Indiana U. School of Medicine Offers Training in ‘Gender-Affirming Medical Treatment’
“We have all the research in the world that I actually trust, coming from reputable sources, that these procedures, by and large, are incredibly helpful for patients”
It’s shocking to see this happening in such a deeply red state.
The College Fix reports:
Indiana U. med school trains residents in ‘gender-affirming medical treatment’
Indiana University School of Medicine offers an LGBTQ+ health track to residency students to train them in “gender-affirming medical treatment.”
The health track is “intended to supplement the clinical training of residents interested in and committed to the whole-person care of sexual and gender minority patients,” according to the school’s website.
Further, “selected residents are offered experiences during residency in clinics that serve the LGBTQ+ community and graduate with advanced skills like gender-affirming medical treatment.”
Dr. Kazia Parsons, one of the program’s first graduates in 2020, told The Fix during a phone call that IU was “acutely aware” of the political implications involved in providing such training during her residency.
She said that, to the best of her knowledge, the program remains active.
Parsons also strongly defended the program and the research supporting “gender-affirming care.”
“We have all the research in the world that I actually trust, coming from reputable sources, that these procedures, by and large, are incredibly helpful for patients, are largely successful in helping to eliminate large portions of dysphoria, and there are much lower regret rates than any other type of so-called plastic surgery,” she told The Fix.
Parsons, who has been involved in the LGBTQ+ community since college, now runs her own private telehealth practice in Texas, focusing on queer healthcare.
“When these surgeries are used appropriately, there is diagnostic and standard criteria for who these procedures are appropriate for and that includes within age groups as well,” she said.
“The mischaracterization that children are mutilated without any parental consent or informed consent is just sort of ridiculous on its face, even taking away all the nuance,” Parsons said.
However, some experts disagree. A leader for a medical advocacy group told The Fix via email that medical schools and hospitals must re-evaluate their current policies on treating minors experiencing gender-related distress.
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And the “medical” establishment continues its race to the bottom.
Affirmative action destroyed standards.
The Covid fraud destroyed credibility.
Rampant wokeness destroyed trust.
Superb success rates. Especially when you count the suicides as “patients who were satisfied for their entire lives” instead of failures.
To be fair, the majority of people who get elective plastic surgery already have a pronounced psychiatric co-morbidity, IMHO. This was apparent way back during the silicon implant era. The same number of crazies are still getting saline implants, but we don’t hear about it because the manufacturer doesn’t have pockets as deep as DOW.
Do they also offer a list of attornys that would handle the malpractice cases arising from surgically altering minors?
Identity confusion is a symptom of several psychiatric disorders. One of these is Borderline Personality Disorder, which is also characterized by highly unstable mood, including periods of intense depression, often accompanied by self-damaging behaviors, including suicidal and self-mutilating acts. “Transgenderism” is usually a symptom of some other major mental illness, and those who insist on dismissing it as a normal variant are also often refusing to address the underlying disorders, which elevates risks. This may explain why there are no long term controlled studies of outcome results from these interventions. Proponents are using children with emotional vulnerabilities to affirm their own political and personal agendas, and the process has about as much legitimacy as the “Recovered Trauma Memories” fiasco from the 1980s. Unfortunately it also took a while to get rid of that quackery, but multiple lawsuits and loss of licenses eventually did the trick, and will ultimately prevail against this travesty, as well.