Dr. Tandy Aye is a pediatric endocrinologist at Stanford Children’s Health and is the Medical Director of their Pediatric and Adolescent Gender Clinic. During her TedTalk she made some extreme arguments about removing the testicles from young boys but in her insanity, she revealed the truth about their so-called ‘reversible’ treatment options. According to Aye, the hormone blockers destroy the ‘function’ of testicles, to which she argues that doctors should just go ahead and remove them, as you would any other nonfunctioning organ.
Dr. Aye unknowingly revealed that the once perceived as ‘reversible’ treatment has some non-reversible consequences.
‘Detransitioners’ is a growing cohort of people (mostly children) who underwent the hormonal treatment only to later change their minds- as children often do. We don’t have solid numbers on how many children transition, then detransition because a large percentage just stop the treatment without the consult of their doctor. They’re also just kids, so they’re not changing their legal identity yet, but I imagine the ‘detransitioners’ list is much higher than we know.
Of the destransitioners, 55% say clinicians didn’t give adequate evaluation before gender transition on LinkedIn The research on gender dysphoria and transition in Western nations reveals a couple of clear trends. For one, the rates of sex reassignment surgeries and adolescents being referred to gender clinics have risen sharply over the past decade, amounting to what one researcher recently described as an “international phenomenon.”
I can almost bet that doctors aren’t warning patients and parents that some of the side effects of manipulating nature are permanent—Like rendering the function of testicles ‘useless’.
A recent study aimed to shed light on the issue by surveying people who had detransitioned. The results, published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, showed that the majority of respondents felt that their doctor or mental health professional failed to provide them with an adequate medical evaluation prior to transitioning.
What’s more, most respondents did not inform their clinicians after they had detransitioned, suggesting that the total number of detransitioners could be underestimated.
All of this is to say, we don’t have a clear look at how many people transition only to detransition, and adults are holding kids to the fire unfairly by forcing them to decide what the hell they want to be when they grow up. I know adults who still can’t answer that question.
Also, there is a high suicide rate in the gender dysphoric community, and no clear data on how many of those were people who underwent ‘treatment’ and later regretted it.
Stanford Children's doctor says "the demand for transgender surgery has increased by five-fold" and suggests that if a boy takes hormones and "her testes are non-functional," doctors should surgically remove them—even if the child is a minor. pic.twitter.com/tpc6xwpiRV
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) October 11, 2022
This is playing with fire, in my opinion. I am not a doctor, but many of these doctors are not considering the ‘human aspect’ in all of this. Children can believe and feel strongly about something one day and completely forget about it the next. Childhood is confusing and it goes by fast.
As adults, it is our job to protect them, and this isn’t it.