Posted on 07/16/2023 8:09:35 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Citing insufficient research, European health bodies from Sweden to France are taking a more conservative approach to gender-affirming care for minors.
… Several countries, including traditionally more progressive nations like Sweden and Norway, are changing guidelines at least in part due to questions from some doctors about the risks of such procedures. The changes in Europe are occurring more often at the health care policy level initiated by medical professionals, rather than through new or adjusted laws pushed by legislators, and experts say they haven’t been politicized to the extent they have been in the U.S.
In recent years, at least a handful of European countries have gently tapped the breaks on gender-affirming care for minors.
In Finland, specialized adolescent psychiatric gender identity teams have been available for minors at two university hospitals since 2011 through the country’s adoption of the so-called “Dutch approach,” which in part holds that adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria “can be considered eligible for puberty suppression and subsequent cross-sex hormones when they reach the age of 16.” But after years of additional research, a public health body in Finland recommended that minors experiencing gender dysphoria first be provided with psychological support and, if further medical treatment is pursued, that the patient be made “aware of the risks associated with them.”
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Because Europe does not have the California generated novelty culture that is so prevalent here in North America and is a great deal responsible for so called gender identity and fluidity.
It’s not a conservative approach. It’s a sane logical one.
More color revolutions on the CIA’s “to do list” than it can handle.
Exactly.
Indeed.
That sounds more like it.
That ought to put a halt to this nonsense.
Wow. A part of the western world that is trying to protect children from being drugged and getting their sex organs mutilated. And it’s big news?! There was a time when protecting children from harm was universal.
What part of castration is gender-affirming? It’s like calling statutory rape age-affirming intercourse because the child feels all grown up.
It’s so pathetic that so many, almost entirely on the left, still maintain this provincial view that Europe is more enlightened. This after their track record of running their affairs for the last 110 years. Thus we’ve followed them right over the cliff on all sorts of bad ideas. We can only hope, with Europe’s pulling back from the worst of this madness, that our domestic simpletons will eventually follow suite
It’s not healthcare. It’s mutilation.
Well, that’s an objective headline!
“...gender-affirming care for minors.”
Also interesting how the eager the MSM is to use the left’s definitions.
“ Also interesting how the eager the MSM is to use the left’s definitions”
Interesting how?
And what is “the MSM”? The MSM is an instrumentality. It’s directed by people.
It’s not the instrument. It’s the player.
Duuuh, ya think? America is so very, very stupid and evil doing this to children who have no clue how they'll feel when their bodies and their brains mature.
Could sanity actually be making a comeback?
Interesting how?
I remember how we used to mock Правда & Изветия and how their readers had to both ‘read between the lines’ and take as much from what wasn’t there as what was. I just never thought I’d live to see the same thing in America.
There’s no such thing as “trans health care.” It’s in the same category as “reproductive health.”
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