A lot of traditional gay journalists are finding themselves backlisted for expressing ANY skepticism about "statistics" that purport to show 20 to 25% of middle school girls "affirming" their "trans nature."
It was only 40 years ago that a different group of people claimed that most child abuse was being perpetuated by members of the Church of Satan, who supposedly dominated the upper reaches of law, medicine, and academia.
On 8/28/23 OPB (which I know once claimed to be a legitimate news source when I worked for them in the 70s) aired a vituperative dismissal of any claims of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (which many European pediatricians are starting to credit) ending by claiming that "WHO could possibly know better their own true gender identity than a 12-year old?"
OHSU has been my go to medical provider and since I'm not trying to affirm myself as a different species, I hope to keep receiving care there. It is significant that the once-small Gender Health program at OHSU has increased its gender surgeries amongst minors over 700% in just the last decade.
Thank you for this great update on Oregon's march off the transgender cliff. Did you know we've been doing this since 1917?
Attaching an article below that described the state of that cliff-ward march four years ago. Talks about their creepy fence-sitting re the discrepancy between their claims of basing these interventions on "robust research," while at the same time pleading "insufficient data" whenever they get caught spreading BS by someone who kicks the tires of their "data."
Glad people are still shining a light on OHSU. It, and UofO in general, need to be defunded, dismantled, and rebuilt from the ground up.
I doubt that the clinic's behavior would have been tolerated, or that this woman's experience would have even happened, under Joe Robertson's leadership.
That would be funny, except this doctor and his interviewer talk so casually about the hideous experimentations he is performing.
The interview is made more disturbing by how flippantly he refers to “pubertal depression” and “puberally suppressed” and how his patients are getting younger. The kids are so young, in some cases, they’ve had “minimal engagement with their own genitals.” They’ve never even masturbated. When he gets through with them, they quite possibly never will.
Adolescence is hard enough in this country. We worship youth, and now we’re letting teenagers decide to have unlimited — and unnecessary — cosmetic surgery on their bodies. Politicians like Rep. Tawna Sanchez look on and cheer.
Later on in adulthood these kids are going to realize there was nothing wrong with their bodies. It was all in their heads (no, not that head).
Towards the end of the interview, the doctor slips up when he talks about all the surgical options and how things don’t always work out: “It becomes like a huge mess.”
How can any reasonable person not see that Dr. Peters is using these kids as guinea pigs? Maybe he thinks there’s a Nobel Peace Prize in his future. They gave one to Dr. António Egas Moniz, who invented the lobotomy.
Aug 1, 2023·edited Aug 2, 2023Liked by Pamela Fitzsimmons
”More and more European countries and international professional organizations now recommend psychotherapy rather than hormones and surgeries as the first line of treatment for gender-dysphoric youth.”
That's great news if you live in one of those fortunate jurisdictions overseas, but mental health practitioners wishing to retain their professional licenses in states in which the legislature, governor's office and licensing boards have been captured by gender identity ideology had better make sure they're offering "gender affirming" psychotherapy. Otherwise, efforts to determine the source and validity of a minor's claims to be trans or to adopt the time-honored approach of watchful waiting, which allows for the possibility that the child might desist during adolescence, will get the therapist disciplined for engaging in so-called conversion therapy.
Like the Soviet regime bricking up the final passages to freedom in the early days of the Berlin Wall, transgenderist activists and their illiberal progressive "allies" are closing off avenues of resistance to creeping trans totalitarianism.
Here's the Orwellian reply I received from the office of my representative in the Oregon House, Tawna Sanchez, when I urged her to oppose giving children over 15 the legal right to visit Dr. Peters and his amazing sex-change machine (and every other gender-affirming quack in the state) without their parents' knowledge and consent:
"Thank you also for taking the time to detail to your opposition to the portion of HB 2002 that protects gender-affirming care for minors, and for sharing these resources. HB 2002 ONLY expands gender-affirming care without parental consent to youth over the age of 15, and does so to PROTECT youth whose parents may not support their decision to seek such care." (Emphasis added.)
That isn't "protection." It is state-sponsored child abuse and the deprivation of parental rights without due process in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. All that remains is for Tina Kotek to empower Oregon's Child Protective Services to "protect" children under the age of 15 by terminating the custody of parents who are unwilling to submit them to gender-affirming care. Who knows - we may already be there.
Thanks for writing about this.
A lot of traditional gay journalists are finding themselves backlisted for expressing ANY skepticism about "statistics" that purport to show 20 to 25% of middle school girls "affirming" their "trans nature."
