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Is the Surgical World Ready for Adolescent Gender Surgery?

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welshgendercrit · 21/04/2019 18:19

... is the title of a recent TEDx talk by Dr Tandy Aye, a paediatric endocrinologist at Stanford Children’s Health and the Medical Director of their Paediatric and Adolescent Gender Clinic.

To watch an accredited medical professional calmly stating that a young male patient's reproductive capacity had been 'eliminated' (her word) and therefore his undeveloped testes should be removed like any other organ that has no use, appalled me more than I can say.

If I still needed any confirmation that by being gender-critical I'm on the right side of history, this video has provided it. What a world we live in... Sad

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BoneyBackJefferson · 21/04/2019 20:26

Any surgeon that is willing to do this needs their medical licence revoked and a good spell in prison.

FeministCat · 21/04/2019 20:13

So she is arguing for under 18 surgery, and for consent for this to be in the hands of the under 18

When I was 16 I would have eagerly consented to liposuction, and removing some ribs even. I was anorexic. I would have easily argued that not allowing me to get such surgeries would lead to my suicide or death by starvation.

Fortunately people seemed to realize that I was not in a mentally healthy place to do such things - and that I was also very young and should not be given control to determine such body modifications.

But if someone presents with gender dysorphia? It seems all safeguards must be turned off and one needs to rush that child into hormones and surgery. Castration? Why not, that child wants to wear glittery tops and pretty shoes so of course!

BickerinBrattle · 21/04/2019 20:08

well, it is true that David Jordan, one of the founders of Stanford University, helped launch the 20th century American eugenics movement that resulted in the forced sterilization of Black and Native American women for over fifty years.

So it could be that Stanford Med Center doesn’t find the sterilization of children who’d likely grow up to be gay or lesbian to be that much of a stretch.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 21/04/2019 19:54

Just watched some - couldn't watch all.

So she is arguing for under 18 surgery, and for consent for this to be in the hands of the under 18.

Watching this is the first time I have genuinely believed there must be some sort of agenda behind this, she can't possibly be that incapable of any sort of critical thought or biological understanding?

FeministCat · 21/04/2019 19:09

The robotic nature she talks about mutilating children does little to hide the horror. I am sure at the end half the crowd was too stunned to clap.

I was glad to see the You Tube comments mostly agreed with the horror (and quickly shut down the TRA shouting out any criticism was “transphobic”).

sackrifice · 21/04/2019 19:04

Is there any chance this is trying to shock people into waking [the fuck] up?

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 21/04/2019 19:02

I find this really disturbing - I had always naively assumed that these people had at least some training in ethics, and that new procedures would require some sort of ethics committee approval.

Erythronium · 21/04/2019 18:56

Very disturbing. Especially the part about how they've administered drugs that render the genitals non-functioning, so what do doctors do with non-functioning body-parts - they cut them off! Always, always pushing the boundaries, making what was unacceptable, acceptable.

The bit at the beginning about the unicorn bag and the glitter clothes was also very irritating and seemed like a dog-whistle somehow. I'm sure an ordinary girl wouldn't be talked about in such a way, just the most special kind.

Thingybob · 21/04/2019 18:46

There is something very odd, sinister even, about that woman giving the talk. Has she been taken over by some mind control mechanism or is she even human? Her speech and mannerisms resemble a robotic humanoid in a futuristic sci fi film.