This thread has obviously taken a bit of a grim turn. It's important though because we need to ask ourselves whether young people truly know what they are letting themselves in for when they go down the medical and surgical route.
Last year there was leak of papers, emails, information from Wpath - the association of transgender medics. Amongst the things discussed:
- Doctors acknowledge that patients are sometimes too young to fully understand the consequences of puberty blockers and hormones for their fertility. “It’s always a good theory that you talk about fertility preservation with a 14-year-old, but I know I’m talking to a blank wall,” one Canadian endocrinologist says.
- WPATH’s president, Dr Marci Bowers, comments on the impact of early blocking of puberty on sexual function in adulthood. “To date,” she writes, “I’m unaware of an individual claiming ability to orgasm when they were blocked at Tanner 2.” Tanner stage 2 is the beginning of puberty. It can be as young as nine in girls.
- discussions on how to manage “trans clients” with dissociative identity disorder (what used to be called multiple personality disorder) when “not all the alters have the same gender identity”.
- Surgeons talk about procedures that result in bodies that don’t exist in nature: those with both sets of genitals – the “phallus-preserving vaginoplasty”; double mastectomies that don’t have nipples; “nullification” surgery, where there are no genitals at all, just smooth skin.
- doctors discuss the possibility that 16-year-old patients have liver cancer as the result of taking hormones.
The posters on here who say in effect 'doctors know best' should consider whether these medics do know best. Can 9 year old children understand that puberty blockers will mean no sexual function or pleasure as an adult? Or make an informed decidion about future fertility at 16? What ethical surgeon performs genital removal on a patient with multiple personality disorder?
The more you look into gender medicine the more the whole thing is a giant unethical scam, driven by social media and mostly exploiting vulnerable young people.
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...us-gender-group-wpath-ring-alarm-bells-in-nhs