Then the law is an ass. What is to now stop parents getting plastic surgery for toddlers? Breast enlargements for 14 year olds? Maybe give the kids a tail or unicorn horn?
Johanna Olson-Kennedy is no doubt one of the 'internationally renowned' gender experts that Drs Helen & Mike Webberley rely upon to support their clinical decisions..
Olson-Kennedy was recently hosted by Peter Dunne (TELI & Bristol University law lecturer). The clear international connections with UK private clinics as well as trans lobby charities/groups as TELI, Mermaids, Gendered Intelligence need to be understood.
April 17th 2019 Long Transgender Trend report worth reading in full,
'Johanna Olson-Kennedy and the US Gender Affirmative Approach'
(key extracts)
" Over the past two weeks we have had the chance to see exactly what that looks like through the visit of one of the most influential people in the area of gender care in the US, Dr Johanna Olson-Kennedy of the Centre for Transgender Health and Development Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles.
Olson-Kennedy is currently in receipt of a $5.7million NIH grant to study the effects of early medical interventions for adolescents with gender dysphoria. Mid-way through the study, the minimum age for cross-sex hormone treatment was decreased from 13 to 8. (This means that an 8 year-old girl with precocious puberty may be given testosterone.) The lack of a control group and a short-term follow-up virtually ensures that Olson-Kennedy will get the results she is after and testosterone use will be declared ‘best practice’ for girls in early puberty. Olson-Kennedy is an enthusiastic advocate for testosterone for 12 and 13 year-old girls (see below).
The University of Bristol Law School has invited Olson-Kennedy to the UK as a Benjamin Meaker visiting professor. The main purpose of the Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professorship is “to bring distinguished researchers from abroad” according to their website. In late March and early April Olson-Kennedy was a keynote speaker at the Re-Thinking Trans Healthcare conference, organised by Peter Dunne and Mermaids, and gave a public lecture, both events at the University of Bristol. She also took part in a live Facebook event with Dr Helen Webberley and was a speaker at the recent European Professional Association for Transgender Health (EPATH) conference in Rome." (continues)
Things have clearly moved so far ahead in the US that Olson-Kennedy interpreted the term ‘cautious approach’ to mean the physical intervention of puberty blockers. Because blockers create a medically-induced menopause for adolescent girls, leading to hot flashes, memory problems, insomnia and “all the lovely things about menopause which turns out to suck when you’re in your forties but it’s really bad when you’re 15” Olson-Kennedy’s solution is to use blockers plus testosterone.
“I don’t know that that’s cautious, to put a 14 year-old into menopause” she says, “maybe that feels more cautious,” and “it looks like caution because we’re not giving them testosterone.” Olson-Kennedy gives testosterone to 13 and 14 year-old girls “frequently” and to 12 year-olds “sometimes.” She has absolutely no concern if a girl later regrets the permanent change of voice and male-pattern body and facial hair, along with potentially compromised fertility and sexual function.
“If it’s okay at 13 but understanding of gender changes when they get older it’s not going to be the right thing for them anymore and they’ll navigate that.” (continues)
Olson-Kennedy is able to side-step the issue of children’s malleability, vulnerability to adult suggestion and capacity to consent by the simple decision to make no distinction at all between children and adults.
“…talk about it when you’re three, when you’re 15, when you’re 21, it’s absurd, we really have to understand that people know their gender – they’re not making a decision about their gender, they’re making a decision about what to do with it if it doesn’t match their assigned sex at birth.”
”Professor Carl Heneghan points out that “children are not small adults” and that we must differentiate between adult and child bodies because there will be different effects from medical interventions. Children are not mini-adults either physically or developmentally and to make no differentiation between adults and children in gender identity services is a gross failure to recognise the status of childhood. It is noticeable that Olson-Kennedy very rarely uses the word ‘child’ but mainly refers to ‘people’:
“People come in, they already know their gender…I think it’s weird that a stranger would know your gender better than you. I just think that’s odd.”
Along with the choice to ignore a child’s developmental stage and capacity to understand, Olson-Kennedy also has little faith in the diagnostic skills of other clinical professionals working with children; to her, gender is at the root of everything (continues)
It’s worth looking at Olson-Kennedy’s full statement in the Facebook live event for Gender GP Helen Webberley:
“Gender expression is incredibly fluid for all humans including cisgender people and so having these conversations about what elements of your physical body do you want to impact or might even want to change.. I’ve had non-binary folks assigned female at birth who take testosterone for a year and they know they’re going to take it for a year and they stop after their voice goes down or some other element of their physicality changes and they’re feeling comfortable in that presentation. A lot of non-binary young people assigned female at birth really only want chest surgery and that’s a critical piece for them in order to express their gender in a way that feels most authentic for them.”
“Gender” is not just a mysterious innate essence but a cosmetic consumer choice, with the body as the product. At the Bristol conference Olson-Kennedy stressed the importance of a double mastectomy to solve the problem of harms caused by binding the breasts. “If you want breasts at a later point in your life you can go and get them” ( she told her audience at a Gender Spectrum event last Summer." (continues)
We already have highly-funded lobby groups who are pressuring the Tavistock and the NHS, who are invited into schools to re-educate children, and who have succeeded in getting ‘gender identity’ added to the Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy, which effectively mandates the gender affirmative approach. The NHS is already working towards the commissioning of ‘alternative’ gender services for adults, which will include 17 year-olds. The ground has been prepared in incremental steps so that the award of a Visiting Professorship from the University of Bristol to Olson-Kennedy has passed by with little notice or concern.
Those within the faith appear to be quite confident. From the Facebook Live Gender GP event, here is the last word from disgraced GP Helen Webberley:
“We have a blank canvas, we have no training in the UK we have no specialist register in the UK so we have a blank canvas that we could make, we could start this ball rolling. With the influence we’re learning from our US colleagues, I think this is a really exciting time for the future.”
www.transgendertrend.com/johanna-olson-kennedy-gender-affirmative-approach/
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