It is surprising that those promoting and implementing the affirmative model of ‘gender care’ seem not bothered by the fact that it has no acceptable ‘evidence base’, the requirement to confirm efficacy and safety of an invasive, irreversible and sterilising procedure (all the more important when children are involved).
There can be a high price to pay for ignoring that requirement. I cite a case in point:
In 1998 the ‘Pelvic Mesh Sling’ (a device invented in the 1980’s by Australian urogynaecologist Dr Peter Petros ) was for the first time
surgically implanted in the pelvis of women who experienced ‘pelvic-floor dysfunction’, a not uncommon disabling problem following childbirth.
The device had not undergone an appropriate clinical trial and its use was not ‘evidence based’. Regardless, the TGA approved the device in 2003 and the Australian Medical Association (AMA) became the exclusive distributor for the device.
Around 100,000 women in Australia were thus treated; however, within a few years problems surfaced.
The mesh tended to migrate and perforated organs including the bladder, urethra, vagina and bowel, resulting in severe pelvic pain, dyspareunia, organ dysfunction, systemic autoimmune conditions and urinary incontinence.
Many women required multiple surgeries in an attempt to remove mesh fragments and use of the device was banned in 2018 by the ‘Medical Device Regulator’ (a part of the TGA that had initially approved the device).
Multiple legal suits, amounting to billions of dollars, followed and thousands women were left permanently damaged.
The intervention was not evidence based, the AMA and TGA got it horribly wrong.
. . . . . However, we are reassured that treating a cohort of children, known to be heavily burdened with a range of mental health conditions, with gender blockers, cross-sex hormones and irreversible sterilising genital and breast surgery does not require an evidence base.
. . . . Evidence aside, we are reassured that ‘lives are being saved’.
1 Dr Peter Pedros was deregistered for professional misconduct in 2019
The origin and continued propagation of trans is via Psychiatry. Not media, not queer studies, not politics, not trans, not social media or the internet, and not postmodernism.
It is Psychiatry at a medieval level totally lacking in science, the kind of psychiatry which works with demonic possession and trepanning skulls.
Because of this it is the single psychiatric condition requiring surgical removal of healthy tissue for “treatment”, and the only psychiatric condition requiring the rest of world to conform to a patient’s delusion.
All this would vanish if doctors simply said it is a delusion, which it is. But then 100+ years of “science” is thrown into doubt. The only recourse is legislation.
A great sentence, cuts to the core on this nonsense:
Because of this it is the single psychiatric condition requiring surgical removal of healthy tissue for “treatment”, and the only psychiatric condition requiring the rest of world to conform to a patient’s delusion.
As a real male, I am deeply offended that any female would have the audacity to claim to be a man.
Even worse is the growing systems of laws, regulations and policies that would punish me if I were to take peaceful action to protest a trans man's delusion such as refusing to serve her, give her a job or address her by her false preferred pronouns.
*** “When a baby is born with a penis, that baby is typically considered a male, while a baby born with a vagina is designated female.”
*** “Sex assigned at birth” means the male or female designation that doctors ascribe to infants based on genitalia and is marked on their birth records. Sex assigned at birth is intended to displace the concept of “biological sex.”
*** AFAB means “assigned female at birth,” while AMAB means “assigned male at birth.” You might also see DFAB, meaning “designated female at birth,” and DMAB, meaning “designated male at birth.”
I am outraged that the electronic record my doctor's practice uses to record my personal information asks me to give my "sex assigned at birth." I feel powerless to do anything about it because it's Providence Medical, a huge multi-state enterprise.
If it is this Providence Medical (https://providencemedical.com.au) - they don't seem multi-state, just multi-site. Perhaps write to them and politely complain that you are forced to play along with the stupidity that someone assigns your sex at birth rather than your sex being a fundamental biological feature, independent of the latest faddish genderwoo ideology or whatever anyone thinks. Point out that there are serious medical consequences to encouraging people not to give their biological sex, which also opens them up to litigation in future. As medical practitioners they would know that. Goodness, even the über-woke New York Times knows that (https://archive.md/BVaKc#selection-7151.34-7151.179) . Who knows, they may actually respond positively if you ask them nicely. As a minimum they should provide a 'prefer not to say' option. If they don't respond positively, then perhaps it is time to find another doctor. Here is their contact form https://providencemedical.com.au/contact-us/ .
