All the following can be true at the same time:
Maybe its convenient semantics to get you to your accommodations position, but I would take issue with you calling my son's friend disabled, or saying he has a disability (he is my friend as well). I suspect transgenders and their families would take issue as well. Let's not overthink this, the term transgender works fine (at least as we stand here today). Their abilities are just fine, so they don't need to be lumped into some other category that doesn't apply.
www.thefp.com
Hahaha! Why on earth would you EVER care for EOTL's approval? No one could possibly do more harm to the "cause" they support than EOTL does with his "support". He's an angry, talking point parrot in a frenzied state that renders him incapable of critical thinking - the left's version of the Westboro Baptist Church. If he supports something I say, I check what I said carefully. Of course, even the devil mixes truth with lies
.Now you know what kind of Doc I was dealing with. My God, the things our precious daughters have to do to play soccer for our country is insane!Hahaha! Why on earth would you EVER care for EOTL's approval? No one could possibly do more harm to the "cause" they support than EOTL does with his "support". He's an angry, talking point parrot in a frenzied state that renders him incapable of critical thinking - the left's version of the Westboro Baptist Church. If he supports something I say, I check what I said carefully. Of course, even the devil mixes truth with lies
Exhibit A as to why we need strict protocols. This sounds like they were attempting a social experiment on at-risk kidsIt's nice to see what the media can do when they focus on providing meaningful information instead of promoting ideologies. This is behind a paywall, but it's a great read.
I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.
There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling.
I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.
There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling.
By Jamie Reed
February 9, 2023
I am a 42-year-old St. Louis native, a queer woman, and politically to the left of Bernie Sanders. My worldview has deeply shaped my career. I have spent my professional life providing counseling to vulnerable populations: children in foster care, sexual minorities, the poor.
For almost four years, I worked at The Washington University School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases with teens and young adults who were HIV positive. Many of them were trans or otherwise gender nonconforming, and I could relate: Through childhood and adolescence, I did a lot of gender questioning myself. I’m now married to a transman, and together we are raising my two biological children from a previous marriage and three foster children we hope to adopt.
The center’s working assumption was that the earlier you treat kids with gender dysphoria, the more anguish you can prevent later on. This premise was shared by the center’s doctors and therapists. Given their expertise, I assumed that abundant evidence backed this consensus.
During the four years I worked at the clinic as a case manager—I was responsible for patient intake and oversight—around a thousand distressed young people came through our doors. The majority of them received hormone prescriptions that can have life-altering consequences—including sterility.
I left the clinic in November of last year because I could no longer participate in what was happening there. By the time I departed, I was certain that the way the American medical system is treating these patients is the opposite of the promise we make to “do no harm.” Instead, we are permanently harming the vulnerable patients in our care.
Today I am speaking out. I am doing so knowing how toxic the public conversation is around this highly contentious issue—and the ways that my testimony might be misused. I am doing so knowing that I am putting myself at serious personal and professional risk.
Almost everyone in my life advised me to keep my head down. But I cannot in good conscience do so. Because what is happening to scores of children is far more important than my comfort. And what is happening to them is morally and medically appalling.
<there's a lot more>
If we've learned anything the last few years, its that a "one-size, fits all" approach to healthcare leads to abject failure. I believe that doctors need to do a better job at evaluating and treating patients as opposed to just treating symptoms. I hate this word, but its seems a "paradigm" shift in healthcare is needed.It's nice to see what the media can do when they focus on providing meaningful information instead of promoting ideologies. This is behind a paywall, but it's a great read.
I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.
There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling.
I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.
There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling.
By Jamie Reed
February 9, 2023
I am a 42-year-old St. Louis native, a queer woman, and politically to the left of Bernie Sanders. My worldview has deeply shaped my career. I have spent my professional life providing counseling to vulnerable populations: children in foster care, sexual minorities, the poor.
For almost four years, I worked at The Washington University School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases with teens and young adults who were HIV positive. Many of them were trans or otherwise gender nonconforming, and I could relate: Through childhood and adolescence, I did a lot of gender questioning myself. I’m now married to a transman, and together we are raising my two biological children from a previous marriage and three foster children we hope to adopt.
