Today’s face of the day is a 23-year-old woman who is taking legal action against an NHS gender clinic.
Lawyers will argue children cannot give informed consent to treatment delaying puberty or helping them to transition.
[…] Keira describes being a tomboy as a child. When asked how strongly she felt the need to change her gender identity, she replied that it gradually built up as she found out more about transitioning online.
Then as she went down the medical route, she said “one step led to another”.
She was referred to the Tavistock GIDS clinic at the age of age 16. She said after three one-hour-long appointments she was prescribed puberty blockers, which delay the development of signs of puberty, like periods or facial hair.
She felt there wasn’t enough investigation or therapy before she reached that stage.
“I should have been challenged on the proposals or the claims that I was making for myself,” she said. “And I think that would have made a big difference as well. If I was just challenged on the things I was saying.”
[…] A year after starting the puberty-blockers she said she was prescribed the male hormone testosterone, which developed male characteristics like facial hair and a deep voice. Three years ago, she had an operation to remove her breasts.
[…] “I was allowed to run with this idea that I had, almost like a fantasy, as a teenager…. and it has affected me in the long run as an adult.
Keira’s lawyers will argue that children cannot weigh up the impact such a treatment might have on their future life, including for instance, on their fertility.
Former staff at the clinic have raised concerns that teenagers who want to transition to a different gender are being given puberty blockers without adequate assessment or psychological work.
It has been claimed that children as young as 12 have received the drugs, which block the hormones that lead to puberty-related changes like periods or facial hair.
[…] And that’s the point of this case, when you are that young you don’t really want to listen.
“So I think it’s up to these institutions, like the Tavistock, to step in and make children reconsider what they are saying, because it is a life-altering path.”
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This is just the tip of the iceberg. I expect there to be an avalanche of court cases in the next 20 years from adults who had their bodies irrevocably changed when they were children because our “progressive” society failed to protect them.
Even if a girl does not have her breasts removed by simply taking those terrible hormones for 2 or more years she will change her voice for life. Stopping the hormones will not bring back her female voice. She will have a man’s voice inside a woman’s body for the rest of her life. The hormones that they are feeding our children are not lollies, they are poison.
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