The Standard Clinic Experience - Self Diagnosis Straight to Hormones in One Day
This weekend I emailed Jamie Reed thanking her for her bravery and I included our personal story, shared below.
My family has been hijacked by the transgender movement so, along with my thanks for your bravery, I thought I should share our journey at a pediatric gender clinic.
When my daughter first expressed gender distress, we were encouraged to go to a "prestigious" university pediatric gender clinic.
I still have so much anger/hostility from the day of our appointment. The experience was what I now recognize as boiler plate gender clinic. The intake therapist affirmed my daughter immediately. She did not receive any prior history from her therapist, just took my child’s word for it in what we now know is the standard self-diagnosis procedure.
In response to my husbands question about the truth of the suicide statistics, the therapist made a sad face, and just shook her head “yes”. My husband broke down sobbing.
The intake therapist offered to get us in to the clinic’s medical doctor the very same day so that my then 13-year old daughter could be prescribed Testosterone right away. I asked this therapist, "this doctor would do this? Today?" She said, "Oh yes, they (the gender doctors) do as I say. All told our appointment was only a couple of hours.
Not that day, but eventually, we did go for an appointment with that medical doctor, but my husband and I declined hormones. We went back to this clinic 6-8 times, each time there was a private consult with just my daughter and one with just us parents.
I raised my concerns with the doctor, telling of how I had signed myself into these teen sites as a 14 year old female and seeing all advice and propaganda on how to “pass” with your parents/therapist/gender clinic, etc. Seeing how the 20ish year old "males"promoted testosterone as the only answer. The glorification of mastectomies, the hypnotizing videos, the youtubers and bloggers who secretly messaged these teens with their agendas. It was clear to me that these influences were powerful and that teens were following a playbook. While the doctor seemed interested, she continued to push for my daughter to start T.
Another time I asked the doctor to speak to my child about about any holistic, or dbt, or neutral therapies available as she was depressed and lonely. We pressed this issue at home, and found a neutral therapist—but my child exploded at this. Later she told me the doctor said that the reason she was depressed, sad, and lonely was because of her gender dysphoria and that she needed hormones.
In another private conversation, with only myself and this doctor (who is an MD, not an endocrinologist), she admitted to me that "their clinic is having a harder time distinguishing between 'real' and 'socially influenced' "trans kids".
I also asked this doctor how she could sleep at night, giving young women adult male hormones with with no long term studies available. Her reply with a chuckle, was "it makes them SO HAPPY".
In God's name this is a crime.
Good God!! "But giving them testosterone makes them so happy!" Giving candy bars to someone with a weight problem or tequila to someone with an alcohol problem or heroin to someone with a drug problem would make ALL OF THEM SO HAPPY!! And yet we don't do that....
The idea of a chortling ghoul in a white coat tittering about how cross-sex hormones make confused adolescents "happy" should send a chill up anyone's spine, but most people have been indoctrinated to "be kind" and dare not question the New Religion.
You know what made me "happy" when I was a miserable adolescent? Quaaludes. I really liked Quaaludes. I liked Quaaludes more than weed, which was something I also liked. I liked Quaaludes because they made me feel similar to the way I felt when I was drunk without ever making me end up puking in a gutter or down the side of my parents' house. Quaaludes were da bomb.
There have always been unscrupulous doctors. If I had been wealthy and savvy enough to do a proper search (I was a teenager in the early 1980s) I probably could have found a doctor who would have prescribed me psych meds without my parents' permission.
As an unhappy adult, I found plenty of doctors willing to push antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications on me even though I have horrific paradoxical reactions to most of them. I experience devastating rebound panic attacks with most benzodiazepines, for instance. Except for Valium, which just makes me thick as a brick.
My concerns about psych meds are similar to the ones I have about gender medicine (for lack of a better term.) There are no long-term studies about the effects on the brain and body. There is no blood test or brain scan to show that a person really has the condition they are being diagnosed with. I felt vindicated by the information given in the documentary "Letters to Generation Rx."
I think gender medicine is even more damaging than the push to put every patient who expresses dissatisfaction with their life on SSRIs, which is still going on although not as aggressively as it was in the 1980s and 1990s. While incorrect use of SSRIs absolutely can harm people, the prescription of these medications is not a pipeline to unnecessary surgery. Prescription of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones often lead to surgery with the promise that a patient will "become their authentic self."
When wrong-sex hormones and surgery are offered to unhappy adolescents whose sense of perspective is skewed by normal hormone changes and a lack of life experience, these kids are, understandably, quick to jump on the offer to become "their authentic self." Of course their authentic self is perfect and special. Isn't everyone's?
It is appalling that so many people refuse to listen to detransitioners who have thrown back the curtain on the illusion, revealing gender doctors to be snake oil salesmen and butchers rather than the fairy godmothers and godfathers of Almighty Gender that they market themselves as.