Israel Must End its Participation in The Worst Medical Scandal In History
ישראל חייבת להפסיק את השתתפותה בהסקנדל הרפואי הגרוע בהיסטוריה
I understand that Israel wants to be at the forefront of medical care, but when evidence mounts that what is promoted as “medicine” is a fad leading to the unnecessary butchery and compromise of the health of mostly confused young adults (I pray fewer children are affected in this country than others), we must check our course.
I am writing about the movement called “gender affirming therapy” that is rapidly being discredited. It is a movement. It is not medicine. The activists have been taking over for at least a quarter century.
As you may know, the United Kingdom (The Cass Review, headed by Dr. Hilary Cass, OBE), Sweden (Care of children and adolescents with gender dysphoria: National knowledge support with recommendations for professionals and decision-makers; see also Summary of Key Recommendations from the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen/NBHW)) and Finland (Recommendation of the Council for Choices in Health Care in Finland (PALKO/COHERE Finland) have closed down facilities and significantly restricted access to procedures to change sex characteristics.
Also moving in this direction are Wales, Scotland, Denmark, Norway, and others.
אני מבין שישראל רוצה להיות בחזית הטיפול הרפואי, אבל כאשר מצטברות ראיות לכך שמה שמקודם בתור “רפואה” היא אופנה שמובילה לשחיטה מיותרת ולפגיעה בבריאותם של מבוגרים צעירים מבולבלים בעיקר (אני מתפלל שפחות ילדים נפגעים במדינה הזו מאחרים), אנחנו חייבים לבדוק את המסלול שלנו.
אני כותב על התנועה שנקראת “טיפול המאשר מגדר” זה מוכפש במהירות. זו תנועה. זה לא רפואה. הפעילים משתלטים כבר רבע מאה לפחות.
כפי שאתם אולי יודעים, בריטניה (The Cass Review, בראשות ד"ר הילארי קאס, OBE), שוודיה (טיפול בילדים ובמתבגרים עם דיספוריה מגדרית: תמיכה בידע לאומי עם המלצות לאנשי מקצוע ו סיכום ההמלצות המרכזיות של מועצת הבריאות והרווחה הלאומית של שבדיה (Socialstyrelsen/NBHW)) ופינלנד (המלצת המועצה לבחירות בתחום הבריאות בפינלנד (PALKO/COHERE Finland) סגרו מתקנים והגבילו באופן משמעותי גישה למאפיינים מיניים.
בכיוון זה נעים גם ויילס, סקוטלנד, דנמרק, נורבגיה ואחרות.
The evidence of a scandal perpetuated by WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health) continues to grow. An recent year-long analysis culminated in a report on The WPATH Files: Pseudoscientific Surgical and Hormonal Experiments on Children, Adolescents, and Vulnerable Adults by the organization Environmental Progress. This report puts the lie to the notion that there is any quality medical research addressing this butchery.
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is. It doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
Richard Feinman
There is no validated protocol. Given the appalling lack of science, it is difficult to see how there could be.
Unfortunately, this disease has taken hold in Israel as well. Our kupot too easily hand out these dangerous treatments. Maayan Gender and Ma'avarim - Israeli Trans Community are two examples of our local activist community.
This butchery is instead given by a set of unproved guidelines from the discredited WPATH and its offshoots. These have been chipping away for 30 years at the guard rails that once ensured that “gender-affirming care” was only provided to those who truly have gender identity disorder (now gender dysphoria).
While most of the citations I have provided here deal with the most vulnerable, there is a similar lack of evidence at the young adult level. A disease that once was the province of middle aged men is now common in teenage girls.
Given the information cited here, and the incredible cost both in health and the long-term cost of these treatments, I demand that this country immediately shut down this industry/line of “treatment” until such time as appropriate guard rails are in place to ensure that we stop butchering healthy bodies.
At the very least, I demand we stop paying for these experimental-at best-treatments.
הראיות לשערורייה שהונצחה על ידי WPATH (האגודה המקצועית העולמית לבריאות טרנסג'נדרית) ממשיכות לגדול. ניתוח שנערך לאחרונה במשך שנה הגיע לשיאו בדו"ח על The WPATH Files: Pseudoscientific Surgical and Hormonal Experiments on Children, Adolescents, and Vulnerable Adults על ידי הארגון Environmental Progress. דו"ח זה מעמיד את השקר על הרעיון שיש מחקר רפואי איכותי המתייחס לכך שחיטה.
זה לא משנה כמה יפה התיאוריה שלך. זה לא משנה כמה אתה חכם. אם זה לא מתאים לניסוי, זה שגוי.
