Nothing like this Reuters report has been allowed in mainstream media in this country. (Reuters is a British company and discussions about transgender abuses are still ongoing in the UK. This report however focuses on the United States and has led to the predictable attacks from campaigners.)
As flawed as the report is, it hesitantly addresses the disproportionate number of young girls being sexually mutilated and the role on social media and peer pressure. That is already a no-go zone.
And it provides a little snippet of just how some doctors are promoting and profiting from this horror.
Kulovitz, a girl, actual first name unknown, got routed into this by online culture beginning on Tumblr at age 11. Tumblr was a slower-paced TikTok with all the same cultural insanity.
One day during his junior year of high school, Kulovitz, then 16, was scrolling on her phone when the TikTok account of a Miami surgeon who offered to “yeet the teets” of young transgender people popped up. In videos with hip-hop music playing in the background, Dr Sidhbh Gallagher provided detailed information about top surgery to remove or modify breasts and displayed photos of her satisfied gender-diverse patients, most of them young people, with shirts off to show the results of the doctor’s work. “Come to Miami to see me and the rest of the De Titty Committee,” she said in one of the videos.
Some of this is unfortunately an outgrowth of the highly dubious ways some plastic surgeons promote themselves to teens, especially teenage girls. There were huge ethical issues in this area already, but there was little political interest in the problem because it didn’t play into identity politics.
Some surgeons claimed that offering, for example, breast implants or nose jobs to 16-year-old girls, was important for their mental health.
It’s no coincidence that this same argument is now being used for the grotesque transgender mutilation surgeries being inflicted on teenage girls by some of the same players who are cashing in massively while ruining countless lives.
TikTok is notorious as a platform for pushing plastic surgery on teens.
The hashtag #nosejobcheck, which mainly consists of videos showcasing before-and-after clips of nasal surgery, has accumulated over one billion views on the platform. The hashtag #nosejob, which hosts similar videos, has over 1.6 billion views.
While #nosejobcheck is primarily used by creators sharing their experiences of getting nose jobs, plastic surgeons are also using it to market their work and appear on the FYPs of potential patients.
Dr. Kim Patrick Murray, a Miami-based plastic surgeon, is one of the medical practitioners who uses the app to promote his followers’ surgery. In recent months, he has seen an uptick in preliminary consultation thanks to social media.
Some of these consultation requests are coming from under-18s.
This doesn’t bother him.
“Rhinoplasty is a relatively tame topic compared to a lot of other stuff on TikTok,” he told Insider. “If you want to look at the negatives, you have worse things like teenagers dancing in bikinis.”
Murray performs the surgery on patients as young as 14.
“Operating on somebody that young could be a little controversial,” he said. “But for me, the advantages of considering rhinoplasty at that young age allow the person to grow and be comfortable in their own skin and that far outweighs the negatives,” Murray added.
The plastic surgeon said that if a teenager was struggling with their self-esteem due to an overly-pronounced nose, saw one of his TikToks, and decided to seek surgery, he’d view that as a “positive” thing.
This same argument has been transplanted to a form of surgery that is far more devastating and makes any kind of normal life impossible afterward. But since it’s wrapped up in sexual identity politics, no one can object to it.
In its new Standards of Care, published in September, WPATH acknowledged for the first time that “social influence” may impact an adolescent’s gender identity. The organization recommends that youths undergo an in-depth evaluation in part so that clinicians “can discern between a person’s gender identity that is marked and sustained and an identity that might be socially influenced,” according to Dr Eli Coleman, director of the University of Minnesota Medical School’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Health who oversaw the update of WPATH’s guidelines.
That’s progress even though it’s a restatement of common sense reality, but one that transgender campaigners vocally denounced and denied.
