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Tiger's avatar

I believe I read there are 30 lawsuits in the pipeline. Hopefully this will help!

Natalia's avatar

It seems the Tavistock are asking their confused customers to change their names in their passports before hormone treatment as a sign of commitment. My daughter has left her passport with us 🤞

Ross's avatar

Jaz Jennings could be key to a full mood shift. Does anyone know how he is going? I have a lot of sympathy for him - not so much his mother.

LovingMother's avatar

Also, the Canadian actress Ellen Page. She looks terrible.

Jazz Jennings was born Jaron Bloshinsky. His mother is on video being mad at him for getting lazy about sticking the dialators into his wound. Last I saw he appeared overweight and depressed. Poor abused guy.

An article I came across:

"Transgenderism, Jazz Jennings and The Fly"

https://stream.org/transgenderism-jazz-jennings-and-the-fly/

Eleganta's avatar

His father is fully onboard too.

If he really cared about his son, he'd have divorced his wife and sued for custody. If that were my child and I couldn't get custody, I'd have kidnapped him and disappeared with him. Anything to protect him from being butchered.

However, his father is perfectly happy to push him into being butchered.

DareToBeTruthful's avatar

my small sign of progress in the tight direction: One grandmother stops giving women’s clothing as a Christmas gift to your trans-identified 27 year old son, and the other grandmother pushes back when corrected for using “wrong pronouns”.

OJ's avatar
Jan 16Edited

That's a great writing, very spot on!

We were trying to find in person therapist in our city right after Thanksgiving, nobody wanted to work with my kid except if we would go with Christian counselor. None. Not even from colorful websites. In my excuse - first couple of days I was in the utter shock, I had very abstract idea about matter, so I looked for help everywhere.

Planned parenthood said to kid (just turned 18) that first available appointment 6 months away, not covered by insurance and requires a couple of doctor visits and tests. And estimated first visit plus tests around $500-600.

Our school is not allowed to perform any gender affirmation without parental consent. I highly doubt they have anything that promotes it either.

His peers and “cheerleaders” pushed idea of DIY medicalization, but it is costly too and now for sure would be seized by custom (because it would be checked for tariffs, right?). And it’s illegal, and police report would be filed.

Health insurance. We have DPC, so none of this would be covered, but we showed him Marketplace plans and documents and also his preferred college insurance - and everywhere it was the subject of approval plus requires evidence of Gender Dysphoria medical history.

Lawsuits, and new HHS report - were presented too.

Pay out of pocket? Well, hormones not expensive now, but they definitely will be soon, also doctor visits and all the tests are expensive. “No, we are not in position to pay for it, we have people to care for and your upcoming college. You are going to have a roommate also, remember that not everyone around exists to accommodate you”.

There is a lot more in our story, but all those roadblocks helped!

Susan In Kansas's avatar

Anyone else having experience with planned parenthood backing away? My son is 24 and has been accessing hormones for 2years from them-across state lines. But has lost his job since sept and has no health insurance. I’m praying he’s off the hormones right now-but we don’t talk about it. I’d rather be in the dark and keep a relationship-albeit strained than know the specifics.

WaitingHopeful's avatar

We aren't at your point yet but I'm so thankful the system didn't work for your son. We live in Illinois where anything crazy is legal.

OJ's avatar

I’m so sorry you’re going through this. I truly wish none of us had to face this kind of struggle.

Alexander Joseph Hamburger's avatar

“This may be happening” is what I would like to be happening, but my sense is we are still in a corrupt society where the predators are still out to make money by drugging and mutilating children.

Paving the Way's avatar

One of the earliest proponents of Queer Theory, an iteration from Critical Theory, was Foucault whom we know was routinely raping boys that had been entrusted to his care for mentoring. I would imagine his degenerate legacy could be continuing at the modern-day mentoring groups for our questioning kids. Disclosure by whistleblowers might speed up the "fading" a bit.

AlexEsq's avatar

can you give me a solid citation for what you say here about Foucault?

I've heard these allegations previously and would like to know who has testified about this abuse.

thank-you!

