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To be glad America’s best-known practitioner of youth gender medicine is being sued?

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MrBungle · 09/12/2024 12:31

I hope this leads to less, maybe zero medication or surgery on anyone under 18 in the USA and with luck, also leads to gender questioning people being given effective, holistic mental health support so they can be happy with themselves instead of resorting to surgery, which does not seem to work.

(To be clear I am in no way glad someone had to go through this hell and feel they had no recourse but to sue a doctor they should have been able to trust)

"Johanna Olson-Kennedy leads the Centre for Transyouth at LA’s Children’s Hospital. One of her patients thinks she has been negligent"

<a class="break-all" href="https://archive.is/2024.12.06-160109/www.economist.com/united-states/2024/12/06/americas-best-known-practitioner-of-youth-gender-medicine-is-being-sued" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://archive.is/2024.12.06-160109/www.economist.com/united-states/2024/12/06/americas-best-known-practitioner-of-youth-gender-medicine-is-being-sued

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MrBungle · 11/12/2024 11:46

JusteanBiscuits · 11/12/2024 11:11

of course it won't lead to young people being given the mental health support they need. It won't increase funding. Suitable, supportive help is desperately needed.

I could not agree more that it’s needed and soon. Can’t help but think psychotherapy is cheaper than the endless consultations ending with breast removal though.

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JusteanBiscuits · 11/12/2024 11:11

of course it won't lead to young people being given the mental health support they need. It won't increase funding. Suitable, supportive help is desperately needed.

borntobequiet · 11/12/2024 10:46

oatmy · 10/12/2024 12:49

YABU for posting this in AIBU when you could have put it in Sex and Gender. Plenty of us have that topic hidden for a reason.

I wonder what that reason might be.

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MrBungle · 11/12/2024 10:36

AsWithGlad · 10/12/2024 14:29

Thank you, @kittykarate .

edit: I need an account to read it, though.

Edited

This should work fine!
https://archive.ph/MQ08C

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MrBungle · 10/12/2024 14:41

Comtesse · 10/12/2024 13:56

Unusual for the Economist to cover a story like that in so much detail. It does not make for an easy read.

@oatmy no doubt has not gone to the hassle of reading the whole thing...

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AsWithGlad · 10/12/2024 14:32

@MrBungle ’s link works for the whole article. Thank you!

AsWithGlad · 10/12/2024 14:29

Thank you, @kittykarate .

edit: I need an account to read it, though.

Comtesse · 10/12/2024 13:56

Unusual for the Economist to cover a story like that in so much detail. It does not make for an easy read.

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MrBungle · 10/12/2024 13:38

AsWithGlad · 10/12/2024 13:32

The links don’t work for me. Perhaps the Economist has decided to withdraw the article.

https://archive.ph/MQ08C

this works

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Naunet · 10/12/2024 13:32

oatmy · 10/12/2024 12:49

YABU for posting this in AIBU when you could have put it in Sex and Gender. Plenty of us have that topic hidden for a reason.

Oh bless you, thinking you are so important you get to police where people post!

Not unreasonable at all, these monsters should be in prison.

AsWithGlad · 10/12/2024 13:32

The links don’t work for me. Perhaps the Economist has decided to withdraw the article.

To be glad America’s best-known practitioner of youth gender medicine is being sued?
WomensSports · 10/12/2024 13:31

I find it cowardly that the terribly offended won't actually discuss what they find so offensive about my suggesting that gender-based medicine is problematic at the moment and that a new care model needs to be developed that actually helps people. Don't they want to help people?! If not, why not? People supporting this need to consider why the terminally offended amongst them are so intent on shutting down discussion of the flaws in the current medicalised model.

UrsulasHerbBag · 10/12/2024 13:31

This is an appalling situation and it has always only been a matter of time before they were sued. I remember about 4/5 years ago and a lot of people saying that the barbaric testing on children would only start to be curbed when the law suits started rolling in. I hope with all my heart that this medical scandal is on the way to being over and then we can start picking up the pieces and finding better support for those affected.

caringcarer · 10/12/2024 13:27

Just a pity this 'doctor/butcher' wasn't stopped earlier.

TwistedWonder · 10/12/2024 13:24

MrBungle · 10/12/2024 13:21

The original comment was about how Susie Green, former head of Mermaids, took her son, on his 16th Birthday, abroad, to be castrated.

I consider this to be a horrific crime.

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Though stating facts about that has been deleted 🤷‍♀️

WomensSports · 10/12/2024 13:23

My first post got deleted in which I expressed support for the contents of the OP. 🤔

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MrBungle · 10/12/2024 13:21

MrBungle · 10/12/2024 12:39

Truly, how that has not been investigated as child abuse I will never know

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The original comment was about how Susie Green, former head of Mermaids, took her son, on his 16th Birthday, abroad, to be castrated.

I consider this to be a horrific crime.

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MrBungle · 10/12/2024 13:19

oatmy · 10/12/2024 12:49

YABU for posting this in AIBU when you could have put it in Sex and Gender. Plenty of us have that topic hidden for a reason.

What do you have against defending the rights of women, girls and children exactly?

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SinnerBoy · 10/12/2024 13:16

@oatmy

Why did you simply ignore it and not post here?

AlisonDonut · 10/12/2024 13:14

oatmy · 10/12/2024 12:49

YABU for posting this in AIBU when you could have put it in Sex and Gender. Plenty of us have that topic hidden for a reason.

What reason are you wanting to not know about the sterilosation and mutilation of children?

BMW6 · 10/12/2024 13:14

oatmy · 10/12/2024 12:49

YABU for posting this in AIBU when you could have put it in Sex and Gender. Plenty of us have that topic hidden for a reason.

Didn't the title give you a clue that this subject would not be of interest to you?

Why did you bother opening and posting on it?

Skyrainlight · 10/12/2024 13:11

I'm so pleased she is being sued. I read a few threads on the detransitioning reddit sub last night and it's just so sad. Those poor children who didn't know the consequences and were given no advice.

Helleofabore · 10/12/2024 13:07

oatmy · 10/12/2024 12:49

YABU for posting this in AIBU when you could have put it in Sex and Gender. Plenty of us have that topic hidden for a reason.

And you should be mature enough to have the impulse control to scroll on past. But perhaps the point is to shame posters who are reading or posting?

ByMerryKoala · 10/12/2024 13:03

What about the maiming of children through experimental medicine is specifically related to sex and gender?

If children who were asthmatic had been treated to the same shoddy and damaging malpractice, would you expect it to remain on the asthma board?

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