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> Ubiquitous <
weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>> One of the arguments you hear a lot in the debate over gender ideology,
>> across the political spectrum, is that adults should be able to do what they
>> want. This is the supposedly "moderate" position. Several presidential
>> candidates believe it. Millions of Americans believe it, too. As long as you
>> stay away from the kids, they tell you, then there?s no problem. The moment
>> you hit 18-years-old, do what you want. "Live your truth."
>>
>> It`s not hard to see why that position is tempting for so many people.
>> Children obviously can`t consent to life-altering procedures, including
>> genital mutilation and castration. Adults, on the other hand, are able to
>> consent to a lot of things. They can vote, buy guns, and serve in the
>> military. So, if they want to pay a doctor to carve up their bodies, then
>> what`s the big deal? That`s the argument you hear again and again.
>>
>> No one really means it, though. And you know that because none of the people
>> making that argument would use the same reasoning to justify, say,
>> lobotomies. If you walked into a doctor`s office today and asked
him to drill
>> a hole in your head and sever your prefrontal cortex in order to make you
>> feel better about your life, he`d say no. If he did it, he`d
go to prison. No
>> amount of informed consent-- no matter how old you were-- could possibly
>> justify it. It`s barbaric. Tens of thousands of people`s lives
were ruined by
>> lobotomies. And everyone recognizes that now. No one`s marching
in defense of
>> "lobotomy-affirming care".
>
>Same with healthy limbs. If you walked into the hospital and asked to
>have your left arm amputated because you identify as disabled and having
>a healthy arm hanging off your body constantly sends conflicting
>messages to your brain, so you need it amputated to resolve your
>dysphoria, the staff would refuse and likely refer you for a psychiatric
>consult as a possible danger to yourself.
>
>And that`s not just an analogy, either. Following fast on the heels of
>the whole trans-testicle fad, we now have perfectly healthy people who
>say they have a dysphoria that makes them identify as disabled and who
>want massive, radical, irreversible, life-endangering surgeries to make
>their bodies conform to how they "feel".
>
>Oh, and they want either the government or insurance companies to be
>forced to pay for it. In other words, one way or the other, you and I
>will be forced to subsidize this utter lunacy, the same way we`re being
>forced to with the troons.
>
>> So, if you defend these gruesome "gender-affirming" procedures on adults,
>> you`re not really saying that adults should be able to do what they want.
>> You`re saying that, yes, people can change their sex if they want. You`re
>> conceding that these procedures-- slicing up a woman`s arm to make a fake
>> penis, lopping off healthy breasts, grafting fake nipples onto patients?
>> chests, et cetera-- are medically reasonable. And in the absence of any kind
>> of statistical data about positive long-term outcomes of these surgeries,
>> you`re trusting the doctors to follow an established standard of
care. You`re
>> assuming they`re not going to just mutilate anyone who walks in the door,
>> without regard for what happens to these people afterwards.
>>
>> The problem is that the entire industry of "gender affirming
care" is a scam.
>> We know that because we just spent weeks investigating the largest providers
>> of so-called "trans healthcare" in the country. We went undercover at one of
>> them.
>>
>> What we found is that there are no real "standards of care" governing any of
>> this. To be clear, there are standards of care on paper, and they`re
>> provided by the transgender activist group WPATH. WPATH`s standards are used
>> by major hospitals in this country, including UCLA, UCSF, and Mass General,
>> just to name a few.
>>
>> How rigorous are these standards, exactly? After a 22-minute video call, the
>> largest "trans healthcare" provider in the country-- carefully following the
>> WPATH guidelines-- approved one of my producers, Gregg Re, for an
>> orchiectomy. That means testicle removal. Now, 22 minutes would be a record
>> time to get approved for an orchiectomy if you had a real medical reason for
>> it, like testicular cancer. It`s insane to approve any serious
procedure that
>> quickly, having just met a patient on a video call for the first time. But
>> that`s what happened.
>
>If I injured myself riding a bike and told the doctor I needed ACL
>surgery, how much you want to bet I`d be subjected to a lot more than 22
>minutes of medical investigation before surgery was approved? And how
>much you want to bet I couldn`t get away with doing it over Zoom? That
>an in-person examination would be required before they started prepping
>the surgical bay?
>
>> We recorded the whole call. At no point did anyone at this health care
>> provider, which is called Plume, push back in any way. They didn`t suggest
>> that maybe this was a rash course of action. They didn`t verify any of the
>> information Gregg provided, including his fake legal name. All Plume did
>> was insist that he pay $150. If Gregg did that, they promised to write him a
>> medically sound letter in support of life-altering surgery. That letter,
>> under the WPATH standards, is required for anyone trying to get transgender
>> surgery in the United States. You have to get one of these letters from a
>> healthcare provider and present it to your surgeon. And Plume rubber-stamped
>> Gregg`s letter in 22 minutes. And not all of that time was spent discussing
>> the surgery, by the way. Some of the conversation was about traffic and the
>> weather.
