Matt Walsh: I Called Up a "Trans Healthcare" Provider and Purposely Flunked the Criteria for a "Trans" Diagnosis But They Gave Me a Prescription to Get My Testicles Cut Off Anyway... in 22 Minutes

Actually it was Matt Walsh's producer who got this snap diagnosis and snap order for castration.

The cost of getting a fraudulent order for testicle removal surgery in 22 minutes:

$150.

1/ BREAKING: The largest "trans healthcare" providers in the U.S. are rubber-stamping letters approving gruesome, life-altering surgeries. It's such a racket that my producer was approved for testicle removal in #22minutes. The tape is disturbing.

2/ First, some background. Ari Groner is a licensed clinical social worker who educates doctors on "trans healthcare." At a recent training session for the Juniper Center, Groner explained that she writes whatever letters her patients want, because she's not a "gatekeeper."

A provider of medical diagnoses who proclaims she (she?) isn't a "gatekeeper" for medical diagnoses?

The patients self-diagnose.

Sometimes they even tell you they're not dysphoric -- and you give them a prescription to get their balls cut off anyway.

Just in case they need it.

4/ Groner explains that insurance companies won't pay for these surgeries unless the patient is diagnosed with gender dysphoria. So, she says healthcare workers should provide the diagnosis. "We're using that diagnosis," she says, "to ensure clients get that necessary treatment."

5/ Whatever insurance companies might think of that, it's the industry standard. The popular trans telehealth service @folxhealth, for example, instructs patients that even if they don't "fit" the definition of gender dysphoria, the diagnosis is "needed" so that insurers pay out.

6/ Folx, which provides letters authorizing surgeries for a nominal fee, goes on to admit that "it's quite possible" patients will receive a letter indicating a gender dysphoria diagnosis, even though they "really do not have dysphoria."

7/ We reached out to Folx about this. A staff member confirmed that a "diagnosis" of gender dysphoria -- with the word "diagnosis" in scare quotes -- is a "requirement" for insurance purposes, even if it "doesn't apply."

13/ Three days later, Plume sent this letter to "Chelsea Bussey" -- who does not exist -- saying he was experiencing "significant, ongoing gender dysphoria.” The letter strongly recommended "Chelsea" for testicle removal.

14/ The letter keeps capitalizing "Orchiectomy,” without "an" before it, as if it's just been copy-pasted into a template. Gregg followed up to learn why he had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Plume admitted they just use letter templates provided by WPATH.

The producer writes below: "I'm not feeling dysphoric," and the response is "Well, it's what we tell everyone, it's just on the template."

When you have an unholy war to win, you reduce your recruitment standards to basically nothing.

More here.

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posted by Ace at 05:31 PM

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