The Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act (VCAP) would prohibit the administering of medical procedures to alter otherwise physically healthy minor’s gender [sex] or delay puberty, with certain exceptions.
VCAP was passed by the Alabama legislature and signed by Gov. Kay Ivey in early April, 2022.
SB 184 would make it a Class C felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, for a doctor to prescribe puberty blockers and hormones to transgender youth under the age of 19. The bill also bans school officials from withholding information about a student’s gender identity from parents.
This is a follow up post to a previous one where I questioned our current Assistant Secretary of Health, Transwoman Dr Rachel Levine. Read this first, if you haven’t already:
Many doctors and clinicians in Europe disagree with Dr. Levine. Below is a Swedish documentary on the hazards of hormone therapy & puberty blockers. It’s about injured children and withheld information.
And why the home of the Nobel Prize in medicine, Karolinska Univ. Hospital, did an about face on prescribing hormones & puberty blockers to children and adolescents.
The story follows the parent of a daughter who announced when she was 10 that “she is really a he.” And that she wanted to be called Leo.
He was little, only 10, and telling us how he perceived himself. Our first thought was just to affirm our child. If our child feels this way then of course we should affirm it. And just listen to him and follow his cues. - "Natalie" Leo's Mother
Social Transitioning began with pronouns and name change. Combined with supportive parents and supportive school. But Leo’s mental health worsened. So they sought help at Astrid Lindgren’s Children’s Hospital and were told:
"the earlier you stop puberty, the better."
Leo was given puberty blockers at 11 years old.
“Natalie” explains, “I trusted them when they said, ‘This will help your child.'”
It didn’t.
You will hear about doctors who “left the field” because they couldn’t in good conscience experiment on children.
You will hear from detransitioners, those who regretted their decisions to “change” their gender.
You will hear about bureaucratic blame shifting. And perhaps medical malpractice.
When Leo is 11 years old, doctors in transgender care start giving him puberty blockers. There are risks with the treatment, but his family are not informed of them. One day Leo says his body is aching. Mission: Investigate reveals what the doctors at Karolinska University Hospital knew, but didn’t reveal.
Looking back, I feel such anger. Of course anger at the professionals we trusted. But also at myself. I'm supposed to protect my child, but I haven't done that. - "Natalie" Leo's Mother
In May of 2021 the Karolinska Institute, the same institute that awards the Nobel Prize in Medicine, advised its hospital to stop hormone treatments and surgery for young people under 18!
This stance is precisely what some of our State Legislators are considering. Alabama, most conspicuously. See my next post.
Decent article in the BBC. But it stops short. We must stop denying reality. Two current elite runners say effectively, ”stop the madness!” There are many more female athletes saying the same.
The British athletes, one of whom is an Olympian, believe athletes should only be allowed to compete in the category of their biological sex.
The athletes who spoke to BBC podcast The Sports Desk have asked to remain anonymous for fear of social media backlash and losing sponsorship deals.
"We have seen at the Olympics last year trans women being included in the female category, and that then takes away an opportunity for one woman to be called an Olympian, and that is something we all dream of." - elite female athlete.
Athlete B said: "We've made great strides in encouraging women into sport.
"This is actually excluding more women from sport and it will slowly turn around so then we won't have a female category any more, but it will be just taken over by trans women who are biologically male."
"I haven't actually spoken to another athlete that doesn't feel the way I feel," said athlete A. "Every single female athlete I've spoken to is scared to speak out."
The BBC secured one revealing rebuttal from an actual Trans-athlete. Here’s what Trans-Athlete racing driver Charlie Martin had to say. (Charlie drives a machine!)
"You look at people like Ian Thorpe, the swimmer - he had size 17 feet and hands to match, he basically had four flippers on the end of his limbs," she told BBC Sport.
"The guy won gold medals and did anyone turn round to say 'well, that's not fair, he's got a massive advantage'?
But that obviously misses the point for all athletes that don’t drive machines! No woman on the planet could match Ian Thorpe’s length of bone naturally given to him by testosterone.
None.
Get the point.
We may extend a wide range of civil rights to confused people. But let’s not affirm their confusions. And by doing so, deny justice to women.
