Posted on 10/11/2022 6:54:03 AM PDT by Morgana
A group of formerly transgender young adults wrote Attorney General Merrick Garland to counter top American medical institutions who aim to silence critics of radical transgender procedures carried out on minors.
The letter from seven so-called “detransitioners” followed one sent Monday by the American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, and Children’s Hospital Association that urged the Department of Justice to “investigate and prosecute all organizations, individuals, and entities” that they claimed were “coordinating” and “provoking” outrage in response to those providing the controversial gender-related treatments.
“The recent letter by these groups calling on the DOJ to put pressure on social media companies to censor who they portray as ‘high-profile users on social media’ sharing ‘false and misleading information’ is nothing more than an attempt to silence the reasonable voices of concerned critics calling for a more cautious approach to experimental medical practices impacting vulnerable children,” read the letter, signed by a group led by activist detransitioner Chloe Cole.
Cole was joined in the letter by Helena Kerschner, Cat Cattison, Sinéad Watson, Grace Lidinsky-Smith, Prisha Mosley and a detransitioned male who goes by Ritchie.
They asked Garland to consider their perspectives as former transgender minors and young adults who were negatively affected by the puberty blocking drugs, cross-sex hormones and surgeries they received. They noted that they were young and confused when they transitioned under the guidance of medical “experts” who prescribed irreversible hormone treatments and surgeries.
“Many of us had extensive histories of mental illness,” the letter stated. “Many of us had experienced significant childhood trauma. But all of this was ignored because we uttered the word ‘gender.’”
Side effects of puberty blocking drugs prescribed to children include a diminished bone density, neurological and psychiatric problems and stunted genital development. When combined with cross-sex hormones, which also have permanent side effects, they can cause sterility and irreversibly damaged sexual function. As part of the “gender affirming” model of care, puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones may be prescribed at the first signs of puberty, according to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). For girls, that is as young as age 9, and for boys 11.
Even more damaging for those who later detransition are surgeries, include breast amputations, or “top surgeries” and genital surgeries. A recent investigation by Reuters found that between 2019 and 2021, there were at least 776 double mastectomies performed on children between the ages of 13 and 17 in the U.S. Genital surgeries are becoming increasingly common as well for trans-identified minors. Reuters counted 56 genital surgeries on youth aged 13 to 17 during that three year period.
The medical associations that wrote Garland are strong proponents the “gender affirmation” model of care, which prevents caregivers from questioning a child’s self-reported transgender identity or exploring other factors that may be causing their dysphoria. They claimed that criticism of the controversial treatment can lead to threats and violence against medical professionals.
“We condemn all violence, threats of violence, and intimidation directed at physicians and hospital staff without caveat, and anyone who engages in such behavior should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Cole’s group said. “But we also cannot ignore the harms being carried out against countless children in the name of ‘gender affirmation’ that constitute much more than mere threats—we bear the literal scars of this medical violence.”
“Children deserve the best evidence-based medical care available. Silencing the victims and critics of ‘gender affirming’ practices is not a pathway to truth and justice, but to ignorance and harm,” the letter ended.
Several of the signatories also formed a support network called Detrans United, the first advocacy group of its kind “created by detransitioners, for detransitioners.” According to the website, their goals include helping to “connect detransitioners with each other, mental health professionals, medical malpractice lawyers, and others who can provide support.”
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With a 42% suicide rate I’m convinced this is just another way to kill of the population and win more souls to the devil.
I believe evil kills off people “en masse” for that very reason-—stealing souls!
The government used to have to pay to get the mentally ill to sterilize themselves. Now they do it on their own dime.
“The government used to have to pay to get the mentally ill to sterilize themselves. Now they do it on their own dime.”
Not only that but the government had to force the mentally ill to be sterilized, now they do it willingly even beg to be sterilized.
I hope the transition pushing entities are sued into oblivion someday soon. Cutting up perfectly normal, healthy tissue to cater to a mental illness is medical malpractice. Do these “doctors” perform liposuction on anorexics to help them lose weight?
I’m anticipating the day other mental cases will have us doing even more bizare pretending. Like when some dude imagines he’s an airplane or something.
Think about it...you see something coming down the street with a propeller surgically grafted to its head, and a rudder sticking out its butt. The media will shame us into pretending “Oh well, haven’t you seen an airplane before?, It’s just an airplane”.
Go along with this sick stuff now. Just wait until it reaches other levels of crazy.
A boy can never become a girl and a girl can never become a boy. they can only act like the opposing sex. All of these “doctors” belong in PRISON where they should be forcibly transitioned and left to ROT
No one can transition to the other sex. People do declare that they “feel” that they are the other sex. This is known as a delusion.
There is a whole industry based on the promotion of the delusion. Doctors, hospitals, clinics, shrinks are raking in the money by maiming vulnerable young people.
Government is supposed to protect the people. (Excuse me while I laugh). Instead government has leaped on the bandwagon and is punishing anyone who speaks badly about the abuse.
With the bonus of friends and family who love the victims being afraid to not support their delusions, which turns into societal acceptance of evil in the name of love and more souls turning away from God.
We are engaged in a spiritual battle against evil. I see transgenderism as a doubling down by evil. Homosexuality is a sin, but transgenderism is worse in the sense that a transgender female is a mutilated male. Any male who has sex with the fake woman is really engaging in homosexuality.
There is some speculation that transgenderism is a mental disorder in some people who are suffering from same sex attractions, as though it absolves them of homosexual sin if they really aren’t their biological sex. If a female can claim to have a male brain, for example, then she can act on same sex temptation and claim it isn’t lesbianism.
Temptation itself isn’t sinful, and homosexuals can’t help it if they are attracted to other males. Acting on those temptations is sin and should be resisted This is the exact opposite of what the so called mental health professionals teach these days. Nowadays, acting on your sexual temptations is called freedom, being yourself. The Bible calls it being a slave to your sin nature.
Exactly right. If you don’t affirm, they say, you will force your child to commit suicide. Sick!
There are enough detransitioned people to foment a class-action suit (now!), with many, many defendants. That alone will put a near-stop to this, when the insurance companies lose a multi-billion dollar suit.
Said suit should fund detransition clinics and put mandated detransition counselors in every public school.
If anyone needs proof about just how lucrative mutilating children is all they need is to read who objects to any opposition to such mutilation being raised and listened to. Follow the $$$$.
This also shows that the professional organizations which are responsible for deciding the education, certification, approval, and discipline of members of those professions are totally enthralled by the evil of this age.
And adult children who grew up with gay parents testified before Congress and wrote an amicus brief to the Supreme Court before SCOTUS legalized gay marriage; a heck of a lot of good that did.
OMG! This sounds like something Demonicrats would approve.
G-d has already declared dressing as the opposite sex is a sin: Deuteronomy 22:5. I’m astounded that this is something He had to declare a sin
I think Sweden, Finland and France have already deemed mental therapy as necessary to dress as the other sex.
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