The New York Times seems to think removing healthy teenage girls’ breasts in the name of gender affirmation is not only a good thing, but you are a very bad person if you don’t agree with that insane premise.
The Old Gray Lady tweeted, “Adult transgender men’s well-being generally improves from top surgery, or breast removal, research shows. Small studies of trans teens suggest similar benefits in the short term, but data is sparse. Some U.S. state leaders oppose the surgery for minors.”
In its leftist justification for the mutilation of teens, the New York Times noted, “Few groups of young people have received as much attention. Republican elected officials across the United States are seeking to ban all so-called gender-affirming care for minors, turning an intensely personal medical decision into a political maelstrom with significant consequences for transgender adolescents and their families.”
The article skips right over the fact that a teen having her breasts surgically removed will definitely experience some “significant consequences” as opposed to waiting it out until adulthood and then choosing to make an irreversible, self-mutilating decision.
We've naturally moved to the next stage from "this isn't happening" to "actually it is happening and it's good."https://t.co/sb1TecyYG2 pic.twitter.com/0YYDMJJPa4
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 26, 2022
Very cool. Healthy stuff. pic.twitter.com/FGEp9Ke96n
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 26, 2022
The next stage from here is “shut up bigot we must also provide taxpayer funding for this” and you’re banned from twitter for pointing this out.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 26, 2022
“Gender-related surgeries, in particular, have been thrust into the spotlight. Arizona and Alabama passed laws this year making it illegal for doctors to perform gender-related surgeries on transgender patients under 18. Conservative commentators with large followings on social media have recently targeted children’s hospitals that offer gender surgeries, leading to online harassment and bomb threats,” the media outlet accused.
While that isn’t s surprising statement, the fact that they didn’t call out @LibsofTikTok directly is. They missed an opportunity to savage them once again over exposing children’s hospitals for facilitating gender surgeries.
“Dr. Gallagher, whose unusual embrace of platforms like TikTok has made her one of the most visible gender-affirming surgeons in the country, said she performed 13 top surgeries on minors last year, up from a handful a few years ago. One hospital, Kaiser Permanente Oakland, carried out 70 top surgeries in 2019 on teenagers aged 13 to 18, up from five in 2013, according to researchers who led a recent study,” the New York Times crowed.
“I can’t honestly think of another field where the volume has exploded like that,” Dr. Karen Yokoo, who is a plastic surgeon at the hospital, commented.
Quick morality update: Marketing medical procedures directly to children too young to understand their ramiifcations is 👏 good 👏 now 👏https://t.co/hg2O2I6vCQ pic.twitter.com/ZPwLbjWmb8
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) September 26, 2022
2/ You can’t tout a zero percent regret rate if you are no longer in touch with a third of your patients pic.twitter.com/XJidWlf59g
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) September 26, 2022
3/ What percentage of these young people ever experiences one sessions of decent counseling that doesn’t jump to conclusions about gender rather than explore truama etc.? The scene is a mess pic.twitter.com/HR4B50vQBx
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) September 26, 2022
The study claimed there were “zero regrets” for the surgeries, “‘There’s very few things in the world that have a zero percent regret rate. And chest surgery, clinically, I’ve experienced that,’ said Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, the lead author of the study and medical director of the clinic in Los Angeles, which began offering surgeries in 2019,” the piece recounted.
“But the study had caveats: Most patients were surveyed less than two years after their surgeries, and nearly 30 percent could not be contacted or declined to participate,” it added.
The phrasing of the reporting here is misleading, especially since at least a third of those who had surgery didn’t comment and most of the others had just recently undergone the knife.
Many contend these doctors have definitely violated their oath to do no harm.
Substack author Wesley Yang had a very interesting thread attacking the New York Times over its espousing of gender-affirming mutilation:
The general framing of this story on "top surgery" is moving from "it's not happening" to "it's good and only monstrous bigots think otherwise", but it does note the weakness of the studies supporting its efficacy and the lack of studies of detransition https://t.co/f3MsB1IJf5 pic.twitter.com/YtseFosZPt
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) September 26, 2022
It also shows how maybe some providers are a bit excessive in the way they are going about this https://t.co/f3MsB1r7Qv pic.twitter.com/kSRP2Ov53O
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) September 26, 2022
Though framed as broadly pro top surgery, the article contains this gotcha moment https://t.co/f3MsB1IJf5 pic.twitter.com/PP93T6qwJg
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) September 26, 2022
And this interview with someone who began taking testosterone after being sexually assaulted and had surgery soon after turning 18 who now regrets her choice. “I realized I lost something that I could have loved.” https://t.co/f3MsB1IJf5 pic.twitter.com/FEkXPX2DIr
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) September 26, 2022
The main thing it does is refer to people seeking to have their breasts cut off as “he”, transforming girls persuaded by peer and medical influence to cut off healthy parts of their body into boys saddled with alien impositions on their bodies
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) September 26, 2022
No official statistics on how many minors receive top surgeries. Eleven clinics respond to NYT survey and reveal 203 in 2021. Nine do not respond. One private practitioner reports doing 1 or 2 surgeries on minors a month, they youngest being 13. How many more out there? pic.twitter.com/HvnYAxNaNj
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) September 26, 2022
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) September 26, 2022
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