Absolutely, the emotional, social and psychological impacts are also huge. I recently read a group action has been commenced by one UK legal firm, surely informed consent will be a significant part of this case. GPs shouldn't prescribe CSH and if requested to stand in a court of law, saying the the gender identity clinic or the RCGP told me to, isn't going to cut it. GPs, protect your patients and yourselves!
Not only is it impossible for children to give informed consent to losses that only adults understand (for example, never having a pleasurable sex life or losing their future fertility), I believe it is totally unethical for parents to remove their children's future life choices for them. These children do not have cancer (where no treatment means certain death). And if you want to know what testosterone does to girls, just ask the East German officials who won many gold medals by doping girls and women: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/does-testosterone-maketh-the-man
The flaw in the informed consent model is its assumption that the patient is rational and acting in their own best interests. It simply doesn't apply to people suffering from delusions, which is why a patient can't choose to walk out of a secure psychiatric facility, and can't leave at all without being discharged.
Hence the insistence by activists that transgender people should not be considered delusional, which in turn implies they really were 'born in the wrong body'.
Excellent, clear piece on this issue. Thank you. I have restacked.
Absolutely, the emotional, social and psychological impacts are also huge. I recently read a group action has been commenced by one UK legal firm, surely informed consent will be a significant part of this case. GPs shouldn't prescribe CSH and if requested to stand in a court of law, saying the the gender identity clinic or the RCGP told me to, isn't going to cut it. GPs, protect your patients and yourselves!
Not only is it impossible for children to give informed consent to losses that only adults understand (for example, never having a pleasurable sex life or losing their future fertility), I believe it is totally unethical for parents to remove their children's future life choices for them. These children do not have cancer (where no treatment means certain death). And if you want to know what testosterone does to girls, just ask the East German officials who won many gold medals by doping girls and women: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/does-testosterone-maketh-the-man
The flaw in the informed consent model is its assumption that the patient is rational and acting in their own best interests. It simply doesn't apply to people suffering from delusions, which is why a patient can't choose to walk out of a secure psychiatric facility, and can't leave at all without being discharged.
Hence the insistence by activists that transgender people should not be considered delusional, which in turn implies they really were 'born in the wrong body'.