The longstanding and ongoing propaganda campaign designed to destroy the reputation of Dr Zucker and of any conservative, careful, mental health-oriented approach to gender dysphoria is a tragedy and a disgrace. In order to argue that there is no alternative to “gender-affirming care”, trans activists and their powerful allies, including the medical and pharmaceutical industries and their compliant friends in the mass media, have made this literally true—by intimidating health professionals into bowing down or bowing out.
The panoply of side effects and complications of medicalised gender treatments (including surgical interventions which remove healthy tissue and seek to attach or create makeshift opposite sex genitals) are dismissed as a “routine” feature of all medical treatment. However, it’s wrong to characterise the ill effects as mere side effects rather than intended effects. Suppressing puberty, androgenising a female through testosterone and likewise feminising a male through oestrogen are all equivalent to the deliberate creation of a disease state.
This is the only area of medicine which can be said to knowingly create disease and disability in a healthy individual. It does this on the basis of mere feelings expressed by the patient “backed up” by a threadbare theory which postulates that trans-identification is a kind of intersex condition that affects the brain, not the genitals. (This despite the fact that in the history of medical science there is NO intersex condition that does not affect the genitals.)
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Another terrific piece, Bernard.
The longstanding and ongoing propaganda campaign designed to destroy the reputation of Dr Zucker and of any conservative, careful, mental health-oriented approach to gender dysphoria is a tragedy and a disgrace. In order to argue that there is no alternative to “gender-affirming care”, trans activists and their powerful allies, including the medical and pharmaceutical industries and their compliant friends in the mass media, have made this literally true—by intimidating health professionals into bowing down or bowing out.
The panoply of side effects and complications of medicalised gender treatments (including surgical interventions which remove healthy tissue and seek to attach or create makeshift opposite sex genitals) are dismissed as a “routine” feature of all medical treatment. However, it’s wrong to characterise the ill effects as mere side effects rather than intended effects. Suppressing puberty, androgenising a female through testosterone and likewise feminising a male through oestrogen are all equivalent to the deliberate creation of a disease state.
This is the only area of medicine which can be said to knowingly create disease and disability in a healthy individual. It does this on the basis of mere feelings expressed by the patient “backed up” by a threadbare theory which postulates that trans-identification is a kind of intersex condition that affects the brain, not the genitals. (This despite the fact that in the history of medical science there is NO intersex condition that does not affect the genitals.)
How does deliberate disease creation not violate the Nuremberg Code? https://media.tghn.org/medialibrary/2011/04/BMJ_No_7070_Volume_313_The_Nuremberg_Code.pdf
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