ריצ'רד פיינמן
אין פרוטוקול מאומת. בהתחשב במחסור המחריד במדע, קשה לראות איך יכול להיות.
לצערי, המחלה הזו השתלטה גם בישראל. קופות החולים שלנו מחלקות בקלות רבה מדי את הטיפולים המסוכנים האלה. Maayan Gender and Ma'avarim - Israeli Trans Community הן שתי דוגמאות לקהילה האקטיביסטית המקומית שלנו.
טבח זה ניתן במקום זאת על ידי סדרה של הנחיות לא מוכחות מה-WPATH המופרך ושלוחותיו. אלה מכרסמים כבר 30 שנה במעקות הבטיחות שפעם הבטיחו כי & #8220; טיפול מאשר מגדר” סופק רק למי שבאמת סובל מהפרעת זהות מגדרית (כיום דיספוריה מגדרית).
בעוד שרוב הציטוטים שהבאתי כאן עוסקים בפגיעים ביותר, קיים חוסר דומה בראיות ברמת הצעירים. מחלה שפעם הייתה נחלתם של גברים בגיל העמידה נפוצה כיום בקרב נערות בגיל ההתבגרות.
בהתחשב במידע שצוטט כאן, והעלות המדהימה הן בבריאות והן בעלות ארוכת הטווח של טיפולים אלה, אני דורש ממדינה זו לסגור מיד את התעשייה / קו זה של & #8220; טיפול” עד אשר יהיו מעקות בטיחות מתאימים כדי להבטיח שנפסיק לשחוט גוף בריא.
לכל הפחות, אני דורש שנפסיק לשלם עבור טיפולים ניסיוניים במקרה הטוב.
“We seek a healthy approach to sex and gender. We are critical of the gender-affirmative approach and advise health care professionals to take the time and care to evaluate the low-evidence base for the current affirmative approach, looking more closely at the harms that medical treatment paths can cause. We recognize the high occurrence of comorbidities such as autism and ADHD among children and young people who are questioning their gender. We are also concerned about the disproportionate numbers of children and young people who are same-sex attracted or will come to recognize themselves as such and could be described as “pre-gay” among those who choose to medicalize their identity rather than allowing sexual development to occur. In this context, we advocate for a non-medicalized approach to gender dysphoria underpinned by a quality evidence-base.
“We would like to raise public awareness of the issues facing gender-questioning children, adolescents and vulnerable adults. We wish to help create a society that supports gender non-conformity — one which doesn't require the heavy burden of medical treatment. We acknowledge that gay, lesbian and bisexual youth are often gender non-conforming. Rather than suppressing hormonal urges with medication, we support an approach that allows adolescents to explore their sexuality with freedom and acceptance.
“We want to see schools, colleges and higher education establishments hold neutral space for students as they explore their gender, sexual orientation and identity formation. We value supportive environments for students, so they feel neither encouraged nor discouraged to follow certain paths.
“Finally, in this fast-paced world, we advocate for a slower, more thoughtful approach to any difficulties relating to sex and gender that impacts children and young people.”
“אנו מחפשים גישה בריאה למין ומגדר. אנו ביקורתיים כלפי הגישה המתקנת מגדרית וממליצים לאנשי מקצוע בתחום הבריאות לקחת את הזמן והקפדה על מנת להעריך את בסיס הראיות הנמוך לגישה המתקנת הנוכחית, תוך התבוננות מקרוב על הנזקים שמסלולי טיפול רפואי יכולים לגרום. אנו מזהים את השכיחות הגבוהה של מחלות נלוות כמו אוטיזם והפרעות קשב וריכוז בקרב ילדים וצעירים המפקפקים במגדר שלהם. אנו גם מודאגים מהמספר הלא פרופורציונלי של ילדים וצעירים שנמשכים מאותו מין או יכירו את עצמם ככאלה ויכולים להיות מתוארים כ-“טרום הומוסקסואלים” בין אלה הבוחרים לעשות מדיקליזציה של זהותם במקום לאפשר להתפתחות מינית להתרחש. בהקשר זה, אנו דוגלים בגישה לא-רפואית לדיספוריה מגדרית, המבוססת על בסיס ראיות איכותי.
