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‘Gender-Affirming Care Is Dangerous. I Know Because I Helped Pioneer It.’
The Free Press ^
| 10/30/23
| Riittakerttu Kaltiala
Posted on 10/31/2023 8:55:38 AM PDT by CFW
Dr. Riittakerttu Kaltiala, 58, is a Finnish-born and trained adolescent psychiatrist, the chief psychiatrist in the department of adolescent psychiatry at Finland’s Tampere University Hospital. She treats patients, teaches medical students, and conducts research in her field—publishing more than 230 scientific articles.
In 2011, Dr. Kaltiala was assigned a new responsibility. She was to oversee the establishment of a gender identity service for minors, making her among the first physicians in the world to head a clinic devoted to the treatment of gender-distressed young people. Since then, she has personally participated in the assessments of more than 500 such adolescents.
Earlier this year, The Free Press ran a whistleblower account by Jamie Reed, a former case manager at The Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. She recounted her growing alarm at the effects of treatments that sought to transition minors to the opposite sex, and her escalating conviction that patients were being harmed by their treatment.
Although a recent New York Times investigation largely corroborated Reed’s account, many activists and members of the media continue to dismiss Reed’s claims because she is not a physician.
Dr. Kaltiala is. And her concerns are likely to get more attention in the U.S. now that a young woman who medically transitioned as a teenager has just sued the doctors who supervised her treatment, along with the American Academy of Pediatrics. According to the suit, the AAP, in advocating for youth transition, has made “outright fraudulent statements” about evidence for “the radical new treatment model, and the known dangers and potential side effects of the medical interventions it advocates.”
Here, Dr. Kaltiala tells her own story, describing her increasing worries about the treatment she approved for vulnerable patients, and her decision to speak out.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefp.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: bigpharma; bigprofit; biology; childabuse; finland; malpractice; medicalmalfeasance; medicalmalpractice; mutilation; physicians; riittakerttukaltiala; sexcghangeoperations; sexchange; sexchanges; trans; transgiblets; xyxx
A some-what long article but well worth the read.
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posted on
10/31/2023 8:55:38 AM PDT
by
CFW
To: CFW
“Gender Affirming” — that when they explain to you that your gender is wrong, it’s a problem, and you can and should change your gender so that it’s no longer ruining your life. That’s the kind of Affirmation they offer.
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posted on
10/31/2023 8:57:07 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(They say "Our Democracy" but they mean Cosa Nostra.)
To: CFW
I knew others were making the same observations at their clinics, and I hoped my paper would spark discussion about their concerns—that's how medicine corrects itself. But our field, instead of acknowledging the problems we described, became more committed to expanding these treatments.
IOW, politics and woke ideology superseded the science.
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posted on
10/31/2023 9:11:11 AM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty)
To: CFW
Such “care” takes girls who are experiencing difficulty transitioning to womanhood, and young boys who are experiencing difficulty dealing with their homosexuality, and brutalizes them under the name of science and medicine.
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posted on
10/31/2023 9:12:46 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
To: Jeff Chandler
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posted on
10/31/2023 9:13:41 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
To: ClearCase_guy
There is this paragraph in her article:
“Around 2015, in addition to the very psychiatrically ill patients, a new set of patients started arriving at our clinic. We began to see groups of teenage girls, also usually from 15 to 17 years of age from the same small towns, or even the same schools, telling the same life stories and the same anecdotes about their childhoods, including their sudden realization that they were transgender—despite no prior history of dysphoria. We realized they were networking and exchanging information about how to talk to us. And so, we got our first experience of social contagion–linked gender dysphoria. This, too, was happening in pediatric gender clinics around the world, and again health providers were failing to speak up. “
Many here on FR have brought up the same issue. “Trans” is currently the “in” thing to be and if one in a social cliche decides they are changing genders, then suddenly all in the group makes the same discovery. The author also notes that it is often the mother pushing the treatment onto the child. Another thing we have often noted.
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posted on
10/31/2023 9:16:58 AM PDT
by
CFW
(I will not comply!)
To: CFW
when the mind and reality do not intersect
you treat the mind
you do not try to change reality
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posted on
10/31/2023 9:18:24 AM PDT
by
joshua c
(to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
To: CFW
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posted on
10/31/2023 9:32:48 AM PDT
by
GailA
(GMOs have a new name 'BIOENGINEERED' read labels. Constitutional Conservative.)
To: joshua c
when the mind and reality do not intersect
you treat the mind
you do not try to change reality
Thanks joshua c that sums it up nicely!!!
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posted on
10/31/2023 10:33:24 AM PDT
by
bboise
To: ClearCase_guy
Affirmation
Affirmation everywhere!
—Buzz LIghtyear
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posted on
10/31/2023 12:09:47 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: ClearCase_guy
Responses showed significant emotional distress, dramatic loss of trust in Church leaders,
and a dramatic decline in Church Activity as a result of the policy.
Individual stories help us to understand where and how different LGBT Mormons find hope,
and why discussion about the Church can be so polarizing.
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posted on
10/31/2023 12:11:08 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: CFW
Riittakerttu Kaltiala Oy vey!
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posted on
10/31/2023 1:11:25 PM PDT
by
tomkat
To: CFW
Obamanation was first president to create laws in favor of mentally ill cross dressers, via executive orders. But, no, Big Mike ain’t a crossdresser. /s
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