You heard me right. A girl whose parents divorced when she was 5 stayed with her mom who was mentally ill and was an alcoholic.
Her dad was emotionally distant from both her and her sister. Fast forward to 14 and she became agoraphobic. At 15 she was going through puberty and started to fall apart. She wanted to be taller and be more like boys that she used to hang out with, when she was younger. (before puberty) She asked to have her puberty stopped and so her alcoholic mom gave her 15 year old child a ride to the doctor and said, “Oh yes, sure we will transition you. You don’t mind not having kids right? No problem? Great!” And so the transition began. 16, she started puberty blockers. At 20, she had a double mastectomy and fully transitioned. At 23, when she started having vaginal atrophy, just like what happens at menopause, she decided to stop taking testosterone shots.
As the High Court found, much of the clinic’s treatment is not even based on solid evidence. At the time our case was accepted, the NHS was asserting that the effects of puberty blockers are “fully reversible.” But recently, the NHS reversed itself, acknowledging “that ‘little is known about the long-term side-effects’ on a teenager’s body or brain.” That didn’t stop them from prescribing these drugs to people like me.https://www.persuasion.community/p/keira-bell-my-story?triedSigningIn=true
Dr. Christopher Gillberg, a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at Gothenburg University in Sweden and a specialist in autism, was an expert witness for our case. Gillberg said in his court statement that over his 45 years of treating children with autism, it was rare to have patients with gender dysphoria—but their numbers started exploding in 2013, and most were biological girls. Gillberg told the court that what was happening at the Tavistock was a “live experiment” on children and adolescents.
Scare tactics are used – but they are lying. The torture of transitioning, not being able to have children and then figuring out that you want to actually be the sex you were born as (which 70%+ do) and then regret it. Protect your children, because those that are trans/gay/or any of the LGBTQ – have an exponentially higher rate of suicide – EVEN AFTER transition and in most instances, it’s even higher. How about that for life or death.
Parents who are reluctant or even alarmed about starting their children on a medical transition may be warned, “Would you rather have a dead daughter or a live son?” (Or vice versa.) I had suicidal thoughts as a teen. Suicidal thoughts indicate serious mental health problems that need assessment and proper care. When I told them at the Tavistock about these thoughts, that became another reason to put me on hormones quickly to improve my well-being. But after the court ruling, the Tavistock released an internal study of a group of 44 patients who had started taking puberty blockers at ages 12 to 15. It said that this treatment had failed to improve the mental state of patients, having “no significant effect on their psychological function, thoughts of self-harm, or body image.” Additionally, of those 44 patients, 43 went on to cross-sex hormones. This suggests blocking puberty isn’t providing a pause. It is giving a push.
