French Senate Report: Sex Change Surgery for Minors Could be ‘Greatest Ethical Scandal in the History of Medicine’’
As with “The Science™” behind covid and global warming, the French report indicated that reasoned debate was silenced and challenges to the woke ideology were dismissed.
History provides us with many examples of dreadful and horrific medical scandals and practices: The Tuskegee syphilis study, lobotomies for mental illness, and bloodletting as a cure-all, to name a few.
Recently, the French Senate added another one to the list: Sex reassignment surgery for minors.
French Senators want to ban gender transition treatments for under-18s, after a report described sex reassignment in minors as potentially “one of the greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine”.
The report, commissioned by the opposition centre-Right Les Republicains (LR) party, documents various practices by health professionals, which it claims are indoctrinated by a “trans-affirmative” ideology under the sway of experienced trans-activist associations.
The report, which cites a “tense scientific and medical debate”, accuses such associations of encouraging gender transition in minors via intense propaganda campaigns on social media.
Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio, an LR senator who led the working group behind the report, concluded that “fashion plays a big role” in the rise of gender reassignment treatments.
Over a year ago, I did a detailed analysis of the devastating harm that could result from children using hormone-blocking therapies. While I have no medical degree, it takes only a modicum of basic understanding of biology and common sense to see that the rationale behind pressing for children to be permitted to receive these treatments (even at parental request) went against the Hippocratic Oath not to harm.
However, as with “The Science™” behind COVID and global warming, the reasoned debate was silenced, and challenges to the woke ideology were dismissed entirely. The French report explicitly points to the militant ideology promoting gender reassignment surgeries.
The report, which is detailed and well-argued, points to a number of abuses by health professionals, indoctrinated by a “trans-affirmative” ideology and subject to the influence of experienced trans activist associations. The report’s authors accuse these associations of unreasonably encouraging gender transition in minors via an intense propaganda campaign on social media.
The scandal has been brewing for several months, thanks to the mobilisation of psychologists, psychiatrists, educators, and parents, who have denounced the ravages of this militant ideology among fragile and suffering young people, to whom gender transition is proposed as a miracle solution to the psychological problems they may be experiencing.
The report notes that trans activists have stifled debate, undermined science, and inserted themselves in between parents and children in the name of preventing discrimination:
— “In France, as abroad, it appears that the scientific and medical debate on the subject is tense.… pic.twitter.com/wnCiijRFhT
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) March 24, 2024
And, like the pseudoscience behind COVID and global warming, real scientists are now being heard, and hard data is being used to reverse the poor policy. France isn’t the only European nation beginning to set limits on when gender reassignment treatments can begin.
England’s National Health Service (NHS) has set the age to 16.
The National Health Service England recently cemented a policy first issued on an interim basis almost a year ago that sets a minimum age at which puberty blockers can be started, along with other requirements. NHS England says there is not enough evidence about their long-term effects, including “sexual, cognitive or broader developmental outcomes.”
Starting April 1, NHS England will not prescribe puberty blockers — drugs that suppress sex hormones during puberty — as a “routine treatment” to children and other young people seeking gender transitions. In practice, the decision also applies to Wales, which does not have any NHS gender clinics for children. Northern Ireland says it will adopt England’s policy; Scotland is weighing it.
Also, a report from the Netherlands indicates people with issues related to gender are sent to surgeries and intense medical treatment too quickly.
However, some of them would benefit more from treatment by their family doctor or psychological help, the Dutch daily Volkskrant writes based on a report from the Radboud University. The researchers speak of a “mismatch between the offered specialised care and the need of transgender people themselves.”
Gender clinics often focus mainly on medical treatment with hormones and surgery, the newspaper writes. And some people have no need for that. Some would rather explore their gender identity than treat it, the Dutch daily NRC cites the report.
I don’t know if we have passed “peak woke.” However, I am hopeful we have passed peak “woke science.”
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“However, as with “The Science™” behind COVID and global warming” Yeah not doing your credibility much good here
Global warming has ended civilization half a dozen times in my adult life. At least, it was predicted to. After the Coming Ica Age destroyed it. Oh, and the Population Bomb. And running out of resources.
The predicted disaster changes, but the proposed solution never does — impoverishment, democide, and enslavement.
