Thank you for the great summary! It is hard to get good summaries in the US press right now.
For the WPATH scandal, going beyond the Economist article, there is also the peer reviewed article by Block, 2024, in the BMJ: https://www.bmj.com/content/387/bmj.q2227
but of course you covered it earlier too. Thank you!!
I reference a clip from an article in ‘Australasian Psychiatry’ of March 2024 titled:
‘The gender-affirming model of care is incompatible with competent, ethical medical practice’
In the absence of models of the phenomenology and psychopathology of gender diversity, it is impossible to meaningfully judge what proportion of cases involves pathology or assess the role of pathology in individual patients. Unquestioning gender-affirming care is therefore unable to exclude the possibility that it is reinforcing the pathologies of some, most, or all of its patients. This is unethical, and it is the responsibility of psychiatrists to ensure that no patients are harmed by this dangerous model of care.
Note: "Australasian Psychiatry" refers to a peer-reviewed medical journal focused on the field of psychiatry, published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP)
Say/think what you want about Trump, however his statement is clear, concise and accurate:
“Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilising a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions. This dangerous trend will be a stain on our nation’s history, and it must end.”
The practice of undertaking irreversible mutilating and sterilising procedures in children (a cohort burdened with a diverse cocktail of mental health comorbidities) is promoted is and undertaken within our large teaching hospitals.
The ‘Gender Transition’ process has not satisfied standard criteria to confirm efficacy and safety and has demonstrated, in multiple studies, that following a 'honeymoon' period the long term outcome results in a high prevalence mental health comorbidities and suicide of those poor souls who have joined the queue at our gender clinics.
Indeed, gender transition of children represents a stain on any nation and authority where it is practiced.
Wonderful coverage, Bernard! Our hopes are being realized in America. To think that it would be in the realm of politics to start the avalanche of reality. Out in the open at last, no one can deny what has been happening to our children. I for one, will be forever grateful to President Trump. I realize that the war to turn the cult around is just starting, but it has started! Thank you for all you have done, and continue to do for the sake of sanity, and for the safety for our young. God bless you.
I read about what's happening in the US and can barely believe it. The speed at which this billion dollar industry is being shut down is like an answer to a prayer. I wonder what all the celebrities with transgender children will do now - move to Australia?
Well, this is just a start. But the speed with which it’s happening suggests health providers were not very sincere when they plastered their webpages with trans flags.
As might be expected, Portland's Oregon Health and Sciences University's gender clinic (which has its very own "queer"® surgeon) is going full speed ahead despite Trump's attempts to rein in the chemical and surgical mutilation of children and young people.
Here's an item about it from Oregon's queer-friendly newspaper of record, OregonLive/The Oregonian:
Oregon Health & Science University, one of the country’s leading providers of gender-affirming care for transgender people, says it expects no interruption in those services despite a recent federal order aiming to limit such treatments — for now, at least.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order restricting federal funding for gender-affirming medical treatments for children and teenagers under 19. The directive specifically targets puberty blockers, hormone therapies — including androgen blockers, estrogen, progesterone and testosterone — as well as surgical interventions.
OHSU said in a statement the federal order would have no immediate effects. The institution’s Transgender Health Program provides a range of gender-affirming medical services, including hormone therapy and surgery, and serves more than 6,000 adult and pediatric patients.
“As of now, nothing has changed about the care OHSU provides,” Sara Hottman, a spokesperson for the university, wrote in an email. “OHSU is evaluating the potential impacts of the executive order and remains committed to ensuring our patients continue to receive respectful, quality care.”
Officials from Legacy Health, the largest hospital chain in Portland and a major provider of gender-affirming care, also said it has not made any changes in the care they provide.
Doernbecher Children’s Hospital at OHSU and Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel are the only two general children’s hospitals in Oregon, and both provide care to transgender youth.
OHSU and Legacy, like most hospitals, rely on payments from both Medicare and Medicaid in addition to private insurance. Hospitals in Colorado, Virginia and Washington, D.C., have already paused gender-affirming care for minors to ensure continued federal funding, The Associated Press reported.
