www.svtplay.se/video/33313874/uppdrag-granskning/uppdrag-granskning-transbarnen
This is in Swedish only for now. A trans child, Leo was treated for puberty blockers for 4 years. Leo ended up with osteoporosis (significantly below any normal bone density interval), fractures in the back, constant pain and worse mental state.
The journalist also found an additional 12 cases in Stockholm only where children had serious side effects (bone fractures, deep regret from voice changes, injuries, deteriorating mental health and significant weight gains). Leo’s case was not reported and not one of these.
Leo’s parents were not informed of the risk and the doctor that warned the parents about the side effects was reported to the management and silenced (words like incitement was used).
The psychiatric staff initially blamed everything on the hormone team. The head of the department with the hormones claimed in the interview to never have seen the reports from the psychiatric team.
Investigation only seem to have started after the journalist made the program and it wasn’t possible to cover up any more.
And this was Astrid Lindgren’s children’s hospital, one of the hospitals that at least stopped with this treatment. Other hospitals are happily going and claims that the treatment side effects doesn’t worry them.
The program finishes with that nobody know the number of children with serious side effects (some seem to be covered up). Some other Swedish hospitals keep going.
And there is an interview with two transwomen who think that it is horrid that people are using “think of the children”, that is just an argument to deprive trans people of care. They think that the big problem is transphobia. These two transwomen also spoke at the medical conference and told the doctors about how they needed to shift the focus from potential harm to children to fighting transphobia.
I feel sick. I hope this will come out with subtitles soon.
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Trans children in Sweden - serious side effect, cover ups by hospital
Doubletoilandtrouble · 25/11/2021 10:06
I suspect that all of this is building up to become one of those medical scandals that later on everyone says “how could it have happened”? When of course women and some concerned clinicians have been warning about this for a long time.
If I was a TRA I would be very cautious about the potential blowback from all of this ending up making the whole ideology look very, very bad, potentially finishing the whole thing off. Fashion can turn against you pretty fast when something bad happens.
Just look at some of the reports about girls treated with puberty blockers for growth in the US - young women reporting crumbling bones, constant pain, jaw and teeth deterioration in their early twenties. There is IIRC a big class action pending in the US with the makers of Lupron.
We’ve been here before with medical and psychiatric capture around similar issues from vaginal mesh and Thalidomide to “holding” therapy and lobotomisation. In the early 20thc there were therapies involving putting radium directly on to the bones of chronic pain sufferers - until they all started dying of bone cancer! It’s a regular historical oxcurrence, and yet it doesn’t seem to give anyone any pause when ideologically motivated treatments like this pop up - like thinking “hmm, might a bit of talking therapy and waiting be better than unlicensed experimental drug treatment on kids?” 
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