February 03, 2022
Children ask online strangers to fund trans treatments
Children are taking to the internet and appealing to strangers to crowdfund their transgender treatments.
Children are taking to the internet and appealing to strangers to crowdfund their transgender treatments.
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) is a global organisation that influences many gender clinics and specialists around the world.
Medical experts have released a paper calling for a re-evaluation of the conflation of sex and gender. They say they are concerned about the early push for body modification and medical treatments instead of addressing the psychiatric issues.
In an article for The Washington Post, Laura Edwards-Leeper a founding psychologist of the first paediatric gender clinic in the United States, and Erica Anderson a psychologist and male-female transgender, express concern at how many health professionals do not follow the guidelines when it comes to providing care for transgender youth.
The Australian Medical Association are promoting a political ideology over and above biological reality. They are conflating sexual orientations with identity and calling on the government to endorse this political position.
A recent survey of detransitioners reveals a high number came to accept their natal sex and many felt pressured to transition in the first place, without having their underlying issues addressed adequately by their health providers. The survey was conducted online via social media, professional listservs, and snowball sampling.
The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network have released a new documentary revealing the alarming trend of some medical practitioners to use fear to push parents into medical treatments for their gender confused children.
Scott Newgent was born a female 48 years ago. Today Scott has undergone radical, invasive, and destructive transitioning treatments. Scott now has some important warnings for anyone else, especially children, considering the same pathway.
Concerns regarding transitioning treatments for children have been ongoing in the UK for the past 15 years. Doctors began raising the alarm in 2005 but for unknown reasons, recommendations at the time were not implemented. It has been suggested that one reason is the demand for the service was "greater than the capacity of the unit to cope."
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