Doctor Fired for Trans Surgery Comments Receives $1.6 Million Settlement in US

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A big pay out over attempts to undermine a Doctor that questioned gender medicalization. Even without Trump's efforts the wheels are falling off the TA movement in the States.

https://www.thefp.com/p/doctor-fired-for-trans-comments-gets-settlement

I find it heartening that even in such a negative environment that medical professionals were still willing to speak out because they knew children were being harmed.

His beliefs seemed very similar Dr David Bell (he was a whistleblower at Tavistock) most children who experience dysphoria during puberty will self resolve if not started on a medical path of puberty blockers/ cross sex hormones.

Will he get his job back?
Or at least his career.

Won't anyone think of those insurance premiums?

It's really depressing that it's not concerns for the welfare of children which will ultimately focus and change minds, but the cost of dealing with all the inevitable law suits.

Once again this is a significant step forward, to stopping the lunacy. I'm currently half way through Hannah Barnes book and it's jaw dropping in terms of the level of negligence going on.

I hope the law suits eventually go after those who support unquestioning affirmation only.

Bring. It. On

Thank you very much for that link. I've always thought this is what's needed - for the US hospitals, clinicians and 'therapists' who've enabled this to be sued to oblivion. Unfortunately, money talks more effectively than almost anything else, especially in a healthcare system where either the patient or their insurer has to pay for everything or go without (or go bankrupt).

If US children and young people were to be unable to get 'gender-affirming' treatments, i.e. hormones and surgery, just as easily as they can now, there would be a period of outrage and wild claims about right-wingers and fundamental religion being behind it, but eventually (I hope) this social contagion would die down. (Of course it will be on to the next one, but with luck that won't be as damaging to their physical and mental health as this one has been). The US is so dominant that it needs a sea change in attitudes and practice over there to change the narrative on social media. Without the smokescreen of 'trans kids', the adult male fetishists will be seen for what they are, surely?

That leaves Canada. Trump's extraordinary pronouncements have apparently made it much more likely that Carney will win their imminent election. I can only hope that he will take a long hard look at some of what's been going on there and rein it in.

That leaves Canada. Trump's extraordinary pronouncements have apparently made it much more likely that Carney will win their imminent election. I can only hope that he will take a long hard look at some of what's been going on there and rein it in

I understand Carney has a trans child so unlikely he’ll be reining anything in, Canada is the new Gilead

I heard that too, but don't know if it's true. O Canada!

Aha. He has four daughters and the eldest identifies as non-binary and was a patient at the Tavistock. Now coming up to 25 years old. Sounds as if she dipped in here at some point:

In the alternative magazine Authenticity, Sasha Carney penned an essay in April 2020 called Mumsnet, and Transmasculine Childhood. In the essay, Sasha talks about her experiences of feeling confused about her gender as a teenager and receiving treatment at the discredited Tavistock gender clinic in London, England.
https://www.junonews.com/p/exclusive-mark-carney-sent-daughter?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share

It’s the rite of passage du jour among certain social circles. I wonder how many children of factory workers and bus drivers in deprived areas of the UK attend the Tavistock for a spot of Gender Realignment?

I would have guessed that too, @DiaAssolellat, but unfortunately one of the hot spots for children referred to the Tavistock was Blackpool and a great many of those children were in care, i.e. children who'd had a lot of trauma and insecurity in their lives, possibly disproportionately neurodiverse. You have to wonder about the role of social services there, as they were in loco parentis.

That’s very sad to hear. I remember Cass highlighted childhood trauma as one of the significant factors that may make GI seem appealing to children and teenagers.

Poor children.