I’m astonished at the profound ignorance on display at the SCOTUS today. Sotomajor and Jackson- you think giving T to a boy is the same as giving it to a girl? You believe a girl can go through “typical male puberty”? I am dumbfounded.
Are there no intelligence standards that must be met for your positions? Male and female are permanently established at conception, you forgot? Kids are not sex neutral beings who can be transformed into M or F with shots and implants.
And strangio — “blockers do not harm”, are you kidding me? The reason Sweden rejected them is because “Leo” developed spinal fractures from blocker-induced osteoporosis. Don’t you know ANYTHING?
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🧵 1/ When I graduated from medical school, I took an oath. I stood up, raised my right hand, and vowed to prevent disease whenever I could. At the time, I expected to go to war against cancer and schizophrenia.
2/ But after forty years, I’ve realized my most challenging fight is not against deadly diseases, but deadly ideas.
3/ The beliefs that man and woman are human inventions; that the sex of a healthy newborn is arbitrarily and often incorrectly “assigned”; and that as a result the child requires “affirmation” through risky medical interventions
Here's the cover of my new book. And in the thread that follows, an excerpt from the description of it.
Throughout our country, atrocities are taking place in doctor’s offices and hospital operating rooms. Physically healthy children and adolescents are being permanently disfigured and sometimes sterilized. Those youth have announced they’re transgender, and we - their parents,
teachers, therapists, and doctors - are supposed to at once agree with their self-diagnosis and take a back seat as they make the most consequential decision of their lives: to drastically alter their bodies in order to, we are told, “align” them with their minds.
Why am I flooded with emails from parents desperate for help with their gender-confused child? Where are the hundreds of thousands of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors? Are so few of them honest and brave? /1
A mother told me today, “when we saw you on What Is A Woman? we cried.” They cried! Why? Because I shared my outrage at surgeons removing the breasts of little girls? Because I said a “trans woman” is a man? That moved her and her husband to tears!/2
To my colleagues in mental health: these kids and their parents are crying for help. Any of you who treat eating disorders, anxiety, depression, autism — you can help these people! Gender dysphoria isn’t anything extraordinary. Why are you MIA? /3