The center’s working assumption was that the earlier you treat kids with gender dysphoria, the more anguish you can prevent later on. This premise was shared by the center’s doctors and therapists. Given their expertise, I assumed that abundant evidence backed this consensus.
During the four years I worked at the clinic as a case manager—I was responsible for patient intake and oversight—around a thousand distressed young people came through our doors. The majority of them received hormone prescriptions that can have life-altering consequences—including sterility.
I left the clinic in November of last year because I could no longer participate in what was happening there. By the time I departed, I was certain that the way the American medical system is treating these patients is the opposite of the promise we make to “do no harm.” Instead, we are permanently harming the vulnerable patients in our care.
Today I am speaking out. I am doing so knowing how toxic the public conversation is around this highly contentious issue—and the ways that my testimony might be misused. I am doing so knowing that I am putting myself at serious personal and professional risk.
Almost everyone in my life advised me to keep my head down. But I cannot in good conscience do so. Because what is happening to scores of children is far more important than my comfort. And what is happening to them is morally and medically appalling.
<there's a lot more>
Now your getting it watty. WHO could possibly be doing social and physical experiments are the kids?
It’s an NPR poll. They used the liberal phrasing, treating mtf athletes as a subset of females:
a. That is not a liberal phrasing of it. It does not present the idea of mitigating steps taken.
The problem with EVERYONE, is EVERYONE is trying to make their science theories true. Math does not lie and neither does birth. If your lucky to survive birth, you get assigned to be a male or female. That is it in a nutshell whether you like your body or not. I did not create this game of life and it's just how creation set things up. Big bang and wow, a man and a woman to make more humans. Truth is truth and not any science. It is what it is. If my son comes to me when he's 12 and says, "Papa, I want to be a girl." We would talk about the whys and all that. I'm so loving Grace T. At 12, he needs to develop more his brain and thoughts. What did you want to be when you were 12? I know 100% I wanted to play and chase the girls on the playground and then give Pink Bellies and Melvin's to the boys, like SurfFutbol and those who made fun of me in class. I debated my teachers about three things back in the day. I got the first 2 right and just wait until I unleash my flat earth stuff. I always save the best for last.....lol!
What if at age 12 your kid comes to you and says he’s having trouble concentrating and is making a lot of mistakes (both at school and the soccer field) and you take him to the doctor who diagnoses him with adhd. Doc says some ot, talk and alternative therapies may help but recommends a stimulant which is highly addictive and is basically a chemical compound akin to meth?
First off, ADHD is not about being a male and wanting to be a female. Plus, ADHD kids and adults are now the smartest we have on the planet and giving them drugs to STFU is stupid, abusive and Doc is just making his quota for selling pills. My wife worked for a shrink and all the pill pushers come in every week to bribe the Doc to push their brand of pills. ADHD folks are going to help lead the country and they have superpowers. It's all coming out Grace. I was ADHD before ADHD came out and thank God my mom knew the truth. My dd is as well. Coaches had a hard time with her because they couldn't control her. My teachers tried to brainwash me but they lost the debates with me. They just used their power to suspend me and make my life hell. Their groomers and drug pushers now, if you haven't figured that out yet.
ADHD is an interesting example. Hugely overdiagnosed. The vast majority of these kids are just normal boys. But schools these days have trouble with normal boys, so they want them medicated.
This is why I love Crush. He is so honestly consistent. I love the purity of heart. It's interesting there is a very heated argument in the ADHD community right now which makes this discussion look relatively tame....there are some purists which say never medicate, and there are the orthodox which says that is outright child abuse. The problem, of course, is that it is becoming more widely accepted that ADHD is just a different type of evolutionary brain. When humans were out hunting animals, they needed brains that were adapted to focus on tracking and killing the mammoth but they also needed brains to yell at them "hey watch out for the saber tooth tiger over there". The problem is our society wants people focused on the machine, not what's going on with the factory floor.
A lot of the examples I just listed I've actually lived through. I wrote an article for a soccer magazine that was widely read. "wake up early to play some basketball" did not work....it's a misnomer to think that all ADHD is hyperactive....my kids was anxious distracted while I'm hyperfocused obsessive.
