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Admiral Rachel Levine, in effect Joe Biden’s Cabinet Minister for Trans Affairs, proclaimed last October that “accredited medical professional groups agree that gender-affirming care is medically necessary, safe, and effective for trans and non-binary youth.” Last March, Levine ramped up the claim.
“President Biden supports you. I as the Assistant Secretary for Health will support you and I talk about this topic, everywhere I go, to get the word out,” said Levine, a Harvard grad and medical doctor. “I am positive and optimistic and hopeful that the wheel will turn after that and that this issue won’t be as politically and socially such a minefield.”
“Gender affirming care” commonly includes cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, and gender reassignment surgeries.” Those contemplating these procedures should know what they entail.
Dr. Maddie Deutsch, Associate Professor of Clinical Family & Community Medicine at the University of California – San Francisco (UCSF), and Medical Director for UCSF Transgender Care, reviews the “choices, risks, and unknowns associated with feminizing hormone therapy.” Taking higher doses of hormones, “will not necessarily bring about faster changes, but it could endanger your health.”
As Dr. Deutsch explains, “your skin will become a bit drier and thinner. Your pores will become smaller and there will be less oil production. You may become more prone to bruising or cuts and in the first few weeks you’ll notice that the odors of your sweat and urine will change.”
In these conditions, “you can also expect your muscle mass and strength to decrease” and “your testicles will shrink to less than half their original size, and most experts agree that the amount of scrotal skin available for future genital surgery won’t be affected.”
According to Dr. Deutsch of UCSF, “many of the effects of hormone therapy are reversible, if you stop taking them. The degree to which they can be reversed depends on how long you have been taking them. Some breast growth, and possibly reduced or absent fertility are not reversible.” (emphasis added)
Puberty blockers, according to the Mayo Clinic, are hormone (GnRH) analogues that “can be used to delay the changes of puberty in transgender and gender-diverse youth who have started puberty.” Delaying puberty “might improve mental well-being, ease depression and anxiety, improve social interactions with others,” and so forth. On the other hand, puberty blockers alone “might not be enough to ease gender dysphoria.”
Possible side effects of GnRH analogue treatment include: “swelling at the site of shot, weight gain, hot flashes, headaches,” and “mood changes.” GnRH analogues might have long-term effects on “growth spurts, bone growth, bone density” and “fertility, depending on when the medicine is started.”
As the Mayo Clinic warns, “some of the changes triggered by gender-affirming hormone therapy cannot be reversed. Others may require surgery to reverse.” (emphasis added) And “gender confirmation surgery” (GCS) is necessary to complete reassignment from the original design.
For the male-to-female (MTF) patient, surgical procedures may include: mammoplasty, orchiectomy, penectomy, vaginoplasty, clitoroplasty, vulvoplasty, labiaplasty, urethroplasty, and prostatectomy. Facial reconstruction, voice surgery and liposuction may also be required.
For the female-to-male (FTM) patient, surgical procedures may include, subcutaneous mastectomy, nipple grafts, chest reconstruction, salpingo-oophorectomy, metoidioplasty, phalloplasty, vaginectomy, vulvectomy, scrotoplasty, and implantation of erectile and/or testicular prostheses. Some of these procedures have variations.
A total vaginectomy “involves complete removal of all the tissue of the vagina and is considered risky.” It does not remove the uterus or ovaries, which are removed by salpingo-ooporectomy and hysterectomy. A muscosal vaginectomy removes some of the lining of the vagina and then closes up the entrance. The inside of the vagina then collapses in on itself. The effects of vaginectomy “are permanent and cannot be reversed.”
A penectomy, “completely destroys the penis,” leaving no skin for a vaginoplasty. For new genitals, the patient needs labiaplasty, clitoroplasty, and vaginoplasty by other means. According to Oregon Health and Science University, the risks to vaginoplasty include vaginal stenosis, narrowing of the vaginal canal, and “a second surgery is often required to fix it.”
There is also a chance of injury to the rectum, and the possibility of fistula, a rare connection between body parts such as the vagina and rectum.
“If you see fecal matter (poop) coming from the vagina,” OHSU explains, “you may have a fistula and should tell us right away.” A fistula of this type may recall Dr. Ergon Spengler (Harold Ramis) warning fellow ghostbusters that “crossing the streams” is bad. This problem requires “another major surgery.” No word of the costs, like all these procedures, probably on the high side.
According to the Cleveland Clinic, the two reasons for having a penectomy are cancer and “gender affirmation.” In a total penectomy “the entire penis, including the root that goes into the pelvis, is removed.” In this case, the urethra, the tube that allows urine to leave the body, is rerouted to a spot in the perineum, the area between the scrotum and anus. In a perineal urethrostromy, “you’ll need to sit when you urinate.”
