Could this be the end of medical transitioning children

[Hoardasurass]

Biggest US children's hospital stops sex-reassignment treatments https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12120177/Americas-biggest-childrens-hospital-stops-sex-reassignment-treatments-line-new-Texas-law.html?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton

CEO of the Center for American Liberty <lawyer> said Kaiser has emerged as a 'repeat player in the growing field of permanently mutilating children for profit.'

well that’s clear!

I can't imagine the absolute horror of being a little child waking up post surgery, it actually makes me feel sick.

I feel sick and heartbroken when I think of autistic young adolescents who locked on to a black and white answer to their puberty distress (adapting to a changing body can be experienced as trauma for autistic girls, from both a sensory perspective and general difficulties with change), which signposted them to change their bodies. They are young and vulnerable - and they are being let down.

It has been known for years that autistic girls often present androgynously, so the fact that so few professionals in autism are screaming about their vulnerability to an incorrect pathway is shocking. Any voices that do are drowned out or hounded of their jobs. So perhaps not that shocking - it's the wider psychology profession that should be ashamed of itself for failing to call out this conflation.

Autistic children are just a part of the picture, but as they represent 48% of referrals to the Tavistock over a 9 year period, I'd say it's a significant enough place where the screaming should be very loud.

The pace and targets of the rollback of rights in the US is frightening. Women need safe free access to abortion, schools need to be able to talk about sexuality, people with gender dysphoria need safe evidence based support and services where needed (such as psychotherapy). What is happening helps no one.

No it won’t be the end. As the head of that hospital says, he’ll be referring children out of state.

Maybe it is a start though.

They will run out of states eventually.

Ironically, I think medical transitioning will end before surgical, because you can have high-profile class actions against Pharma companies, but not against individual surgeons or hospitals.

A group of a particular hospital's patients can band together for a small class action, but that would only be a few dozen people, whereas large class actions in the States can have thousands of plaintiffs, with settlements running into billions - which is what incentivises lawyers to take them on at risk.

Also, if a judgement goes against a Pharma company or it settles, that will tend to deter all doctors from prescribing the drug, and insurance companies from funding it, whereas litigants against surgeons are likely to sue on individual grounds (failure to consent/complications etc), which won't necessarily have a deterrent effect on other surgeons.

Is it a coincidence that Ken Paxton (Texas AG) has now been impeached?