According to the New York Times and National Review, one hospital performing "gender affirming care" (more accurately, "sex denying care") is finding that there was a pattern of rushing patients into hormone therapies and worse, that 16 patients had "de-transitioned", and that the ER was recording an average of one "transgender" patient per day showing up in a crisis situation.
Now if we believe the "official" notion that only 2% of the transgender reconsider, that would indicate about 800 patients, and count me skeptical of that. So what we have here is:
- Far more than 2% of patients are reconsidering and detransitioning
- The lack of mental health care for the patients is resulting in ER crises or worse
- Mental health professionals at St. Louis Children's Hospital/Washington University Transgender Center are doing a horrible job of observing and addressing real mental health issues.
The conclusions I draw are that the state of Missouri needs to lengthen the statute of limitations for civil suits for hasty transition procedures to 30 years at least, and then to get a serious investigation into this hospital that ought to result, ahem, in the end of a number of careers in mental health. Let's not forget; body parts in a specimen/biohazard bag do not reattach, and they do not grow back. I am not ready to end transitioning altogether as a legal practice, but it seriously needs to be reined in.
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