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Carrie C's avatar

Why such silence from a readership that freely comments is every other subject? Are we all afraid we will lose our jobs or our colleagues will shame us or our professional associations will censure and condemn us if we post something? Or have we simply not thought about it?

Where are the studies and evidence proving benefit of hormone therapy and surgical alteration in juveniles that we demand for performing other life-altering surgical procedures?

There is evidence even in the veterinary literature that sterilization can and does have health impacts in dogs.(1) Are our children less worthy of study than our dogs?

It only makes sense that there are significant health impacts when hormonal and surgical ‘therapy’ is used on a biological being, whether it is a human or other mammal. Why are we not demanding evidence for these procedures?

If the readership supports these practices in humans whose brains are immature and incapable of making life-altering choices, please defend that benefit outweighs risk of harm.

From what I see right now, the main benefit seems to be making adults feel better because they believe they are “helping” troubled youth.

(1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6070019/

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Jodie Willett's avatar

Excellent point about the transition from patient to customer. While doctors shoulder much of the blame for this, I understand their motive. Greed is common and can even benefit society when channelled appropriately. But I think the parents of these children get of lightly when it comes to blame. And no, believing the empty suicide threats from the trans lobby does not absolve you of guilt. I just do not understand what allows a parent to agree to this aside from a severe sort of mental illness.

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