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01/11/2023

Um Serviço de Desenvolvimento de Identidade de Género pode ser uma espécie de clínica do Dr. Mengele (4) - O testemunho de uma pioneira da "transição hormonal de género"

Continuação de (1), (2) e (3)

A Dr.ª Riittakerttu Kaltiala é uma psiquiatra responsável pelo departamento de psiquiatria adolescente no hospital universitário na cidade Tampere na Finlândia, foi pioneira da "transição hormonal de género", publicou mais de duas centenas de artigos científicos e participou na avaliação de mais de 500 de adolescentes com problemas de "disforia de género".

Publicou há dias na Free Press o seu testemunho de dez páginas num artigo intitulado «Gender-Affirming Care Is Dangerous. I Know Because I Helped Pioneer It.» onde afirma não existirem provas sólidas que suportem as práticas da "transição hormonal de género" e denuncia essas práticas.

Respigo a seguir os últimos 3 parágrafos desse artigo.

«This year the Endocrine Society of the U.S. reiterated its endorsement of hormonal gender transition for young people. The president of the society wrote in a letter to The Wall Street Journal that such care was "lifesaving" and "reduces the risk of suicide." I was a co-author of a letter in response, signed by 20 clinicians from nine countries, refuting his assertion. We wrote that, "Every systematic review of evidence to date, including one published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society, has found the evidence for mental health benefits of hormonal interventions for minors to be of low or very low certainty:'

Medicine, unfortunately, is not immune to dangerous groupthink that results in patient harm. What is happening to dysphoric children reminds me of the recovered memory craze of the 1980s and '90s. During that period, many troubled women carne to believe false memories, often suggested to them by their therapists, of nonexistent sexual abuse by their fathers or other family members. This abuse, the therapists said, explained everything that was wrong with the lives of their patients. Families were torn apart, and some people were prosecuted based on made-up assertions. It ended when therapists, journalists, and lawyers investigated and exposed what was happening.

We need to learn from such scandals. Because, like recovered memory, gender transition has gotten out of hand. When medical professionals start saying they have one answer that applies everywhere, or that they have a cure for all of life's pains, that should be a warning to us all that something has gone very wrong.»

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