For several months, PITT has been putting out essays and personal stories written and edited by parents directly impacted by gender ideology. We’re pleased to be able to get our voices out, and even more pleased that people are starting to listen and to read about what parents and families are going through to safeguard our children from the gender industry.
I am a physician and a mother of a child with ROGD. After this gender tsunami blind sided our family earlier this summer, I did a informal poll of my MD colleagues—many of whom are professors at a large research institution in our coastal progressive state. Like me, all were shocked to learn that children were provided puberty blockers and cross sex hormones with no long term outcome data. ALL were horrified to learn that surgical procedures like double mastectomies and hysterectomies (not without inherent risk and potential lifelong complications) were also being performed on children, again with scant data to justify a ‘sledgehammer’ intervention. Like me, they assumed that these drastic measures were only offered to adults and after significant time and therapy to proceed any consideration of drugs or surgery.
Word needs to reach the medical community—after the horrors of the opioid epidemic and historical tragedies like thalidomide and Tuskegee, physicians cannot be complicit in another ‘experiment’ on a vulnerable population.
And the medical community needs to take its professional organizations to task for adopting "consensus" policies that endorse these practices. I can almost guarantee you that, regardless of their practice areas, every one of your colleagues is a member of such an organization.
Yes Tessa - and add recovery of "repressed memories" of [false] childhood abuse through "hypnotism;" lobotomies; and telling mothers to use formula instead of nursing their newborn babies because it's "better." They also sterilized people in mental institutions and prisons and, in some cases, immigrants and people of color when they were hospitalized for other reasons. I'm sure there are several more examples of the medical community gone wild of which I am not aware or forgetting. Some of these "treatments" lacked consent (forced sterilizations; lobotomies, although families often consented to them; Tuskegee - they didn't know), but the Thalidomide, repressed memory recovery, and cessation of nursing - the latter of which was so common in the 50s through 70s - was all done with "consent" of a population of people who thought the medical community was properly advising them.
The only way things will ever change is to make people who are not directly impacted by gender ideology aware of the regressive, illogical, unscientific basis for the medically scandalous, harmful treatments being pushed on confused young people under the false guise of helping them to be their "true selves." Bravo to the people at Pitt and Genspect.
I’m not a parent dealing personally with this issue, but I know a few who are. The voices here and the stories told are powerful and important to the conversation on sex, gender, and health in our society. It’s wonderful you’ve found support from Genspect. May your audience continue expanding and your shared pain make a positive difference in the lives of many.
I am a physician and a mother of a child with ROGD. After this gender tsunami blind sided our family earlier this summer, I did a informal poll of my MD colleagues—many of whom are professors at a large research institution in our coastal progressive state. Like me, all were shocked to learn that children were provided puberty blockers and cross sex hormones with no long term outcome data. ALL were horrified to learn that surgical procedures like double mastectomies and hysterectomies (not without inherent risk and potential lifelong complications) were also being performed on children, again with scant data to justify a ‘sledgehammer’ intervention. Like me, they assumed that these drastic measures were only offered to adults and after significant time and therapy to proceed any consideration of drugs or surgery.
Word needs to reach the medical community—after the horrors of the opioid epidemic and historical tragedies like thalidomide and Tuskegee, physicians cannot be complicit in another ‘experiment’ on a vulnerable population.
And the medical community needs to take its professional organizations to task for adopting "consensus" policies that endorse these practices. I can almost guarantee you that, regardless of their practice areas, every one of your colleagues is a member of such an organization.
Yes Tessa - and add recovery of "repressed memories" of [false] childhood abuse through "hypnotism;" lobotomies; and telling mothers to use formula instead of nursing their newborn babies because it's "better." They also sterilized people in mental institutions and prisons and, in some cases, immigrants and people of color when they were hospitalized for other reasons. I'm sure there are several more examples of the medical community gone wild of which I am not aware or forgetting. Some of these "treatments" lacked consent (forced sterilizations; lobotomies, although families often consented to them; Tuskegee - they didn't know), but the Thalidomide, repressed memory recovery, and cessation of nursing - the latter of which was so common in the 50s through 70s - was all done with "consent" of a population of people who thought the medical community was properly advising them.
The only way things will ever change is to make people who are not directly impacted by gender ideology aware of the regressive, illogical, unscientific basis for the medically scandalous, harmful treatments being pushed on confused young people under the false guise of helping them to be their "true selves." Bravo to the people at Pitt and Genspect.
I’m not a parent dealing personally with this issue, but I know a few who are. The voices here and the stories told are powerful and important to the conversation on sex, gender, and health in our society. It’s wonderful you’ve found support from Genspect. May your audience continue expanding and your shared pain make a positive difference in the lives of many.