Trump’s order aligns with a campaign promise to bar any hospital or provider offering gender-transition treatments to minors from participating in Medicaid and Medicare.
The administration’s directive instructs federal agencies, particularly the Department of Health and Human Services, to take steps to limit federal support for pediatric gender-affirming treatments. It seeks to exclude coverage for these procedures from federal insurance programs like Medicaid and federal employee benefits, and prevent federally funded medical facilities from offering these services to minors.
But the order is certain to face legal challenges.
On Thursday, Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield denounced the federal directive as “a clear example of the administration imposing its political agenda at the expense of some of the most vulnerable people.” His office stated it will closely monitor the implementation of the order and its effects on Oregonians.
“How the order is implemented will impact how we approach our work to protect access to care,” Rayfield said. “All legal options are on the table at this point.”
The cishet, generic, upper middle class, white progressive lawyer type who is Oregon's attorney general (https://danrayfield.com/) is the last person who should be talking about the Trump administration "imposing its political agenda at the expense of some of our most vulnerable people." You see, trans activists and their allies in white coast have already have already done that to highly vulnerable youth when they fed them into the chemical and surgical machine up at Oregon Health and Sciences University.
As of now, the Transgender Health Program's website is still up.
If you visit there, you will have a chance to see the Clinic's trans poster person. What's the point of being trans on the inside if your hairdo, fashion and expression don't scream "QUEER"? God forbid that a trans person should look like a normie! https://www.ohsu.edu/transgender-health
The unisex presentation of a person should not be cause for ridicule; attacking people for presenting in a manner not in sync with societal expectations regarding gender and dress is bigotry. The person depicted is not mocking women or engaged in female mimicry, they are simply indulging in avant-garde fashion.
Thank you for the great summary! It is hard to get good summaries in the US press right now.
For the WPATH scandal, going beyond the Economist article, there is also the peer reviewed article by Block, 2024, in the BMJ: https://www.bmj.com/content/387/bmj.q2227
but of course you covered it earlier too. Thank you!!
Yes, Block does good work!
I reference a clip from an article in ‘Australasian Psychiatry’ of March 2024 titled:
‘The gender-affirming model of care is incompatible with competent, ethical medical practice’
In the absence of models of the phenomenology and psychopathology of gender diversity, it is impossible to meaningfully judge what proportion of cases involves pathology or assess the role of pathology in individual patients. Unquestioning gender-affirming care is therefore unable to exclude the possibility that it is reinforcing the pathologies of some, most, or all of its patients. This is unethical, and it is the responsibility of psychiatrists to ensure that no patients are harmed by this dangerous model of care.
Note: "Australasian Psychiatry" refers to a peer-reviewed medical journal focused on the field of psychiatry, published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP)
Say/think what you want about Trump, however his statement is clear, concise and accurate:
“Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilising a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions. This dangerous trend will be a stain on our nation’s history, and it must end.”
The practice of undertaking irreversible mutilating and sterilising procedures in children (a cohort burdened with a diverse cocktail of mental health comorbidities) is promoted is and undertaken within our large teaching hospitals.
The ‘Gender Transition’ process has not satisfied standard criteria to confirm efficacy and safety and has demonstrated, in multiple studies, that following a 'honeymoon' period the long term outcome results in a high prevalence mental health comorbidities and suicide of those poor souls who have joined the queue at our gender clinics.
Indeed, gender transition of children represents a stain on any nation and authority where it is practiced.
Wonderful coverage, Bernard! Our hopes are being realized in America. To think that it would be in the realm of politics to start the avalanche of reality. Out in the open at last, no one can deny what has been happening to our children. I for one, will be forever grateful to President Trump. I realize that the war to turn the cult around is just starting, but it has started! Thank you for all you have done, and continue to do for the sake of sanity, and for the safety for our young. God bless you.