Christa's avatar

Maybe Foucault has mixed reports, but John Money, the Johns Hopkins Dr who is the 'father' of trans was a predator, child abuser, liar, & all around horrific man. No debate on his history: https://devilslane.com/alfred-kinsey-john-money-psychopathic-serial-sexual-predators/

Marla, MD's avatar

What a bunch of pleasant thoughts! Also remember medical institutions are completely captured by gender ideology in the stupidest way, but many doctors don't agree with it personally and those wars internally are never broadcast outside. The kind of letters I've written our hospital administration and fights I've had at work are things many of us are doing. There are many layers. The tide is changing very slowly but remember, the trans cult has unlimited funding normies don't. So expect it to be slow going still.

Sandra Pinches's avatar

The most effective deterrents to doctors are: 1. Lawsuits, and 2. the resulting withdrawal of support by medical liability insurers ("malpractice insurance") for doctors who offer "medicalized gender care."

Most of us may want to see doctors change their positions because they suddenly understand that they are harming people, not helping them. I think that doctors are far more likely to stop practicing "gender affirmative care" when doing so becomes a risk to themselves. I am not saying this because I think that all doctors are unethical or motivated entirely by money. I am saying this because I do think that doctors tend to go along with whatever has become accepted as the conventional belief within their professions as well as within the national culture. Like all the other passive conformers among the "trans allies," they are not deep thinkers and do not question beliefs that have gained acceptance among the organizations they regard as authorities. And now that the bizarre and absurd claims of the "gender" movement have become conventional in Western culture, doctors will be more cautious than are we who challenge those claims. Doctors are easily influenced by drug salespeople and opinions endorsed by their professional associations, but they are conservative once they accept those opinions as truths.

Sheri's avatar

I’ve had the thought about liability insurers - the more lawsuits (successful or not) naming hospitals, clinics, physicians, case managers, and therapists could certainly change liability protection, or at the very least, the cost of that protection.

Sandra Pinches's avatar

It is likely that the insurance carriers will completely cease to cover GAC cases. Unfortunately, some blue states have already passed laws that protect doctors who adhere to WPATH rules, which are basically no rules.

anpanman2's avatar

The fading out may take twenty years.

Susan Z's avatar

I probably will not be around when this completely goes away. But I really would love my own son back while I have a little time to enjoy that wonderous event.

Felicia's avatar

Me too! I want all of the missed time with my daughter.

Marla, MD's avatar

I hope and pray that comes true for you 🤗

Dr Gregory Kent's avatar

I love this! Imagining the micro changes that get us out of this catastrophic sh*tshow. Awesome writing.

anpanman2's avatar

My daughter went to the first line medical center down the street to get her testosterone shot and the doctor said that he had discussed her case with his colleagues and they had decided that these shots were not healthy for her because they knew these shots because they were being "misused" by body builders as steroids. So my daughter told me: "I'l give the shots myself, I can do it because I learned it when training as a nurse." I was amazed because this was the first time that I heard a doctor push back against these "treatments". A seed of doubt may be sown...

Hippiesq's avatar

These are the scenes toward the end of the movie about this insane part of our history, showing how it all ended, not in a big dramatic declaration of conciliation by those who went along, with arrests and tearful admissions, but through a slow fade away…

paleblue's avatar

Perhaps that is the best we can hope for. But my clear preference is that the individuals and groups behind this, particularly in the medical community, be sued into oblivion. Even the parents who just went along with it should be made aware...beyond any doubt...how despicable and evil the project was. I do not trust the individuals and organizations involved to not attempt to advance their ideology on another front. In a sane world, they already should have lost all credibility.

Hippiesq's avatar

I think we would all prefer accountability. With accountability, we are more likely to at least delay the next big scandalous medical atrocity, and we will provide some form of redress for those harmed.

However, the point of this essay is that it may not happen that way. The first, and most important, thing is to stop this from happening. We may have a separate fight for the accountability, lawsuits being a key feature of that process.

It's like the trials at Nuremberg and the lawsuits for return of property stolen by the Nazis (Woman in Gold, starring Ryan Reynolds and Helen Mirren, is a great movie, by the way.) These were such important measures to prevent such atrocities from happening again, and to give the millions of victims some form of justice.

