SANITYThe British Medical Journal is about to be cancelled - Urges US transgender medicine to adopt evidence-based footing, particularly in child care. At odds with Democratic Party and President Biden push to widen accessibility of surgical and medical interventions.

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[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

An article about the BMJ piece lays it out quite clearly.

In a TV interview broadcast on Monday evening, he [President Biden] condemned a proposed measure in Florida to ban medical interventions for under-18s as ‘cruel’. Adopting the folksy rhetoric he favours when speaking about the trans issue, Biden sounded like a regretful preacher looking out at a world that’s disappointed him. “What’s going on in Florida is, as my mother would say, close to sinful,” he said.

Florida’s boards of medicine and osteopathic medicine recently carried out an evidence review and voted to restrict hormonal and surgical treatment for minors, although patients already receiving cross-sex hormones are exempt. In the UK, many people are uncomfortable with the prospect of teenage girls being referred for treatments such as double mastectomies, euphemistically known as ‘top surgery’ by trans activists.

The climate in the US is very different, as Biden’s incoherent ramblings attest:

”It’s not like a kid wakes up one morning and says, ‘you know, I decided I wanted to become a man or want to become a woman’ or ‘I want to change’. I mean, what are they thinking about here? They’re human beings. They love. They have feelings. They have inclinations.“- JOE BIDEN

‘Inclinations’ are hardly a reliable guide to treatment. Yet the affirmative model favoured in the US demonises doctors who ask questions, sometimes putting children and adolescents on an irreversible path before they’re old enough to understand the consequences.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It’s not like a kid wakes up one morning and says, ‘you know, I decided I wanted to become a man or want to become a woman’

No someone or something has planted that idea in the kids head and theres some other crap going on in the kids life whatever it is that is making them think that's their answer.

I mean, what are they thinking about here? They’re human beings. They love. They have feelings. They have inclinations.“

A good question. What exactly are they thinking? And why? They want something that is impossible? Should we lie to them and get rich off if medical treatments trying to make them "appear" as much like the thing they say they are as possible but never will truly be? Or should we step back and ask far more basic question like, why? What I see is gender transitions being floated as an answer for depression and while I do think that giving any sort of structure or purpose to someone's life will show immediate improvements there which is why we do see self reported rates of happiness higher among the recently transitioned, it begs the question will the long term outcomes be desirable? It seems there is no real decrease in the suicide rate.

Essentially this just looks to me like a way to profiteer heavily off of depression.