Approaching Sodom > Far-Left Scotland jumps on the bandwagon to stop puberty blockers for gender dysphoric children

 

Joining England and most of Scandinavia in realizing the horrors of puberty blocking cause far more damage than good, Scotland makes a courageously sane decision. Almost all far-left leaning countries have realized the mistake, but not Canada, nor Iceland, nor any of the Democratic States in the USA. They continue with their insane ideology of thinking they can improve on God's work.

Trans-rights advocates decry Scottish clinic's 

decision to stop puberty blockers for children

By Ehren Wynder

April 18 (UPI) -- Scotland's only gender clinic has paused hormone treatment for patients younger than 18 following a landmark review of the treatment.

The Sandyford clinic in Glasgow on Thursday said it has paused prescribing puberty blockers and other hormone treatments to children until they turned 18.

According to an update on Sandyford's website, "Referrals from the Sandyford sexual health services to pediatric endocrinology for the prescription of puberty suppressing hormones have been paused for any new patients assessed by our young person's gender service."

The clinic said the pause will not affect patients who are currently receiving treatment.

The decision follows the publication of a review by pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass, commissioned by the National Health Service of England, which reportedly found "weak evidence" for the effectiveness of prescribing hormone treatment for minors who are questioning their gender.

The report said young people have been "let down" by the "toxicity" of the debate surrounding their care.

NHS England said it would stop prescribing puberty blockers in March. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde paused starting new patients on the treatment following that decision.

Sandyford has come under attack in recent weeks for not immediately following through with the ban until now.

"The findings informing the Cass review are important, and we have reviewed the impact on our clinical pathways," said Dr. Emilia Crighton, NHSGCC director of public health. "The next step from here is to work with the Scottish government and academic partners to generate evidence that enables us to deliver safe care for our patients."

It seems Dr Crighton is not fully convinced of the error of her ways.

Vic Valentine, manager of advocacy group Scottish Trans, said the decision to pause treatment would "harm trans children and young people."

"This decision has been taken within the context where the reality of trans people's experiences and lives is questioned almost daily in some of the media and some political circles," a statement from Scottish Trans read.

"This makes us worry that the decision has been influenced by that context rather than solely through consideration of the best interests of trans children and young people."

Members of LGBT Youth Scotland also protested the decision, urging Sandyford to reconsider.

"Being transgender, especially in such a negative political climate, can have severe negative impacts on one's mental health and accessing gender affirming treatment can and has saved lives," the group said in a statement.

In reality, it has probably cost far more lives than it has saved. More than 50% of girls who transition to boys in their teens attempt suicide after the transition. That's 150 times the rate of attempted suicide in the general population of youth.

First Minister of Scotland Humza Yousaf said members of parliament will give an update on the government's position "in the coming weeks."

"There is a process of review that is very much under way," he said.

Yousaf earlier this week said Scottish heath boards would give the "utmost consideration" to the Cass report, adding, "When it comes to the prescribing of medicine, clinicians are best placed -- not politicians, government ministers or myself as first minister."

Scottish Conservative deputy leader Meghan Gallacher said the pause was "long overdue."

"I'm beyond fed up with this lackadaisical approach to gender care. They are failing children and young people," she said.

Puberty blockers suppress hormones that cause puberty and are often prescribed to children questioning their gender.

According to figures obtained by BBC Scotland News under a freedom of information request, 1,100 patients at the end of 2023 were on the waiting list for puberty blockers.

Seventy-one patients under 18 received prescriptions for puberty blockers after referrals from Sandyford between 2016 and 2023.

Following the pause, 43 patients in Scotland will continue to receive either puberty blockers or "gender affirming" hormones, such as testosterone or estrogen.

‘Girls Are Not Real’: Mom Sues Ottawa Teacher, School for Traumatizing Their Daughter

OTTAWA — The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (www.jccf.ca) is representing a young girl ("NB") and her mother in an application before the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal against the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, the child's former teacher and the principal of the school. The family brought the claim for discrimination on the basis of gender identity, for teaching NB and her class there are no such things as girls or boys. NB identifies strongly as a girl.

The amended application includes a claim for discrimination on the basis of sex, and notes the child's rights to security of the person and equality under sections 7 and 15(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms have also been infringed.

This case has attracted considerable attention in the media, notably in columns by Barbara Kay (here and here), and by University of Toronto Psychology Professor Jordan Peterson.

In the early part of 2018, NB was a 6-year-old student in a grade one class taught by "JB". The teacher showed the class a YouTube video entitled, "He, She, and They?!? — Gender: Queer Kid Stuff #2". The video contained a number of statements about gender identity, and asserted that "some people aren't boys or girls" and that those who do not feel like a 'she' or a 'he' might not have a gender. In order to determine who is a girl or a boy — or neither, the video says, all you have to do is ask someone their pronouns.

Good grief!

On another occasion, JB drew a gender spectrum on the board and asked each student to identify where they fit on the spectrum. NB indicated that she was on the furthest end of the spectrum marked "girl." JB then told the class that "girls are not real, and boys are not real." This was extremely upsetting to NB.

NB went home and told her parents, repeatedly asking why her identity as a girl was "not real."  She stated that she was not sure if she wanted to be a mommy when she grew up, and asked if she could "go to the doctor" about this issue. NB also expressed feeling that she "had to do something" about the fact that she is a girl. This followed a lesson by JB on the concepts of gender spectrum and sex changes.

To 6 year olds! OMG! What madness!

Neither the school nor JB obtained parental consent to teach this young child that her sense of self as a girl was a fiction. JB's conduct undermined their daughter's foundational concept of identity, and also contradicted biological reality, the application alleges.

Despite the family's expression of concern, school officials refused to take any steps to correct the impact of these lessons on NB. Ultimately the family opted to move her to a different school, which made NB happy that she would no longer have a teacher who said that "girls are not real." Even after moving to the new school, NB continued to be upset by her experience in JB's class, and grappled with the concept that her own identity was not something real. "This table is real, and this fan is real, and even if the fan was made out of cardboard, it's still real," she expressed to her mother, who was concerned enough to seek guidance from a psychologist on how to assist her daughter, according to the application.

"If everyone has a gender identity, and gender identities are protected under the Code, then NB's gender identity as a girl should be protected," said Justice Centre staff lawyer Lisa Bildy. "If the School Board can accommodate the inclusion of trans and other gender identities into the classroom setting, then surely they can accommodate the inclusion of children who experience no discord between their biology and their sense of self."

Some gender theorists and activists now argue not only that "gender identity" is on a spectrum, but that sex is also on a spectrum, meaning that there are no longer distinct categories of male and female. Among other things, the family is asking the Tribunal to award a remedy that the school board stop "teaching gender theory in any manner which suggests that sex categories of male and female do not exist, or are fluid, or exist on a spectrum."

Where is the scientific data that supports gender fluidity?

"To teach otherwise cannot be anything but discrimination on the basis of sex, which is a protected ground," said Ms. Bildy. "If we cannot describe the physical reality of biological sex, then women can no longer defend their human rights as women."

It's absolute madness, and children always pay the price for adult's madness. Gender transitioning of children is child sexual abuse. Creating confusion in children in schools is borderline criminal. Attacking their self identity at such a vulnerable age is outrageously evil.

Canada's far-left government, media, and unions are destroying a generation of children with their #PCMadness.