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   On 22 Sep 2021, RichA  posted some   
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   > Make the doctors trannies.  See how they like it.   
      
   The left loves to push transition narratives.   
      
   Until people who have transitioned regret their choice and transition   
   back.   
      
   Then, progressives ignore or outright dismiss their once-beloved darlings.   
      
   All because de-transitioners’ stories argue powerfully for extreme caution   
   when it comes to offering radical hormone and surgery treatments for kids   
   who may just be a little anxious, depressed or confused.   
      
   And for holding culpable the doctors and other health professionals who   
   push such extreme, permanently life-altering treatment.   
      
   One case that may change all that is playing out in California: Kayla   
   Lovdahl, now 18, is suing her former doctors and two hospitals that   
   oversaw her procedures when she went under the knife at just 13.   
      
   “Around age 11,” the suit claims, “Kayla was exposed to online transgender   
   influencers who prompted Kayla to entertain the erroneous belief that she   
   was transgender.”   
      
   After only one “75-minute transition evaluation,” doctors put her on   
   “puberty blockers and testosterone at age 12, and performed a double   
   mastectomy within six months at age 13,” the lawsuit charges.   
      
   Kayla Lovdahl, now 18, is suing her former doctors and two hospitals that   
   oversaw her procedures when she went under the knife at just 13. Courtesy   
   of Kayla Lovdahl   
   At 17, Lovdahl realized she wasn’t trans and began detransitioning — but   
   her body had been irreversibly changed.   
      
   By doctors who spent an hour and fifteen minutes examining her before   
   setting her on a life-altering course of drugs and surgery.   
      
   That’s not medical care: It’s ideology masquerading as science.   
      
   Nor is Lovdahl the only young person who’s gone public with such regrets   
   about transitioning as a child.   
      
   Chloe Cole, now 18, was put on years of puberty blockers and underwent a   
   double mastectomy at 15. Luka Hein, now 21, received the same surgery at   
   16.   
      
   Both now publicly advocate against transition procedures for children.   
      
   After only one “75-minute transition evaluation,” doctors put her on   
   “puberty blockers and testosterone at age 12, and performed a double   
   mastectomy within six months at age 13,” the lawsuit charges. Courtesy of   
   Kayla Lovdahl   
   And Hein also claims doctors ignored her mental health as they pressured   
   her into transitioning.   
      
   The data is clear: Somewhere between 63% and 94% of gender-questioning   
   kids eventually grow out of it.   
      
   That’s nearly two-thirds at the low end.   
      
   Putting kids under the knife when they’re likely to feel differently about   
   their bodies in a few short years is madness.   
      
   And of course outsiders — friends, peers, social media, “experts” — can   
   convince children that they’re transgender.   
      
   Kids are impressionable; especially in adolescence, their sense of self is   
   in constant flux.   
      
   That’s why countries across Europe are making a hard course correction on   
   pediatric “gender-affirming care” — a euphemism, as our Douglas Murray   
   notes, for child butchery.   
      
   Britain and Sweden, hardly hothouses of intolerance, have limited puberty   
   blockers to children enrolled in clinical trials. Finland requires at   
   least six months of psychotherapy and the support of family members (among   
   other qualifications) before a minor can access hormonal treatments.   
      
   Health organizations in France and Norway — again, countries famed for   
   their social liberalism — are also advocating for a cautious approach to   
   gender-related care for minors.   
      
   The United States should follow suit. It’s not a partisan issue, it’s a   
   moral one (and the science backs up the Europeans’ caution).   
      
   Chloe Cole began the process of detransitioning at 16. courtesy of Chloe   
   Cole   
   There’s simply no good evidence supporting the claims of radical activists   
   that puberty blockers and surgery for kids can save lives or even improve   
   mental health.   
      
   So it’s duty of parents to step in and prevent children from making life-   
   altering decisions that will permanently scar their bodies before they can   
   even get a learner’s permit.   
      
   Other countries already know this. America must catch up. And doctors who   
   keep pushing these radical treatments against all the dictates of science   
   should face consequences.   
      
      
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