It was only 40 years ago that a different group of people claimed that most child abuse was being perpetuated by members of the Church of Satan, who supposedly dominated the upper reaches of law, medicine, and academia.
On 8/28/23 OPB (which I know once claimed to be a legitimate news source when I worked for them in the 70s) aired a vituperative dismissal of any claims of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (which many European pediatricians are starting to credit) ending by claiming that "WHO could possibly know better their own true gender identity than a 12-year old?"
OHSU has been my go to medical provider and since I'm not trying to affirm myself as a different species, I hope to keep receiving care there. It is significant that the once-small Gender Health program at OHSU has increased its gender surgeries amongst minors over 700% in just the last decade.
Thank you for this great update on Oregon's march off the transgender cliff. Did you know we've been doing this since 1917?
Attaching an article below that described the state of that cliff-ward march four years ago. Talks about their creepy fence-sitting re the discrepancy between their claims of basing these interventions on "robust research," while at the same time pleading "insufficient data" whenever they get caught spreading BS by someone who kicks the tires of their "data."
Glad people are still shining a light on OHSU. It, and UofO in general, need to be defunded, dismantled, and rebuilt from the ground up.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/16/how-oregon-built-a-transgender-medical-industrial-complex-on-junk-science/
Related:
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1686860476259733504
I doubt that the clinic's behavior would have been tolerated, or that this woman's experience would have even happened, under Joe Robertson's leadership.
Dr. Strangelove.
That would be funny, except this doctor and his interviewer talk so casually about the hideous experimentations he is performing.
The interview is made more disturbing by how flippantly he refers to “pubertal depression” and “puberally suppressed” and how his patients are getting younger. The kids are so young, in some cases, they’ve had “minimal engagement with their own genitals.” They’ve never even masturbated. When he gets through with them, they quite possibly never will.
Adolescence is hard enough in this country. We worship youth, and now we’re letting teenagers decide to have unlimited — and unnecessary — cosmetic surgery on their bodies. Politicians like Rep. Tawna Sanchez look on and cheer.
Later on in adulthood these kids are going to realize there was nothing wrong with their bodies. It was all in their heads (no, not that head).
Towards the end of the interview, the doctor slips up when he talks about all the surgical options and how things don’t always work out: “It becomes like a huge mess.”
How can any reasonable person not see that Dr. Peters is using these kids as guinea pigs? Maybe he thinks there’s a Nobel Peace Prize in his future. They gave one to Dr. António Egas Moniz, who invented the lobotomy.
Child abuse of the worst kind.
”More and more European countries and international professional organizations now recommend psychotherapy rather than hormones and surgeries as the first line of treatment for gender-dysphoric youth.”
That's great news if you live in one of those fortunate jurisdictions overseas, but mental health practitioners wishing to retain their professional licenses in states in which the legislature, governor's office and licensing boards have been captured by gender identity ideology had better make sure they're offering "gender affirming" psychotherapy. Otherwise, efforts to determine the source and validity of a minor's claims to be trans or to adopt the time-honored approach of watchful waiting, which allows for the possibility that the child might desist during adolescence, will get the therapist disciplined for engaging in so-called conversion therapy.
Like the Soviet regime bricking up the final passages to freedom in the early days of the Berlin Wall, transgenderist activists and their illiberal progressive "allies" are closing off avenues of resistance to creeping trans totalitarianism.
Here's the Orwellian reply I received from the office of my representative in the Oregon House, Tawna Sanchez, when I urged her to oppose giving children over 15 the legal right to visit Dr. Peters and his amazing sex-change machine (and every other gender-affirming quack in the state) without their parents' knowledge and consent:
"Thank you also for taking the time to detail to your opposition to the portion of HB 2002 that protects gender-affirming care for minors, and for sharing these resources. HB 2002 ONLY expands gender-affirming care without parental consent to youth over the age of 15, and does so to PROTECT youth whose parents may not support their decision to seek such care." (Emphasis added.)
That isn't "protection." It is state-sponsored child abuse and the deprivation of parental rights without due process in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. All that remains is for Tina Kotek to empower Oregon's Child Protective Services to "protect" children under the age of 15 by terminating the custody of parents who are unwilling to submit them to gender-affirming care. Who knows - we may already be there.
Always with the Hunger Games hair.
And the big cartoon glasses. Otherwise how would the world know that he's the Queer Surgeon®?
"Oregon kids over 14 may decide to undergo gender surgery without parental consent."
Jeez, next they'll be drinking and voting.
How/why do the governed permit this public evil to exist?