“ברצוננו להגביר את המודעות הציבורית לנושאים העומדים בפני ילדים, מתבגרים ומבוגרים פגיעים שאליהם מגדרים. אנו רוצים לעזור ליצור חברה שתומכת באי-התאמה מגדרית - כזו שאינה דורשת את הנטל הכבד של טיפול רפואי. אנו מכירים בכך שצעירים הומוסקסואלים, לסביות וביסקסואלים לרוב אינם תואמים למגדר. במקום לדכא דחפים הורמונליים באמצעות תרופות, אנו תומכים בגישה המאפשרת למתבגרים לחקור את המיניות שלהם בחופש ובקבלה.
“אנו רוצים לראות שבתי ספר, מכללות ומוסדות להשכלה גבוהה מחזיקים במרחב ניטרלי לסטודנטים כשהם חוקרים את המגדר, הנטייה המינית וגיבוש הזהות שלהם. אנו מעריכים סביבות תומכות לתלמידים, כך שהם לא מרגישים מעודדים או מיואשים ללכת בדרכים מסוימות.
“לבסוף, בעולם המהיר הזה, אנו דוגלים בגישה איטית ומתחשבת יותר לכל קשיים הקשורים למין ומגדר המשפיעים על ילדים וצעירים.”
“When discussing gender, a quote by Scottish novelist and folklorist Andrew Lang is particularly relevant: statistics are often used “as a drunken man uses lampposts – for support rather than for illumination.”
“There is a significant amount of misinformation about gender, frequently presented in numerical form. Many people have heard claims like “41% of teenagers who want to transition will commit suicide if denied cross-sex hormones,” “cross-sex surgeries are no more dangerous than wisdom teeth removal,” or “1.7% of people are born neither male nor female.” These assertions are often questionable and deserve proper scrutiny.
“These statistics, widely shared on social media, have become ingrained in popular culture. They are repeated in news outlets, school classrooms, and diversity training sessions, yet they often fall apart under closer examination.
“Many parents of gender-questioning children are presented with statistics that make transitioning seem ideal while portraying any more cautious approach as abusive or dangerous. When children request puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones, parents often find themselves diving into scientific research, trying to distinguish fact from fiction.
“Teachers, journalists, politicians, and other decision-makers are frequently confronted with data that suggests there is only one viable option. However, many remain skeptical of the rapid push towards transition. They reflect on individuals they know who were gender-non-conforming in their youth and wonder what might have happened if they had grown up in today's environment, where gender expression is so heavily emphasized.
“The lack of a single, user-friendly resource for reliable gender statistics has been a challenge for both parents and professionals. That's why Genspect created Stats For Gender.
“We believe the public deserves access to reliable data, organized intuitively and presented in clear, jargon-free language. Our goal is to provide those questioning their gender with full access to the facts, while also helping their families, friends, and loved ones to see the bigger picture."
“כאשר דנים במגדר, ציטוט של הסופר והפולקלור הסקוטי אנדרו לאנג רלוונטי במיוחד: לעתים קרובות נעשה שימוש בסטטיסטיקה “כאשר גבר שיכור משתמש בעמודי פנסים - לתמיכה ולא להארה.”
“יש כמות משמעותית של מידע מוטעה על מגדר, המוצג לעתים קרובות בצורה מספרית. אנשים רבים שמעו טענות כמו “41% מבני הנוער שרוצים לעבור מעבר יתאבדו אם ימנעו מהם הורמונים חוצי מין,” “ניתוחים חוצי מין אינם מסוכנים יותר מהסרת שיני בינה,” או “1.7% מהאנשים נולדים לא זכר ולא נקבה.” קביעות אלה מוטלות לעתים בספק וראויות לבדיקה נאותה.
“נתונים סטטיסטיים אלה, המשותפים באופן נרחב במדיה החברתית, הפכו מושרשים בתרבות הפופולרית. הם חוזרים על עצמם בכלי חדשות, בכיתות בית ספר ובמפגשי הכשרה למגוון, אך לעתים קרובות הם מתפרקים בבדיקה מדוקדקת יותר.
“הורים רבים לילדים שואלים שאלות מגדרי מוצגות בפני נתונים סטטיסטיים שגורמים למעבר להיראות אידיאלי תוך הצגת כל גישה זהירה יותר כפוגענית או מסוכנת. כאשר ילדים מבקשים חוסמי התבגרות או הורמונים חוצי מין, הורים מוצאים את עצמם לעתים קרובות צוללים לתוך מחקר מדעי, ומנסים להבחין בין עובדות לבדיון.
