Dr Sibh Gallagher reported to FTC for false promotion of surgeries

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Good, about time too!

Interesting that this in the Indo, the Irish times ran a puff how fabulous is this woman piece didn’t they?

Good!

Its all major surgery. Life altering. Sometimes even disabling surgery. Its not something that should be advertised on tik tok fgs. Take what you do seriously ffs. Because its serious.

I find Sidhbh Gallagher really unsettling - I think it's the use of Tiktok and the language she uses 'yeet the teets', 'this one', often talking about patients bringing 'snacks'. She says its because its the language her community uses, but to me it feels like a type of grooming. She knows exactly who she is targeting and how to reach them.

Her Instagram is very sad, all those young women with smiling faces. Does Sidhbh herself have any follow up data, 5 years, 10 years down the line, as to how her patients are doing?

Another thing I have noticed is that lots of her patients have very similar body shapes, overweight and carrying weight around the middle in particular. Is this to do with the lack of oestrogen?

Great news, let’s hope sunlight pours in.

She terrifies me. My least favourite fellow Irish person in quite a crowded field . Yes the Irish Independent seems to lean more GC?

The Irish Times has an article by Taryn de Vere , a relentless self publicist who is transing her son. She is from Oz I think. The Antipodean nation , not the fictional one.

Another thing I have noticed is that lots of her patients have very similar body shapes, overweight and carrying weight around the middle in particular. Is this to do with the lack of oestrogen?

This always confuses me. The famous case that went to do an internship at dr Gallagher's clinic was forced to lose weight to have the grs surgery. ( mot performed by gallagher) but all the transmen having the surgeries all look puffy/over weight and certainly not healthy. How come she goes ahead on them?

She has done videos specifically about operating on patients with higher BMIs so it's definitely something she does.

I don't want to body shame these patients. But almost every woman over the age of about 40 knows the struggle with weight as your oestrogen starts falling off a cliff, and the effect that has on other aspects of health. Some of these female patients are still teenagers, or very early 20s. It's another thing to deal on top of everything else when they are barely even adults.

@Abhannmor its really disturbing that IT are promoting persons like Taryn De Vere. Who is signing off on this. Why do they think I’m interested in De Vere’s opinion?

do they think that they’re going for the Yoof market?

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Some of these female patients are still teenagers, or very early 20s. It's another thing to deal on top of everything else when they are barely even adults

Surgeries where scar tissue would affect arm mobility and potentially cause hand disabilities if they later go onto phalloplasty , would surely male a healthy lifestyle even harder. Its setting them up for a life of being unhealthy.

There's another good piece in the Indo today. You'll need a subscription to read it (at €4 a month I think it is worth it). In summary Charlie Flanagan has twice raised concerns in writing with Donnelly (copied to O'Gorman) about the treatment of gender questioning teens, the concerns raised by the NGS that mirror those raised in relation to Tavistock by the Cass report etc etc He is still waiting for a reply 2 months later and is concerned by this. I can't tell you how surprised I was (in a good way) to see that someone in Irish political life is watching this issue, informing themselves and willing to ask some questions. www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/charlie-flanagan-demands-probe-into-hses-use-of-uk-gender-clinic-for-children-42051366.html

She terrifies me.

Yes, me too. The way in which she's using SM to advertise to a vulnerable target, the breezy language minimising serious, irreversible surgery. How is this legal in a civilised society? She should be behind bars for this.

Good for the Indo, may they keep going with this. The IT have lost the goddamn plot.

Very interesting that hes going to raise it in the Dail and hadn't heard about the review by Colm Henry, seems a bit odd to complete their review before the Cass review is finished

"It is understood Mr Flanagan will now raise concerns in the Dáil. The HSE said Colm Henry, its chief clinical officer, commissioned an internal review of the Cass report and this is close to completion. The review involved Mr Henry travelling to London to meet with Prof Cass.

"He has engaged a number of times in recent months with Prof Cass, including a meeting in London, to discuss the challenges of developing a gender service in circumstances in which data and evidence on which to base a clinical approach is limited," the HSE said.

"In line with many other national health services, we are working to ensure that we can provide the best possible service to those in need of it now, as well as ensuring the service we provide evolves in line with ongoing emerging evidence. This will not involve any abrupt change to current referral pathways, which incidentally is in line with the approach advocated by Professor Cass."

God alone knows the answer to that! Literally all that de Vere mediocrity has going for her is the GNC son. He is the Product as far as I can see. But then Ireland is a small country and once you're a ' face' you get invited onto panel shows etc. Commissioned to write Phil Space articles.

The more so if you are not Irish of course.

Good grief. I just read the Independent.ie article : she does up to 500 gender reassignments a month. She is helped by her sister but still - are they using a chainsaw ?!

Good. She should be in prison.

About time too. Though the article says it is not clear whether the complaint will be investigated. She is a vile excuse for a human. In the pictures I have seen everyone is always smiling but it never reaches their eyes. Those look utterly distressed. Those poor poor people.

I'm glad - she is a very worrying individual. Completely agree with pp who says her use of teen slang is a form of grooming. There are some situations where clear, unambiguous, formal, impactful language is needed and the discussion of removing healthy breasts is one of them. It's beyond inappropriate to boast about yeeting teets etc. I find those pictures of mutilated girls so unbelievably heartbreaking.

Ugh, I just saw a pic on Twitter of her with Simon Harris and one of her poor patients. Will these dumb arse politicians never learn?

Good grief. I just read the Independent.ie article : she does up to 500 gender reassignments a month.

Had to go and check that, cos it seemed implausible - you misread.

Dr Gallagher has said she does up to 500 gender-affirmation surgeries a year. One a month involves a person under the age of 18.

Can she really have made this boast? Or is it a misprint?
It's just not possible.

Most of the mastectomies at my hospital take several hours. Admittedly the linger operations usually involve reconstruction of some sort. But a double mastectomy HAS to take at least an hour. If she worked REALLY hard doing 8 a day 5 days a week (no lunch breaks) that's only 160 a month.
Then she has out patient clinics etc, filming her little TikTok videos and presumably some admin work, totting up bills.

I presume she has a team working for her, beyond her sister

Thanks @NecessaryScene yes I completely misread the figure. Thank God. She'd need a veritable army to do 15+ per day.

500 per annum is still awful. Another selling point - besides the teenage Valley Girl slang - Gallagher is young , slender and pretty. Apart from the mad staring eyes.

Yes, there is probably definitely something about the fact that she is a young attractive woman that draws these young females to her as well, maybe they feel 'safer' with her?

I'm familiar with SG's work and marketing approach. There have been comments by male observers of her practice in the past that have queried why her patients don't do the less invasive form of "masculinising" their forms by simply starting to lift weights.

It would certainly be a cheaper solution, and the tactic most young males would take if they wanted to be perceived as "more manly".

From this came the conclusion that this is not about presenting as more, or thinking like a, male per se, but rather a complex internal desire to express the patient's will against a body they feel they cannot control, and that these patients felt they would rather be read as overweight males than overweight females.

This oddity is certainly also a feature with many lithe transboys/men, who seems to want to appear as very slim teen males who are barely pubescent. In reality, many teen males of that body type tend to have a hang up about their "skinniness" and lack of muscle and strength.

In short, these transmen are not portraying a typically male response to their body image, which further underlines the fact they are not particularly thinking in a socialised masculine manner.