Top Surgery Specialists of New York City and Los Angeles has Instagram accounts that feature photos of young people proudly displaying their scars after top surgery.Dr Tony Mangubat, a Seattle plastic surgeon who has more than 200,000 followers on TikTok @TikDocTony, often tags his posts with the hashtag “#teetusdeletus.” In his videos, he answers questions like “What is the perfect age to have top surgery?” (“My youngest patient was 15,” Mangubat replied) and “Hey Doc, how old do I have to be to start T,” short for testosterone. (“You start T, really, when you’re ready,” Mangubat responded, and advised patients to talk to their doctors).Top Surgery Specialists and Mangubat did not respond to requests for comment.Gallagher, the doctor who performed Kulovitz’s top surgery, posts bare-chested selfies from her patients – who often refer to themselves as “Gallagher guys” – frolicking on sun-drenched beaches. She also posts images of parents standing in the lobby of her Miami office next to their children, who wear unbuttoned “nip-reveal shirts” that show their red incision scars. “Supportive moms are the best!” Gallagher writes in photo captions.
Gallagher describes to her 273,000 TikTok followers the options she offers for “designer” chests. Top surgery can include torso “masculoplasty” to smooth out feminine curves. For the nonbinary, Gallagher can remove the nipples altogether: “No Nips, No problem,” as one post’s text display puts it. And for the gender fluid, she offers “non-flat” surgery, leaving enough breast tissue so that on some days patients can have a “perky breast” with cleavage and on other days they can bind their breasts.
In February, five of these groups, made up of parents, medical professionals and people who have detransitioned, filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, asking the agency to investigate Gallagher over the way she communicates with young people on social media. The complaint alleges that Gallagher and her medical practice are “engaged in unfair, false and deceptive practices in the aggressive advertising and marketing to minors of their plastic surgery services, namely mastectomies of healthy female breasts, as proven safe, effective and medically necessary.” One of the groups’ members said she was alarmed when her child, who was following Gallagher on social media, told her about wanting surgery by the doctor.
Two lawyers filed a similar complaint earlier this year with the Florida Attorney General’s Office alleging that Gallagher is improperly marketing surgery to teens on TikTok and Instagram, in particular to “children with mental health disorders.”
The FTC won’t do anything, but Florida might.
Parents of 40 gender-diverse children told Reuters they were concerned that their children came out only after they hit puberty, often at the same time as their friends and after their use of social media had increased. For many, their worries were compounded when clinicians swiftly affirmed their childrens’ transgender identities and recommended medical intervention without fully assessing whether other potential underlying causes of distress were present.
Kelly, a 43-year-old parent who asked that her full name not be used to protect her family’s privacy, told Reuters that her child was heavily into highly sexualized anime and transgender online forums when the 12-year-old started experimenting, seemingly overnight, with being a transgender boy. The child’s therapist encouraged medical intervention, Kelly said, but while Kelly supported social transition outside the home, she made it clear that her child would have to wait until she was 18 for hormones and top surgery.
After several years of living as a boy and using “he” and “him” pronouns, Kelly’s child, now 18, is back to using her female name, dressing in feminine clothing and using “she” and “her” pronouns. “We would have lost our daughter if we had followed what the therapist was telling us to do,” the mother said.
And so many other daughters are lost while some profit.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Surgery is serious business.
Una Salus says
Also big business
Algorithmic Analyst says
Yeah. I talked to someone who had her breasts removed and they also removed 3 of 4 lymph nodes or vessels or something like that from her arm, so she has to wear something to be careful the arm doesn’t get infected.
Lightbringer says
Intractable infections and cancer are good reasons to have such surgery. Idiocy is not.
Jeff Bargholz says
Idiocy yes but also mental illness. There are far more crazy people out there than the average person thinks. I never noticed how common mental illness was until I lived with a psychopath. It’s frighteningly common. The statistics I read under count it.
Only a whack job would have their breasts or genitals removed or mangled if they’re physically healthy.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Thanks. It was a terrible dilemma, I didn’t know what advice to give.
Jeff Bargholz says
Yes, turning kids into monsters is lucrative. The hippocratic oath doesn’t mean shit to those Mengele “doctors.”
Algorithmic Analyst says
Yeah, thanks Jeff! I also didn’t realize how many crazy people there were, until the internet came along.
Jeff Bargholz says
Seriously sickening and horrific, in this case.
I had knee surgery a couple years ago because I was too dumb to believe my knee was damaged before it was too late for me to recover but I’m an adult. Anybody who sexually mutilates children or helps do that deserves to be tortured to death and then go to Hell for eternal torment.
