Posted on 06/30/2021 6:23:21 PM PDT by karpov
Single mom Bri was visiting the pediatrician’s office with her 15-year-old, a child struggling with anxiety, when the doctor said: “If you don’t affirm your daughter’s gender identity, or get her the help she needs, and she kills herself, you’re going to feel awfully guilty.”
Bri, who asked The Post to publish only her nickname for fear of being branded a bigot and doxxed by transgender-rights activists, was horrified — not only by the insinuation her teen would commit suicide if she didn’t transition, but also the fact that the general practitioner issued the warning in front of them both.
Activists are increasingly pushing for laws that allow children to make their own decisions to transition without parental approval, insisting that going through puberty is traumatic for those who feel misgendered.
But some experts now question the threat that they say is commonly used by medical professionals. They believe many doctors are so scared of the label “transphobe” that they automatically present skeptical parents with a doomsday scenario: “Would you rather have a dead son or a living daughter?” or vice versa.
Critics of the blunt proposition include pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Paul Hruz, of the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis. He told The Post: “In these circumstances, I would advise parents to ask, ‘On what evidence are you making this claim?'”
His concerns focus on the widely accepted belief that sex-reassignment treatment prevents emotionally damaged kids from ending their lives. He questions the theory, pointing out that its supporting studies are variously limited or skewed. According to the physician, fundamental problems with the research include large numbers of self-selected subjects, a lack of control groups and inadequate reviews by peers.
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What in the hell is wrong with these “doctors”?
They’re not room temperature
The Devil has multiple genders.
The moment we started referring to baby butcher shops as “clinics” is the moment we lost any sense of what medical treatment is.
My stepdaughter and her friend were already labeled in school as Oreos (one black one white) but the kept their “straightness” a secret because they would be made fun of if they weren’t LGBTQILSD.
What in the hell is wrong with these “doctors”?
Are these the same bad doctors pushing for mass vaccination of their pediatric patients without any real science telling them to push for vaccination?
There are certainly many wonderful doctors with great integrity and decency. But at the same time, some of the worst people I’ve ever met in life are doctors — psychopaths totally lacking in empathy or respect for human life. Maybe it’s the sort of atheistic worship of “science” that reigns supreme within the higher-end academia circles in which were trained? I don’t know. But it’s no surprise to me that so many doctors were willing and enthusiastic participants in the Third Reich’s experiments. I suspect that Josef Mengele isn’t all that outside the norm as far as doctors go, and many of our own docs would behave similarly under the same set of circumstances.
Get a new doctor asap! That one is internalizing too much.
Making such statements about suicide in the patient’s presence is extremely unprofessional and inappropriate!
What in the hell is wrong with these “doctors”?
True.
Single mom Bri was visiting the pediatrician’s office with her 15-year-old, a child struggling with anxiety, when the doctor said: “If you don’t affirm your daughter’s gender identity, or get her the help she needs, and she kills herself, you’re going to feel awfully guilty.”
That doctor needs to be punched right in the nose!
Probably freaks themselves .... not doctors but practicing freaks.
Quacks all I’m sure.
They sure are very bold these days.
There is no longer any regret felt for never having had a child. It just wasn’t meant.
Amazing how prophetic Monty Python was all those years ago.
as in the days of Noah
It’s getting to the point where not homeschooling is basically child abuse.
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