This week, it was reported that several hospitals were ending or limiting gender care following Donald Trump’s executive order on “gender ideology extremism”.
In response, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed from its website thousands of pages that included terms such as “transgender”, “L.G.B.T.” and “pregnant person”, to comply with the order. In addition, various hospitals, such as NYU Langone Health and Virginia Commonwealth University Health, have cancelled appointments for transgender children over fears that their federal funding will be cut.
These are welcome developments. As someone who previously worked in a gender care hospital, I witnessed first-hand the efforts to promote and provide puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries. I worked at exactly the kind of hospital that the executive order is targeting, namely a university-affiliated hospital with a school of medicine. The reason why these hospitals have been reacting so quickly to Trump’s directive is that they rely heavily on federal funding and research grants to sustain their workforce and facilities. If they continued with gender care, anything from the emergency rooms to the neonatal units keeping premature babies alive would close.
Many of these hospitals know the risks associated with gender interventions; some surgeries, such as phalloplasties, have horrifying complication rates. Before I became a whistleblower, I spoke with my hospital’s risk management, legal team, and ethics department about these damaging long-term effects, but they pressed ahead with them anyway. We had, for example, a patient in my hospital who had a radical bilateral mastectomy begging to have her breasts put back on, but by then it was too late.
The executive orders are starting to work, and we will see increasing numbers of hospitals thankfully end these interventions. They cannot risk losing federal funding, which makes up so much more of their bottom line than either HRC or GLAAD could ever match.
The job isn’t finished, though. What we need next is a lot more challenging, and will require much more compassion. First, we need the hospitals to ensure compliance. I know first-hand that certain doctors will not stop unless we watch them like hawks. They will intentionally miscode, misdiagnose, and lie in hospital records to continue these ideologically-driven interventions. This is made all the more difficult when politicians, such as New York Attorney General Letitia James, are warning hospitals against ending gender care.
Second, we need adults to speak directly to trans-identified young people. They require a great deal of emotional and psychological support in leaving the trans community. We are essentially dealing with a need to de-programme thousands of young people from a cult — no easy thing to walk away from.
Trump deserves credit for starting the process — but Democrats must join if we want to finish it. Hopefully, the next four years will show the party where public opinion on this issue lies. Many lifelong Democrats like myself have been at pains to highlight this, and unsurprisingly we are paying the price. I am not willing to give up on my party, and I will do everything I can to make sure they see sense on this issue.
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SubscribeHospitals should, of course, continue to provide care for those who believe they are in the wrong body in the same way that it does to anorexics who believe they are fat or any other irrational belief. All they need to do is to stop indulging their irrational cult beliefs by hormonal and surgical treatment.
interested in an alternative view? Reasons why equating anorexia and transgender is a false ‘Gotcha’: https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/the-false-analogy-between-anorexia-and-gender-dysphoria
The “alternative view” comes from a gender ideology and affirmative care promoter that relies on what the Cass Review described as shoddy science. Affirmative care has not been shown to improve gender dysphoria in minors, but as caused considerable damage, as detransitioners can tell and have told.
Silly propaganda
The author also claimed that it is unclear if weight loss can improve health outcomes for obese people.
Correct. There is no other delusion that is treated by pretending it’s true. We don’t make the guy in Bellevue, who thinks he’s Napoleon, Emperor of France.
I can’t tell you how happy I am to see LGB liberated from T. Trans was the Bridge Too Far.
Everything about Trans needs to go away. Glad to see that finally happening in the U.S.
With a suddenness that is remarkable, transpeople are no longer welcome in the U.S.
But democrats won’t. Sacrificing children has become a foundational part of the democrat party.
In 2019, WHO concluded that transgender health issues will no longer be classified as mental or behavioural issues. I guess that conclusion, and perhaps others relating vaccines, conflicts with the much cultural opinion in the US.
This reminds me of an episode of Seinfeld where George realizes every decision he makes is the wrong one and so he resolves to make the opposite of every decision he would normally make and his life turns into a great success.
In the same way doing the opposite of whatever the WHO says and recommends is usually an indication one is making the right decision.
Which is why we should leave WHO
Which is the reason the US just did.
Should, could …won’t
Has there been the usual bonfire of comments? This morning someone had posted a link I wanted to look at, but it has gone 🙁