“מורים, עיתונאים, פוליטיקאים ומקבלי החלטות אחרים מתמודדים לעתים קרובות עם נתונים המצביעים על כך שיש רק אפשרות אחת. עם זאת, רבים נותרים סקפטיים לגבי הדחיפה המהירה לקראת המעבר. הם חושבים על אנשים שהם מכירים שהיו לא תואמים מגדר בצעירותם ותוהים מה היה יכול לקרות אילו היו גדלים בסביבה של היום, שבה הביטוי המגדרי מודגש כל כך.
“היעדר משאב יחיד וידידותי למשתמש עבור סטטיסטיקה מגדרית אמינה היווה אתגר הן להורים והן לאנשי מקצוע. זו הסיבה ש-Genspect יצרה Stats For Gender.
“אנו מאמינים שהציבור ראוי לגישה לנתונים אמינים, המאורגנים באופן אינטואיטיבי ומוצגים בשפה ברורה ונטולת ז'רגון. המטרה שלנו היא לספק למפקפקים על המגדר שלהם גישה מלאה לעובדות, ובמקביל לעזור למשפחותיהם, לחבריהם ולאהובים שלהם לראות את התמונה הרחבה יותר."
The Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine (“SEGM”) promotes safe, compassionate, ethical and evidence-informed healthcare for children, adolescents, and young adults with gender dysphoria
“SEGM was formed around in response to a proliferation of treatment guidelines that promote medicalized youth gender transition without the benefit of systematic reviews of evidence. Instead, the prevailing guidelines rely on a limited selection of studies that suffer from a high risk of bias, and have low applicability to the current population of gender-dysphoric youth. Such non-evidence-based guidelines risk promoting suboptimal and harmful care.
“From our inception, SEGM's mission has been to promote evidence-based principles in the field of youth gender medicine. To date, we have collaborated with hundreds of researchers and clinicians from over 20 countries. Our objectives include critically appraising primary studies, translating, analyzing, and disseminating international practice guidelines and society position statements, and, importantly, developing new quality systematic reviews of evidence in partnership with major research universities. In addition to evaluating the endocrine and surgical intervention pathways (known as “gender-affirming care"), we support the development of non-invasive approaches for the care of young people with gender dysphoria."
SEGM reports that the Germans are having some issues as well. Recently it was reported “The Gender Dysphoria Diagnosis in Young People Has a ‘Low Diagnostic Stability,’ Finds a New German Study”
“Do No Harm represents physicians, nurses, medical students, patients, and policymakers focused on keeping identity politics out of medical education, research, and clinical practice.
“We believe in making healthcare better for all – not undermining it in pursuit of a political agenda. Do No Harm seeks to highlight and counteract divisive trends in medicine, such as “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” and youth-focused gender ideology.”
“We are LGBT adults calling for reform of youth gender medicine. >The LGBT Courage Coalition believes the current practice of ‘gender affirming care’ for minors is not evidence-based and carries the risk of irreversible harm. We seek to give voice to those who share our concerns but who are afraid to speak out.”
Stephen B. Levine M.D. on the Science of Gender-Affirming Care
“Stephen B. Levine is a psychiatrist known for his work in human sexuality, particularly, sexual dysfunction and transgenderism. Levine earned his MD from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine and serves as a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry there.
“He was co-editor for the section on sexual and gender identity disorders in the professional text Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders. Although much of his work is written for other clinicians, Levine has also written books for a lay audience, including Solving Common Sexual Problems and Sexuality in Mid-Life (2004). Levine also served on the American Psychiatric Association DSM-IV Subcommittee on Gender Identity Disorders.”
from the show notes. Also see his 2023 article Current Concerns About Gender-Affirming Therapy in Adolescents
“Dr. Stephen B. Levine was the chair of the SOC5 committee in 1998 and recommended that the guidelines require patients to obtain two letters from mental health professionals before commencing hormones. Dr. Richard Green, HBIGDA president at the time, was unhappy with this requirement and so immediately commissioned SOC6, which was published just three years later and was almost identical but advised only one letter from a mental health professional.
“In the intervening years, activists began to overtake HBIGDA, and in 2002, Dr. Levine resigned his membership due to his “regretful conclusion that the organization and its recommendations had become dominated by politics and ideology, rather than by scientific process, as it was years earlier.” In 2007, the organization changed its name to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. This change was significant. At the stroke of a brush, a loose affiliation of people had appointed themselves as the leading international authority on gender medicine.”
Dr. Zucker, Kenneth J. Zucker, Ph.D., C.Psych, “led the Child Youth and Family Gender Identity Clinic (GIC), in Toronto, one of the most well-known clinics in the world for children and adolescents with gender dysphoria,” before the activists took over and got him fired. See How the Fight Over Transgender Kids Got a Leading Sex Researcher Fired.
