America's pediatric medicine organizations better take a note: Conservatives see them pushing transitioning of minors as an existentialist threat. Conservatives will declare war on such organizations.
That the Europeans finally pulled back from being complete idiots is not exactly something to celebrate but to ask how they let so many of their physicians and other "healthcare professionals" have free rein in the first place to play Dr. Mengele.
Even I with my HS education knew from the start that this was all lunacy.
The real question not yet answered is where all these autistic kids came from. And is their condition properly called "autism" at all? That's become a prestige self-diagnosis everywhere. Some years ago I met a woman who was my dear friends niece-in-law who'd self-diagnosed as autistic but who seemed far more likely to have something like Borderline Personality Disorder but who would label themselves with that? Who, honestly, would just say "I'm awfully fucked up?" An autism diagnosis confers many benefits, not least an IEP and a stream of special services dollars and unfortunately diverts too many resources from those children and adults who are profoundly disabled by autism and not just temper tantrumming their way through their formative years.
I've read reports there is a correlation between early childhood vaccination and brain infection. My own brother, years ago, suffered from incephalitis. It came on suddenly and the doctors had no idea why it happened. Though I was young, it was around the time we would've been vaccinated. He had certain deficits as a result.
I think there are so many awful as well as so many seemingly minor things that can disrupt healthy brain development that it will be very hard to find all the real causes.
True. But as food is cleaned of toxins and the number of vaccinations reduce, it will show correlations. I am old enough that I got very few vaccinations. Gender confusion and autism in my generation is low. That it has been increasing as both food and vaccinations changed is highly suggestive.
From the beginning of life on earth food and water were full of toxins.
And keep in mind that diagnostic names change. Crazy people we've always had with us. Remember all them British mysteries with the eccentric guy down the street as a supporting character?
The load on humans was clearly less in paleolithic times, just that sanitation was less. In the times of those mysteries, women put arsenic on their skin to make it look whiter, hats were blocked with mercury, and they thought tomatoes were deadly because they ate on pewter that contained lead. Sanitation was abysmal for most of the centuries you refer to. Cholera was often contracted through seepage of waste to water supplies. But causes of illnesses were usually easy to pinpoint as knowledge progressed.
Back in the 1970's I used to purchase International Coffee in a tin. As I was in school and rather poor, it was a real treat to have a cup. One day I ran out and bought another. It tasted chemically. As I had the old tin, I compared them. The old one had milk, coffee, vanilla, and sugar. The new one was loaded with chemicals I can't even pronounce. I haven't bought it since. Around that time, when tobacco was getting negative press and government action, those scientists who would dream up additives to make the tobacco more appealing moved over to the food industry. This is documented in a number of places.
The number of chemicals modern humans are exposed to is exponentially more than in the past. Research estimates that humans are exposed to thousands of chemicals daily, with less than 2% of all chemicals identified in studies. While we know what lead, mercury, and lead do, there has never been an assessment of the interactions of the multiple chemicals, hormones, and things like microplastics we are now exposed to.
Great article. I read there is also a correlation between early childhood vaccinations and brain infection, including a correlation with gender confusion. I know someone whose niece has that, she insists on being called Rob. Fortunately she is being treated for brain infection. But hey, if you enjoy mauling people, especially the vulnerable young, but want to make money and avoid the law, what better way to get a thrill than practice gender affirming medicine or psychiatry that, rather than look into the cause or promote accepting there is a variety of behaviors and feelings within each sex and society, confuses some child that, if they don't exactly fit some mold, therefore is born in the wrong body. Gender affirming care is a crock.
Your devolution into thinking you're an expert in everything when you know next to nothing about everything is great. Comedy material James. Keep it up!
Dr² Hickie, this post is a fairly straight forward summary of facts. There is a small closing that gets into American specific political polarization- there’s more room for discussion and disagreement in that area. So please, if you will point out the specific areas you found to be comedy gold, let me know. I’d love a good laugh today. My first read through found no such material unfortunately. 🤔
Useful Summary. Thank you. I don't think the Trans industry is a threat to conservatives worldview. I think the Trans industry is threatened by reality.
The contrast between Europe and the US on this is pretty striking. My sister's friend works in child psych and has seen the diagnostic overshadowing thing firsthand—kids with autism getting lumped into gender clincs when thier issues might be rooted elswhere. Sweden and Finland basically said "hold up, we don't have strong enough evidence" while American orgs are doubling down. Feels like one side is prioritizing caution and the other is prioritizing ideology.
I think that the trans-fad will soon be generally perceived as something akin to a cross between hysterectomies and lobotomies. I heard that the AMA and the Am. Assoc. of Plastic Surgeons just reversed their positions on trans affirmation, the pediatric, psychiatric, and endo people need to be shamed into abandoning their perverted, ideological, positions - and then prosecuted. There is a lesson here that we desperately need to learn.
I think that the trans-fad will soon be generally perceived as something akin to a cross between hysterectomies lobotomies. I heard that the AMA and a psychiatric association just reversed their positions on trans affirmation, the pediatric and endo people need to be shamed into abandoning their perverted, ideological positions - and then prosecuted.
That the Europeans finally pulled back from being complete idiots is not exactly something to celebrate but to ask how they let so many of their physicians and other "healthcare professionals" have free rein in the first place to play Dr. Mengele.
