Posted on 04/11/2024 8:25:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The publication this week of the Cass Review into gender-identity services for young people marks a welcome return to reason in an area of medicine which for the past few years has been driven by identity politics. No one is denying that there are those who deserve psychological — and in some cases physical — help to cope with their condition. But the explosion in the number of children treated on Britain’s National Health Service for gender-identity issues (and in many cases being given powerful drugs with severe side effects) should have set alarm bells.
Medical professionals should have been alerted to what looked increasingly like a classic case of mass mania. But far from questioning the dramatic changes, GIDS plowed on, offering powerful, often dangerous, drugs to vulnerable children.
The clinic adopted what became known as the “Dutch protocol,” derived from a single case of a child in the Netherlands administered puberty blockers in the late 1990s. From 2014, puberty blockers became routinely prescribed by GIDS in spite of a lack of research data on the benefits to the children themselves. When the data did begin to dribble through, it was not favorable.
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More like “Mass Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.”
In the woke UK? Nope... they have national health care. Tranny surgery is very expensive. This young generation is very into it.
The Brits don’t wanna pay. Simple as that. I haven’t seen any sudden outbreak of common sense or morality in England.
This is about the money and nothing else.
It would be nice for a change.
Easier to parrot the leftie lunacy than to risk your career by embracing common sense.
Excellent point.
“Medical professionals” should have seen what this way from day one and nipped it in the bud.
I think it would be difficult to argue against your assessment.
I hope I’m wrong. But I’m the suspicious type.
Blessed is the pessimist, for he will never be disappointed.
I lurked for a couple years before i signed up here, so I’ve been on FR for more than 25 years at this point. “Follow the money” has almost always worked.
Bfl
all forms of child genital mutilation should be banned internationally.
Britain’s real puberty blockers are the muslims who have taken control of the gov’t.
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