🧵We have our first major whistleblower from a ghoulish pediatric gender clinic. She violates all the media tropes. "I am a 42-year-old St. Louis native, a queer woman, and politically to the left of Bernie Sanders....I’m now married to a transman." thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-…
She noticed the obvious: A surge in teens showing up, most of them girls w/ no previous evidence of gender distress but all manner of psychological problems, who got put on drugs, which led to disasters.
Why is she speaking out? "Almost everyone in my life advised me to keep my head down. But I cannot in good conscience do so. Because what is happening to scores of children is far more important than my comfort. And what is happening to them is morally and medically appalling."
She worked for almost four years at The Washington University School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases in St. Louis. But remember, this is happening in hospitals all around the United States. There are probably a hundred in total (not counting Planned Parenthoods.)
None of this is news to anyone following this medical catastrophe. But this is coming from an eye witness. We will hear many such stories--either before or after the lawsuits start. 🙏 for the protection of brave whistleblowers, & for a hundred more. thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-…
I have nothing but compassion for people in this situation, and can easily forgive parents who think they're doing the only thing that will save their child's life. But the doctors? That's a different story.
Sure, your professional org has provided you with a fig leaf. That's not a free pass. Do some freaking reading of the literature, use your brain, and grow a spine. If you're a physician, you bear the responsibility for it. That's what it means to be a professional.
🧵Quote from @NIH webpage: "Sex is a biological classification, encoded in our DNA. Males have XY chromosomes, and females have XX chromosomes. Sex makes us male or female. ...
...Every cell in your body has a sex— making up tissues and organs, like your skin, brain, heart, and stomach. Each cell is either male or female depending on whether you are a man or a woman."
This infographic is from the Office of Research on Women’s Health. How Sex and Gender Influence Health and Disease. It says: "Sex and gender can influence health in important ways. While sex and gender are distinct concepts, their influence is often inextricably linked."
🧵How contrary to standard medical practice is it to recommend the social transition-to-sterilization pipeline for kids, as the AAP and the HHS now do? Let's compare it to something like prostate cancer--which will kill ~35,000 American men this year.
If a man is diagnosed with low level prostate cancer, such as Gleason score 6, doctors will often advise "watchful waiting" or "active surveillance." In other words, Dr. tells patient to eat well, lose weight and stop smoking (if applicable), and get retested in six months.
If PSA and biopsy remain roughly the same, the patient might remain in the active surveillance stage for years. No radiation, no surgery, no chemo, nada. Why? Because interventions have risks that could outweigh the risk of slow growing, noninvasive cancer.
🧵Gender ideology inspires claims that aren't merely unverifiable or simply false, but unintelligible. Or so it seems. Consider a scenario where a person named Stone claims to "identify as" a woman, and treats that as equivalent to identifying as a female.
Stone does not have a disorder of sexual development, and has XY chromosomes in all the relevant cells in Stone's body. Stone was born with typical male secondary sex characteristics--a penis and testes--and had a typical hormonal profile throughout childhood and puberty.
Later, Stone started taking high doses of estrogen and suppressing otherwise male levels of testosterone, and then underwent surgery to appear more feminine. Stone insists, however, that none of this made Stone female, or "more female."