Posted on 09/12/2023 2:52:00 AM PDT by Morgana
The transgender clinic in Missouri that came under investigation for allegedly harming up to 600 children after they took irreversible hormone drugs and underwent gender-transitioning surgeries, announced an end to the practice following the introduction of a new state law.
The spotlight fell on Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital earlier this year after a whistleblower came forward and claimed how parents were bullied into allowing their kids to be prescribed hormone drugs.
The Center 'will no longer prescribe puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to minors for purposes of gender transition,' the university announced on Monday.
A new state law bars hormone therapy for minors under 18.
In February, the whistleblower claimed doctors would routinely dish out hormone drugs to kids with little screening of their mental health issues.
Jamie Reed, a former employee, told The Free Press the clinic administered a litany of irreparable treatments to minors, often times without parental consent.
Reed claimed doctors would ask questions like 'do you want a dead daughter or an alive son?' to 'bully' children's parents into going ahead with gender transitions - under the pretense that not doing so would make them suicidal.
The whistleblower said working at the center, which medically transitioned 600 children within two years, was: 'Like I was in a cult, and I had to de-program my way out of it.'
Reed, said its practices were 'morally and medically appalling' and were 'permanently harming' children by failing to take into account 'red flag' mental health concerns.
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The problem making anything legal is it gets marketed. So, for example, if suicide, was made legal you would soon see slick advertising and incentive programs to use the latest, trendy, pleasant suicide machine. When marihuana is legal, you’ll need to try all fifteen flavors from Acme. Also, legality removes all moral constraints. “What’s your problem? It’s legal!”
600 kids?
Who is paying for this and how is it being funded?
Hormone treatment is like $2000 per year min and reassignment surgery is in the $100K range to even start
Agree and disagree.
Many folks know the difference between morals and ethics.
Ethics is merely following corporate/agency policies, the law, and social norms.
Morals is following a religious doctrine that defines right and wrong outside of what people say it is. Abortion is legal, but it’s still morally wrong. Homosexuality is legal, but it’s still morally wrong...
Furthermore, the idea that something is “marketed” should not be foreign or negatively stigmatized if you believe in a free market. You’re right, today we have a lot more and a return of good beer post prohibition.
The real problem is that in a society as ours, where morals are lost and a Constitution is meaningless, where you have flagrant inconsistencies and double standards, things start going sideways.
The laws and government policies reflect the values of society. And when society gets stupid and weird...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer concluded, while he sat in jail waiting for the Nazis to hang him, that the problem with the world is not pervasive evil, but pervasive stupidity. The Dunning-Kruger effect is real. This should be taught in every university where the phenomenon runs rampant.
Usually trans hormones come from Planned Parenthood clinics. Which means taxpayer funding.
State funded sterilization of 600 Children.
The GOP needs to call it what it is.
Josef Mengele is now alive and well.
I had to check that up myself. THX, learned something today.
But I have an excuse, and now I’m dating myself. That study came out 5 years after I graduated from college.
I would add that IMHO, while this idea addresses individuals it’s true collectively as well, maybe ever more. Think Covid, J6, or now Ukraine. Most people didn’t even know where Ukraine is on a geo-political map, but by the second day of the Russian invasion, they were all experts and collectively you saw a narrative develop (which was being pushed) which is extremely shallow and almost entirely emotionally based. Covid, J6, same thing.
Prison for all involved
How many innocent children have they sterilized so far ?
Not enough. The people who prescribed the drugs and all those who supported such a crime need to be hanged.
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