According to the Cleveland Clinic a scrotoplasty for gender affirmation “typically includes creating a penis” from existing genital tissue or skin from another part of the body, as in a phalloplasty. To construct a scrotum “the surgeon cuts and shapes the lower part of your labia majora into a scrotum-like sac.” After the scrotum heals, the patient may choose to get testicular prostheses, silicone gel or saltwater implants that “create the look and feel of testicles.”
According to GCS specialist Dr. Christopher Salgado, scrotoplasty and glansplasty require an operation of 8 to 12 hours and a two-week stay in hospital. “Some transgender men will have their neo-penis tattooed to give the area natural coloring and depth.”
Complications of scrotoplasty include: abnormal connection between your skin and urethra, breakthrough and exposure of the testicular implants, and rejection of tissue transplanted to create a penis. Remember, in penectomy and vaginectomy, the original equipment is destroyed and the procedures are irreversible. MTF or FTM, the patient is basically SOL.
Dr. Levine thinks it’s all “medically necessary, safe and effective” and “President Biden supports you.” Remember, it’s okay to have your own opinions, except when they differ from those of the Admiral Levine and President Biden. Then you become a domestic terrorist and violent extremist.
What procedures Biden’s Assistant Secretary for Health has endured is not exactly clear, but the results are not convincing. Levine may recall the transvestite Dr. Robert “Bobby” Elliot (Michael Caine), who carves up women in Dressed to Kill. The Admiral’s side effects appear to include hardening of the attitude toward the First Amendment rights of the people.
The anger of the coming army of detransitioners will be unleashed upon their betrayers — LGBTQ activists, insane psychologists and therapists, greedy surgeons and hospital administrators, and malevolent Big Pharma — with a fury seldom seen outside of a BLM “mostly peaceful” riot. And whatever deconstruction their wrath may bring about will be much deserved.
“Teacher… Leave the kids alone!”
Like Douglas Murray has described, a madness/mania of crowds.
If only it were true… I’m not so sure there will be “armies” of angry detransitioners…. The majority might be too ashamed, embarrassed or unwilling to admit that they made a monumental mistake. They might also fear facing a lack of sympathy from the rest who have been thinking all along (with reason) that this is the most insane movement we’ve seen in modern society.
Having discovered, as most of them will, that their mental distress has not been resolved by these mutilations and the constant chronic health problems they will have, many will despair and commit suicide, as they already do. It may be that some, like Chloe Cole, will be able to persuade others, especially some in this large cohort of adolescent girls who are hopping on this bandwagon, to take legal action against their enablers. I hope so but We’ll see.
The Madness of the UnGodly.
as is mentioned, Dr Frankenstein and Mengele were products and evidences of a turning from God to ‘earthly’ religions one of the idea of the Church should be abolished and the other of the superiority of one mortal over another – a non Biblical view, as we are all descendant of Adam and Eve, then later from Noah. We are all God’s not Man’s. Dystopian propaganda notwithstanding, The life of honesty modesty and piety are still the best net outcome for the individual and for the society at large.
Sounds delightful.
For those who down-voted my comment thinking it was being serious, I hope you realize I was being sarcastic. I find these delusion confirming (a.k.a. “gender affirming”) procedures disgraceful, inhumane, and a blot on the medical community that participates in them.
Don’t apologize, Kasandra. You;re right !
Butchery is not too strong a word to describe what hides behind the euphemism “gender affirming care.” The practitioners of this are Mengelesque monsters.
Frankenstein would be so jealous of these democrat-sponsored butchers.
That’s a point. Frankenstein fiction turned out to be prophetic.
>>“If you see fecal matter (poop) coming from the vagina,” OHSU explains, “you…should tell us right away.”<<
Who knew?
Wow! Lol! Gross! Disgusting!
This whole article was! Talk about TMI on a stick…
I BELEIVE I am a successful and handsome man! “Sorry, no surgery could produce those results from this subject”. I guess I shall be forced to endure life un-re-constructed, I will be forced to remain as originally constructed, as just some guy.
Safe and effective? Where have I heard that before?
They are also pushing these drugs on dogs, if you wanted your dog castrated in the past they just lopped them off.
Nowadays the vets claim that you should try chemical castration first in case they become more timid and start attacking other dogs!
No logic there but lots of profit for the World pHarma Organisation
Thanks for this article. Sorry, but I couldn’t read it closely just skimmed. The descriptions are sickening. I know it is lucrative but I still cannot understand the surgeons who do this, especially to the young.
I had a GP from many years who was an “activist”- I tolerated his political nonsense because we were raised to not question Drs, Clergy and teachers.
Long story short his activism nearly cost me my life.
I have a new Dr.
Excellent point.
For sure. It is counter logical, counter simple biology, counter truth.
