It would seem totally inappropriate for HHS assistant secretary Dr Rachel Levine, a paediatrician and transgender-identifying male to have any role in addressing issues involving gender policy.
That aside I plead tolerance as I paste the following:
It is noteworthy that despite the oft quoted ‘suicidality’ among children diagnosed with gender dysphoria (GD) there have been no related suicide in this cohort in Australia and few, if any, elsewhere.
The fact that ‘suicidality’ often accompanies GD is not particularly surprising given the fact mental health conditions in the GD cohort are orders of magnitude above those in the general population. One example being autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that is around five times the prevalence in children presenting with GD compared with the normal population. A meta-analysis of 52 studies found that 37% of autistic participants had experienced suicidal ideation.
It does not require a mathematician to link the cause and effect
If addressing child suicide is to be a priority for the paediatricians in Australia’s children’s hospitals then the efforts to address it need be focussed where the problem exists.
Here’s one option:
The age-standardized rate of completed suicide for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children is 8.3 deaths per 100,000 children, compared to 2.1 per 100,000 for non-Indigenous children, a factor of four times!
Having worked for many years as a doctor in remote indigenous communities in WA and the NT I have been involved first-hand in the suicide of an indigenous child. Aside from misery that engulfed the family and the small community in which she lived there was no national outrage and as far as I know none of the cohort of professionals attending the GD cohort have suggested a changed their priority.
There was the girl in the Four Corners episode “Blocked”, but she was anorexic as well. Four Corners overall message was children in NSW needed more “gender affirming care” to prevent more such cases. As you would expect from the ABC.
The ABC is as pro-trans the child as possible. They still have their disgraceful groom the child for puberty blockers video on TikTok and their lame false Fact Check of a Binary flyer..
Can't get over how they've lied about the relevance of the Cass report. Do you have a link to the tiktok video? I don't want to download their app, but I would like to watch it on the web.
I share your concerns. But we’re up against a cultural change that has been organised top down as a human rights issue to rapidly gain acceptance. As the WPATH film explains, it now needs a lot loylt of health experts, legislators and parents to now admit they have been duped by a political confidence trick using fraudulent science that aims to give sexual gratification to a small number of men with a fetish.
Oh, I forgot to include the media who were duped by the political strategy of Queer propaganda to correct their reporting so it doesn’t discriminate against the poor minority of trans identified people. Another human rights angle the activists have mercilessly used.
I liked Donald Trump’s proposed policies on Transgender Medicine. Finally a grown up will take charge and sanity might return to this area which has little resemblance to Medicine as I know it.
Trump's speech is excellent. It is what I wanted to hear from him. I very much hope he carries through without being distracted by other issues and overcomes opposition, including from dodgy operators, rebellious states etc.
Before the election, I had a look at about a dozen mainstream US papers on what they said about Trump and 'Trans Kids'. All were pro-GAC, and trans activists wrote all of the articles.
My impression is that the details of Trump’s 2023 policy speech were not widely reported. Many journos convinced themselves that the gender clinic debate was a weird distraction.
The election of Donald Trump has given me hope for truth finally coming out about this heartbreaking situation in the United States. As European countries have pulled back from "affirming care", the damage is still crashing through my country. Thank you for this article and for all you do to further sanity. I have a vested interest in the direction that hopefully America will take now to correct her course.
As the grandmother of three people living as the opposite sex (for the last ten years, with all having mental issues), I have now been told that two of my great grandchildren, ages 14 and 16, are flirting with being "trans", I needed some hope. I am estranged from my grandchildren and their families through no wish of my own, and none of the three are parents of the 14- and 16-year-old. However, I fear for all my great grandchildren as they have lived around this aberration of nature for most of their lives. And what have they been taught in school? Have they been taught that it is okay to play games with reality? I do not know. I am not allowed any access to them. I am praying that a Trump administration follows science, not fantasy and greed as has the Biden administration. Our children deserve so much better. Thank you for your contributions helping us all to see life as it really is.
