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Transgender doctor lies to an audience of parents about medically transitioning kids - "puberty blockers are a completely reversible medication."
Flopping Aces ^ | 02-27-23 | Billboard Chris

Posted on 02/27/2023 11:33:22 AM PST by Starman417

Video obtained from a concerned parent reveals Dr. Holly Hoefgen -- of the Washington University transgender clinic in St. Louis, which is currently under investigation -- lying to an audience of parents about the practices followed when medically transitioning kids. (click photo for video)

This was an event organized for parents by local Parent Teacher Organization Equity Committees.

The Washington University transgender clinic is the subject of a recent bombshell whistleblower report by Jamie Reed.

It is now being investigated by Missouri’s Attorney General @AGAndrewBailey, and also by Senator @HawleyMO.

Read this for the truth of what’s going on.

Jamie Reed goes into even more detail in her affidavit filed with the Attorney General.

Here is the entire transcript, with some added commentary by me.

Moderator, asking a question from the audience: “Are hormone therapies reversible? Basically, I guess I'm just interested in knowing more about health outcomes.”

Dr. Hoefgen: “So the first thing that I would tell people when we're looking at this question is I think there is a little bit of bias built into this question as well.”

Right off the bat, the doctor is suggesting bigotry.

It couldn’t possibly be a more reasonable question: “Are hormone therapies reversible?”

They’re not, of course, which I’ll get into, but it’s standard trans activist practice to try to quell honest questioning by suggesting it’s all transphobia.

Doctor: “So just understand that we are not, like, going out into the world and, like, looking for kids to, like, make them trans, right?”

Moderator: “That's not what the politicians say.”

Well, doctor, you’re literally out in the world at this event organized by PTO Equity Committees, speaking to parents, selling them a lie that some of their kids are born in the wrong body.

Dr. Hoefgen: “Like, that's not a goal that is there, right? Our goal is to be here and available for people to give them the things that they need, right?”

“And there are protocols and there are steps for anything that has to do with medicine, right?”

“So I have a governing body to tell me, you know, what are the best things to do for patients who have abnormal bleeding or patients who have endometriosis, and we follow those steps.”

“And there are similar governing bodies and similar steps that we follow for gender care, right?”

“So if people come to us at a prepubertal age, right, patients who are younger, then that is really gonna have to do more with having them speak openly . . .”

“. . . having them talk with a mental health professional, letting them live as themselves, right, so letting them dress the way that they prefer to dress and talk the way that they prefer to talk and, you know, actually moving into something like medical management, right . . .”

“. . . requires them to have gone through an evaluation with the mental health professional, talk about their feelings and meet a certain criteria, right?”

“That is laid out and then at that point, we're talking to them and their parents very in depth about the risks and benefits of these treatments, right?”

“Many of the treatments that we do, especially when we're talking about younger patients, they actually are very reversible, right?”

“So the medicines that we use to halt puberty, right, so that a person is not going through a puberty that is going to be very averse to them, right? That is a completely reversible medication.”

Okay, so Dr. Hoefgen is halfway through her sales pitch about how there are protocols and steps in place, laid down by governing bodies.

She says there are therapists involved, and “very in depth” conversations about the risks and benefits.

She punctuates these points with the greatest and most common lie of all: that puberty blockers are “a completely reversible medication.”

Let’s contrast these lies with the truth, as attested to by Jamie Reed, who worked at that clinic for 4 years and was responsible for patient intake and oversight.

Here’s the truth: “I witnessed staff at the Center provide puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children without complete informed parental consent and without an appropriate or accurate assessment of the needs of the child.

“I witnessed children experience shocking injuries from the medication the Center prescribed. And I saw the Center make no attempt or effort to track adverse outcomes of patients after they left the Center.”

“The Center also claims that it is a multidisciplinary team approach. The benefit of that approach is supposed to be that patients and their parents can feel more confident that all aspects of their care options have been considered . . .”

“. . . and that their treatment plan has the input of all of the team. This Center did have members who would advocate for different options for the patients with concerning gender histories, concerning comorbidities, . . .”

“and attempt to raise the serious concerns regarding patient care. Patients and their parents, however, were never informed that the team did not have consensus on the treatment.”

“The staff members on the team that were not universally in support of immediate cross sex hormones were not supported and were told to stop questioning the prevailing narrative of immediate cross sex hormones for all by the prescribing physicians.”

