The “trangender” clinic that British authorities shut down last week didn’t just rush kids into life-changing medical treatment. It also prescribed dangerous, life-altering puberty blockers after meeting a child just one time.
The National Health Service closed the Tavistock Clinic after a report deemed it “not safe,” and revealed that the facility offered “transition” treatment without fully examining the mental health of the patients. But London’s Telegraph has revealed that the health unit’s headshrinkers weren’t just too “reaffirming” too quickly when a kid showed up to say he or she was the “wrong” gender. Doctors began pumping kids with puberty blockers immediately.
One doctor said the clinic terribly mutilated or otherwise changed kids for life.
“Huge Damage”
“After the NHS announced that it was closing down the clinic amid safety fears, whistleblowers revealed the haste with which young people were placed on a medical pathway,” the Telegraph revealed:
Dr Hilary Cass, who is leading a review of the service, has warned that the drugs could prompt the “rewiring of neural circuits” and affect parts of the brain responsible for decision-making and judgment.
Such is the danger from the drugs that Tory political candidates say they want to restrict their use, the newspaper reported.
Parents say that isn’t enough. The government “must ban the drugs for use in treating gender dysphoria over concerns about the life-long damage that they are causing.”
Worse still, concerns about the clinic go back “two decades” and were ignored, as was Dr. David Bell. He “blew the whistle on practices at the clinic in a report in 2018” because Tavistock had “failed” children and “done huge damage.”
“That means there’s a growing group of detransitioners, who will not go anywhere near the Tavistock and will not go anywhere near the NHS actually, because they feel so terribly let down,” he told the Telegraph:
“These were kids who said I’m a girl or I’m a boy and they were affirmed. They took the drugs and they went to opposite sex hormones and they had parts of their body removed, their breasts, their vaginas. Now, as one girl put it to me, ‘I don’t have the body of a man, I’ve got the body of a mutilated woman and that’s what I have to live with.’”
Dr Bell said that he was aware of one child who was referred for puberty blockers after just one session while the “regime” was four to six hour-long appointments which he described as a “ludicrously few number.”
He said that the bar for prescribing puberty blockers should be “very, very, very, very much higher. It may be possible, in one or two cases, that it has to be done, but the way they’ve been used is totally inappropriate.”
Another employee “raised concerns” in 2004.
Yet instead of stopping the drug and surgical mutilations completely, NHS has transferred “treatment” to other facilities.
Horror Story
That won’t satisfy parents. The Telegraph told the story of a mom whose daughter “transitioned” and received a double mastectomy at 18:
Her daughter, then 14, said on her first appointment she wanted puberty blockers but was told that she would have to have four sessions first. She was referred to an adult gender identity clinic, which offers cross sex hormones and in some cases surgery, when she was 17.
“I felt that the Tavistock was just going through a tick box exercise, they asked questions like, ‘what toys did you play with as a child?’” she said. “What difference does that make?”
Leftist media reports suggest that the clinic closed because of “delays” in treatment, a common complaint about England’s socialist National Health Service. Truth is, authorities closed the clinic because it was mutilating patients for life.
Last week, the Daily Mail revealed the sad story of Ritchie Herron, whose “life over the past four years has become almost unbearable. It takes him ten minutes to empty his bladder, a process as painful as it is slow. Any sex drive is long gone. In fact, he says, his crotch is numb, ‘shell-shocked’ from the damage done to him under the apparent care of the NHS”:
Battling mental health issues — and after decades of suppressing his homosexuality — Ritchie, 35, had thought the answer was to become a woman. But instead, he says, he was fast-tracked into making “the biggest mistake of his life” and left infertile, incontinent and with ongoing pain.
Not only had the NHS clinic failed to take into account his spiralling mental health crisis, he claims, but it had also failed to properly counsel him about the risks.
Herron’s isn’t the only sad tale. Keira Bell is suing the NHS for the butchery that began when she was 16.
The number of “transgender” cases the NHS treats has risen from 6,371 in 2016 to more than 11,000 today, an increase largely driven by “transgender” activists pushing their ideology on social media.
Frighteningly, the No. 2 health official in the United States is a man who thinks he is a woman and wants kids on puberty blockers.
H/T: Breitbart