However, in Nazi Germany, the first order of business was to shut down the death camps! And the first order of business for us is to stop the chemical and surgical harm and cruel gaslighting of our most vulnerable youth!

Toni Smith's avatar

Insurance coverage needs to stop for cross hormones and surgery 🙏🙏

Felicia's avatar

Definitely! My insurance covers my daughter and it pays for her drug-testosterone and paid to have her healthy breasts removed. If they didn't pay for it, she would not have been able to afford it.

alewifey's avatar

What has to be done here in the U.S. is to...

/1/ reclassify these as the cosmetic procedures that they are—which, like other cosmetic procedures, are not covered by insurance;

/2/ pass federal legislation barring ANY insurer, whether private or Medicaid, from underwriting even one cent of the cost of "gender affirmation";

and

/3/ MANDATE that insurers cover the costs of DEtransition—including the treatment of early menopausal and osteoporotic symptoms, and often extending to lifelong pharmaceutical expenses to re-approximate the endocrine environment of one's own embodied sex (e.g., for anybody who's had gonads removed or damaged as part of "affirming" surgery).

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Plenty of precedent for no. 3 here as well: Medical insurance usually WILL cover, to some extent, reconstructive operarions for botched plastic surgery—even though the original surgery, botched or otherwise, is NOT covered. Likewise with mandating coverage of DE"transition" while outlawing coverage of "transition".

A mandate is absolutely necessary for no. 3 BTW—to overturn unconscionable legislation by psychotic Dem supermajorities in states like Oregon, where they actually BARRED detransition coverage in a state bill that mandated both Medicaid and private coverage of "transition". Great people, those.

LovingMother's avatar

100%

This is the number 1 problem at the moment I think.

It is about the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Cut off the money and not the body parts. Stop the money flow for Wrong Sex hormones.

Toni Smith's avatar

Amen and Amen 🙏

Lucia Alvarez's avatar

A college orientation leader no longer feels the need to specify he's a "he/him." A progressive professional woman silently takes the "she/her" out of her email signature. A conservative notices he hasn't even joked about "pronouns" in a long time because nobody cares about them anymore.

A "non-binary" woman notices it's been years since she's sincerely wanted gender-neutral restrooms. She's been fine with the women's restrooms this whole time.

An otherwise vulnerable teenage girl sees the TikToks reminiscing on the silly days of 2020: "Remember the labels we gave ourselves? Remember the ridiculous non-binary names we chose?" She agrees that the trend was absurd.

Kim Di Giacomo's avatar

Real change rarely comes with headlines and victory laps. It happens quietly, through risk calculations, second thoughts, and people deciding the old script no longer feels safe, profitable, or even believable.

Friction is creeping back into a system that depended on momentum and compliance. Delayed procedures. Missed appointments. Insurance denials. Subtle social pressure restoring ordinary boundaries. None of it looks dramatic on its own, but together it shifts the landscape.

Movements don’t always collapse in public. Sometimes they just lose energy, lose incentives, and quietly stop sustaining themselves. That’s usually how real correction happens.

LovingMother's avatar

Have you heard about any Insurance denials? I think insurers are still required to pay for this stuff. They wouldn't do it if not required, IMO.

Sandra Pinches's avatar

States can pass laws mandating that insurers doing business in that state have to cover certain diagnoses or procedures, and refrain from others. Oregon has done this with respect to "gender affirmative care.

LovingMother's avatar

:-(

AKA Sex Rejecting Procedures.

Perhaps the FTC will make a strong move regarding deceptive health claims.

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/FTC-The-Dangers-of-Gender-Affirming-Care-for-Minors-Transcript.pdf

Sandra Pinches's avatar

Yes, I hope the federal government can continue to push against the medical abuses being committed at every stage of "transing" kids.

LovingMother's avatar

Yes, there is a great deal of deception and then no one is there for people when they want to get off the trans train and heal as much as possible.

And, I don't think these abuses ought to be committed against anybody.

I don't think we can save the kids, including kids in the future, unless we end the Sex Rejection medical field. People need help with their heads instead. Also, as long as the "medicine" exists there will be a financial and also a political reason to socially indoctrinate uncomfortable teens in the school systems. It functionally works like a cult, and they will do whatever to themselves once the mind is won over. I think of NXIVM and Heaven's Gate.

