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Disturbing Trends in Gender Medicine Revealed
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- Gender clinicians in the United States have discussed experimental medical procedures on young adults seeking non-traditional gender identities.
- Some medical interventions are being performed without consistent research protocols or ethics review.
- Experts at professional conferences admit to updating care guidelines based on patient requests, not established medical science.
For years, American institutions have advanced controversial gender theories, moving away from traditional biological definitions of sex. This has led to medical professionals treating requests for drastic interventions as standard care.
One example was shared by Amy Penkin, a social worker at Oregon Health & Science University, at a 2021 conference by the US Professional Association for Transgender Health.
“This is Sky, who’s 18 years old. They recently graduated from high school and report living on their own for the first time. At consult, they expressed a desire to look like a ‘Barbie’ down there. They report being asexual, never having had sex, and having no desire to have sex in the future. Sky does not want to feel any pleasurable sensation and hopes removal of all erogenous tissue will be possible. And they come to our clinic with a referral and two letters of support for vulva plastic surgery.”
Penkin noted that rising requests for so-called “nonbinary” procedures are straining existing medical guidelines. She stressed the need to “evolve and match the needs of our patients as their needs are being expressed to us.”
“We came to deliver this presentation because we recognize that the tools in our system, such as what is evidence-based practice and the research tell us what are the standards of care tell us, that is not enough to meet the needs of our patients and we need to take it to the next level to really think about how we evolve and match the needs of our patients, as their needs are being expressed to us.”
Questions have been raised about clinicians performing experimental surgeries without traditional research or oversight, focusing instead on patient desires. This approach stands opposed to long-held standards where science and biology determined care.
Further, some in the field openly acknowledge that standards are revised to reflect group consensus, not settled medical science. British endocrinologist Leighton Seal stated group decisions are made to avoid individual criticism.
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