Love, Indio
I read about what's happening in the US and can barely believe it. The speed at which this billion dollar industry is being shut down is like an answer to a prayer. I wonder what all the celebrities with transgender children will do now - move to Australia?
Well, this is just a start. But the speed with which it’s happening suggests health providers were not very sincere when they plastered their webpages with trans flags.
A turning point🤔...not yet a turning point🤫....?
As might be expected, Portland's Oregon Health and Sciences University's gender clinic (which has its very own "queer"® surgeon) is going full speed ahead despite Trump's attempts to rein in the chemical and surgical mutilation of children and young people.
Here's an item about it from Oregon's queer-friendly newspaper of record, OregonLive/The Oregonian:
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Oregon Health & Science University, one of the country’s leading providers of gender-affirming care for transgender people, says it expects no interruption in those services despite a recent federal order aiming to limit such treatments — for now, at least.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order restricting federal funding for gender-affirming medical treatments for children and teenagers under 19. The directive specifically targets puberty blockers, hormone therapies — including androgen blockers, estrogen, progesterone and testosterone — as well as surgical interventions.
OHSU said in a statement the federal order would have no immediate effects. The institution’s Transgender Health Program provides a range of gender-affirming medical services, including hormone therapy and surgery, and serves more than 6,000 adult and pediatric patients.
“As of now, nothing has changed about the care OHSU provides,” Sara Hottman, a spokesperson for the university, wrote in an email. “OHSU is evaluating the potential impacts of the executive order and remains committed to ensuring our patients continue to receive respectful, quality care.”
Officials from Legacy Health, the largest hospital chain in Portland and a major provider of gender-affirming care, also said it has not made any changes in the care they provide.
Doernbecher Children’s Hospital at OHSU and Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel are the only two general children’s hospitals in Oregon, and both provide care to transgender youth.
OHSU and Legacy, like most hospitals, rely on payments from both Medicare and Medicaid in addition to private insurance. Hospitals in Colorado, Virginia and Washington, D.C., have already paused gender-affirming care for minors to ensure continued federal funding, The Associated Press reported.
Trump’s order aligns with a campaign promise to bar any hospital or provider offering gender-transition treatments to minors from participating in Medicaid and Medicare.
The administration’s directive instructs federal agencies, particularly the Department of Health and Human Services, to take steps to limit federal support for pediatric gender-affirming treatments. It seeks to exclude coverage for these procedures from federal insurance programs like Medicaid and federal employee benefits, and prevent federally funded medical facilities from offering these services to minors.
But the order is certain to face legal challenges.
On Thursday, Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield denounced the federal directive as “a clear example of the administration imposing its political agenda at the expense of some of the most vulnerable people.” His office stated it will closely monitor the implementation of the order and its effects on Oregonians.
“How the order is implemented will impact how we approach our work to protect access to care,” Rayfield said. “All legal options are on the table at this point.”
https://www.oregonlive.com/health/2025/01/ohsu-says-no-changes-to-gender-affirming-care-despite-trump-executive-order.html
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The cishet, generic, upper middle class, white progressive lawyer type who is Oregon's attorney general (https://danrayfield.com/) is the last person who should be talking about the Trump administration "imposing its political agenda at the expense of some of our most vulnerable people." You see, trans activists and their allies in white coast have already have already done that to highly vulnerable youth when they fed them into the chemical and surgical machine up at Oregon Health and Sciences University.
As of now, the Transgender Health Program's website is still up.
If you visit there, you will have a chance to see the Clinic's trans poster person. What's the point of being trans on the inside if your hairdo, fashion and expression don't scream "QUEER"? God forbid that a trans person should look like a normie! https://www.ohsu.edu/transgender-health
The unisex presentation of a person should not be cause for ridicule; attacking people for presenting in a manner not in sync with societal expectations regarding gender and dress is bigotry. The person depicted is not mocking women or engaged in female mimicry, they are simply indulging in avant-garde fashion.
Brilliant.
Fantastic.