Posted on 05/24/2021 10:01:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
One thing that has always haunted the transgender trend is the regret that many feel after they’ve had transitional surgeries or hormone treatments done to them. Mainstream media sources were more or less terrified of discussing it, and even universities were afraid of looking into it out of fear of backlash from the LGBT community.
All the way back in 2018, I wrote how Bath Spa University originally approved psychotherapist James Caspian’s request for de-transitioning research after thousands who underwent some form of transition surgery began showing up to surgeons for reversals. Surgeons noticed that those who came in to receive their de-transition surgeries were younger and younger, going from 45 to 21 years of age.
The problem has gotten large enough that there was a “#DeTransAwarenessDay” on Twitter that featured stories of regret and warning from those who went through irreversible surgeries and are plagued by decisions they can’t take back.
While the LGBT activist community wasn’t allowing for this talk to even happen, the problem has now grown so large that it’s become unignorable. In fact, it’s become so loud that even 60 Minutes ran a segment on it.
Within the segment, you’re given an interesting look into how quickly transition surgeries happen. Reports that people feeling a sense of gender dysphoria, stemming from depression, aren’t really looked into by doctors or therapists. They’re simply asked to sign a consent form, and then treatment begins.
A woman named Grace Ledinsky-Smith tells this very story and notes it was only four months into her testosterone treatment that she was approved for a mastectomy. She claims the process was traumatic and soon after began de-transitioning. All of this happened over the course of one year.
An individual named “Garrett” had a similar story to tell with his resulting in the removal of his testicles after only three months on therapy.
“I went for two appointments and after the second one I had, like, my letter to go get on cross-sex hormones,” he said.
“I had never really been suicidal before until I had my breast augmentation,” Garrett added. “And about a week afterwards I wanted to, like, actually kill myself. Like, I had a plan and I was gonna do it, but I just kept thinking about, like, my family to stop myself. It kind of felt like how am I ever going to feel normal again, like other guys now?”
Now, Doctors are beginning to speak out like Dr. Laura Edwards-Leeper, who exposes the fact that the medical community is afraid to speak out on the topic.
“I feel like what is happening is unethical and irresponsible in some places,” said Edwards-Leeper. “Everyone is very scared to speak up because we’re afraid of not being seen as being affirming or being supportive of these young people or doing something to hurt the trans community. But even some of the providers are trans themselves and share these concerns.”
60 Minutes highlights transgender people who have decided to de-transition and I’m sure it won’t be seen as controversial in the least. pic.twitter.com/vetbQFe3Oo
— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) May 24, 2021
This matches up with other stories that have come out recently. One Planned Parenthood insider revealed that the abortion giant has begun shifting toward transition therapy and that they’re pushing it on teen girls. As I wrote in February, teen girls would come into the clinic for hormone surgery in the same way they’d go to the mall to get an ear piercing. Hardly any questions were asked, and those that were were somewhat leading:
The “health assistant” told Shrier that each day, teen girls would come to the clinic, sometimes with a parent or with groups of girlfriends all claiming that they have the trendy new mental illness of “gender dysphoria.”
“I think they were telling what they perceived to be their authentic history to them at the time. Like, I was a 13-year-old girl, you know. Everything is very dire, everything needs to be remedied immediately,” she said.
The woman was presented with a script to read to the kids, but it didn’t put too much emphasis on the patient’s history of evaluation.
“The questions that we asked were like, very closed-ended…It would be, ‘you know, at what age did this start’? Boom — that is it. ‘What kinds of dysphoria do you feel’? Boom — that’s it, you know? ‘What do you want out of your transition’? ‘Do you want top surgery?’ ‘Do you want bottom surgery’?”
Often the pattern held that these girls who came in for transition drugs were all suffering from some form of high anxiety or depression. Some came in with self-abuse scars on their arms, but Planned Parenthood staff were instructed not to address them at all.
This means that places like Planned Parenthood, and likely activists in the medical and psychological fields, are preying on depressed or anxiety-ridden people in order to push these therapies and surgeries on them, likely for profit.
Regardless, the reality is catching up with many who transitioned and the transgender fad is proving to be far more dangerous than too many in the medical industry are willing to say. The time is coming, however, and stories are rising to the forefront of society. The dangers of transitioning are becoming hard to ignore as more stories come out. The question is, will mainstream society drop the fad and embrace reality?
(Editor’s Note: This piece was edited post-publication to correctly reflect the name of the woman interviewed in the “60 Minutes” piece.)