You forgot Net Neutrality!
Conflating journalism with the science isn’t much of an argument. Hate to break it to you but the climate models have not only been proven correct but to be an under estimate.
So you’re sticking with regurgitating the lies and propaganda? Okey dokey.
This is patently false.
Pretty much everything Bot-E says is blatantly and transparently false. Not sure why the welcome mat is still out for him here.
I hear you.
If you are really interested in seeing why the claimed match of climate models to current warming trends is incorrect, you can read this article:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/09/06/do-cmip5-models-skillfully-match-actual-warming/
A brief statement of (one of) the problems is that the models have many parameters which are not accurately known and therefore can be adjusted per the modeler’s preference. The modeler can tweak his preferred parameters until his model matches the known historic trend from 1973 to around 2000 or 2010 (this is called “hindcasting”) and then allow his model to run forward from that point. Surprise, surprise! His model will often match the observed trend for the next several years. But if the model is simply run backward from the present time (or forward from 1973) without tweaking parameters along the way, it will rapidly diverge from the known historical climate, showing much more warming than actually occurred.
Au contraire. As a scientist myself, I can tell you that the models have yet to produce any of the predicted outcomes.
Perhaps you can tell us why during the last interglacial, about 125K years ago, the sea levels were 15-18 feet higher than during our current interglacial period. Or why today’s sea level is the “right” one?
Hint: insolation.
No, they have not. Every climate prediction made by HGW “models” have proven wrong. Proven to be inaccurate. Every one
Yeah, we get that you drank the koolaid and are impatiently waiting to die, but the rest of us took a pass and instead plan to keep right on happily emitting lots of carbon and enjoying ourselves. Thanks for the reminder to be grateful for not being you.
Theologians call prophesies that fail to come true “self-disconfirming.” The fact this term is so fitting for the many failed predictions of climate alarmists over the decades helps demonstrate that “climate change” is a religion, because even failed prophecies fail to shake the faith of the true believers. Real scientists would look at these failures, and determine from them that there’s something wrong with their theories.
“Religion is about faith, science is about doubt.”
Biggs2021 (at the Barnes Brief 12/17/22)
“Global warming has ended civilization half a dozen times in my adult life.”
Oh, you, too.
Can you read me? I have to be typing from the grave because, unbeknownst to me, I died in the population bomb disaster of 1980.
Too bad I missed all of the other disasters to come……………………….
Be gone, troll
Still wearing a mask, eh?
Not tight enough.
Still unable to understand science, eh
Yes, you evidently are.
Never Forget. Never Forgive. Never Again.
https://twitter.com/SirajAHashmi/status/1475967927069327363
You seem to think you have a point. A demonstration with respect to an issue the US has suffered from for centuries vs people having a tantrum over wearing a mask.
Well, I know you have a point. It’s on top of your head. And it’s the only valid one you have.
Who had a “tantrum” over masks? The calls for social and economic defenestration over masking came from the proponents of masking. They’re the ones who wanted to bring real harm to people who didn’t agree with them, all because they had a mistaken belief that a pandemic caused by an airborne virus could be stopped (or even slowed) by masks. There’s a reason why scientists and doctors working with deadly pathogens wear moon suits, and not just masks (of any quality and effectiveness).
The people who didn’t wear masks just wanted to be left alone.
BartE: As you can see from the responses, your quip was quite ignorant.
Now that I am back from my day job — as an environmental health and safety professional with a specialty in biosafety — let me point you to two topics I have covered here:
A GREAT REVIEW of how real scientists with hard data challenging covid assertions can be found in our “Twitter Files” coverage: Start here: https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/03/latest-twitter-files-shows-stanfords-virality-project-flagged-real-covid-science-as-disinformation/
While I often covered the problems with the climate models, I would suggest watching this movie. If you can come back after viewing this film in full and explain to be exactly what the learned scientists in this film got wrong — including the details on their studies and the data backing your assertions — without calling them tools of Big Oil or any other smear, I might be more inclined to take your trite quips seriously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=s3Tfxiuo-oM&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fhotair.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo
Ty Leslie.. I was curious about the image.. It was from a planned parenthood video. SMH At least they got some flack for it. Puberty is not an illness that you can fix with meds. TID…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-2791817/Video-Planned-Parenthood-ad-puberty-blockers-spurs-massive-backlash.html
The December 2020 vaccinations did work for the initial variant that they were intended for. The variant disappeared by May 2021 as the theory said it would. The number of people each sick person infected fell to less than 1.0 and it died out. Missing nearly entirely in Ohio, the place I checked at the time.