Even I with my HS education knew from the start that this was all lunacy.
The real question not yet answered is where all these autistic kids came from. And is their condition properly called "autism" at all? That's become a prestige self-diagnosis everywhere. Some years ago I met a woman who was my dear friends niece-in-law who'd self-diagnosed as autistic but who seemed far more likely to have something like Borderline Personality Disorder but who would label themselves with that? Who, honestly, would just say "I'm awfully fucked up?" An autism diagnosis confers many benefits, not least an IEP and a stream of special services dollars and unfortunately diverts too many resources from those children and adults who are profoundly disabled by autism and not just temper tantrumming their way through their formative years.
I've read reports there is a correlation between early childhood vaccination and brain infection. My own brother, years ago, suffered from incephalitis. It came on suddenly and the doctors had no idea why it happened. Though I was young, it was around the time we would've been vaccinated. He had certain deficits as a result.
I think there are so many awful as well as so many seemingly minor things that can disrupt healthy brain development that it will be very hard to find all the real causes.
True. But as food is cleaned of toxins and the number of vaccinations reduce, it will show correlations. I am old enough that I got very few vaccinations. Gender confusion and autism in my generation is low. That it has been increasing as both food and vaccinations changed is highly suggestive.
From the beginning of life on earth food and water were full of toxins.
And keep in mind that diagnostic names change. Crazy people we've always had with us. Remember all them British mysteries with the eccentric guy down the street as a supporting character?
The load on humans was clearly less in paleolithic times, just that sanitation was less. In the times of those mysteries, women put arsenic on their skin to make it look whiter, hats were blocked with mercury, and they thought tomatoes were deadly because they ate on pewter that contained lead. Sanitation was abysmal for most of the centuries you refer to. Cholera was often contracted through seepage of waste to water supplies. But causes of illnesses were usually easy to pinpoint as knowledge progressed.
Back in the 1970's I used to purchase International Coffee in a tin. As I was in school and rather poor, it was a real treat to have a cup. One day I ran out and bought another. It tasted chemically. As I had the old tin, I compared them. The old one had milk, coffee, vanilla, and sugar. The new one was loaded with chemicals I can't even pronounce. I haven't bought it since. Around that time, when tobacco was getting negative press and government action, those scientists who would dream up additives to make the tobacco more appealing moved over to the food industry. This is documented in a number of places.
The number of chemicals modern humans are exposed to is exponentially more than in the past. Research estimates that humans are exposed to thousands of chemicals daily, with less than 2% of all chemicals identified in studies. While we know what lead, mercury, and lead do, there has never been an assessment of the interactions of the multiple chemicals, hormones, and things like microplastics we are now exposed to.
Producing and raising healthy children has always been life's primary challenge. Only the details change.
what a racket the AAP. 1/3 of those transitioning are Autistic, WOW! Vaccines, the gift that keeps on giving$$$$.
Great article. I read there is also a correlation between early childhood vaccinations and brain infection, including a correlation with gender confusion. I know someone whose niece has that, she insists on being called Rob. Fortunately she is being treated for brain infection. But hey, if you enjoy mauling people, especially the vulnerable young, but want to make money and avoid the law, what better way to get a thrill than practice gender affirming medicine or psychiatry that, rather than look into the cause or promote accepting there is a variety of behaviors and feelings within each sex and society, confuses some child that, if they don't exactly fit some mold, therefore is born in the wrong body. Gender affirming care is a crock.
Your devolution into thinking you're an expert in everything when you know next to nothing about everything is great. Comedy material James. Keep it up!
Dr² Hickie, this post is a fairly straight forward summary of facts. There is a small closing that gets into American specific political polarization- there’s more room for discussion and disagreement in that area. So please, if you will point out the specific areas you found to be comedy gold, let me know. I’d love a good laugh today. My first read through found no such material unfortunately. 🤔
Excellent job covering this issue without the transphobic ignorance that typically accompanies it. Keep up the good work.
Wasn't aware that 💰Pocket Lining💰 was taught in Medical School... apparently it is a major course of study!
Useful Summary. Thank you. I don't think the Trans industry is a threat to conservatives worldview. I think the Trans industry is threatened by reality.
The contrast between Europe and the US on this is pretty striking. My sister's friend works in child psych and has seen the diagnostic overshadowing thing firsthand—kids with autism getting lumped into gender clincs when thier issues might be rooted elswhere. Sweden and Finland basically said "hold up, we don't have strong enough evidence" while American orgs are doubling down. Feels like one side is prioritizing caution and the other is prioritizing ideology.
I think that the trans-fad will soon be generally perceived as something akin to a cross between hysterectomies and lobotomies. I heard that the AMA and the Am. Assoc. of Plastic Surgeons just reversed their positions on trans affirmation, the pediatric, psychiatric, and endo people need to be shamed into abandoning their perverted, ideological, positions - and then prosecuted. There is a lesson here that we desperately need to learn.
I think that the trans-fad will soon be generally perceived as something akin to a cross between hysterectomies lobotomies. I heard that the AMA and a psychiatric association just reversed their positions on trans affirmation, the pediatric and endo people need to be shamed into abandoning their perverted, ideological positions - and then prosecuted.