Ricochet is the best place on the internet to discuss the issues of the day, either through commenting on posts or writing your own for our active and dynamic community in a fully moderated environment. In addition, the Ricochet Audio Network offers over 50 original podcasts with new episodes released every day.
Viva la France!Viva la Difference!
I admit I am stunned. Out of France, incredibly, comes a report ordered by the French Senate, analyzing the practice of transitioning adolescent patients with gender dysphoria.
The bottom line conclusion: This practice is the one of the greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine.
I did not think I would live to see the day when some official body actually spoke or wrote the truth about this subject. The French are calling for a ban on transgender treatment of minors. The British have already instituted such a ban, and have closed the main clinic, the Tavistock clinic, engaging in this treatment. This was done after a review was undertaken that revealed the abuses at that clinic.
There is no good evidence that treatment of minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria is of any benefit. There is evidence that it is harmful. Evidence of benefit has been claimed in its absence; evidence of harm has been either ignored or suppressed.
The US is the country most avidly pursuing transitioning of minors. That, I am afraid, will not change. It is too much of a political cause celebre’. Democrats will abandon Biden long before they will abandon their ideology on transgenderism, particularly that of transitioning minors. That is because it is fundamental to the political ideology of the Left; one that aims to destroy the family and the society that is built on the fundamental family unit in favor of a totalitarian regime that controls all aspects of life. America not only insists on allowing minors to transition, America threatens parents if they interfere. The Law is applied punitively against parents who do not consent to the treatment, or the parents are excluded from the process altogether.
Adolescents are cognitively incapable of giving informed consent — the bedrock of medical treatment, except in this one area, the transitioning of minors. Transitioning is being done without medical ethical consideration at all. This gives us an indication of how much of a deranged political ideology is at the core of the practice. We have gone beyond De Sade. Far beyond De Sade. We have proclaimed that what is evil is good.
The Endocrine Society guidelines for managing transgender adolescents include the acknowledgement that the evidence for treatment is poor (essentially, nonexistent), nonetheless the Society advocates such treatment. The Endocrine Society is an ethically bankrupt organization. Sadly, it is my professional organization. It has been a paragon of science in medicine. Now it enters the medical hall of shame along with such figures as Dr. Mengele and the Nazis, along with those advocating forced sterilization of the “unfit,” the Eugenicists. And that, sorry to say, is not an overstatement. Personally, I will cease to be a member until the Endocrine Society advocates a ban on transitioning minors.
Efficacy is claimed where there is no evidence of efficacy, no measure of outcomes. Though we hear endlessly that denying puberty blockers to transgender adolescents leads to suicide, there is no evidence of that. According to the French evaluation there is evidence of harm. Permanent harm. The eternal hippocratic medical dictum to first do no harm is no longer accepted by American medicine. America now practices medicine in this field under a completely hypocritical ethical standard. And worse.
Who would have guessed that Matt Walsh would have greater moral insight than the entirety of the American Medical system.
Published in General
Europe contributed mightily toward fostering this nonsense — and, increasingly, seems to be leading us out of it.
I think it was the Dutch that started us on this path. But, as with Eugenics (courtesy of the British, eg, Francis Galton), America seems to become the foremost expositor and practitioner (although the Nazis surpassed us at our Eugenics effort) of what is most perverse.
I hope so. But as I recall it, this was an American export and Europeans decided to run with scalpels. At least I’m cautiously optimistic that we’ll have a bit more luck pointing out the moderation of European restrictions relative to the US on this issue than we have on abortion.
Anyway, this is good news!
With socialized medicine such clinics were cost centers. In the US they have become very profitable profit centers. I expect serious resistance to any restrictions in the US. The people who work there and promote these mutilations are hideous human beings. Maybe worse than those who promote abortions. But there is money – a lot of it – being made. And the Feds want more of it seemingly.
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/french-senators-call-for-ban-on-gender-transition-for-minors/
The U.S. will never ban this diabolical stuff. There’s way too much money in it for Pfizer, et al.