Dr. Kaltiala reports that Gender-Affirming Care Is Dangerous. I Know Because I Helped Pioneer It. “My country [Finland], and others, found there is no solid evidence supporting the medical transitioning of young people. Why aren't American clinicians paying attention?"
Miriam Grossman MD: I know too much,Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatrist, Author & International Public Speaker: Fighting Gender Madness for Over a Decade.
Dr. Jordan Peterson talks to Dr. Eithan Haim at Texas Children's Hospital Exposed for Illegal Gender Affirming Care | Dr. Eithan Haim | EP 459
A good introduction is made by journalist Helen Joyce at Notes for Keynote Address at first Genspect conference. She is journalist who happened upon and could not escape this topic, and wrote Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
Ms. Keen (a/k/a PosieParker) founded Let Women Speak.
See the National Review's New Scientific Study Undercuts Rationale for ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
This does not occur without a context. Some of that is provided by Lance Logan and James Lindsay in their book The Queering of the American Child:
“American children are learning a lot about sex, “gender,” and sexuality in their schools. District administrators, teachers, and even librarians are obsessed with pushing inappropriate topics onto kids, all in the name of fostering “inclusion.” Children today learn that they were “assigned a sex at birth” and can change their sex or “gender” at will. Kids are no longer learning to read, write, or do math, but they are learning how to be “radical gender” activists. Meanwhile, school districts keep parents in the dark, hiding critical information about the health and well-being of their children from them.
“American education wasn't like this forty years ago. The cult of Queer Theory changed everything. Inspired by the religious teachings of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Queer Activists “queered” American education. Schools are no longer teaching children how to flourish in society—they are initiating children into the cult of Queer Theory. Once initiated, children “experience the queer” as they adopt a new cult identity and embark on the destructive path of social and medical “transition.”
“In this book, The Queering of the American Child, Logan Lancing and James Lindsay explain what Queer Theory is, where it comes from, how it got into schools, and what it's doing to children nationwide. The cult of Queer Theory preys on children, and it must be understood if we are ever to stop the madness.”
Lobotomies - Past Medical Scandals and The WPATH Files - Part 1 The Washington Evening Star called Lobotomy “One of the Greatest Surgical Innovations of this Generation.” The New York Times quoting a neurosurgeon who called Lobotomy “a shining example of therapeutic courange” “surgery of the soul.”
Every human system needs checks and balances…Doctors and nurses and everyone writing prescriptions are humans, which means we are subject to human foibles, and hubris, and blind spots, and pride, and all, all of those things. The medical system has to have checks and balances and like I said it had worked very hard to be like the airline industry safety things checks and balances and this is outside of checks and balances and the shaming of debate and so we we we debate, we discuss that's part of the joy of practicing medicine; so this this isq this is, this is not that and there are huge, huge red flag so I think that history will repeat itself when you are in an environment that doesn't have proper checks and balances, resistance and the ability to raise your concerns and debate.
Dr. Carrie Mendoza, participant in the Lobotomy Conversation
Ovariotomy - Past Medical Scandals and The WPATH Files - Part 2 “ Ovariotomies became accepted practice to treat female “hysteria” in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. What can we learn from the rise and fall of ovariotomies for today's drive to be treat temperamental variation? How do these lessons help us understand the current medical practice to treat gender dysphoria and how to construct safeguards for children and vulnerable adults?”
And then there is Megan McArdle on the Oedipus Trap “When physician Walter Freeman died in 1972, he still believed that lobotomies were the best treatment for mental illness. A pioneer in the method, he was a deeply confident and charismatic man who eagerly spread the technique in America, long after the rise of alternative treatments that were less destructive. Listen as journalist Megan McArdle and EconTalk's Russ Roberts discuss what McArdle calls the “Oedipus Trap”: mistakes that no one can live with, even if they were innocently made, and how admitting such mistakes to ourselves is nearly impossible. They also discuss the complexity of the credo, ‘Follow the science.’”
This may be The Beginning of the End of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’?
If it is, Israel, with its great medical minds, should be leading the end of this social contagion rather than being the tail wagged by the insane Americans.
Michael Shellenberger has a great discussion of this at The Winston Marshall Show: “Worst Medical Scandal In History!” Michael Shellenberger. He relates that one of the things that shocked him the most was that it took thirty years for the medical community to end the scrambling of the brains that is lobotomy. Before that, Dr. Egas Moniz won a Nobel Prise for developing this horrific procedure.
I pray you can help us come to our senses more quickly here so I don't have to see this fall upon my children.
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