By now you have no doubt noticed that there is a strong and growing pushback to the Trans Movement. While that may surprise some, I think it is overdue. I was prompted to write this letter after reading through articles on the Canadian Pediatric Society web site. Nothing there particularly surprised me, but it did leave me feeling disappointed and discouraged. I am familiar with the saying ‘Do no harm’ within the medical profession, yet I did not have to read very far to uncover quite a bit of material with the potential to create a great deal of harm.
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This is a long letter, so I’ll present my conclusions here, and you can decide if you want to read the proofs provided below.
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· The CPS is funded by the government of Canada and it takes its instructions from them.
· The people running the Canadian Paediatric Society are useless PIECES OF $HIT.
· Their suggestions for dealing with individuals with so-called Gender Dysphoria may be helpful to a very small number of people, but they will harm many, many more.
· The US is headed into a low-level Civil War situation that will spill over into Canada.
· When that happens the lives of staff at CPS, who are forcing Marxist practices on their fellow Canadians will become immediately at risk.
· Continuing with this is not in the best interests of the CPS.
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In the articles below you will find several suggestions that paediatric physicians who feel ‘uncomfortable’ dealing with the issue of Trans Therapy should refer the children to a ‘specialist’. This would invariably be someone with a greater political or financial interest in the topic. If they anticipate that these issues would be difficult for a doctor to evaluate, what does that imply about a child’s ability to fully comprehend and weigh the issues. What understanding does a child have of the adult world ???
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The Pushback
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Many parents’ eyes have been opened to the one-sided narratives being pushed on adolescents by the Trans Movement. You will now frequently hear parents at protests and school board meetings use the phrase ‘Education, not Indoctrination’, and that accurately reflects what they believe is problematic with the current situation.
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https://www.samaracentre.ca/articles/sambot-ottawa-election
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Numbers are easily interpreted so I’ll begin with a few. Here is an extract from the CPS website.
“A growing number of youth articulate a gender identity that differs from the sex they were assigned at birth. Population-based studies from a number of high-income countries have estimated the proportion of the adolescent population who identify as transgender ranges at between 1% and 4%. A recent study of school-attending youth that asked about gender identity without using the term “transgender” found that 9.2% of respondents reported a difference between sex assigned at birth and experienced gender..”
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The 1% figure may be accurate. An additional 3% will have their lives destroyed.
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https://rumble.com/v2w8e30-lgbt-parade.html
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Here is a second example from that same CPS article.
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“Most research on gender identity development has been conducted with cisgender children, using a White, Eurocentric lens.”
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The assertion here seems to be that ‘White and Eurocentric’ is somehow problematic. While that is a common assertion now-a-days, it obscures the fact that almost every other population world-wide view this topic far more negatively than White Europeans. Can you identify some group that you feel is more sympathetic to this cause? That sort of triggering statement will soon become very troublesome for the CPS. Introducing the issue of race into this discussion illustrates the mindset of the CPS board members.
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The statistic that concerns me the most is the one indicating that half of those who undergo Trans Therapy regret doing so within 10 years. … Whatever happened to ‘DO NO HARM ‘???
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EXTRACT #1 – Medical Interventions
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Hormone blockers
“Also referred to as puberty blockers or hormone-suppressing agents, hormone blockers are medications that mitigate the effects of endogenously produced sex steroids. Hormone blockers commonly prescribed in Canada, and key considerations for their use are reviewed in Table 6. Hormone blockers can suppress sex steroid-mediated experiences, such as menses (for AFAB youth) or erections (for AMAB youth), and pause or slow sex steroid-related physical changes that continue into young adulthood. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists (GnRHa) are hormone blockers that, if started before pubertal development is complete, will pause pubertal progression. Hormonal suppression is reversible, and endogenous sex-steroid production and/or effects will resume if hormone blockers are discontinued.
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Initially, the clinical objective of prescribing a hormone blocker is to provide a young person with time to further explore their gender identity without pressure or distress related to ongoing development of secondary sex characteristics, or gendered experiences such as menses or erections. Should a young person continue to express gender dysphoria over time and eventually wish to pursue other gender-affirming treatments, GnRHa may also prevent the further development of irreversible secondary sex characteristics that can make medical and surgical transition more difficult. Additionally, their blocking action may also allow for the use of lower doses of gender-affirming hormones to achieve phenotypic transition goals later on.
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TGD adolescents who have sought and received hormonal suppression as a part of a multidisciplinary approach to care report improved mental health and psychosocial functioning. Access to these medications has been associated with lower odds of suicidal ideation over the life course]. Treatment with a GnRHa during puberty is associated with a slowing of bone mineral density accrual, which at least partially reverses with the start of gender-affirming hormone therapy or the resumption of endogenous sex-steroid production. The utility of baseline and routine repeat DEXA scans for those on a GnRHa is an area of ongoing research and debate. Concerns voiced by opponents of gender-affirming medical care around the potentially permanent impacts on cognitive function of temporarily blocking sex-steroid exposure during adolescence have not been substantiated to date.
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Hormone blockers should not be prescribed before the onset of puberty (i.e., Tanner stage 2) for two reasons. First because concentrations of circulating sex steroids in prepubertal children are already low, but also because the onset of puberty is an important experience through which young people may develop clearer understanding of their gender identity. Initiating hormone blockers in early puberty may have both positive implications for gender-affirming surgical options (e.g., more surgical options for chest wall masculinization) and negative ones (e.g., less scrotal tissue for vaginoplasty) for those who desire such interventions in the future. Detailed guidance for the initiation of hormone blockers is available in guidelines from the Endocrine Society and WPATH SOC-8.
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Though hormone blockers do not permanently impact fertility, speaking with adolescents about the option of fertility preservation before starting a blocker is recommended for several reasons. Fertility preservation cannot always be performed while on a blocker and, once initiated, some youth may be hesitant to discontinue blocker use to facilitate these procedures. Because fertility preservation may not be conducted (outside of research contexts) for adolescents in early puberty, eliciting their views on fertility may be relevant for timing hormone blocker initiation in some individuals.”
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EXTRACT #2 – State vs Parental Rights
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https://cps.ca/en/documents/position/privacy-and-confidentiality-in-adolescent-health-care
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“A hallmark of delivering quality adolescent health care services is the provision of confidential care. Key tenets when providing confidential care for adolescents include time alone with a health care provider, maintaining privacy of health information, and securing informed consent for services without permission from a parent, guardian, or caregiver. While confidentiality is a basic principle for all health care encounters regardless of age, the unique considerations for capable adolescent patients are not always realized or appreciated. By ensuring appropriate quantity and quality of confidential care for adolescents, clinicians are better equipped to elicit a comprehensive history and physical examination, while empowering the adolescent involved to develop agency, autonomy, trust, and responsibility for their own health care decision-making and management.”
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Common sense prevails elsewhere. Children under the age of 18;
· Are not allowed to buy cigarettes,
· Are not allowed to attend Drag Shows,
· Cannot acquire a gun or a marriage license.
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EXTRACT #3 – Gender-affirming endocrine care for youth
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It is not unusual to find warnings embedded in these studies, but they are rarely highlighted. Here is one ‘small’ caution.
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“Many of these treatments lack research specific to nonbinary individuals and especially nonbinary youth, and future research is needed to ensure safety and efficacy of gender-affirming care in this population.”
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Trans Therapy 4 Kids – Canadian Paediatric Society … Harrison Faulkner of True North
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https://rumble.com/v2w8sbk-trans-therapy-4-kids.html
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Miscellaneous
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10064168/
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https://rumble.com/v2scgue-drag-queens.html
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