we’ve seen this movie before. We saw it with the revolting “repressed memory” crapola in psychology in the early 90s.
Basically, providers get all enamored by some cock-and-bull treatment nonsense, imposing it on patients and wreaking untold damage.
Then the tide begins to turn…
A teenager is suing a health care company and the doctors who put her on controversial puberty-blocking drugs at age 12 and removed her healthy breasts in a double-mastectomy surgery when she was just 13 years old, accusing them of “intentional fraud and concealment.”
… The letter alleged that doctors “pushed” the child and her parents down the “transition path, engaging in intentional, malicious, and oppressive concealment of important information and false representations.”
People start successfully suing providers for the damage. Providers eventually become very skittish about doing those procedures. There is this collective, “Woah, woah, WOAH!”
And it just gets too legally risky for providers to do (or for hospitals to allow). Culturally, the sand shifts and instead of being seen as heroes, providers who are involved are (rightly) seen as modern Dr. Mengeles who are willing to butcher and harm people for money and power.
Chloe Cole, another detransitioned 18-year-old woman, announced last month the first official lawsuit in the U.S. against the same health care group, which, too, facilitated her medical gender transition as a minor.
This was yet another medical fad–a mania. The “Pet Rock” of surgery. It’s not the first (think surgical removal of turbinate bones to “cure” hysteria or frontal lobotomy). And it’s star is fading fast. Unfortunately, there are already psychologically fragile kids who are horribly mangled for LIFE!
Really, surgeons should learn medical history…