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Two Detransitioners Address Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament is currently discussing the passage of an updated Gender Recognition Certificate. This would allow people as young as 16-17 years of age to simply self-identify as any gender they prefer and secure a GRC, thus changing legal status.

In the past you had to undergo an extended period of time (2 years) and gender reassignment treatments before legal recognition of your new gender status was obtained.

But today,Self-Id is all the rage. Scotland is close to passing this Self-ID standard into law. This has disturbing implications for Female Spaces and Health Care.

Two brave Detransitioners, Sinead Watson and Ritchie Herron have been brought in by opponents of the law change to provide their unique perspective to parliament.

Ms Watson said: “The voices of detransitioners have not been heard either by the Scottish Government in developing its proposals, or by MSPs who are considering this draft legislation.

“I am particularly concerned about the plan to allow children aged 16 and 17 to get a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC).

“When I presented myself to a gender identity clinic, I felt so certain that medical transition was the only solution for me, but now I wish that greater care had been taken to consider all my underlying issues.

“I believe that affirming children in their identity is dangerous and could lead them to make decisions about their bodies that they later regret, as I have.”

Mr Herron said: “There has been a lot of publicity about the huge increase in numbers of young girls identifying as transgender and it is good that NHS England has commissioned the Cass Review to look at this.

“However, I am keen to tell MSPs about the experiences of young men who identify as transgender and later regret it.

“I am particularly concerned about estimates that the number of trans-identified young men having gender reassignment surgery may soon outstrip the number of trans-identified young women having double mastectomies.

“I was diagnosed with transsexualism after two short appointments and underwent medical and surgical interventions, which have left me with life-long side effects.

“When I presented at a clinic, I was in a very vulnerable state and feel that this was overlooked.”

Source: Glasgow Times

We are failing our young people.

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Love Refuses To Affirm Confusion

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A Pandemic of Self-Harm

Pushed by Queer Theory saturated Gender Activists. Aided and abetted by far too many in the medical community.

In the world of "gender-affirming" medicine, there appears to be nothing that is off-limits. Gender surgeons will happily chop the healthy breasts off teenage girls, fashion cavities out of amputated penises, and sew vaginas shut while adding appendages constructed with the skin and flesh of a patient's forearm. But the list doesn't end there. Along with facial feminization surgery and trachea shaving, surgeons also offer shoulder width reduction.

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Evidence-Based Medicine?

Constantly U.S. citizens are told from the highest levels of Government and Professional Organizations that Gender Affirming Standards of Care are evidenced based. U.S. Assistant Secretary of Heath, Rachel Levine, a trans-woman, has often said as much.

But Moti Gorin, PhD, MBE, and associate professor of philosophy at Colorado State University says hold on….some of the most progressive societies in Europe, Sweden, Finland, and Great Britain, are pulling away from Gender Affirming Standards of Care.

Grab graphs (from Gorin’s Article posted in “Hastings Bioethics Forum”)

U.S. physicians treating an adolescent patient suffering from gender dysphoria are guided by professional organizations, such as the Endocrine Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), to employ gender-affirming care, which can involve the prescription of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or surgery. These organizations’ guidelines are not based on systematic reviews of the benefits of these treatments. Although some U.S. states have moved to ban or restrict youth access to gender affirming care, physicians in most states follow these organizations’ guidelines. In its most recent guidance document, WPATH reported that it is “not possible” to conduct a systematic review of adolescent care due to the overall low number of studies and the “few outcome studies that follow youth into adulthood.” Nevertheless, the title of WPATH’s document is called  “Standards of Care for Transgender and Gender-Diverse People” and its recommendations for the treatment of minors have been described as “evidence-based”  by U.S. Assistant Secretary of Health, Rachel Levine.

Meanwhile, physicians treating children and adolescents with gender dysphoria in Sweden, which did conduct a systematic review, are told by their National Board of Health and Welfare that “the risks of puberty suppressing treatment with GnRH-analogues and gender-affirming hormonal treatment currently outweigh the possible benefits, and . . . the treatments should be offered only in exceptional cases.” It recommends mental health support and exploratory psychological care as the first line of treatment for gender dysphoria in youth.

[emphasis mine]

We are experimenting on our mentally confused children!

STOP IT!

Read the whole thing!

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Love Refuses To Affirm Confusion