The Times - Gender expert: online influencers rush adolescents towards transition

[LittleWhingingWoman]

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/464ba422-be78-11ec-b4e3-203ad1be3cbc?shareToken=8c56b50e845125d1b0feafce8209b961

Times up.

She has been interviewed by the LA Times, the NY Post and now this. She is certainly opening herself up to a lot of harassment, as things are not yet at the same stage in the US as they are here (though they are not good in the UK, either, but better).

Hmm, a bit of an odd article? It does read a bit like a press release for Anderson. Who is mtf , which is obfuscated in the article by use of the female descriptors throughout.

And how about this paragraph?
Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas, has described gender surgery on minors as “child abuse”, despite medical experts saying it is almost unheard of. Most care for transgender children includes social transitioning and puberty blockers.

• oh so that's ok then. Just give the kids puberty blockers, that's not child abuse, is it...

I had thought that The Times had a better grip of this issue than this.

Does anyone else get the massive arse covering vib from this dr who up until recently has been advocating and profiting from childhood transition and even taking part in I am Jazz.
I know that I might be cynical but at 71 I'd guess that getting malpractice insurance to operate on any patient would be difficult let alone this cohort (high rate of complications) so will be required to retire soon and is looking to protect themselves from the coming backlash.

Anderson looks to me like someone who can see the lawsuits looming on the horizon and is trying to get into position as a whistleblower rather than a perpetrator.

Or if I'm kinder, perhaps Anderson has genuinely only just realised that teenage girls grappling with their changing bodies and/or being same-sex attracted really don't have anything in common with Anderson's own experience as a late-transitioning heterosexual middle-aged male with children. But that would imply that Anderson isn't very bright, which doesn't seem to be the case.

Covering his back.

"Dr" Sidhbh Gallagher will most probably be doing the same at some point soon.

I can’t see the piece - is this the trans woman doctor who seems to have just realised that ‘oh sh*t…’?

That's the one, or, at least, one of them.

If practicing on children didn't give them stop to pause at the start,
It's only going to be money and threats to their income that will stop them.

Is the Gallagher lady not a real doctor?

No. And yes, arse covering with an eye to future beatification as the Transwoman who saw what was happening and saved the poor confused kids.

Not cynical. Not me, sir!

So was happy to give out blockers etc like candy until the tide started turning. Now wanting to be the hero. Call me cynical but if you thought this, why not speak out years ago.

I posted this on another thread but some here might like to see it too:

reduxx.info/exclusive-florida-lawyer-seeking-information-from-gender-surgeon-patients/

The change in direction does seem to collide with lawsuits in the pipeline...

Dr Gallagher is a real surgeon, who has chosen to use unregulated media heavily used by teenagers and young adults to advertise specific types of surgery.

This will only be dismantled from within, if this is the first flame then I am not overly bothered by the motivations at this point.

I had thought that The Times had a better grip of this issue than this.

It's written by their LA correspondent who, although British, is probably more influenced by what people are saying in the US. It's not clear whether he interviewed Anderson or whether the story is based on the LA Times interview.

Anyone who has ever been involved in any of this should have the guts and the decency to stand up and take what's coming. Not be given platforms to back out and clear their conscience. Children are being left infertile and witg the bone densities of 80 year olds. You wanted this. You own it. The children deserve the truth and fir the adult drs to take responsibility

Hm. It reminds me somewhat of Mermaids' sudden interest in detransitioners and that they should be the group controlling the narrative and what that group tell people that meet these very particular needs.

Whole lot of people starting to see what is coming and positioning themselves strategically to avoid responsibility and ensure the income stream goes on.

There was this former thread on the sudden interest in detransitioners

Nancy tweets about "gender affirming care" for detransitioners www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4524139-nancy-tweets-about-gender-affirming-care-for-detransitioners

@OldCrone

Anderson looks to me like someone who can see the lawsuits looming on the horizon and is trying to get into position as a whistleblower rather than a perpetrator.

Or if I'm kinder, perhaps Anderson has genuinely only just realised that teenage girls grappling with their changing bodies and/or being same-sex attracted really don't have anything in common with Anderson's own experience as a late-transitioning heterosexual middle-aged male with children. But that would imply that Anderson isn't very bright, which doesn't seem to be the case.

100% agree with your first paragraph. This person is reversing very fast, having doubtlessly done very well professionally and financially.

@PermanentTemporary

Dr Gallagher is a real surgeon, who has chosen to use unregulated media heavily used by teenagers and young adults to advertise specific types of surgery.

She needs scrupulous investigation. It can’t come soon enough.

@WhiteFire

This will only be dismantled from within, if this is the first flame then I am not overly bothered by the motivations at this point.

I agree.

But it will, at some future date, really fucking annoy me when the real history becomes a whitewashed mess of "transwomen saving the youth because women couldn't, wouldn't, didn't"

And history will be so much easier to whitewash as much of it is now only in digital, not real world archives.

But for the digital record, here are the results right now from the leading LGBTQ+ mental health support charity the Trevor Project (you know, the one Daniel Radcliffe is involved promoting) for those young people who turn to them for support with detransitioning:

Huh?

And here's when you search Stonewall and Mermaids: Stonewall, two results, dismissive and quoting a dodgy 'stat', Mermaids, nothing.

So don't let them tell you in 6 or 12 months time they were always cautious, always supportive, always gave children the full facts, the whole picture, because they didn't.