When is the madness going to stop? I’m talking about the latest attempt to pretend it’s normal for young women like me to have our healthy breasts surgically removed.
It’s not. It never has been and it never should be — however hard transgender lobbyists fight.
When I saw pictures this week of the new image emblazoned across Costa Coffee’s vans, I felt deeply concerned. I also felt immensely sad.
The cute cartoon of an androgynous-looking character in colourful yellow shorts with a big smile and two mastectomy scars promotes transgender surgery more keenly than it does the brand itself.
The message is clear: you too can live your best life like this trans man if you get your breasts cut off. And it could not be more disingenuous.
"[I]t's time to be honest about what a body really looks like after transition. And we need to address the reasons why so many young women are electing to have their breasts removed." https://t.co/DbaGUTjUZH
Lawsuit says doctors ‘coerced’ Soren Aldaco into identifying as transgender and pushed her into a double mastectomy that left her permanently disfigured
Aldaco, who is autistic, said she was battling depression and anxiety as a teenager when she was hospitalized with a manic episode at 15. After a short meeting with a psychiatrist there, Aldaco said she was “coerced” into coming out as transgender. Two years later, Aldaco connected with Del Scott Perry, a nurse practitioner with Texas Health Physicians Group at a transgender support group. After sharing her mental health struggles and identity confusion with Perry, Aldaco said the nurse practitioner encouraged her to begin medically transitioning and wrote her prescriptions for “an outrageously large off-label dosage” of testosterone, the suit alleges.
At the age of 19, Aldaco underwent a double mastectomy at the Crane Clinic in Austin which left her with “horrible post-surgical complications” and found her “nipples literally peeling off of her chest,” according to the 29-page complaint. When she reached out to her surgeons over concerns that something was wrong, Aldaco says she was told that her complications were normal “despite sending graphic pictures of the pools of blood forming subcutaneously within her torso.”
Source: Fox News.(for my readers who dislike Fox News, do a Google search for “Soren Aldaco sues” or “detransitioner sues” and see how many links to more ‘respectable’ news sites you find. And then ask yourself, why is that?)
See her story….
Sometimes the compassionate response is one which sets firm boundaries. At the end of the day you need to be able to discern between enabling and helping – that you giving me access to certain drugs – that you just giving me referrals to whomever I asked for didn’t actually help me heal – it affirmed me in my delusion.
A recent article from the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, IatrogenicHarm in Gender Medicine,1“iatrogenic” – relating to illness caused by medical examination or treatment. clarifies the risks of Transgenderism.
The author wants us to consider “the increasing number of young detransitioners.”
Published June 19,2023. Author Sarah C. J. Jorgensen.
ABSTRACT Although transition regret and detransition are often dismissed as rare, the increasing number of young detransitioners who have come forward in recent years to publicly share their experiences suggests that there are cracks in the gender-affirmation model of care that can no longer be ignored. In this commentary, I argue that the medical community must find ways to have more open discussions and commit to research and clinical collaboration so that regret and detransition really are vanishingly rare outcomes. Moving forward, we must recognize detransitioners as survivors of iatrogenic harm and provide them with the personalized medicine and supports they require.
Many proponents of youth gender transition downplay regret as vanishingly rare (Astor, Citation2023; Coleman et al., Citation2022; McNamara, Lepore, & Alstott, Citation2022; Respaut, Terhune, & Conlin, Citation2022), and it’s easy to understand why: if young people can be mistaken about their gender identity and regret their decision to transition, then the diagnostic approach endorsed by many gender-affirming clinicians, which is based upon the premise that young people “know who they are,” (Ehrensaft, Citation2016, p.114) and adults should “[follow] their lead” (Ehrensaft, Citation2016, p. 54), is clearly failing some patients. The processes of differential diagnosis and clinical assessment that clinicians perform in all other patient encounters have been recast as unnecessary “gatekeeping” under the gender-affirming care model (Amengual, Kunstman, Lloyd, Janssen, & Wescott, Citation2022; Ashley, Citation2019; Cass, Citation2022). Many detransitioners report not receiving sufficient exploration of psychological and emotional problems before being offered hormones or surgery (Gribble, Bewley, & Dahlen, Citation2023; Littman, Citation2021; Pullen Sansfaçon et al., Citation2023; Vandenbussche, Citation2022). “Minority stress,” (i.e., the theory that external forces, such as sigma and discrimination related to gender non-conformity, are the drivers of co-occurring mental health problems) is often evoked to explain away self-harm, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and even autism (Coleman et al., Citation2022; Kingsbury, Hammond, Johnstone, & Colman, Citation2022; Rood et al., Citation2016; Turban & van Schalkwyk, Citation2018), despite evidence demonstrating high rates of mental illness and neurodiversity before the onset of gender-incongruence
