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(For my article on the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning "Roe v Wade" -- "Abortion: the Democrats' Gold Rush" -- click here.)
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I have a two-sentence introduction before we get to the guts of this story:
Whenever
a typical “liberal” college educated parent hears a doctor or medical
bureaucrat utter a pronouncement, the parent, like a doomed trained
monkey, AUTOMATICALLY replies, “Well, this evidence certainly has some
merit…”
God help the child who has such a parent.
Gateway Pundit has the story. Here are quotes; then I’ll have comments.
“Joe Biden’s transgender Assistant Health Secretary Dr. Rachel (Richard) Levine spoke at a DNC pride month event on Friday.”
“On
Friday, Dr. Levine said sex reassignment surgery (castration) and
puberty blockers (chemical castration) for KIDS is ‘lifesaving,
medically necessary, age appropriate, and a critical tool’.”
“Levine recently said that there is no debate about ‘gender-affirming’ care for kids.”
“’There
is no argument among medical professionals — pediatricians, pediatric
endocrinologists, adolescent medicine physicians, adolescent
psychiatrists, psychologists, etc. — about the value and the importance
of gender-affirming care,’ Levine said.”
“According
to the American College of Pediatricians, no single long-term study
demonstrates the safety or efficacy of puberty blockers, cross-sex
hormones, and surgeries for transgender-believing youth.”
“Puberty
blockers may cause depression and other emotional disturbances related
to suicide. The package insert for Lupron, the number one prescribed
puberty blocker in America, lists ‘emotional instability’ as a side
effect and warns prescribers to ‘Monitor for development or worsening of
psychiatric symptoms during treatment’.”
OK. The
big takeaway from these statements is: we’re supposed to believe we’re
talking about a MEDICAL condition and MEDICAL TREATMENT.
Once
that bell is rung, all bets are off. “Well, the doctor says Jimmy has
gender dysphoria, a medical/psychiatric condition, and his desire to
transition to a girl needs treatment. The treatment allows him to make
the transition.”
As with other issues, the word from on high is, the science is settled.
Forget
the fact that the American College of Pediatricians
disagrees. Ultimately, what is and isn’t science is decided at a
political level.
Forget
the fact that gender dysphoria has no defining physical diagnostic
test. No blood test, no urine test, no hair test, no genetic assay, no
brain scan. Its existence as a condition is backed by zero evidence.
Forget the fact that the treatments are toxic and destructive.
The medical/political colossus has spoken. Doubters are now referred to “the science.”
This is how medical dictatorship operates. You might recall that’s how it operated with a little thing called COVID.
Dr. Rachel Levine is trying out for the role of Anthony Fauci.
Civilians
everywhere want to argue against children undergoing transition to
another gender, but the authorities want to head that off at the pass by
claiming “it’s all medical and we have the knowledge and you don’t know
anything. Case closed.”
If
parents huddle in the dark, afraid of a scornful look from a doctor or a
medical bureaucrat, the war is over. It’s lost. The war against
children will be scorched earth and scorched lives.
I
can hear that college educated parent I referred to saying, “Well, to
be reasonable, there is some merit to the argument that certain young
children have a need to transition, and we have to discern these cases
carefully and consider the medical evidence…”
This is what all losers say just before the enemy pours tons of gasoline on the fire and the city burns down.
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(The link to this article posted on my blog is here.)
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