HHS: Treat "Gender Dysphoria" with Talking-Cure Psychiatry, Not Hormones and Amputations

Sounds crazy but maybe mentally-ill children need to be told the truth about reality, not indulged with irreversible hormone treatments and gender mutilations.

A sweeping review of transgender treatments on minors found "deep uncertainty about the purported benefits" of many of those interventions -- and urged doctors to put more of an emphasis on behavioral therapy when addressing gender dysphoria.

Researchers also concluded that many of the protocols for treating children with gender dysphoria became widely used before outcome studies determined whether or not they were safe practices, a massive 409-page Health and Human Services study revealed.

"The umbrella review found that the overall quality of evidence concerning the effects of any intervention on psychological outcomes, quality of life, regret, or long-term health, is very low," HHS' Gender Dysphoria Report determined in its assessment of common studies on transgender treatments.

"This indicates that the beneficial effects reported in the literature are likely to differ substantially from the true effects of the interventions."

President Trump signed an executive order in January ordering HHS to conduct a review of best practices for treating gender dysphoria within 90 days, which was released Thursday.

Transgender interventions in children that were scrutinized in the blockbuster HHS report include the use of puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgeries.

While the report stressed it is not a "clinical practice guideline," the paper examined 17 systematic reviews of transgender treatments in minors and concluded that there was limited evidence to suggest those interventions had any "meaningful improvement in mental health."

In some instances, this was because studies did not properly measure track patient outcomes or studied individuals whose mental health was already at a "high-functioning at baseline."

"Multiple SRs [systematic reviews] have concluded that the evidence supporting the benefits of pediatric transition interventions--from PBs [puberty blockers] to CSH [cross-sex hormone therapy] and surgery--is of 'very low certainty,'" the HHS report said.

"All medical interventions carry the potential for harm."

A lot of the research into transgenderism in question was conducted overseas. One of the most famous ones was the Dutch Protocol, which was originally published in 2006 and outlined "highly medicalized" methods to treat young people with gender dysphoria, including puberty blockers.

For years, the Dutch Protocol was generally regarded as the gold standard guideline for treating young people struggling with gender dysphoria. The guidance has since been weakened over time, with some of its eligibility restrictions pared down.

Following the 2006 publication of the Dutch Protocol, there had been a sharp rise in transgender treatments in minors.

An estimated 3.3% of US adolescents consider themselves transgender, per the HHS report. Meanwhile, about 0.1% of 17-year-olds received hormonal treatment between 2018 and 2022.

But HHS researchers found that the Dutch Protocol was based on "methodological flaws" that were "largely overlooked" by the broader medical community since its publication.

"One of the study's limitations was its retrospective selection of 70 subjects from a larger 'intent-to-treat' group of 111 using non-randomized methods," the HHS report said.

"This selection process inadvertently biased the sample toward cases with the most favorable prognoses, thereby limiting the generalizability of the study's findings."

The HHS study cautioned that there is an "extreme toxicity and polarization surrounding this field of medicine."

I'll say there's "extreme toxicity" on this issue, coming from the extremely toxic.

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The HHS study has been met with mixed reactions from the medical community.

Susan Kressly, the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, slammed the report, arguing that it relied too heavily upon a "narrow set of data" and "select perspectives.

"This report misrepresents the current medical consensus and fails to reflect the realities of pediatric care," she said in a statement.

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of Do No Harm, an organization that opposes so-called gender transition surgeries, hailed the HHS review for exposing "a number of serious risks in the medical transition of young people."

"The report cites a 'lack of robust evidence' for these medical procedures," Goldfarb said in a statement. "It is clearer now, more than ever, that we must end this misguided practice and replace it with evidence-based treatment for gender confused kids."

A Biden judge has blocked the report from being disseminated.

No, that's just a dark jibe. But you have to figure that that's on the way.

Below, a writer insists that she has discovered arguments in favor of transitioning that you never heard before, not even a single time. She (?) claims that, get this, our ideas of gender are imposed on us by Society and are infinitely and easily malleable and that if we just get used to men dressing as women, then we'll get used to men dressing as women.

I know, I know, you're all blown away by hearing this never-before-advanced claim and are so impressed by this entirely new argument that you're all stroking your chins saying "Cross-dressing, you say...?" while searching Amazon for genital-hiding bathing suits.

It's exact. It's exact:

Special bonus: this "thinker" resorts to talking about "indigenous tribes" as proof of her claims.

That's a standard leftwing tactic. We don't know anything about the histories of non-literate "indigenous tribes," so they're pretty much free to make up anything about them they need them to be.

Did you know that American Indians used to cut off the penises of 90% of their sons? It's true. I just made it up and there's no records available to disprove me so you just have to accept it.

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