“The administration at the university did not actively support the multidisciplinary model of care and did not provide any oversight, and instead the administration told those raising concerns and questions to stop raising them.”

“The public has been led to believe that a ‘team’ has considered their child’s care and that the ‘team’ had ruled it best for the cross sex hormones to be initiated, but the public was not told the truth.”

“Medical transition practice for children and adolescents is based on a study from the Netherlands. That study, the “Dutch study,” excluded participants who presented underlying mental health issues.”

“But nearly all children who came to the Center here presented with very serious mental health problems. Despite claiming to be a place where children could receive multidisciplinary care, the Center would not treat these mental health issues.”

“Instead, children were automatically given puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones even though the Dutch study excluded persons experiencing mental health issues.”

“Most children who come into the Center were assigned female at birth. Nearly all of them have serious comorbidities including, autism, ADHD, depression, anxiety, PTSD, trauma histories, OCD, and serious eating disorders.”

“Rather than treat these conditions, the doctors prescribe puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones.”

Some examples are included here:

“These serious comorbidities were not treated by the Center, and doctors would prescribe puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones while patients were struggling with these comorbidities.”

“Many patients had depression and anxiety symptoms before starting cross sex hormones but it was only after starting these medications that they became more severe and required starting mental health medications.”

(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...


TOPICS: Government; Politics; Science
KEYWORDS: medicine; puberty; pubertyblockers; transgender
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To: Starman417

Reversible puberty blockers. Let’s unpack just this.
What was the idea in developing these drugs? Are they created solely for the use of trannys or is there a legitimate use for them?
If you so desperately desired to change your gender to the point that as a prepubescent child, you were given these drugs, why would it matter if they were reversible? Do adults take these along with hormones when they are attempting to transition? Don’t most people think this is nonsense?


21 posted on 02/27/2023 1:26:11 PM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Starman417
In just a sliver of recent human history we have given women complete equality. This is how “they” are going to handle it??? By becoming the driving force in child mutilation? I notice in 2 of the meetings filmed women were a pronounced majority. In the other 2 or so they were parity. As mentioned before the very motivated and apparently most enthusiastic Doctors I’ve seen for mutating and chemically drugging children are women. I’m greatly disappointed even though I know it’s still a small minority of women overall. PS I was going to link the YouTube video of the beautiful young woman Doctor explaining all the Gender Reassignment procedures offered at a Vanderbilt CHILDREN'S hospital. But apparently it’s been scrubbed. Typical trans March, notice the sex of the flag bearers (6 of 8 women although I guess that’s a guess) FEF12-A7-D-D5-EB-4444-9-C9-A-61-E1-F8015-C36
22 posted on 02/27/2023 2:00:32 PM PST by Phoenix8
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To: HYPOCRACY
med schools spit out morons nowadays. Evil ones, at that.


23 posted on 02/27/2023 2:17:22 PM PST by Bobalu (Unrepentant communists, NAZI’s and totalitarians of all stripe are bowing toward Davos)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Countries in Europe are limiting trans-mutilation “care” kids and insisting kids get mental health evaluations first. I think 2 of the limiting countries are UK and Sweden. Finland and France have some limits. Those countries figure Biden’s our president, so they don’t expect us to make sensible moves right now.


24 posted on 02/27/2023 4:47:04 PM PST by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: butlerweave

Josef Mengele smiles from Hell.


25 posted on 02/27/2023 4:53:07 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: Seruzawa
See my post at #25. I thought we fought a war to put this kind of ideology in the ground?
26 posted on 02/27/2023 4:55:29 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: bk1000

I thought puberty blockers were originally used to treat prisoners to lower sexual urges. I tried to look it up, but can’t find original medical use.


27 posted on 02/27/2023 4:58:37 PM PST by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: Phoenix8

Men used to be 80-90% of transgenders, but now it is 50-70%.
Jamie Reed, the intake worker at St Louis trans-mutilation hospital, said she shared her concern at the recent high number of girl patients, but doctors didn’t care.


28 posted on 02/27/2023 5:03:42 PM PST by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: Phoenix8; NetAddicted

This article says number of girls being referred to Tavistock Center in UK is 70% of total, while 10 years ago, 75% of total were boys:
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/tavistock-transgender-transition-teenage-girls-female-to-male


29 posted on 02/27/2023 5:20:10 PM PST by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: NetAddicted

Dang I didn’t know it was swinging (no pun intended) THAT much.


30 posted on 02/27/2023 5:38:25 PM PST by Phoenix8
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