Doctor Reveals the Chilling Reality of Transgender Ideology at a Major Children’s Hospital
“You hate yourself at this moment, and I will affirm that.”
It’s disturbing to think that there are parents across the country who don’t even know this is happening.
From Christopher Rufo at City Journal:
Christopher Rufo: Please begin by setting the scene. What’s it like in a major children’s hospital in the United States regarding transgender interventions for children?
Physician: I think the best way to answer that question is to talk about the cultural shift that happened in 2020, because transgender ideology and Covid are inextricably linked. Normally, doctors operate by the authority of the professional societies that govern our specific practice. That worked because the individuals in those institutions were reliable, intelligent, and thoughtful. But with Covid in 2020, we started getting medical decrees without peer review or evidence—you saw this with masks, social distancing, and emergency-use authorizations. These decrees were expressed as something that everyone had to do, without justification based on sound science. The other thing was censorship. If you were to ask questions or express doubt about these medical decrees, you would be ostracized within your department, and you stood a good chance of being publicly humiliated, severely reprimanded, or fired.
That’s when transgender ideology really took off. Within these academic institutions, so-called experts in the field of transgender medicine would simply declare that puberty blockers and other interventions were the gold standard of care. The evidence to support this is completely fraudulent, but no dissent was permitted. Everyone within the medical community knew that if he questioned transgender ideology, he would suffer the same type of repercussions that had happened during Covid. The best way to describe the environment would be as an authoritarian, censorious culture that discourages any meaningful debate and encourages the demonization of anyone who asks questions.
Rufo: What are the main tenets of transgender medical theory that are enforced as the conventional wisdom? And how have those tenets changed medical practice?
Physician: One, when an individual believes he or she is of a certain sex, he or she is truly of that sex. Two, the ideal response is to affirm that individual’s preferred identity. Three, the repercussion of nonintervention is a higher likelihood of that individual committing suicide. The threat of suicide removes any of the guardrails for what we must do to affirm that individual’s identity. Puberty blockers become justified at 11 years old. Hormones become justified at 13 years old. Double mastectomy becomes justified before 18.
But in reality, when you “affirm” these individuals’ gender identity, what you are doing is affirming their hatred for themselves. You have these children who are going through confusing times, difficult times; when you affirm this belief system, what you’re really doing is telling them: “You hate yourself at this moment, and I will affirm that.” We have to ask ourselves, why do these people have such high rates of suicide? Because we’re affirming that they should hate themselves and that they should try to destroy themselves.
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“But with Covid in 2020, we started getting medical decrees without peer review or evidence—you saw this with masks, social distancing, and emergency-use authorizations. These decrees were expressed as something that everyone had to do, without justification based on sound science.”
And I have to wonder how much of this is the result of woke/participation-trophy medical (and medical-adjacent) degrees.
I thought that the statement, “…when you “affirm” these individuals’ gender identity, what you are doing is affirming their hatred for themselves. … We have to ask ourselves, why do these people have such high rates of suicide? Because we’re affirming that they should hate themselves and that they should try to destroy themselves” was both insightful and chilling. Yet for reasons that baffle me, some in the medical profession don’t see these underage individuals as largely being disturbed and in desperate need of psychiatric help. Reinforcing their disturbed view of themselves is precisely the wrong approach.
If it is considered psychologically dangerous not to affirm an individual’s gender identity, why is it psychologically safe to erase women and trivialize their concerns? Or men, for that matter.
Medical Science officially died in March of 2020. My take is that it was a top down order. nearly every medical school in the US survives on Federal grant money. I am pretty certain that this was explained to the dean, who explained to the dept chair, who explained to their minions, that there was to be “no” discussion of the Wuflu outside of official releases. To me that is the only way to explain the absolute lack of any feedback. There was one clinic outside of Portland where the head practitioner said that they weren’t going to operate with the mask mandate and his license was immediately suspended. How is that for an invitation to discuss among yourselves?