I was shocked to hear a radio report in Seattle a couple years ago announce Children’s Hospital there was about to start gender surgeries. There seems to be no logical explanation except perhaps there is some destructive contagion in the water or air causing so much confusion among the so-called “educated, trained MDs”.
Gender surgeries always result in scar tissue one way or another. This requires further surgeries as the body’s natural healing mechanisms try to repair the damage. Further surgeries lead to more medical expenses. More money for these clinics. More profit. Do you get it yet?
Positively grotesque what is being carried out on young people who cannot possibly grasp what the gender bending adults are getting them into. The horrific descriptions above should be presented to every young person using language that is accessible to them so that they understand as much as possible the nightmare of gender affirming “care”: Better yet, show them photographs, lots of photographs.
Back in the early 1950s, when the public was first exposed to so called sex change operations during the Christine Jorgensen hoopla, most newspapers would not print words like “castration”, “penis”, “testicles” and “vagina”. Most accounts described what Jorgensen was wearing or her contralto voice. Eventually, The New York Post (a rival of The New York Daily News, which first broke the story- Jorgensen actually leaked it) wrote a series of articles that pointed out Jorgensen was nothing but a eunuch- “she” had “her” penis and testicles chopped off in Denmark. The Danish doctors (who were portrayed as “enlightened” by Jorgensen) opposed creating a vagina because they saw her as an effeminate homosexual and transvestite- emasculating her was their “enlightened cure”. Jorgensen eventually had a vaginoplasty in the United States, which was unsuccessful and required (much like Jazz Jennings) multiple surgical revisions. Jorgensen ended her days as a blowsy, alcoholic harridan, embittered that fame or notoriety had passed her by. Her dying wish was to die “on a slow news day” to ensure maximum news coverage.
Even in those less explicit and “enlightened” times, most people were inhibited by politeness from stating the obvious: the very notion of changing sex is ludicrous and superficial albeit barbaric and irreversible mutilation is hardly a “cure” for gender dysphoria.
It’s very simple: If Americans allow objective truth to be destroyed because they’re more afraid of being called a name–by some of the most contemptible people on the planet–they will get the totalitarian rule than inevitably happens when the ability to define both acceptable and unacceptable “reality” rest solely with the most powerful people in the nation
What they don’t tell the teenagers who get mastectomies. One victim said every morning she woke up and the upper half of her torso was dead unfeeling flesh where her sensitive and natural breasts had been.
It was a constant horror to her. These are the two things the victims are not told: constant pain and medical issues and the scarred deadness where there was natural living flesh.
They also sometimes cut some of the lymph nodes, as happened to someone I know who had her breasts removed for cancer. Which requires constant attention to the remaining lymph nodes or something like that, to avoid various afflictions.
Post-modern Pseudoscience. Hazards of surgery. Thanks Lloyd!!!
It seems to me that it would be safer and cheaper to treat the patient’s comorbidities, including family problems, change schools and try new therapies such as hypnosis combined with neurofeedback to stimulate areas of the brain to help accept one’s birth sex. Some patients feel ugly and need a makeover and coaching about dress and grooming. All these methods would be safer and cheaper over the course of a lifetime. Teens are impressionable and need to be kept from harmful influences and also learn answers to problems of self-inage which don’t involve gender questioning.
And praying. AI said my comment was too short so I added this sentence.
If those in the medical profession ever cured a disease, be it physical or mental, our healthcare industry would be a fraction of the size it is today. When there’s money to be made, never expect a solution to the problem at hand. And these people are supposed to cause no harm to their patients. Dr Mengele would fit right in with today’s class of “healer”. Nazi scientists helped get us to the moon, why not harken back to Death Camp medical practices. And what better way to observe the upcoming 80th Anniversary of the Nazi defeat!
Leftists are champions of mental disorders …….. this is a manifestation of that.
Levine, judging by his photos, is grotesque, hideous, a monster neither male nor female, an outlier on the physical spectrum of humanity. Deep in his heart he knows this to be true. It’s a very lonely place in which he finds himself, and so he seeks company in the only place he can find it, among kids too young/unsophisticated/malleable to understand that they are being encouraged to throw away any future chance for happiness engaging in a fad soon to be forgotten.
These freaks need to be kept away from ALL CHILDREN, AT ANY COST!
to think that the nazis went to the gallows for mutilating children and adults . now they are lauded as visionary and cutting edge . it’s encouraging to know that there is a hell , and that is where they will spend eternity which is a long time to state the obvious . not to mention the parents , teachers , and politicians who allow this insanity to be perpetrated . for those who say that they will be with their friends , the horror of that belief is that they will be alone as will their friends even though there will be an untold number in hell but you wont see them . that’s why it is called HELL .
Why aren’t there attorney generals prosecuting these so called doctors who are mutilating people?
Mr. Levine looks like ‘Joe’ (everyone’s least favorite Curly-replacement stooge) in a bad wig.