Dr. Paul McHugh got this right.

Sandra Pinches's avatar

Spot on!

Dr. McHugh is a treasure.

Kim Di Giacomo's avatar

I’m in Canada, so I honestly don’t know how much private insurers are actually denying yet. A lot of this is still mandated through provincial coverage and regulatory rules, so you’re right that insurers usually won’t stop paying unless they’re clearly allowed or forced to.

My point is less that the dam has already broken, and more that the incentives are starting to shift. Once liability, court risk, or regulatory ambiguity creeps in, insurers and providers start getting cautious. Even small delays, extra paperwork, or quiet discouragement can change behavior over time.

So yes, today they may still be paying. I’m watching to see whether that stays true once the legal and political temperature keeps changing. That’s usually how these things move, slowly and quietly rather than all at once.

LovingMother's avatar

I'm in the US where my daughter's "health" insurance pays for her testosterone gel. I think that insurers would deny payments on just about anything if they could.

And, I don't think the clinics show any caution yet for those who have hit the 18/19 year old mark - maybe just for children. They are in the business, after all. And, blue state politicians are doubling down here in the US.

So, I think that in the US it will require strong action from something like the Federal Trade Commission:

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/FTC-The-Dangers-of-Gender-Affirming-Care-for-Minors-Transcript.pdf

There are certainly many false and deceptive health claims surrounding Sex Rejecting Procedures...

Kim Di Giacomo's avatar

Yeah, I think you’re right about the US. If insurers could deny this, they already would. They deny everything else they can get away with. If they’re still paying, it’s because mandates and politics are keeping it in place.

I also agree the clinics don’t show much caution once someone hits 18 or 19. The consent box gets checked, the liability shifts, and the business keeps rolling, especially in blue states.

That’s why any real change probably has to come from the regulatory and legal side, consumer protection, deceptive claims, liability. When the risk finally outweighs the reward, behavior changes fast.

Lucia Alvarez's avatar

This reeks of ChatGPT prose, but it isn't wrong. I think this is mostly how the excesses of 2010s feminism died out. Progressives just got tired of arguing about the "wage gap" and "rape culture" and "systemic sexism" - it was less tiring and more rewarding for conservatives to argue against their claims than it was for progressives to argue for them.

DLM's avatar

The article is my own words. I did encourage the PITT editors to help me. They added the first sentence.

I once sent another article through an AI editor. It flipped the meaning.

Susan In Kansas's avatar

My daughter(28) is back in college. After last semester she had 3 professors comment/praise her on writing her own papers. It’s a rarity apparently.

Eleganta's avatar

Yes, the PITT editors edited my piece too. Of course they did. I'm a professional editor, so I understand. Everything published needs to be edited.

I have also been accused of using ChatGPT to write my own clear, coherent sentences and express myself properly through the written word. For the record, I wouldn't know how to use ChatGPT if my life depended on it. I simply know it's important to learn how to express yourself properly.

This is really just a sad reflection on the literacy of the person making the accusation.

Kim Di Giacomo's avatar

Honestly, it’s laughable. The fact that someone thinks clear, coherent writing must come from AI says more about their own skills than anything else. I know how to put sentences together and communicate my ideas properly. I knew she was indicating my reply as a ChatGPT response. I use Grammarly Professional to correct spelling, grammar, and sentence structure.

To be honest, I'm impressed that she thought my reply was ChatGPT 😂

Kim Di Giacomo's avatar

Just to be clear, I wrote the original piece, not ChatGPT. And yeah, I mostly agree with your take. This is exactly how the excesses of 2010s feminism burned themselves out too. Not with some dramatic collapse, but through exhaustion and diminishing returns.

The slogans stopped persuading, the arguments got stale, and people quietly moved on to things that actually rewarded them. Once the energy imbalance flipped, it became more work to defend the claims than to challenge them, so fewer people bothered carrying the water. Movements don’t usually end with a bang. They fade when the incentives disappear and the audience gets bored.

WaitingHopeful's avatar

I'm praying this happens SOON!!!