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Part 4 in 4-part series, ‘Mutilation or Healthcare?’
by Alison Despathy
Scientific research on the causes of this surge in trans youth and gender dysphoria is severely limited. Is it genetic, it is environmental, is it psychological? Is it a highly manipulative coordinated marketing ploy? Is it all of these and more? We owe it to our children to ask these questions and to determine what is happening with this recent rise in trans youth and its accompanying “gender affirming care” experimentation
Exacerbating an already controversial, polarized and for many painful situation, Vermont’s supposed leaders such as Representative Becca Balint continue to blindly and completely support this mutilating and experimental ‘treatment’ for our youth. Balint has turned an honored political position, historically based on service and representation, into an extremely partisan, ideological activist platform based on anger and contempt for those who question or disagree with her opinion. She has been consumed by the wave of blind, partisan, identity politics, popularity, extremism and donors instead of staying focused on the issues and serving all Vermonters
In addition to fomenting division between the people of Vermont, Balint has introduced a highly controversial bill that fuels this unscientific, unregulated, and irresponsible mutilation of our youth.
Balint’s bill H.R. 2487, titled the Transgender Health Care Access Act, proposes to improve medical education curricula and offer training demonstration programs for ‘gender affirming care’. It also expands capacity for ‘gender affirming care’ at community health centers, especially in rural areas. Transgender youth are a high focus of Balint’s bill with gender affirming care defined as “healthcare designed to treat gender dysphoria” H.R. 2487 proposes $10-15 million dollar grants for the development and implementation of demonstration and training projects for ‘gender affirming care.’
Without understanding the causes of gender dysphoria, one cannot “treat” gender dysphoria. In other words, Balint’s bill encourages experimentation on our youth struggling with gender dysphoria versus focusing efforts, research and funding to understand what has led to this steep increase in gender dysphoria and what steps can be taken to protect children from side effect laden medications and permanent mutilation.
As discussed in Part 2 of this series, the UK is shifting to a holistic approach versus medical model with a strong emphasis on screening those with gender dysphoria for neurodevelopmental conditions including autism and ADHD
On June 18th, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in United States v. Skrmetti that states can legally ban transgender treatments on minors. Tennessee’s passing of SB1 banned ‘gender affirming care’ for minors and prompted the lawsuit that resulted in this recent Supreme Court ruling. The ruling specified that denying a child access to transgender treatments is not discrimination; a ruling which sets the stage for individual states to determine laws on this issue. In 2023, South Dakota also passed a law to ban ‘gender affirming surgery’ and puberty blockers in youth.
In 2024, the UK and several European countries banned puberty blockers for minorsdue to the research performed by UK pediatrician, Dr Hilary Cass, which identified a disproportionate amount of mental health conditions in youth with gender dysphoria. In 2020, the Commission on Human Medicines, “provided independent expert advice that there is currently an unacceptable safety risk in the continued prescription of puberty blockers to children. It recommends indefinite restrictions while work is done to ensure safety of children and young people.”
Specific statements in the 2020 final judgement of the UK Royal Courts of Justice in Bell -v- Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Service include,
“We do not fully know how hormone blockers will affect bone strength, the development of your sexual organs, body shape or your final adult height. There could be other long-term effects of hormone blockers in early puberty that we don’t yet know about.”
“We note here that we find it surprising that such data [age distribution of those treated with puberty blockers] was not collated in previous years given the young age of the patient group, the experimental nature of the treatment and the profound impact that it has.”
“Little is known about the long-term side effects of hormones or puberty blockers in children with gender dysphoria…. it is not known what the psychological effects may be.”
Keep in mind that in 2022,Vermont Senator Vyhovsky (D- Chittenden-Central District) sponsored H.659, a bill that proposed, “to allow a minor who identifies as transgender to consent to receiving hormone blockers and other nonsurgical, gender-affirming care and treatment without requiring parental consent.”
This bill did not pass but it offers insight into the risks and extremism that some supposed leaders are willing to allow regarding experimentation on youth. There are well known side effects and unknown long term impacts with experimental ‘gender affirming care’ treatments. Allowing a minor to make these monumental, life altering and experimental decisions and attempt a benefit risk analysis is beyond dangerous, it is criminal.
It is this level of impulsion and blind support for an agenda that brings harm to humanity. With no foundation of science or safety, these actions by ‘leaders’ are irresponsible and destructive to our youth.
Nelson Mandela stated, “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”
Protecting our children is the top priority of a healthy and functional society. Preventing harm and abuse of our children must be the driving force to determine the cause of this trans culture mania and its accompanying mutilation. We owe it to our children and the future of humanity to dive below the surface of this painful and polarizing topic and work relentlessly to understand the situation and protect our youth.
The author is a clinical nutritionist and educator living in Danville.
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Follow the money.
“H.R. 2487 proposes $10-15 million dollar grants for the development and implementation of demonstration and training projects for ‘gender affirming care.’ ”
At $7.2 million in surgeries, drugs, and “therapies” per patient lifetime, what’s the payback on each (publicly funded) grant of, say $14.4 million?
With 20 patients, that’s a 10-bagger for the medical machine, again, publicly funded.
200 patients: 100-bagger.
Bill Gates bragged on camera that his pharma/vaccine investments returned 20:1.
Trans ghouls: “Hold my beer.”
Concerning and upsetting is an understatement. For many reasons. Both financial and especially medically and ethically. I am not denying that gender dysphoria is an issue with some people and including during younger ages, but random treatment is NOT acceptable. I think there should be more emphasis, and training, about evaluation available, especially for the youth. We know that it can be a difficult time, with all of the changes and challenges, anyway. I was a tomboy growing up in the country and primarily boys in my neighborhood. That changed by the time I went to HS. It is not uncommon and I have known a few in recent years.
I could go on and on, but I’m sure you probably get my message.
Experimentation on young people is unacceptable when we do not know what side effects they will be experiencing like osteoporosis or cancer was going to be an outcome. Remember these drugs haven’t been studied long enough and are still labeled “experimental “.How about they were considerably more depressed so they committed suicide?? They had poor body image so they committed suicide??? How about they found out they couldn’t reverse it and that they were sterile now-AND they then committed suicide??? It’s why countries have banned them and hasn’t the UK’s own Supreme court said there are only two genders- male and female? Why does a Vermont congresswoman think she is going to win on an 80/20 issue when she’s on the loosing side.
Impeach Bailent
The absurdity and hypocrisy of this is staggering. The school nurse can’t give a student a Tylenol without a parent’s permission, but, by golly, abortionists can perform horrifically invasive and dangerous procedures on minors, and
mutilate and castrate them chemically and surgically without parental permission. How do we expose this wickedness, beside what Alison has been doing, and call these evil actors to account, bring them to justice, and end this madness once and for all?
And they have proven for many years that at the heart of the matter, they care more about their own images and popularity than they do about the lives and inherent value of children. Would they have pushed so rabidly and deceptively to pass Act 57 and Article 22 were this not the case?
We also know how many of our state and federal legislators think and act, as revealed in this very insightful clip:
https://youtu.be/IK9C9IzAufQ?si=EG7BK8gSPuiMFwwh
It is problematic under the SCOTUS decision United States v. Skrmetti that individual states can establish laws based upon each state’s determination of what the standards of care are. The reality that one’s sex, determined at birth, is something that cannot be changed is something under which our nation needs to be united, IMHO.