Colin Wright@SwipeWright
It's hard to convey how unregulated and extreme "gender medicine" is compared to literally all other medical practices.
Consider these two recent cases from different medical fields:
1. Two days ago, a popular YouTube podiatrist known as The Toe Bro had his license suspended for five months for failing to detect toe cancer in a patient that resulted in the patient needing to have the toe amputated.
2. Today, top youth gender doctor, Johanna Olson-Kennedy, faces a lawsuit by a patient who was prescribed puberty blockers at age 12 after just one consultation and without prior therapy. Olson-Kennedy is accused of pressuring the patient’s parents to consent to the treatment by citing the widely debunked "suicide myth"—that their daughter would likely commit suicide without it. She also authorized cross-sex hormones for the patient at age 13 and wrote a letter of support for the patient's double mastectomy at age 14 that lied about the duration of the patient's transgender identity.
This isn't the first patient Olson-Kennedy has rushed to transition. She has a reputation for advocating the removal of medical safeguards for youth distressed about their sex.
Despite this, she and many other gender doctors, known for similar extreme practices, continue to practice experimental "gender-affirming care" without convincing evidence of benefit and amid a host of known harms.
The Toe Bro made a genuine mistake that resulted in a cancerous toe being amputated, and his license gets suspended for 5 months. Meanwhile, gender doctors like Olson-Kennedy regularly bypass medical safeguards to amputate healthy body parts without sound medical reasons and face no consequences.
How does any of this make sense?