I’ve seen video and online displays of the “surgery” used to create sexual monsters. It’s horrible. I couldn’t even watch it all. My balls crawled up into my belly.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Yeah, I know the feeling 🙂
Knees are kinda like the most vulnerable part of the body, or the worst designed for the stresses that get put on them in athletics and such.
Jeff Bargholz says
Yeah, I felt my femur and tibia grinding against each other and thought it was my imagination. After a year or two of that shit I started to feel real pain. The medial meniscus (a C shaped cartilage) in my left knee had ruptured so badly at that point that the jagged edge was tearing my muscle and soft tissue around it, and that’s what I felt. After several weeks I realized something was wrong. Nothing takes that long to heal. It turns out that a ruptured meniscus is common and will heal if a person convalesces properly but I didn’t know what had happened and I thought I was indestructible. Nobody is Superman. I found that out the hard way.
Once in a while my knee locks but otherwise I’m fine. I can still run and play sports.
Kasandra says
How is such surgery even legal? Would any reputable doctor even think of amputating a healthy leg or severing a fully functional spinal cord of someone suffering from Body Identity Integrity Disorder, another bodily dismorphic mental condition? I would hope not. Yet here we are.
Lightbringer says
I’ve read that some do. Not too many (yet), but some.
David Mu says
When this madness is over, I believe we will be able to see that (past the madness of true believers) it was being pushed everywhere is make a lot of money. This delusion will likely be the greatest time of madness this nation has ever seen.
It ought to have seen as an warning sign when those confused ones wanting it changed from being a majority population of males to the now the majority being female. It further ought to have an seen as a problem that the after results to not change with an still high percentage of suicide. However, that would not make the money.
Una Salus says
Now that the inmates are running the asylum it’s a shame because Nurse Ratched knew how to affirm their insanity.
CowboyUp says
It’s only a matter of time before a outraged parent or unhappy patient goes after one of these quacks. When they do, I hope innocent bystanders aren’t hurt.
Jeff Bargholz says
“Supportive moms are the best!”
Yeah, I’ve noticed it’s almost always single mothers who encourage their sons and daughters to be sexually mutilated, not fathers. Just like tranny strip shows for kiddies. Almost all the perverted parents are women, mostly dykes. Why fuzzy bumpers love trannies, I’ll never know but the mutilation of boys and girls is exactly what I expect from those freakish monsters.
As if I needed another reason to despise single “mothers” who deprive their children of fathers. The stereotype of mothers and children abandoned by fathers is complete bullshit. In most cases, it’s a selfish bitch who harms her own children to spite their father.
Nothing is lower than scum who harm their own children.
CowboyUp says
It’s amazing the lengths some women will go to just to spite the father.
My older brothers’ and sister’s mother took them from Georgia to El Paso Texas, blew the alimony and child support mostly on her good time, and every year when he went to pick them up for a month(when the GM plant was down for model chamge) they were barefoot with only the wore out clothes on their backs. He would clothe and shoe them while he had them even though she was getting most of his money.
I got plenty of stories of deadbeat or worse dads, but it’s shocking what some mothers do, and the lengths they’ll go to. I always knew how lucky I was with my parents. They might whip my butt at the drop of a hat, but I never doubted I was loved, and me and my younger sisters were put first in their lives.
One of the slimeballs that was shacked up at her place molested my older sister from 8 to 12 years old and she knew it was happening. The first thing all three did when they bought their first car was drive out to see dad.
They left her as soon as they graduated HS, and never forgave her, or had anything to do with her afterwards. She showed up at my nephew’s wedding, sloppy drunk as usual, and made an *ss of herself.
CowboyUp says
I got sidetracked and the third paragraph should have been last
Algorithmic Analyst says
lol, great stories 🙂
A lot of us have related stories, glad to hear yours 🙂
Jeff Bargholz says
Damn, that’s even worse than my history. I get royally pissed off when I see stereotypes of deadbeat dads. My experience is like yours. Cunt “mothers” who abuse their own children just to spite their ex husbands.
Kids need to be protected, not harmed or sexualized like Disney and its trannies do.