Same reason that, while Europe understood the dangers of the COVID jabs, and started limiting their use, the U.S. is still trying to get you to jab your babies.
It’s all about the Benjamins.
And yet Europe has so many other problems, who’d want to live THERE?
And there is a 1000’s of families and doctors that will never admit they committed this crimes against humanity–the human mind does not allow such confession. Those people are going to go to the grave claiming the were right.
This is as least as important as ideology.
Yes. Britain’s NHS recently blocked puberty blockers. I think Sweden is moving away from the trans insanity as well. One thing this tells me is that progressives here in the USA are now farther to the left (and more insane) than the typical European leftist.
How profitable? Do we have data on insurance industry payments for these procedures?
https://www.observatoirepetitesirene.org/_files/ugd/49b30a_05100e65f5c2480f9d924e63ad0bf72d.pdf
Four American medical people are listed in the TOC. It’s not clear to me what their role was in this report, but I checked the first two and they are on a list of bad people kept at a site that calls itself Transgender Map.
I do not have any data. I imagine it is accumulated where other industry data is accumulated. I’m referencing published (revealed) commentary by physicians and marketing staff when presenting new(er) programs to clinical staff at hospitals and PParenthood commentary made public in about the last 4 years. In addition, thinking as a consultant, it has considerable potential for cross disciplinary selling: it’s not just the surgeons who get work, it’s the PT, OT, social workers, psychologists, lifelong pharmacology need and routine maintenance for followup, not including any subsequent repairs or emergency procedures. It’s also expanding the range of services provided by Medicaid, starting in schools as they deploy the Social Emotional Learning model that includes health care, funded by school budgets.
I consider it Example #N of government money laundering of taxpayer money. I’m looking for a word to describe it that’s beyond hideous.
Abominable.
I have heard lifetime costs for treatments is $7million.
Edmund Black’s book “War against the Weak” about the American history of Eugenics and how it influenced Germany.
Shazam!
I read this morning (somewhere) that 24 states now ban or severely limit gender change surgery for minors, so the United States is trending in the right direction.
Planned Parenthood Profits Big From Getting Kids Hooked On Transgender Hormones Through The School-To-Clinic Pipeline
Gender ideology is a boon to Big Pharma and threat to parental rights
I read a lot, as we all do, and I always find myself wondering, “How bad is this?” on any given trend or issue. Every now and then I come across some statistic that answers that question resoundingly. In an opinion piece this morning on Fox News on the Biden administration’s continuing assault on women’s sports, the authors say this:
This is so unfair to women athletes.
But what’s really interesting to me also is that I grew up during the feminist movement in which the claim was made that women were as strong as men, which justified women’s going into the armed forces and emergency services. I always wondered about that claim.
My daughter took gymnastics, and her coach told me once that he could increase flexibility but not strength. There was an upper limit on strength for each person and that men would always be stronger than women. I’m going back thirty years, but I’ve never heard anyone else say that. But I’ve continued to wonder about it. This invasion of women’s sports by men and their consistent success in competitions with women athletes seems to me to prove beyond any doubt that my daughter’s coach was right, that the strongest men are indeed stronger than the strongest women.
Five Hundred!?
I mean, we hear of a few cases here and there, and it’s made me wonder if those cases made it look like a bigger problem, but . . . yes, 500 is a big problem.
Maybe that 500 figure needs to be talked about more.
Of course, the Alphabet Mafia will say “In a country of 330 million, it’s a drop in the bucket.” (Same argument used to defend a lot of discretionary spending.)
That number shocked me too.
And average men are stronger than average women, and “weak” men are still stronger than “weak” women…
Do you recall that in 2917 the boys’ junior (under 15’s) team beat the women’s (adult) USA National team in soccer. But of course the women weren’t trying really hard and all that. The 15’s were just beginning to get their T going but could out run and score the women. It only gets more significant. If T isn’t significant, why do they give it to the girls who want to act as boys?
I won’t be alive in 2917, but that would be something to see!