>
>Sounds like someone needs to go to jail.
>
>> We`ve uploaded footage of the call on Twitter. In this video call, Gregg
>> assumed the name "Chelsea Bussey". He did not dress up as a woman. He didn`t
>> wear any women`s clothing or makeup. He didn`t go to Party City and dye his
>> hair blue. He just told them he identified as a woman and that he was taking
>> hormones prescribed by his father. Gregg couldn`t even pronounce the name of
>> the surgery he wanted, calling it an "orchi-dect-omy". He claimed at one
>> point that the reason he wanted the surgery is that it would speed up his
>> nonexistent transition, which the Plume nurse said didn`t make
any sense from
>> a medical perspective. But none of this raised any red flags for Plume. The
>> nurse told Gregg she wanted to write him the strongest letter she could.
>> Watch:
>>
>> 10/ Plume quickly scheduled Gregg for a video interview anyway. He
>> assumed the identity "Chelsea Bussey". He didn?t even attempt to
>> pass. He badly mispronounced the name of the surgery he wanted. He
>> made it clear he didn`t know what effect the surgery would have.
>> pic.twitter.com/ph8UbM3i6r
>>
>> ? Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 7, 2023
>>
>> 11/ Nevertheless, Plume`s nurse practitioner said she wanted to
>> write the most "solid" letter possible to justify surgery. Gregg
>> tells her that he once wrote an essay in school about being a woman,
>> which everyone thought was ridiculous. pic.twitter.com/iY7Ec3Q1wd
>>
>> ? Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 7, 2023
>>
>> 12/ Gregg also tells Plume`s nurse practitioner that his father has
>> been prescribing him hormones for years. The nurse doesn`t question
>> this in any way. Instead, she says that arrangement is "perfect".
>> pic.twitter.com/YsB4BEkUpu
>>
>> ? Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 7, 2023
>>
>> A couple days after that interview, as we documented on Twitter, Plume sent
>> Gregg a letter diagnosing him with significant and ongoing gender dysphoria.
>> Therefore, Plume said, he was an "appropriate candidate for Orchiectomy".
>> According to Plume, testicle removal would help Gregg make "significant
>> progress" in alleviating his dysphoria. Even after Gregg followed up with
>> text messages to Plume, explaining that he doesn`t have dysphoria, they
>> didn`t retract or amend that letter in any way.
>>
>> 13/ Three days later, Plume sent this letter to "Chelsea Bussey"--
>> who does not exist-- saying he was experiencing "significant, ongoing
>> gender dysphoria". The letter strongly recommended Chelsea for
>> testicle removal. pic.twitter.com/WzIMsjygS6
>>
>> ? Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 7, 2023
>>
>> There`s no excuse for that. Plume had multiple opportunities to tell the
>> truth in their letter, and they chose not to. In his intake form, Gregg
>> indicated he didn`t have dysphoria for 6 months or more. That means, under
>> the current version of the DSM, he never should have been diagnosed with it
>> in the first place. But Plume never once asked Gregg about this in his video
>> interview. Instead they just said he had dysphoria in his letter, which they
>> intended to be used by a surgeon who would then carve up Gregg`s testicles.
>
>I wonder how moviePig feels about this?
>
>> Why didn`t Plume amend the letter once they were made aware
that Gregg didn`t
>> have dysphoria? As Plume`s nurse explained, "in order for the surgery to be
>> paid for," the diagnosis would need to remain. In other words, insurance
>> companies won`t pay for the operation unless the letter contains a diagnosis
>> of gender dysphoria. That`s why Plume uses templates that include the gender
>> dysphoria diagnostic code. It appears that they plug whatever information
>> patients feed them into the template, whether or not those patients actually
>> have the diagnosis. The templates are provided by WPATH, by the way-- Plume
>> admitted that to us.
>
>So it`s not only immoral and life-endangering, but it`s insurance fraud,
>too!
>
>Isn`t all this trans-testicle stuff so wonderful?
>
>> It`s not hard to conclude that this operation is fraudulent, but what do
>> insurers think of it? What`s Aetna and United Healthcare`s
position on paying
>> for surgeries based on cooked-up diagnostic codes? How about Cigna? We
>> understand those insurance companies work directly with Plume. What about
>> David Sacks, whose venture capital firm is one of many that`s funding Plume?
>> What are his thoughts on this? Is he aware this is happening? Those are good
>> questions.
>>
>> But the problem is much bigger than Plume. They`re far from the only ones
>> doing this.
