No, gender doctors, kids don’t have ‘autonomy’ to self-sterilize -- by Brandon Showalter

No, gender doctors, kids don't have 'autonomy' to self-sterilize

By Brandon Showalter, Opinion writer and social commentator

ChristianPost,

A new paper argues that children should undergo so-called "gender-affirming care" even if it's ineffective at alleviating their distress. If they want it, that's reason enough, the authors suggest. 

At this rate, nothing surprises me in this space but yes, appallingly, there are doctors actually making this point and it seems that they are saying the quiet part out loud, that the mask has fully slipped. As many truth-tellers have long said, the field of "trans medicine" is about ideology, not science — and some are finally admitting it. But I believe its proponents are doing so very stealthily and with sinister ulterior motives. 

The new paper, titled "Gender-affirming medical treatment for adolescents: a critical reflection on 'effective' treatment outcomes" was published on Dec 24 in the BMC Ethics journal, and suggests that practitioners of so-called "gender-affirming" medical treatments "move beyond the logic of improvement" and provide it "on the basis of personal desire and autonomy" to youth. 

Pause for a moment to take in the utter insanity of what they are really saying — that minors should be able to consent to take drugs that sterilize and surgical procedures that remove healthy body parts, just because they want them.

I, for one, am done extending good faith and the benefit of the doubt to these people. As I see it, they are hiding behind carefully crafted language injected with a heavy dose of queer theory nonsense and shrouding the issue in a veneer of complexity in order to fool the public into thinking they are painstakingly rigorous scientists asking important research questions. Such rhetorical repositioning is a necessary cover given the changing political winds around these issues worldwide. Infused with feigned concern and saccharine sophistication, these craven doctors are attempting to manipulate the masses into believing that they are and always have been the prudent, ethically responsible professionals in the room. 

Like most professional journal articles on this topic, this latest article is tedious and frustrating to read because of the amount of medical and psychological jargon in it, not to mention the patently false ideological premises baked into the entire field of "trans medicine." The concluding paragraph illuminates how gender clinicians are strategically pivoting — calling for "participatory action research," which involves interviewing trans-identified adolescents about what matters to them, regardless of the "effectiveness" of the interventions for their purported purpose. 

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