So disappointing to read the evidence that the department is colluding with the endocrinologists and the TGA and lobby groups to harm vulnerable often autistic young women.
Not so long ago there were voices of caution within the Endocrine Society.
Earlier this month, The Australian newspaper’s journalist Natasha Robinson revealed that serious reservations about gender medicine expressed by Australian endocrinologists were not passed on to the then federal health minister, Greg Hunt, who in 2019 had asked the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) to review gender clinic treatments following media coverage.
In its 2020 public letter of advice to Mr Hunt, the RACP noted it had consulted the Endocrine Society of Australia (ESA) but did not inform the minister of the society’s concerns.
The Medical Affairs Committee of the ESA put its position to the RACP in a 2019 confidential letter, and opposed any endorsement of the 2018 “Australian Standards of Care and Treatment Guidelines” for gender dysphoria issued by the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne (RCH), which is home to the country’s most influential gender clinic.
Interesting that endocrinologist Ada Cheung was aware of the risks of administering artificial testosterone to men and seemed so concerned about rendering them infertile.
“There are risks with testosterone treatment and unless it is clear cut – definitely hypogonadism with symptoms – then I am not convinced.”
She said once patients started on testosterone it was usually forever. Risks of treatment included polycythemia, cardiovascular disease, and suppression of spermatogenesis.
“A lot of these men are young and they want to have babies and if you give someone testosterone, it makes them infertile. So that is another consideration if they are planning to have a family.”
[end quote]
When it comes to risks to girls and women, or their infertility, she doesn't seem to care that much.
'“All aspects of patient care, including recommendations about appropriate treatments and the assessment of PBS eligibility are the responsibility of the treating doctor,” a departmental spokesman said.' A typical response by a public servant who does not have a care in the world about how other people's money is spent, never mind how much damage is being done by this fraudulent practice.
I would ask Senators and MPs why the PBS, which cost Australian taxpayers $9.1 billion in 2014–15 - who knows what the cost is now - has no compliance program. What sort of government gives away billions of dollars of public money without checking that it is used wisely? Who says doctors are paragons of virtue when we have clear evidence that they are not?
I keep saying that the only way to make people wake up is to hit their pockets. It is a criminal offence for patients to obtain prescriptions because of false, incorrect or misleading information. Doctors, however, seem to get away with murder unless you have bottomless finances to sue them. Perhaps it's time to introduce criminal charges for doctors and perhaps it is time to sue.
The two pronged approach here is to - sorry it has to be - bring charges against those women and girls (or their legal guardians) receiving PBS testosterone on the false basis of testicular disorder. One or two test cases should frighten the horses. Can we find a law enforcement officer who can lay charges under the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act? They cannot say they have a testicular disorder unless by some sophistry. They can blame the doctors, in which case that opens the door to charge the doctor with a criminal offense.
In the meantime, anyone who knows a doctor prescribing PBS testosterone to a girl for gender dysphoria should automatically report that doctor to the relevant Medical Board because doctors can only do that by falsifying their condition. The Boards suspend and deregister for false prescribing (https://www.medicalboard.gov.au/News/2022-08-03-Victorian-general-practitioner-suspended-for-false-prescribing.aspx). Let's see the convoluted games they will play with T.
"They might not want to scorch their bodies with infinite hormones, can we try just a little bit of wrong-sex hormines maybe?" These are not scientists, they are sorcerors.
It is surprising that those promoting and implementing the affirmative model of ‘gender care’ seem not bothered by the fact that it has no acceptable ‘evidence base’, the requirement to confirm efficacy and safety of an invasive, irreversible and sterilising procedure (all the more important when children are involved).