People pretend that didn’t happen, which is an ethical violation of its own.
It may have worked briefly, but it was not worth the long term damage.
“Briefly” meaning it killed off the disease in the population, which was all it was supposed to do. The problem was touting it as the solution to the next variant, which it wasn’t.
It didn’t kill off the disease in the population. The disease mutated as all viruses do. And that “killed off” that variant.
You are incorrect. The mRNA shots never stopped transmission. In fact, they allowed people with the virus to have less severe symptoms, which allowed them to run around thinking they were fine and to incubate the virus and infect other people. The mRNA shots likely contributed greatly to enhanced mutation of the Wuhan virus.
And that is all apart from the unreal (and vast and even more unknown) side effects from a highly experimental therapy that is, itself, potentially extremely dangerous in so many different ways.
They limited transmission but they did provide very good protection against the virus. You’ll note that for sensible places social distancing was a thing for a long time. The only people impacted to a great degree was the unvaccinated population, it is extremely unlikely that the vaccines contributed to the mutation. This is an effect that happens when a virus is allowed to continue and spreads rapidly an effect that’s achieved by vaccine hesitancy.
There are large numbers of studies on the vaccines, the side effects are very well known and understood and no they were not experimental. You simply have no basis for asserting the vaccines were dangerous.
they did provide very good protection against the virus
No, they didn’t. Less effective than the regular flu shot, even.
no they were not experimental
Ummm, yeah, they were. Hence the perceived need for Operation Warp Speed. Or they would have been in trials for “too long.”
They were so ineffective the CDC had to change its definition of “vaccine” in order to encompass the activity of the Covid “vaccines.” (Which were never vaccines. Pfizer’s SEC filing was honest when it referred to its product as “gene therapy.” Big Pharma’s mRNA “vaccines” skated twice. Once as “vaccines” with rushed testing, and again, and completely, when they avoided the far more strict testing regimen that is usually required of gene therapies, a less advanced and less well-known medical intervention that still requires hurdling a very high bar.)
I’m old enough to remember when we didn’t talk about being “vaccinated.” Sixty years ago, people wouldn’t say “I’m vaccinated against measles.” They’d say “I’ve been immunized against measles.” “Immunized” equaled “vaccinated,” but no more.
Well, the flu “disappeared” during the “pandemic.” Funny dat.
Every study of pandemic response that compared places with strict mitigation efforts to those with lax (or no) effort show that if there was any significant difference, that difference was more positive for those places that didn’t impose strict methods. There is zero proof that any mitigation effort (except for the complete isolation of a island, such as NZ) had any effect on transmission. (And even NZ eventually succumbed because such efforts are eventually, if not immediately, useless.) (And Pfizer admitted that it’s vaccine was never tested to prevent transmission, so they could never officially claim that their vaccine prevents transmission.)
And you are completely wrong when you say the vaccinces “were not experimental.” They were issued under an Emergency Use Authorization because they were not officially approved for use. They were, and they remain, experimental. (No, “Comirnaty,” the only vaccine ever approved for use, was never commercially available, and Pfizer issued a statement saying it never would be. Not to mention that Pfizer changed its vaccine production method, and was not required to go back to square one, as is required by regulations. There’s a saying in the vaccine business, “Production is the vaccine.” That is to say, the production process is part of what is being evaluated when the vaccine is tested. Change the production method, and legally it’s not the same vaccine.)
No, it hasn’t. The NHS has set that as a policy in its clinics. Doctors who don’t work for the NHS remain free to prescribe such treatment, but the NHS won’t pay for it.
I see your point. Thanks.
Josef Mengele was personally responsible for over 400K deaths. There is no reliable estimate of how many people he experimented on. But, most agree it was was easily measured in the tens-of-thousands, most of them children. He experimented on more than 3K twins alone.
It’s hard to believe ‘medicine’ ever experiencing a greater black-eye than Mengele…but, if this insanity is allowed to continue, they may actually get there.
