Fascinating insight into Gender clinicians' mindset from BAGIS conference

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www.transgendertrend.com/bagis-scientific-symposium-overton-window/

I've been reading Alice Dreger's book Galileo's Middle Finger, and it's fascinating to see the parallels between the medical/academic groupthink she exposes there and this account by Susan Matthews of a meeting for gender clinicians in Durham recently.

That is a very important read, thanks for posting.

That is very worrying. Thanks for the link. The lack of intellectual rigour and the denial of anything that doesn't fit their warped version of reality all reflect my experience of a local GP, formerly a friend, who has has become a 'gender' specialist. She can't cope with rational questioning. She knew me for years as a rational, atheist, Labour-voting, radical feminist and yet she now tells people that we no longer speak because I am under the influence of far-right Christian anti-trans ideology.

Transgender ideology is a belief system, a belief system that has to be policed and managed very carefully because it can't stand up to rational scrutiny. I think anyone in the medical profession who has decided to specialise in this area needs to be investigated. If they're not chasing the money, as the private clinics and plastic surgeons clearly are, then they are peculiarly susceptible to irrational belief systems and thus incapable of offering the unbiassed and fully-informed advice and treatment that one should be able to expect of a doctor.

That's what I thought - surely medical professionals should be establishing the best treatment for distressed patients, in an objective way, not seeing how far they can push the boundaries of what is socially acceptable.

It's almost as if they are promoting cosmetic surgery......

The finding that around 4% of the trans masculine patients accessing mastectomies at Parkside hospital were diagnosed with (treated) schizophrenia elicited no comment: in the UK the lifetime prevalence of schizophrenia and schizophrenia-related disorders is more like 1%. What was important, we learned, was that the private Parkside does not need to compete for resources with breast cancer patients and is conveniently located for Tavistock GIDS patients. I didn’t really need to know that one surgeon held the record for the weight of breast tissue removed (5 kilos).

Bloody hell. Thanks for posting this.