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IN-DEPTH: Misdiagnosis of Gender Dysphoria in Patient With Mental Health Issues Led to Reassignment Surgery
Epoch Times ^ | 5/20/23 | Matt McGregor

Posted on 05/20/2023 1:29:29 PM PDT by CFW

By the time Richard Anumene was approved for gender reassignment surgery, he had accumulated a litany of mental health problems his attorney argues should have disqualified him from the procedure.

Still, in March 2021, Anumene—who had changed his name to Rika Ila Abbir—underwent a series of operations that left him with what some call only an imitation of female sex organs and a sinking feeling of regret for the now 28-year-old.

“At the heart of this is nothing short of an atrocity,” Anumene’s attorney Dan Watkins told The Epoch Times.

Watkins is the founder of Declare Truth, a grassroots movement of citizens in California who advocate for religious and medical freedom.

Declare Truth offers legal support to those who have suffered from firings due to COVID-19 vaccine mandates, the malpractice of COVID-19 hospital protocols, and complications related to gender reassignment surgeries.

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: bigpharma; bigprofit; malpractice; medicalcomplex; medicalmalfeasance; medicalmalpractice; mentalillness; mutilation; physicians; trans; transcrazies
More and more of these abused patients are going to file lawsuits against the physicians and hospitals who recommended or performed these surgeries. It's my hope that malpractice insurance companies will soon refuse to cover those that perform such life-altering and harming procedures.
1 posted on 05/20/2023 1:29:29 PM PDT by CFW
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Mental health requires the acceptance of reality. Pandering to a person's delusions is not mental health. If anything, it's abuse of a vulnerable person. It is abuse of a vulnerable person in order to promote a political ideology.

2 posted on 05/20/2023 1:35:57 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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It’s time to ban “reassignment” surgery. Just because someone wants it does not mean it should be legal. If someone wanted his or her eyes gouged out should they be able to approach a surgeon and ask for their eyes to be surgically removed ?


3 posted on 05/20/2023 1:43:16 PM PDT by libh8er
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Why is it ok to remove a penis but not eyes ?


4 posted on 05/20/2023 1:44:20 PM PDT by libh8er
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Riky has likely been a little headstrong. He may regret what happened, but he needs to understand his person was not put on ice until a change of mind. It’s gone.


5 posted on 05/20/2023 1:46:58 PM PDT by healy61 (.)
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I hope so too.


6 posted on 05/20/2023 1:52:23 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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You’d have to be mentally ill to want to have your schmanky removed?


7 posted on 05/20/2023 1:54:26 PM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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That’s coming.
Just like decriminalized man boy sex is coming


8 posted on 05/20/2023 1:56:25 PM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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The patient either consented or she/he/it didn’t.

If consent was given - you got what you wanted - be careful what you ask for.


9 posted on 05/20/2023 1:57:25 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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It's my hope that malpractice insurance companies will soon refuse to cover those that perform such life-altering and harming procedures.

Any doctor performing these procedures should be financially ruined for life and have their licenses to practice medicine revoked.

10 posted on 05/20/2023 2:03:41 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (5,181,324 Truth | 87,174,230 Twitter)
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Naaaaaaaaaaw.

You mean they give medical licenses to stupid PhDs ‘practicing’ mental health, too?

Whooda thunk.

/s


11 posted on 05/20/2023 2:08:25 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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One of the huge problems with gender dysphoria diagnosis..not so hard but surgery and wait times I remember they had to go through a real life test that lasted two years( quite a few suicides), all sorts of psych testing and evaluation with groups, MMPI’s, social psychology( environmental and social) and of course weeding out other possible illnesses.

Now? Now the clinics just set up online ZOOM once or twice a month and hand out hormones like it’s candy without deep evaluations or much background, if any.

It’s atrocious and quite literally a killer. Glad I’m out of the psych nursing field.


12 posted on 05/20/2023 2:08:30 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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Because you can still reproduce if you’re blind. It’s not like elites haven’t been talking about culling the population for at least half a century.


13 posted on 05/20/2023 2:19:24 PM PDT by packagingguy
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“….that left him with what some call only an imitation of female sex organs…”

What SOME call???!!! The author is nuts too.


14 posted on 05/20/2023 2:36:08 PM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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And the Epoch Times contributes to the problem by mislabeling the surgery as “gender reassignment surgery” when accurately it’s “genital mutilation surgery”. But I guess they’d rather be oh-so hip than accurate.


15 posted on 05/20/2023 3:51:19 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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Thanks to the Good Lord for including DNA in His plans for creating us humans.

Those who seek to violate God’s rules will find much sorrow. This is a good example.

XX will always be XX.
XY will always be XY.
Thank God!


16 posted on 05/20/2023 3:57:11 PM PDT by upchuck (Never iron a four leaf clover. You don't want to press your luck! )
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As far as I’m concerned, f you are over 18 and you have not been judged incompetent in court, then you should be able to do as you please with your own body as long as it does not involve a minor or an unwilling adult-but you can’t cry foul and sue if you don’t like the results after all-maybe people would think a little longer before getting chopped, drugged, etc if they were legally liable for their own actions-play stupid games, win stupid prizes...


17 posted on 05/20/2023 4:22:55 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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