It seems that the current mode of thinking is that medical science can create a better mousetrap in the form of a what has throughout history been described as man and woman. The better “man” may have major pitfalls, drawbacks and dangers those who are receiving the paychecks overlook. Photo courtesy Unsplash/Arthur Lambillotte.
“No child is born in the wrong body, their bodies are just fine; it’s their emotional lives that need healing.” — Miriam Grossman
“No Evidence that Transgender Interventions are Safe for Children”—American College of Pediatricians
“Transgender Interventions Harm Children!”—American College of Pediatricians
The world seems to have gone insane with all the brouhaha concerning the transgender movement. What most people don’t know or understand is that the transgender movement is about evil and greedy men profiting off of transgendering children and anyone foolish enough to believe them.
The American College of Pediatricians (ACP) has concluded after much study that “There is not a single long-term study to demonstrate the safety or efficacy of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for transgender-believing youth.” They further concluded that “youth transition is experimental…”
What does this mean? It means that “parents cannot provide informed consent, nor can minors provide assent for these interventions.” The ACP says that the traumatic downside to this is that long term evidence among adults shows that “medical intervention fails to reduce suicide.”
The ACP says that “Puberty blockers may actually cause depression and other emotional disturbances related to suicide.” In drug company medication inserts such as the package insert for Lupron, the number one prescribed puberty blocker in America, it lists “emotional instability” as a side effect and warns prescribers of the dangers, such as, “Monitor for development or worsening of psychiatric symptoms during treatment.”
In a similar discussion with experimental puberty blockers in the U.K., the ACP quoted Oxford University Professor Michael Biggs, “There was no statistically significant difference in psychosocial functioning between the group given blockers and the group given only psychological support.” In the ACP article Biggs added that there is “unpublished evidence that after a year on [puberty blockers] children reported greater self-harm, and the girls also experienced more behavioral and emotional problems and expressed greater dissatisfaction with their body…” Biggs concluded that the puberty blockers “exacerbated gender dysphoria.”
In the final analysis the ACP concluded that even the temporary use of Lupron has not only been associated with severe side effects but may be the “cause of many serious permanent side effects including osteoporosis, mood disorders, seizures, cognitive impairment and, when combined with cross-sex hormones, sterility.” A former nurse describes the effects of Lupron.
In the contemporary culture we live in we see women and men loading up on hormones that are contrary to their own bodies in daily living. The trans culture sees “Women who identify as men are given enough testosterone to raise their levels 10-40 times above the female reference range.”
Past studies have documented multiple psychiatric problems with similar high doses of anabolic steroids like testosterone such that 23% of subjects met DSM criteria for a major mood syndrome such as mania, hypomania, and major depression, and 3.4-12% developed psychotic symptoms. Estrogen also impacts mood in complex ways. Post menopausal women treated with estrogen often experience severe anxiety despite being placed on physiologic doses of the hormone. Men who identify as women are given supraphysiologic doses of estrogen; theoretically, this has the potential to worsen both depression and anxiety.
ACP says that the “temporary use of puberty blocker Lupron has also been associated with and may be the cause of many serious permanent side effects including osteoporosis, mood disorders, seizures, cognitive impairment and, when combined with cross-sex hormones, sterility.” They say that in addition to “the harm from Lupron, cross-sex hormones put youth at an increased risk of heart attacks, stroke, diabetes, blood clots and cancers across their lifespan.”
Across America we are seeing physically healthy transgender-believing girls are being given double mastectomies at 13 and hysterectomies at 16, while their male counterparts are referred for surgical castration and penectomies at 16 and 17, respectively, and it becomes clear that affirming transition in children is about mutilating and sterilizing emotionally troubled youth.
The ACP joins medical organizations around the world, including the Australian College of Physicians, the Royal College of General Practitioners in the United Kingdom, and the Swedish National Council for Medical Ethics who have characterized these interventions in children as “experimental and dangerous”.
Swedish psychiatrist Dr. Christopher Gillberg was quoted in the Gateway Pundit as saying that pediatric transition is “possibly one of the greatest scandals in medical history” and called for “an immediate moratorium on the use of puberty blocker drugs because of their unknown long-term effects.”
Swedish Dr. Angela Sämfjord started a gender clinic for minors in Sweden in 2016. She resigned after just two years because she was concerned that there wasn’t enough evidence to justify hormonal and surgical treatments in youth with gender dysphoria.
According to the ACP there is overwhelming evidence that the transitioning of children and young adults is damaging to their mental and physical health. The evidence also shows there are honest medical practitioners who agree and who are not willing to ignore the facts for a paycheck.
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