you see how the word “gender” is misused, meaningless, evil etc. If you can change your “gender” (whatever that is) then why would you need SEX change drugs and surgery? The sex change drugs and surgery are attempted sex change poisons/mutilation as you cannot change your sex.
Exactly!
And if Humans have ‘gender’ so must other animals and plants.
I have a vase of daffodils who identify as tulips – I don’t agree of course.
Am I a transfloraphobic.
The whole issue is the prattle of the lunatic asylum.
Early Christianity was reportedly about slaves and other poor people from the fringes of Roman society gathering in secret locations in order to worship God together without any proscribed form. Whoever felt struck by the spirit would just rave on about whatever came to his mind, sometimes in tongues, ie uttering entirely incomprehensible syllables. Educated Romans¹ doubtlessly regarded that as prattle of the lunatic asylum as well, and with quite some justification. Many religious teachings are pretty irrational but as long as the preachers cannot wield the power of the state to repress and harm others, that’s considered harmless an acceptable.
¹ Some Roman emperor whose name I’d need to look up reportedly once refused to prosecute people for blasphemy because “If the Gods have just cause for grief, they can surely avenge themselves.”
They aren’t even attempted sex changes in the same way pushing someone over a cliff is not an attempt to help him to fly (except once and strictly downward :->). Transhumanism is a pretty irrational and insane religion with some superficially scientific or medically looking trappings.
Yes, that’s a good analogy.
Dysphoria caused by disassociation from certain physical attributes of one’s body, which doesn’t correspond to one’s internal self-image – it’s not who I am, not what I identify as, is a well known psychiatric disorder.
For example: some believe they are a one legged person trapped in a two legged body and want their right or left leg amputated so they can be the person they identify as. Some are blind people trapped in a sighted body, so want to be chemically blinded or eyes removed so they can be ‘who they really are’.
This presents an ethical dilemma for the medical profession who in good conscience cannot agree to amputate healthy limbs, or blind people. The usual treatment is psychiatry.
My question is why does it stop being an ethical dilemma when it comes to surgical removal of healthy sex organs, and sex-specific body parts and chemical destruction of natural function, and cease to be a psychiatric matter?
People are generally free to mutilate themselves in whichever ways they want. That’s akin to them buying a whig and platform shoes to change their outward appearance, just more drastic. Provided they can pay for this and there’s a way to stop them from ever being treated as genuinely disabled (obviously including entitlement to disability benefit), let them do it. That would be the disability as luxury lifestyle accessoire angle.
Insofar such a desire is supposed to be a medical condition, it’s just a special case of self-harming and ought to be treated such. It doesn’t really matter which aspects of his physical existence someone seeks to do harm to.
Brilliant Wikipedia quote I just found:
Gender dysphoria is discomfort, unhappiness or distress due to the primary and secondary sex characteristics of one’s sex assigned at birth.
So, sex is assigned at birth and physical characteristics of the body then develop accordingly?
That’s really the issue in a nutshell: People who claim to believe in something constructed in this obviously nonsensical way are either liars (that would be the lobbyists and surgical professionals) or lunatics (their more-or-less voluntary victims) and have to be treated as such: Members of the first group by social stigmatization and prosecution. And members of the latter with whatever therapy can help them to live successful lives as socially functioning individuals in the real world.
I disagree with the whole non-binary nonsense but surely the better phrase is “observed at birth” rather than “assigned at birth.”
Sex is obviously observed at birth (or rather, usually even quite some time before birth). However, part of the trans-ideology is that it isn’t observed but assigned, to suggest some principally arbitrary and thus, possibly wrong human opinion statement about this. That’s why the Wikpedia article duly uses this wording. But states that a human body will then develop physical characteristics according to this supposed human assignment. This obviously contradicts itself: When the assigned sex is a mere statement of opinion by some human, the body cannot later develop according to this assignment. That the latter happens proves that the former claim must have been wrong and that sex was really observed and not assigned.
True, though I prefer to use the phrase “determined at conception”, for the avoidance of doubt. Determined by Fate or God or whatever you want to call it – no human control, observation or intervention.
The explosion in young people claiming to be the opposite sex seems to me to be similar to the explosion of anorexia in the ’70s/’80s.
It’s a psychiatric disorder; a means of exerting control when you feel powerless.
It’s no coincidence it has become so prevalent after 3 years of the Covid Tyrants locking them in their homes; wrecking their education and social lives; encouraging them to “live online;” jabbing them with experimental products and generally fcuking with their minds.