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Woman Sues Psychiatrist over Gender Transition
The Sydney Morning Herald
The first time Jay Langadinos saw psychiatrist Dr Patrick Toohey in 2010, she was 19 and identified as male. She wanted to start hormone therapy and was referred to Toohey to assess if she was suitable. Toohey found she suffered from gender dysphoria – a misalignment between a person’s sex and gender identity – and was suitable to receive testosterone, which encourages the development of male secondary sexual characteristics.
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Langadinos saw Toohey again twice in 2012 when she wanted to have her breasts and womb removed. On both occasions, Toohey allegedly found “no contraindication” to proceeding as part of gender transition. Aged 22, Langadinos went ahead with a mastectomy and later a hysterectomy. But 10 years on, Toohey’s advice is subject to a rare legal case.
Langadinos, now 31 and no longer identifying as male, is suing Toohey for professional negligence. She claims he “knew or ought to have known” she required further psychiatric evaluation and alleges he was negligent in not recommending she get a second opinion. “Knowing that I can’t have children is absolutely devastating,” she says.
Toohey said he is unable to comment as the case is before the courts.
Vietnam declares that LGBTQ+ 'not an illness,' ends conversion therapy
By A.L. Lee
Aug. 24 (UPI) -- In a major victory for LGBTQ+ rights, Vietnam has said that being gay, transgender, bi- or homosexual is "not an illness" and ordered medical providers to end controversial practices like "conversion therapy."
The government's health ministry said that being a member of the LGBTQ+ community is not an illness and cannot be treated or "converted in any way." It also said that medical professionals should treat LGBTQ+ people with respect and ensure they don't face discrimination.
The ministry issued the formal declaration earlier this month.
The change also says health workers should not "interfere nor force treatment" on gay patients and emphasizes emotional-behavioral support with "psychological assistance" performed "only by those who have the knowledge of sexual identity."
Read: Anyone devoid of a scientific background.
It also bans conversion therapy, which has been billed as a way to reprogram a person's gay tendencies and redirect their expressions of gay identity. There's no scientific evidence, however, that shows it actually works.
Are you seriously bringing science into this discussion? There is no scientific evidence of sexual identity apart from biological sex.
Vietnam's health minister said multiple healthcare facilities around the country were guilty of advertising "cures" for homosexuality.
The announcement is seen as "a huge paradigm shift" in a nation where LGBTQ+ advocates have campaigned for decades and won tangible reforms in recent years -- including removal of same-sex unions from Vietnam's list of banned relationships in 2013 and decriminalization of transgender identity and gender revisions in 2015.
"We cannot overstate how big a fix this announcement is," Kyle Knight, an LGBTQ+ researcher at Human Rights Watch, said according to The Guardian.
Indeed, it fixes your position much closer to Sodom than yesterday. And it means Jesus Christ is that much closer to visiting you, as He visited Sodom and Gomorrah.
"As the most trusted source of medical authority in Vietnam, the impact on social perceptions or queerness will be enormous."
The road to Wednesday's seismic announcement was initially met with resistance.
Last November, representatives from the Institute for Studies of Society, Economy, and Environment petitioned the World Health Organization in Vietnam to make a similar declaration in a push for paid sick leave, which Vietnamese workers don't presently get.
The effort, however, was scuttled in April when the WHO's envoy in Vietnam issued a statement condemning any attempt to change a person's sexual orientation, saying it "lacks medical basis and is unacceptable," The Guardian reported.
Rights groups inside Vietnam are simultaneously pushing for legislation that would legalize same-sex marriage.
Of course, sin is progressive!
This is not something you will ever see in mainstream media...
UW hid concerns over puberty blockers in trans study
amid media praise, leaked emails show
By Brandon Showalter,
Senior Investigative Reporter
The Christian Post
Getty Images/Drew Angerer
Internal emails from the University of Washington reveal how the institution stayed quiet regarding concerns about a study detailing the supposed benefits of experimental gender medicalization in trans-identified youth amid glowing media coverage.
The research study, titled "Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care," was published in February on JAMA Network Open in partnership with Seattle Children's Hospital.
The report claimed that experimental puberty-blocking drugs yield positive mental health outcomes in trans-identified teenagers. Yet critics contend that how the study framed those supposed benefits were flawed and required edits to the promotional materials used to publicize the research.
The university stopped promoting the study because the edits were so profound, but its communications office didn't respond to questions because it had received such fawning praise from the press.
Emails obtained by the Seattle-based "Jason Rantz Show" on talk radio station KTTH suggest that university officials ignored "some pretty concerning claims" in the study because the news coverage was so positive.
The data that the researchers gathered was used to claim in a press release that so-called gender-affirming care — a euphemism trans activists use that refers to administering sterilizing hormones and medically unnecessary surgeries — "dramatically reduces" depression and is "lifesaving."
The March press release also claimed that the research team found that such interventions "caused rates of depression to plummet" in adolescents who identify as nonbinary or transgender and criticized efforts in conservative states, namely Idaho and Texas, aimed at restricting and more closely scrutinizing the experimental practices.
A Ph.D. candidate and a UW medical student also penned an op-ed in The Conversation praising the study, amplifying the claims and criticizing Republican efforts to criminalize dispensing puberty-blockers and cross-sex hormones to children and teenagers.
At the time, the Idaho state House had passed a bill making the provision of "gender-affirming care" a felony offense, and Texas' state child safeguarding agency had begun investigating the practices as abuse, under the direction of Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton.
However, the study's data seemingly revealed virtually no statistically significant mental health improvement among those who received so-called gender-affirming care. The claims of the UW press release were challenged in meticulous detail by journalist Jesse Singal in an April 6 essay on Substack.
"Among the kids who went on hormones, there isn't genuine statistical improvement here from baseline to the final wave of data collection. At baseline, 59% of the treatment-naive kids experienced moderate to severe depression. Twelve months later, 56% of the kids on GAM experienced moderate to severe depression," Signal wrote.
"At baseline, 45% of the treatment-naive kids experienced self-harm or suicidal thoughts. Twelve months later, 37% of the kids on GAM did. These are not meaningful differences: The kids in the study arrived with what appear to be alarmingly high rates of mental health problems, many of them went on blockers or hormones, and they exited the study with what appear to be alarmingly high rates of mental health problems."
Of course! You don't treat an anorexic by encouraging her to eat less. You don't feed into the mental illness, you correct it.
There is much more to this story at The Christian Post.
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