Plastic Surgeon Calls ‘Gender Affirming’ Surgery a Scam
“Advocates of ‘gender-affirming’ care often insist that this damage is reversible.”
In this article, the doctor focuses on ‘top’ surgery, the removal of a girl’s breasts. More doctors need to speak out like this.
He writes at City Journal:
I’m a Plastic Surgeon. This “Gender-Affirming” Procedure Is a Scam
I am a plastic surgeon. Over the past 35 years, I’ve seen many of my colleagues abandon the most basic premise in human biology: that there are two, immutable sexes. Their capitulation to “queer theory” has resulted in children receiving needless, dangerous, and life-altering surgeries—all based on the lie that people can change their sex.
Each of these “gender-affirming” procedures is grotesque. I want to focus on just one—“top surgery,” a breast procedure that I, as a plastic surgeon, understand well. Top surgery is a euphemism that refers to cutting off a woman’s natural breasts to masculinize her chest. Because most of today’s trans-identifying adolescents are girls, top surgery is the most common gender-related operation, and is performed on girls as young as 13 years old.
Surgeons refer to this procedure as a bilateral mastectomy—typically performed as a treatment for breast cancer. As a “gender-affirming” intervention, the operation involves removing as much breast tissue as possible while preserving the skin and nipple-areola complex.
Mastectomies carry several risks and consequences. One is the potential loss of one or both nipples due to compromised circulation. Another is the creation of an uneven or otherwise abnormally shaped chest. Like other surgeries, it also carries risks of infection, bleeding, blood clots, and other complications.
Top surgery has lasting consequences. The procedure results in permanent nerve damage and surgical scars. Since the surgery removes all duct tissue, it renders patients permanently unable to breastfeed.
Advocates of “gender-affirming” care often insist that this damage is reversible. Asked about girls who later regret their decision to have their breasts removed, Joanna Olson-Kennedy, a pediatrician and prominent advocate of transgender medicine stated, “If you want breasts at a later point in your life, you can go and get them!”
Her comments are unacceptable and dangerously naive.
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That this is done to children is horrific. I hope in years to come, these doctors get sued by their victims.
Can HHS step in to outlaw such surgery?
and the medical pros are leading the charge against sanity
It seems most are not. But the social pressure and silencing certainly exists within the medical community, and they snap into line and don’t speak out, just as with Covid you would find very few doctors recommending treatments that worked, or discouraging the vaccinations that had not been proven to work.
One Oregon doctor spoke up and they took his license the next day. I am pretty certain that the word was passed down from the dean to dept heads to faculty to staff to not say anything not in agreement with public policy. OHSU has been gobbling up other hospital systems and it will be bad when there is no longer an option to state-run medicine. That was Hillarity’s goal in the 90’s. You want care? Toe the line. The “reset asteroid” can’t get here soon enough, IMHO.
First, do no harm…
Sane MD’s must speak out and condemn these monsters
Shame shame shame
On this question (and many others given the relative selectivity of the two fields within medicine),
plastic surgeon >>> pediatrician.
But what of the other plastic surgeons who actually do these procedures? I’ve heard enough doctors saying that they just do it for the money. It’s certainly true that surgery is done in an emotionless way, and that’s how we would want it. But the professional should have some internal moral supervision (aka conscience) or else needs external supervision (making it a crime so the surgeon doesn’t dare to do it.)
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