It's a welcome first step but I worry that people don't see the bigger problem. There is an excessive focus on the issue of capacity in children, and not enough acknowledgement that the reason capacity was ignored (often deliberately) by doctors is that "gender affirmative care" was classed as "medically necessary care" which means that paternalistic doctors could decide it was in the interests of a patient *even if they lacked capacity*. Even in some cases over the objections of parents. This also explains why they felt it was appropriate to gloss over capacity issues of people with mental health problems.
We won't deal with this until we challenge the core justification for such treatments being paid for by insurance / socialised health as well as given to those with out capacity. That is that this is not gender dysphoria anymore but a physical malady that comes from the body being out of alignment with a person's innate gender. These are not gender distressed children or young adults. They are "trans people" in an essential sense and doctors have a duty to repair their bodies. Healthy breasts or testicles are treated as if they are cancerous tumours that must be removed. No evidence is necessary. Informed consent is not necessary either except as a formality, the same as for a patient with a ruptured appendix who would die without urgent surgery.
We have to grapple with the fact that the medical field has been invaded by queer theory (with its idea of true trans). Nobody at all should be getting medicalised gender transition services aside from those already medicalised who need aftercare and cannot just be left to suffer.
The children are just the tip of the iceberg. Young adults are also so so vulnerable to the lies still being propagated by doctors, right here in the UK.
It's a welcome first step but I worry that people don't see the bigger problem. There is an excessive focus on the issue of capacity in children, and not enough acknowledgement that the reason capacity was ignored (often deliberately) by doctors is that "gender affirmative care" was classed as "medically necessary care" which means that paternalistic doctors could decide it was in the interests of a patient *even if they lacked capacity*. Even in some cases over the objections of parents. This also explains why they felt it was appropriate to gloss over capacity issues of people with mental health problems.
We won't deal with this until we challenge the core justification for such treatments being paid for by insurance / socialised health as well as given to those with out capacity. That is that this is not gender dysphoria anymore but a physical malady that comes from the body being out of alignment with a person's innate gender. These are not gender distressed children or young adults. They are "trans people" in an essential sense and doctors have a duty to repair their bodies. Healthy breasts or testicles are treated as if they are cancerous tumours that must be removed. No evidence is necessary. Informed consent is not necessary either except as a formality, the same as for a patient with a ruptured appendix who would die without urgent surgery.
We have to grapple with the fact that the medical field has been invaded by queer theory (with its idea of true trans). Nobody at all should be getting medicalised gender transition services aside from those already medicalised who need aftercare and cannot just be left to suffer.
The children are just the tip of the iceberg. Young adults are also so so vulnerable to the lies still being propagated by doctors, right here in the UK.
I have an audio essay on this, fleshing things out for anyone who is interested. https://shirabatya.substack.com/p/trans-healthcare-is-healthcare-wpath