Breaking article from @Bernard_Lane : theaustralian.com.au/nation/trans-s…
“The surgical removal of healthy breasts from girls who identify as boys is an experiment that future generations may judge harshly, a psychiatrist has warned.”
“Writing in the prestigious journal, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Melbourne psychiatrist Alison Clayton argues that transgender mastectomy may with time be seen as ‘dangerous medicine’ like discredited past practices such as psychiatric lobotomy, which won a Nobel prize in 1949.”
“It is surprising that clinicians and researchers claim chest surgery for youth (who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria) is an evidence-based intervention,”
“only a handful of low-quality, short-term studies support claims of mental health benefits for trans mastectomy with teenagers, making this ‘an experimental treatment’ in need of more rigorous, ethics-approved research.”
(A 2018 study by US gender clinician Dr Olson-Kennedy) “said there was no previous data showing the effect of chest surgery on minors. Yet 3 yrs before, she had already been promoting this procedure (for 13+) claiming it was ‘easy, safe, available, and ‘absolutely lifesaving’”
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