There can be a high price to pay for ignoring that requirement. I cite a case in point:
In 1998 the ‘Pelvic Mesh Sling’ (a device invented in the 1980’s by Australian urogynaecologist Dr Peter Petros ) was for the first time
surgically implanted in the pelvis of women who experienced ‘pelvic-floor dysfunction’, a not uncommon disabling problem following childbirth.
The device had not undergone an appropriate clinical trial and its use was not ‘evidence based’. Regardless, the TGA approved the device in 2003 and the Australian Medical Association (AMA) became the exclusive distributor for the device.
Around 100,000 women in Australia were thus treated; however, within a few years problems surfaced.
The mesh tended to migrate and perforated organs including the bladder, urethra, vagina and bowel, resulting in severe pelvic pain, dyspareunia, organ dysfunction, systemic autoimmune conditions and urinary incontinence.
Many women required multiple surgeries in an attempt to remove mesh fragments and use of the device was banned in 2018 by the ‘Medical Device Regulator’ (a part of the TGA that had initially approved the device).
Multiple legal suits, amounting to billions of dollars, followed and thousands women were left permanently damaged.
The intervention was not evidence based, the AMA and TGA got it horribly wrong.
. . . . . However, we are reassured that treating a cohort of children, known to be heavily burdened with a range of mental health conditions, with gender blockers, cross-sex hormones and irreversible sterilising genital and breast surgery does not require an evidence base.
. . . . Evidence aside, we are reassured that ‘lives are being saved’.
1 Dr Peter Pedros was deregistered for professional misconduct in 2019
This is consistent with my observation:
The origin and continued propagation of trans is via Psychiatry. Not media, not queer studies, not politics, not trans, not social media or the internet, and not postmodernism.
It is Psychiatry at a medieval level totally lacking in science, the kind of psychiatry which works with demonic possession and trepanning skulls.
Because of this it is the single psychiatric condition requiring surgical removal of healthy tissue for “treatment”, and the only psychiatric condition requiring the rest of world to conform to a patient’s delusion.
All this would vanish if doctors simply said it is a delusion, which it is. But then 100+ years of “science” is thrown into doubt. The only recourse is legislation.
A great sentence, cuts to the core on this nonsense:
Because of this it is the single psychiatric condition requiring surgical removal of healthy tissue for “treatment”, and the only psychiatric condition requiring the rest of world to conform to a patient’s delusion.
As a real male, I am deeply offended that any female would have the audacity to claim to be a man.
Even worse is the growing systems of laws, regulations and policies that would punish me if I were to take peaceful action to protest a trans man's delusion such as refusing to serve her, give her a job or address her by her false preferred pronouns.
GENDER STUFF YOU NEED TO KNOW
*** “When a baby is born with a penis, that baby is typically considered a male, while a baby born with a vagina is designated female.”
*** “Sex assigned at birth” means the male or female designation that doctors ascribe to infants based on genitalia and is marked on their birth records. Sex assigned at birth is intended to displace the concept of “biological sex.”
*** AFAB means “assigned female at birth,” while AMAB means “assigned male at birth.” You might also see DFAB, meaning “designated female at birth,” and DMAB, meaning “designated male at birth.”
I am outraged that the electronic record my doctor's practice uses to record my personal information asks me to give my "sex assigned at birth." I feel powerless to do anything about it because it's Providence Medical, a huge multi-state enterprise.
If it is this Providence Medical (https://providencemedical.com.au) - they don't seem multi-state, just multi-site. Perhaps write to them and politely complain that you are forced to play along with the stupidity that someone assigns your sex at birth rather than your sex being a fundamental biological feature, independent of the latest faddish genderwoo ideology or whatever anyone thinks. Point out that there are serious medical consequences to encouraging people not to give their biological sex, which also opens them up to litigation in future. As medical practitioners they would know that. Goodness, even the über-woke New York Times knows that (https://archive.md/BVaKc#selection-7151.34-7151.179) . Who knows, they may actually respond positively if you ask them nicely. As a minimum they should provide a 'prefer not to say' option. If they don't respond positively, then perhaps it is time to find another doctor. Here is their contact form https://providencemedical.com.au/contact-us/ .
