It should go without saying that psychological counseling will be a better treatment than hormones and irreparable surgery for children and teens who want to be a different gender. Unfortunately, actually saying that will subject you to serious reprisals if you’re a member of the medical profession. From J. Edward Les, MD, at The Epoch Times via zerohedge.com:
Last week’s release of the Cass Review brought to memory the old jingle: “Liar, liar, pants on fire; your nose is longer than a telephone wire.” Commissioned four years ago to probe the practices of the Tavistock gender clinic in Britain, the report methodically assembles a damning indictment of the flimsy evidence used to “transition” children.
Its author, retired pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass, is polite and professional, but she pulls no punches in exposing the false foundation upon which the entire edifice of “gender-affirming care” is built.
Drawing extensively on a series of systematic literature reviews and in-depth interviews with doctors, parents, and patients, she writes:
“The reality is that we have no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress… for the majority of young people, a medical pathway may not be the best way to achieve this.”
Even social transitioning alone, she concludes, risks grave psychological harm for children.
And social transitioning is often a prelude to puberty blockers. Dr. Cass skewers the oft-cited narrative that blockers are harmless and reversible, pointing to evidence of permanent negative effects on bone density and neuropsychiatric functioning.
