Are other legal precedents related to issues like abortion, euthanasia, lobotomies, or cosmetically oriented body modifications that can shed light on current legal challenges involving gender medicine?
In this bonus episode for premium subscribers, Josh Payne explains how legal strategies often involve comparing new cases to similar past ones where patients experienced harm due to misinformation or non-disclosure. He cites examples of medical harm cases, emphasizing the importance of proving intentional deception to establish fraud, noting that historical medical practices like lobotomies, now judged harshly, provide a precedent for current critiques of gender medical interventions.
We need to do a better job creating our record and showing that the surgeries are harmful, not outweighed by any fully proven proper benefit to where the benefit clearly outweighs the harm of taking away someone's sexual organs or other healthy body parts…we have not reached the point as was reached with lobotomies where this practice is completely universally frowned upon, although it does feel as if we are several steps closer day by day as things like The Cass Review come out.
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