Thanks for your note, Indio. I hope the new administration has the focus, discipline & competence to address the gender medicine scandal. There will be plenty of pushback.
Ladapo is a total loon when it comes to COVID public health measures and vaccines. It's great that he's on the right side on trans issues, but he has no business being surgeon general of any state.
I welcome Trumpism's hostility to gender identity ideology and its social manifestations. But as alliances go, this is like Roosevelt and Stalin. That was purely one of necessity. Nobody was under any illusions that Stalin respected America or Americans. It is likely that many of the figures in Trumpworld who might implement any curbs the Trump administration might impose on the trans movement will be otherwise morally or politically reprehensible. In particular, they're unlikely to have women's best interests at heart despite Trump's promise to be women's nonconsensual protector.
As for JD Vance's ideas about the "normal gay guy vote":
“I wouldn’t be surprised if me and Trump won the ‘normal gay guy’ vote, because they just wanted to be left the hell alone. And now you have all this crazy [LGBTQIA2S+] stuff on top of it. [And the gay guys say,] 'We didn’t want to give pharmaceutical [puberty blocker] products to nine-year-olds who are transitioning their genders. We just wanted to be left the hell alone’ "
Any gay man who would vote Trump/Vance would be anything but normal. The enemy of our enemy is sometimes also one of our enemies, and that is absolutely true of MAGA/Trumpism. They're joined at the hip with far-right Protestant and Catholic radicals who are going after same-sex marriage. It may well become their replacement for the anti-abortion crusade. Clarence Thomas has as good as sent them an engraved invitation.
It would seem totally inappropriate for HHS assistant secretary Dr Rachel Levine, a paediatrician and transgender-identifying male to have any role in addressing issues involving gender policy.
That aside I plead tolerance as I paste the following:
It is noteworthy that despite the oft quoted ‘suicidality’ among children diagnosed with gender dysphoria (GD) there have been no related suicide in this cohort in Australia and few, if any, elsewhere.
The fact that ‘suicidality’ often accompanies GD is not particularly surprising given the fact mental health conditions in the GD cohort are orders of magnitude above those in the general population. One example being autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that is around five times the prevalence in children presenting with GD compared with the normal population. A meta-analysis of 52 studies found that 37% of autistic participants had experienced suicidal ideation.
It does not require a mathematician to link the cause and effect
If addressing child suicide is to be a priority for the paediatricians in Australia’s children’s hospitals then the efforts to address it need be focussed where the problem exists.
Here’s one option:
The age-standardized rate of completed suicide for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children is 8.3 deaths per 100,000 children, compared to 2.1 per 100,000 for non-Indigenous children, a factor of four times!
Having worked for many years as a doctor in remote indigenous communities in WA and the NT I have been involved first-hand in the suicide of an indigenous child. Aside from misery that engulfed the family and the small community in which she lived there was no national outrage and as far as I know none of the cohort of professionals attending the GD cohort have suggested a changed their priority.
There was the girl in the Four Corners episode “Blocked”, but she was anorexic as well. Four Corners overall message was children in NSW needed more “gender affirming care” to prevent more such cases. As you would expect from the ABC.
The ABC is as pro-trans the child as possible. They still have their disgraceful groom the child for puberty blockers video on TikTok and their lame false Fact Check of a Binary flyer..
Can't get over how they've lied about the relevance of the Cass report. Do you have a link to the tiktok video? I don't want to download their app, but I would like to watch it on the web.
I won't put in a link as this is likely to increase its google ranking.
If you google - tiktok abc puberty blockers
you will find it quickly. There is a second Sapphire video i haven't seen before.
I am going to check out
https://www.2gb.com/reckless-abc-promotes-puberty-blockers-in-cartoon/. The ABC have put on Instagram as well.
thanks
Joe,
I never watch the ABC but am not surprised that they would propagate such nonsense!