>>
>> Folx, for example, is a major competitor of Plume. They`re in almost every
>> state in the country. They`re also extremely well-funded by venture
>> capitalists. Folx, like Plume, also sells letters that authorize surgeries
>> under the WPATH guidelines. On their website, Folx admits, "It`s quite
>> possible the information in a letter may not be specific to
you. For example,
>> they may use a gender dysphoria diagnosis, but you really do not have
>> dysphoria. You may not fit this diagnostic code exactly, but in some cases,
>> the code is needed in order for insurers to pay for the surgery."
>
>In other words, "We`ll probably have to lie so that we can bilk the
>insurance company for the cost of performing this surgical horror show
>on you."
>
>> We reached out to Folx to ask about this. They confirmed that a
>> "diagnosis"-- in scare quotes-- was necessary in order for insurance
>> companies to pay out.
>>
>> Again, that`s probably news to the insurance companies. But the
bigger issue,
>> of course, is what`s happening to the patients who are mutilated as part of
>> this process. It`s not just Plume and Folx who are authorizing
surgeries like
>> this. There`s a whole network of doctors who crank out these letters. It`s
>> called the Gender Affirmative Letter Access Project, or G.A.L.A.P.
>
>Holy shit. They`ve actually created an official organization whose sole
>purpose is to openly commit insurance fraud.
>
>> Think of the lives these doctors and these companies are destroying for
>> profit. If they`ll approve Gregg for castration, they`ll approve anyone.
>> Many of the luminaries in the field will admit that, by the way. On Twitter,
>> we highlighted this training session from the Juniper Center, which is one
>> of the largest gender therapy practices in the Chicagoland area.
Watch as the
>> licensed clinical social worker, named Ari Groner, explains that she`ll
>> rubber-stamp whatever letter patients want. She says she`ll even authorize a
>> suicidal patient for surgery, because she`s not a "gatekeeper". In fact,
>> Groner says that if her patient is suicidal, that would just make the case
>> for surgery even stronger.
>
>> If you`re defending "gender affirming care" for adults, this is what you`re
>> supporting. You`re saying it`s reasonable for medical professionals
to listen
>> to a suicidal patient, who isn`t thinking clearly, and approve them for
>> surgical castration within minutes. You`re saying there should be
no barriers
>> to this kind of mutilation, whatsoever. At that point, why not bring back
>> lobotomies? What`s the serious, principled argument against it?
>>
>> No serious person can defend this industry. It`s completely corrupted, at
>> every level.
>
>This is why inquiring minds want to know moviePig`s thoughts on this,
>since he (one assumes) considers himself a serious person and he has
>defended this industry in the past.
I am sure FPP will put in his two cents as well.
>> It`s not just targeting children, although it`s certainly doing that as
>> well. The underlying claims and promises of the entire "gender affirmation"
>> industry are lies, and the lies are propped up by even more lies. And we`ll
>> have much more on WPATH soon, and how they became so prominent in this
>> field. It`s a truly disturbing story. Their supposedly rigorous standards
>> of care are purpose-built to be manipulated, as we`ve now revealed.
>>
>> The practical effect of these WPATH standards isn`t to protect patients.
>> Instead, the WPATH standards protect doctors who butcher their patients.
>> These doctors understand that they need to follow some standard of care or
>> else they`ll eventually get sued into the ground for malpractice by the
>> patients they`re disfiguring. So medical providers point to the WPATH
>> standards, and say, "Look, we followed those standards. These gruesome
>> surgeries are in fact legitimate medical care!"
>>
>> Now it`s time to put an end to this. Insurance companies should
cut off these
>> providers. Investors should stop funding this barbarism. And at
the political
>> level, we need laws so that any doctor who mutilates patients, or lies to
>> insurance companies, goes to prison-- regardless of the patients` age.
>> Florida recently passed a law outlawing, among other things, "trans
>> telehealth" services. They require in-person visits for most of these
>> procedures. That`s a start-- which is why the media and the trans-activists
>> are furious about it. They`re probably going to sue to block that portion of
>> the law, just like they blocked the part of the law outlawing child
>> castration yesterday.
>>
>> But once people see the truth about what`s happening, the radical gender
>> activists won`t win that fight. That`s why we published our investigation
>> today. The truth is obvious and undeniable. Now that the "standards of care"
>> have been exposed for what they are, there`s nothing to stop a flood of
>> lawsuits that could shut down these butchers. We saw it in the U.K. with
>> Tavistock. If something like that happens here, it could save tens of
>> thousands of lives.
>>
>> This investigation is just one part of what we have planned for Pride Month.
>> We`re going to expose the full extent of the depravity that you`re told to
>> believe is "medically legitimate". We`re going to show you the truth behind
>> all the euphemisms. We`re going to reveal how exactly activists have managed
>> to hijack the medical profession so they can mutilate patients for profit.
>>
>> This is just the beginning.
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Let`s go Brandon!
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