A new report from a doctor, Jamie Reed, in St. Louis, Missouri, makes it abundantly clear that Louisiana and any other sane State must bring a swift end to transgender treatments. This is the opening of her powerful testimony, which should be read in full to understand the scope of the evil unfolding all around us (thanks to Rod Dreher for posting about this at his blog):
I am a
42-year-old St. Louis native, a queer woman, and politically to the left of
Bernie Sanders. My worldview has deeply shaped my career. I have spent my
professional life providing counseling to vulnerable populations: children in
foster care, sexual minorities, the poor.
For almost four
years, I worked at The Washington University School of Medicine Division of
Infectious Diseases with teens and young adults who were HIV positive. Many of
them were trans or otherwise gender nonconforming, and I could relate: Through
childhood and adolescence, I did a lot of gender questioning myself. I’m now
married to a transman, and together we are raising my two biological children
from a previous marriage and three foster children we hope to adopt.
All that led me
to a job in 2018 as a case manager at The
Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital,
which had been established a year earlier.
The center’s
working assumption was that the earlier you treat kids with gender dysphoria,
the more anguish you can prevent later on. This premise was shared by the
center’s doctors and therapists. Given their expertise, I assumed that abundant
evidence backed this consensus.
During the four
years I worked at the clinic as a case manager—I was responsible for patient
intake and oversight—around a thousand distressed young people came through our
doors. The majority of them received hormone prescriptions that can have
life-altering consequences—including sterility.
I left the clinic
in November of last year because I could no longer participate in what was
happening there. By the time I departed, I was certain that the way the
American medical system is treating these patients is the opposite of the
promise we make to “do no harm.” Instead, we are permanently harming the vulnerable
patients in our care.
Today I am
speaking out. I am doing so knowing how toxic the public conversation is around
this highly contentious issue—and the ways that my testimony might be misused.
I am doing so knowing that I am putting myself at serious personal and
professional risk.
Almost everyone
in my life advised me to keep my head down. But I cannot in good conscience do
so. Because what is happening to scores of children is far more important than
my comfort. And what is happening to them is morally and medically appalling.
Though it is appalling, transgenderism is spreading quickly even in a very red State like Louisiana, where 128 doctors, voice coaches, counselors, and such like are busy raking in piles of cash as they destroy young lives.
This raises
the question of the priorities of Louisiana’s State government – a proposal to
try to resolve the property insurance problem sailed through the Legislature in
mere days. Yet the silence and inaction
on the dangers to Louisiana’s children from hormone ‘therapy’ and gender
reassignment surgery is stunning. Are
inanimate objects worth more to the legislators than the souls and bodies of
living Louisiana children? Are they
willing to let them go on being exploited and mutilated so that doctors,
hospitals, drug makers, and others will have more long-term revenue sources?
If they do
nothing, our State is no better than the ancient cultures that practiced horrifying
human sacrifice.
Hopefully they
will do the opposite, however, and act in accordance with the Christian Faith
many say they profess. There are
examples they can follow. Oklahoma is
proposing a
total ban on trans treatment for young people. Federal proposals to ban
social media for children and teens, which is at the heart of a lot of the
trans madness, have
been floated. There is no reason why
Louisiana could not implement her own bans of these kinds for the good of her young
population instead of waiting for others to do so.
This is not
proposed out of hard-heartedness towards those who consider themselves
transgender, but out of a recognition that human beings, created by the Holy
Trinity in His image and likeness, are created with a goal, with a longing, to
be united with their Creator in love.
Bishop Athanasios of Limassol of Cyprus explains:
. . .
The rest is
at https://thehayride.com/2023/02/garlington-louisiana-must-end-transgender-treatments-for-minors/.
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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us
sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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