I share your concerns. But we’re up against a cultural change that has been organised top down as a human rights issue to rapidly gain acceptance. As the WPATH film explains, it now needs a lot loylt of health experts, legislators and parents to now admit they have been duped by a political confidence trick using fraudulent science that aims to give sexual gratification to a small number of men with a fetish.
Oh, I forgot to include the media who were duped by the political strategy of Queer propaganda to correct their reporting so it doesn’t discriminate against the poor minority of trans identified people. Another human rights angle the activists have mercilessly used.
I like the quote that transing children is a medical scandal disguised as a human rights issue.
I liked Donald Trump’s proposed policies on Transgender Medicine. Finally a grown up will take charge and sanity might return to this area which has little resemblance to Medicine as I know it.
I’m hoping the administration will be effective. Musk & JD Vance also have a detailed grasp of the issues.
Trump's speech is excellent. It is what I wanted to hear from him. I very much hope he carries through without being distracted by other issues and overcomes opposition, including from dodgy operators, rebellious states etc.
Before the election, I had a look at about a dozen mainstream US papers on what they said about Trump and 'Trans Kids'. All were pro-GAC, and trans activists wrote all of the articles.
My impression is that the details of Trump’s 2023 policy speech were not widely reported. Many journos convinced themselves that the gender clinic debate was a weird distraction.
It's worth adding that I am not a fan of Trump per se, though I would have voted for him instead of Biden or Harris.
The election of Donald Trump has given me hope for truth finally coming out about this heartbreaking situation in the United States. As European countries have pulled back from "affirming care", the damage is still crashing through my country. Thank you for this article and for all you do to further sanity. I have a vested interest in the direction that hopefully America will take now to correct her course.
As the grandmother of three people living as the opposite sex (for the last ten years, with all having mental issues), I have now been told that two of my great grandchildren, ages 14 and 16, are flirting with being "trans", I needed some hope. I am estranged from my grandchildren and their families through no wish of my own, and none of the three are parents of the 14- and 16-year-old. However, I fear for all my great grandchildren as they have lived around this aberration of nature for most of their lives. And what have they been taught in school? Have they been taught that it is okay to play games with reality? I do not know. I am not allowed any access to them. I am praying that a Trump administration follows science, not fantasy and greed as has the Biden administration. Our children deserve so much better. Thank you for your contributions helping us all to see life as it really is.
With gratitude and love, Indio
Thanks for your note, Indio. I hope the new administration has the focus, discipline & competence to address the gender medicine scandal. There will be plenty of pushback.
Ladapo is a total loon when it comes to COVID public health measures and vaccines. It's great that he's on the right side on trans issues, but he has no business being surgeon general of any state.
I welcome Trumpism's hostility to gender identity ideology and its social manifestations. But as alliances go, this is like Roosevelt and Stalin. That was purely one of necessity. Nobody was under any illusions that Stalin respected America or Americans. It is likely that many of the figures in Trumpworld who might implement any curbs the Trump administration might impose on the trans movement will be otherwise morally or politically reprehensible. In particular, they're unlikely to have women's best interests at heart despite Trump's promise to be women's nonconsensual protector.
As for JD Vance's ideas about the "normal gay guy vote":
“I wouldn’t be surprised if me and Trump won the ‘normal gay guy’ vote, because they just wanted to be left the hell alone. And now you have all this crazy [LGBTQIA2S+] stuff on top of it. [And the gay guys say,] 'We didn’t want to give pharmaceutical [puberty blocker] products to nine-year-olds who are transitioning their genders. We just wanted to be left the hell alone’ "
Any gay man who would vote Trump/Vance would be anything but normal. The enemy of our enemy is sometimes also one of our enemies, and that is absolutely true of MAGA/Trumpism. They're joined at the hip with far-right Protestant and Catholic radicals who are going after same-sex marriage. It may well become their replacement for the anti-abortion crusade. Clarence Thomas has as good as sent them an engraved invitation.
One thing at a time, I guess.
Better not to mix issues.