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>>Now, Doctors are beginning to speak out like Dr. Laura Edwards-Leeper, who exposes the fact that the medical community is afraid to speak out on the topic.
Too much of the medical community don’t HEAL their patients, they milk their clients for unnecessary procedures and milk them along for routine visits and followup shots.
Not surprised
More health care costs for evil white people to pay for?
Spay and Neuter has consequences
It would be a major “doh!” moment after undergoing all those mutilating surgeries and changing one’s mind when there’s no real way to “go back”. Yikes.
They just need a new slogan.
“Be all that you were never meant to be”.
“Be true to your desires, no matter what science says or reality appears.”
“Don’t project your science on me.”
Any professional suppressing truth and/or cause for caution should lose his or her license.
Besides isn’t transgender regret pretty much against the law like gender dysphobia reversal treatments?
Yes, I regret ever hearing about the phenomenon.
0.01% of the population give a damn about this twisted disease and yet it’s constantly in the news and on blogs like this.
Another excellent article:
Former Johns Hopkins head psychiatrist: ‘transgender surgery isn’t the solution’
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/former-johns-hopkins-head-psychiatrist-transgender-surgery-isnt-the-solutio
From link:
In a June 12 Wall Street Journal op-ed, Dr. Paul McHugh wrote that “policy makers and the media are doing no favors either to the public or the transgendered” by not treating transgender “confusions ... as a mental disorder that deserves understanding, treatment and prevention.”
Dr. Paul McHugh says the best way to help children struggling with their gender is not surgery but “devoted parenting.”
According to McHugh, the “sense of being transgendered constitutes a mental disorder in two respects.” The first, he says, is that “it does not correspond with physical reality.” The second, more importantly, is that not treating transgender disorder properly “can lead to grim psychological outcomes.”
In his op-ed, McHugh cited a 2011 study that followed “324 sex-reassigned persons” from 1973 to 2003 in Sweden. According to the study’s abstract, it found that “persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population.”
“Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group,” the authors wrote.
The study, McHugh wrote in his op-ed, found that “beginning about 10 years after having the surgery, the transgendered began to experience increasing mental difficulties. Most shockingly, their suicide mortality rose almost 20-fold above the comparable nontransgender population.”
McHugh says that Johns Hopkins “launched a study in the 1970s comparing the outcomes of transgendered people who had the surgery with the outcomes of those who did not.”
“Most of the surgically treated patients described themselves as ‘satisfied’ by the results, but their subsequent psycho-social adjustments were no better than those who didn’t have the surgery,” he explained.
Thus, says McHugh, “we stopped doing sex-reassignment surgery, since producing a ‘satisfied’ but still troubled patient seemed an inadequate reason for surgically amputating normal organs.”
McHugh, who is also known as a prominent Catholic who served on President George W. Bush’s Presidential Council on Bioethics, has written about the Johns Hopkins study before. In a 2004 piece for First Things, he concluded that medical and psychological professionals “have wasted scientific and technical resources and damaged our professional credibility by collaborating with madness rather than trying to study, cure, and ultimately prevent it.”
Once again we see medical experimentation writ large. What is it with medical doctors? Why do so many engage in atrocities so cavalierly?
Agreed. But way too often the problem is the license board puts pressure on the professionals to toe the woketard line or risk losing their license.
I have an anecdotal sample of exactly one. A former student started wearing dresses, etc. He wasn’t a handsome guy, and looked absurd posing as a woman.
A colleague has kept in touch with him. He apparently underwent the surgery required for him to maintain the illusion. She reports that he is now extremely depressed, no doubt because no matter what has been removed/added/modified he still isn’t a woman and of course never will be.
Anecdotally my experience is that the rate of regret is 100%. I only know of one person (through my son) that has done this. According to my son, his friend now regrets having done it.
What’s the suicide rate for transgenders?
So then it might be a mental issue? And what kind of medical screening process allows someone to modify their body when there might be due to an underlying mental problem. The credentialed doctors who approve of surgery and hormone treatment should be brought up on charges. Or at least, their licenses revoked.
Some comments about Bruce Jenner in this one.
Transgenderism: A Pathogenic Meme
June 10, 2015 By Paul McHugh
The idea that one’s sex is a feeling, not a fact, has permeated our culture and is leaving casualties in its wake. Gender dysphoria should be treated with psychotherapy, not surgery.
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/06/15145/
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