So disappointing to read the evidence that the department is colluding with the endocrinologists and the TGA and lobby groups to harm vulnerable often autistic young women.
Not so long ago there were voices of caution within the Endocrine Society.
Earlier this month, The Australian newspaper’s journalist Natasha Robinson revealed that serious reservations about gender medicine expressed by Australian endocrinologists were not passed on to the then federal health minister, Greg Hunt, who in 2019 had asked the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) to review gender clinic treatments following media coverage.
In its 2020 public letter of advice to Mr Hunt, the RACP noted it had consulted the Endocrine Society of Australia (ESA) but did not inform the minister of the society’s concerns.
The Medical Affairs Committee of the ESA put its position to the RACP in a 2019 confidential letter, and opposed any endorsement of the 2018 “Australian Standards of Care and Treatment Guidelines” for gender dysphoria issued by the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne (RCH), which is home to the country’s most influential gender clinic.
https://www.genderclinicnews.com/p/blocked-and-retorted?r=130uly&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Thanks Bernard- I do believe there are good endocrinologists out there. I just hope they be brave soon.
Interesting that endocrinologist Ada Cheung was aware of the risks of administering artificial testosterone to men and seemed so concerned about rendering them infertile.
From https://thelimbic.com/oncology/dr-ada-cheung-prescribe-exercise-before-testosterone-for-testicular-cancer-survivors/:
[quote]
“There are risks with testosterone treatment and unless it is clear cut – definitely hypogonadism with symptoms – then I am not convinced.”
She said once patients started on testosterone it was usually forever. Risks of treatment included polycythemia, cardiovascular disease, and suppression of spermatogenesis.
“A lot of these men are young and they want to have babies and if you give someone testosterone, it makes them infertile. So that is another consideration if they are planning to have a family.”
[end quote]
When it comes to risks to girls and women, or their infertility, she doesn't seem to care that much.
'“All aspects of patient care, including recommendations about appropriate treatments and the assessment of PBS eligibility are the responsibility of the treating doctor,” a departmental spokesman said.' A typical response by a public servant who does not have a care in the world about how other people's money is spent, never mind how much damage is being done by this fraudulent practice.
I would ask Senators and MPs why the PBS, which cost Australian taxpayers $9.1 billion in 2014–15 - who knows what the cost is now - has no compliance program. What sort of government gives away billions of dollars of public money without checking that it is used wisely? Who says doctors are paragons of virtue when we have clear evidence that they are not?
I keep saying that the only way to make people wake up is to hit their pockets. It is a criminal offence for patients to obtain prescriptions because of false, incorrect or misleading information. Doctors, however, seem to get away with murder unless you have bottomless finances to sue them. Perhaps it's time to introduce criminal charges for doctors and perhaps it is time to sue.
The two pronged approach here is to - sorry it has to be - bring charges against those women and girls (or their legal guardians) receiving PBS testosterone on the false basis of testicular disorder. One or two test cases should frighten the horses. Can we find a law enforcement officer who can lay charges under the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act? They cannot say they have a testicular disorder unless by some sophistry. They can blame the doctors, in which case that opens the door to charge the doctor with a criminal offense.
In the meantime, anyone who knows a doctor prescribing PBS testosterone to a girl for gender dysphoria should automatically report that doctor to the relevant Medical Board because doctors can only do that by falsifying their condition. The Boards suspend and deregister for false prescribing (https://www.medicalboard.gov.au/News/2022-08-03-Victorian-general-practitioner-suspended-for-false-prescribing.aspx). Let's see the convoluted games they will play with T.
Time to flush out the frauds.
"They might not want to scorch their bodies with infinite hormones, can we try just a little bit of wrong-sex hormines maybe?" These are not scientists, they are sorcerors.