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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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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.

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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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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.

AsWithGlad · 10/12/2024 14:29

Thank you, @kittykarate .

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

AsWithGlad · 10/12/2024 14:32

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

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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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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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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.

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.

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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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