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IT worker, 23, who was given puberty-blocking drugs aged 16 is suing NHS gender clinic the Tavistock Centre to stop it from 'rushing' other teenagers into changing sex
Daily Mail ^ | 12-2-2020 | Mark Duell

Posted on 12/02/2020 8:31:07 AM PST by HogsBreath

An IT engineer put on puberty blockers as a 16-year-old girl has claimed a gender clinic failed to carry out a proper psychiatric assessment before giving them to her.

Keira Bell, 23, of Manchester, who is taking legal action against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in London, suffered from gender dysphoria as a child.

She took testosterone, which left her with a deep voice and possibly infertile, and had a double mastectomy - but later realized she had 'gone down the wrong path'.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Education; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: gender; transgender
To you or I this may seem like common sense, but in the fervently 'pro-trans' media world, this is an incredibly brave article.
1 posted on 12/02/2020 8:31:07 AM PST by HogsBreath
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To: Drew68

For your interest.


2 posted on 12/02/2020 8:33:11 AM PST by KC_Lion
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To: HogsBreath

She won the case. It’s become pretty much impossible to prescribe “puberty blockers” to under 16’s and very difficult even at 16 or 17 in England.


3 posted on 12/02/2020 8:34:40 AM PST by Tea Party Terrorist (If you watch porn you support human trafficking.)
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To: HogsBreath
‘I don't think that changing your body is going to help a psychological condition - that doesn't make sense to me.

I completely agree, but a part of me wants to suggest this could come to her because she took testosterone for so long...

4 posted on 12/02/2020 8:40:44 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: HogsBreath

Couldn’t see this one coming could we?


5 posted on 12/02/2020 9:02:07 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: HogsBreath

There is a good reason why these hapless souls have a sky high suicide rate. Like 30% or so. Absolutely unethical and by any reasonable standard criminal negligence by the monsters at Tavistock. And oh yes it goes on here too, at the once respectable Johns Hopkins , where it once was proscribed but has been resumed due to political pressure.


6 posted on 12/02/2020 9:16:22 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: HogsBreath

I’m curious as to what she or her medical advisors thought was evidence that she was transgender. Did she want to play boy’s sports or some other activity usually thought of as being restricted to men and boys? Did she feel more comfortable in pants or clothing that is considered masculine? Was she interested in hobbies or careers that few women pursue? Or conversely, was she disinterested or even repelled by traditionally feminine attributes, pursuits and interests? If so, why couldn’t she just continue in her path of being “gender non-conforming” without having had any medical treatment?

Girls being conflicted between traditional womanly roles and more manly roles is nothing new, and can be seen in the writing of famous women authors like Louisa May Alcott and Laura Ingalls Wilder, with the sister pairs Jo/Meg and Laura/Mary representing the two sides.


7 posted on 12/02/2020 9:16:31 AM PST by Burkean (. )
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To: metmom

Oh no, consideration about deleterious sequelae of actions is considered “repressive”. Another victim of a “no objective reality” mind set.


8 posted on 12/02/2020 9:41:05 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Getready
Another victim of a “no objective reality” mind set.

Collateral damage in the war to destroy the family by obliterating the nature of human gender and sexuality.

9 posted on 12/02/2020 9:48:03 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: HogsBreath
Some good news, this house of horrors has been shut down as of July.
10 posted on 08/17/2022 2:58:59 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (If a liar's pants really did catch on fire CBC, ABC, CNN and MSNBC would be more fun to watch)
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To: Burkean

In the 80s, the body dysphoria of the day was anorexia.

Took out Karen Carpenter.

What ever happened to anorexia? Faded with all the promotional materials, er “awareness” campaigns.

Wasn’t destructive or profitable enough, apparently.


11 posted on 08/17/2022 3:14:29 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️𓊹 𓌃 "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️)
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