Australian psychiatrist Andrew Amos has written an excellent article on X titled, “The messiah complex in gender affirming care”. 

He claims too many doctors in the gender ideology space are disregarding medicine and science for the sake of an ideology that elevates them in religious terms.

He says doctors are meant to be trusted and that they should do no harm. Instead, these doctors are playing God, ignoring reality, rejecting science and bringing medical practitioners into disrepute. He says they are inflicting harm and medical bodies are letting them get away with it.

Health systems do not work unless patients trust doctors, but recent failures of the medical profession have made patients suspicious of the motives and methods of the profession and of individual doctors.

While there are many reasons a doctor might abandon their oath to do no harm to patients in order to pursue gender affirming care, by far the most common is the messiah complex.

Being a doctor is an extraordinary privilege. No other role demands the same level of trust and intimate engagement with people.

The intensity of this relationship causes some doctors to develop an almost religious sense of their own importance to patients. They stop seeing themselves as health professionals, and start seeing themselves as saviours.

This is called the messiah complex, and it has allowed many doctors to justify physically harming patients in order to achieve some delusional higher goal.

The way that gender affirming doctors speak about their practices proves that they are motivated by the messiah complex.

Dr Amos provides an example and says that using language about patients such as "giving them the ability to live authentically," and "allow[ing] them to exist as their true selves” have no medical meaning.

This is a religious experience, not a medical treatment.

The underlying truth of gender affirming care is that it is designed to satisfy doctors' quasi-religious craving to feel like they are saving patients' souls, and the destruction of their patients' bodies is a price they are willing to pay.

Andrew Amos has courageously called out the harms of gender treatments. He is leading the way along with brave souls such as Dr Jillian Spencer when it comes to rectifying the serious harm being done to thousands under experimental and harmful treatments in Australia. 

Gender “affirmation” is based on lies and deception. This kind of behaviour has no place in our society and certainly not by so-called health-care practitioners. 

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