”What happened to the Hippocratic Oath, and “First, do no harm”??”
”Doing nothing is as good as doing harm though, because they’ll all rush off and commit suicide, apparently.”
I realise your reply is probably sarcasm, but that Swedish male gender doctor’s attitude is despicable. Doing nothing is not the only alternative. If a fourteen year old girl is so distressed by her breasts that she can’t go out, then she needs intensive psychiatric help. The last thing she needs is mutilation of her healthy body.
Worse still that he’s saying it’s not his responsibility because the young person and the parents consent. They’re relying on the advice of a doctor and he’s lying on a number of levels, not least that they have no idea what the levels of regret will be in this new and very different patient cohort.
It also struck me how much harder it is for these young women to detransition than men. Not just the social stigma and ostracism from the community that pretended to support them, which is bad enough. But many of them will never, ever again “pass” as the women they are.
I got the impression the doctors are blinded. They’ve been doing this so long that they can’t stop, even though it’s glaringly obvious the situation has changed and it’s no longer safe.
But then came the section at the end. They’re rushing laws through that will do yet more damage. For the young people who will have to live with the consequences, it’s desperately sad.