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UK’s National Health Service has ordered the closure of a controversial gender clinic for children over a report revealing that some health staff felt pressured to take “an unquestioning affirmative approach” to children experiencing gender dysphoria.
The Tavistock Centre, in north London, is known as the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS). Tavistock was founded in 1920 and originally focused on helping WWI shellshock victims. Since then it has grown to encompass a variety of services under the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust banner, with GIDS focusing on child gender issues. Since 1989 GIDS has treated 19,000 children with gender dysphoria (the feeling that one’s true identity is the opposite gender of their physical body).
The external report expressed concerns, among them the lack of knowledge about the effects of puberty blockers. Dr. Hilary Cass, the head of the review, wrote a letter to the head of NHS England on July 19:
…the most significant knowledge gaps are in relation to treatment with puberty blockers, and the lack of clarity about whether the rationale for prescription is as an initial part of a transition pathway or as a ‘pause’ to allow more time for decision making.
We do not fully understand the role of adolescent sex hormones in driving the development of both sexuality and gender identity through the early teen years, so by extension we cannot be sure about the impact of stopping these hormone surges on psychosexual and gender maturation. We therefore have no way of knowing whether, rather than buying time to make a decision, puberty blockers may disrupt that decision-making process.
It’s interesting to read a professional admitting that they do not know everything about gender dysphoria and transition because every time I hear an “expert” they sound as if there are no unanswered questions and that we have a full understanding of the effects of hormone blockers and surgery. If you want to see people who are completely sure of their realities, check out Matt Walsh’s documentary, What is a Woman, read Bonchie’s piece on it, or just read below:
Pediatrician tells Matt Walsh 'your sperm don't make you male,' 'wonderful' puberty blockers are 'completely reversible' in 'What Is a Woman?' documentary https://t.co/umKVYPgmbT
https://www.theblaze.com/news/walsh-what-is-a-woman
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/tavistock-gender-clinic-lawyers-latest-b2143006.html
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2022, @10:03PM (9 children)
Some would open a "tourist attraction", and charge kids for jumping from tall buildings.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2022, @10:22PM (3 children)
Pediatrician tells Matt Walsh 'your sperm don't make you male,'
nor do Runaway's guns make him a man.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday August 15 2022, @04:25PM (2 children)
Perhaps not, but females don't produce sperm.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2022, @07:37PM
Ok ferengiman
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2022, @07:59PM
Yes, correct. Neither trans women nor cis women produce sperm.
Does this mean we've been misgendering Runaway this whole time? It sounds like her body doesn't produce sperm either, any more.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday August 15 2022, @02:58PM (3 children)
Bungee Jumping already exists so you can stop with the gay panic now.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday August 15 2022, @05:08PM
It reminds me of the old saying that my grandparents used to say:
If at first you don't succeed, use a shorter bungee.
The anti vax hysteria didn't stop, it just died down.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 16 2022, @03:09PM (1 child)
Why are you conflating child abuse with homosexuality?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 16 2022, @04:59PM
I don't think DM is. Gay panic is a well understood reactionary tactic. Additionally, reactionaries explicitly construct gender transition as a sexual fetish, in order to posture as defenders of women and children. I believe DM's usage of "gay panic" adequately captures this.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Tuesday August 16 2022, @12:06AM
Sadly, you are probably correct.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.