Docters who embraced the Trans shit, should be disbarred.
Absolutely. Covid didn’t affect the children, so the Wuhan crew went after them with “gender affirming” mutilations.
Female genital mutilation was bad, but mutilations for both sexes is good?? Leftist logic.
More organized delegation.
“Sex change surgery for minors could be the greatest ethical scandal in the history of medicine”
It’s up there near the top, right under thousands of white people dying needlessly from kidney disease.
Sex change surgery period. Not just for minors.
Could be ‘Greatest Ethical Scandal in the History of Medicine’’
Maybe the greatest French scandal.
I’m guessing that America can top this one within a couple of decades if it keeps on keeping on with Progressivism.
Its child abuse, should be illegal. Like encouraging child they can fly, giving them paper wings, and pushing them off the roof. Then claiming lack of responsibility for their injuries, because of woke theory.
But they told me to push them off the roof! And they know themselves best, so I just assumed they could fly!
It’ll end up being Pres. Trump’s fault somehow.
JK Rowling is absolutely right on this issue. The wealthiest author in the world, and strong advocate for children.
I am concerned that she lives in Scotland.
The make-believe gender mafia are sick, deranged perverts. Period. They are the sort of people that any sane society would shun or exile, at the very least. They are demented retards who have been allowed to pretend they are normal and, far, far worse, to press their deranged, perverted notions on society, at large, which is the worst thing any society can allow with such twisted personalities.
It is well past time that the people really pushing this perverted insanity on children were locked up. LOCKED UP. In prison, not insane asylums.
I have been musing on this for a long time but I still don’t know if I can’t articulate it clearly, so please bear with me as I struggle through getting my thoughts out.
We tend to think of “Science” as the study of various specialized subjects, but that is not the actual base of the word. “Science” is actually an approach to study – one might say it’s a philosophy akin to that of the Mennonites- a disciplined approach to viewing and acting in the world.
A “Scientist” is an “Empiricist.” That which cannot be -proven- true cannot be accepted. It CAN be studied, and theories propounded, but careful experiments accounting for variables must prove the worth of an idea or action.
Science has had many successes in the last few hundred years and – as people always move to the worship of most powerful god – “Science” hasgrown to replace the old time religion (in the West largely Christianity). The religion of science peaked in the 1950’s: all bow before the Priests who control the mighty Atomic Bomb!
However unfortunately there is no “Church” or nor is there a “Pope” who decides who can or cannot call themselves a “Scientist”. Thus anyone with a “BS” degree can proclaim himself or herself a “Scientist” despite the fact that they do not adhere to the principles and practices of science. The public, it would appear, have not caught on to this fraud yet leaving the temples full of charlatans.
You are not wrong, except in the peak of the Science! cult of Progressivism.
And you identify it as a religion – one of the most important bits of understanding required to actually do something effective about it.
Some people fail to understand that “scientists” are as susceptible to folly and corruption as anyone else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0PQ1cOlCJI
You are correct. “Science” does not describe a thing, it describes a process. In particular, it’s a process that works by falsification. Show that something is false, just once, and it is forever false. Einstein’s theory of relativity, no matter that it’s over 100 years old and that it forms the basis for much of modern physics and astrophysics, is still being tested. It only has to fail one test to be officially “wrong” no matter how useful it may be to scientists working to understand observed phenomenon.
“It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.”
Richard P. Feynman
The Charity Walk – Seinfeld [Kramer, Sedric and Bob]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rytZa77B54
“Human sexuality is an objective biological binary trait: ‘XY’ and ‘XX’ are genetic markers of health – not genetic markers of a disorder. The norm for human design is to be conceived either male or female. Human sexuality is binary by design with the obvious purpose being the reproduction and flourishing of our species. This principle is self-evident….Individuals with DSDs [disorders of sex development] do not constitute a third sex.”
Charity calls us to help those afflicted or confused about their own sex, not to increase their confusion by offering them a false solution.
Charity “does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth” (1 Cor. 13:6).
Therefore, mercy can never stand in opposition to the truth, for only the truth can set you free (John 8:32).
Psychology is not biology.
Anything, once mixed with politics, is not the same thing anymore.