Posted on 10/09/2022 10:18:59 PM PDT by Morgana
A local Nashville paper recently ran an op-ed in support of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s (VUMC) pediatric transgender clinic, which commits genital and chemical mutilations on kids.
The op-ed said residents were “lucky” to have the facility in town – the exact kind of language you’d expect from a paid spokeswoman for the university. While the spokeswoman for Vanderbilt made it sound like the clinic provides altruistic, loving care, in reality it’s all about the money, as exposed by Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh.
But the publication, the Nashville Scene, did not disclose that Betsy Phillips, the author, works in marketing for Vanderbilt University’s publishing arm, Vanderbilt University Press. The university is legally separate but works in partnership with VUMC.
Patrick Rodgers, the editor-in-chief, did not respond to an email Tuesday morning that asked about the lack of a disclosure, nor did Phillips.
“Everything else from today aside, I’m surprised to see how many people don’t know the university and the hospital are two separate entities,” she tweeted yesterday evening.
READ: Explosive report reveals Vanderbilt promoted transgender surgeries to make ‘huge money’
But her role as a spokeswoman means she presumably represents or could represent people who work at Vanderbilt University and are affiliated with the medical center.
For example, Walsh’s reporting uncovered that Professor Ellen Clayton warned that medical professionals who objected to the transgender surgeries could face consequences. Clayton is both a law and medical professor at Vanderbilt University. “Don’t work at Vanderbilt,” if you do not want to mutilate kids, Clayton said.
Phillips acknowledges harms from transgenderism, but says that’s just part of life
Phillips herself acknowledged that many kids who have their reproductive abilities permanently severed or get injected with hormones that can lead to serious medical complications, will regret it. She compares this to letting kids play football.
“This should go without saying, but we let kids make permanent, life-altering decisions that hurt them all the time. It’s called ‘football,’” Phillips wrote. “If you have top surgery and later regret it, that’s a hell of a lot easier to repair than a brain riddled with chronic traumatic encephalopathy.”
“We see what happens to people with CTE — the memory loss, the suicides, the violence against family members — and we all know it’s caused by bashing your head, and how many of us spend our weekends watching kids bash their heads,” she asked.
The paid spokeswoman for Vanderbilt wrote that “[p]art of being a teen — one of the scary parts of being a teen — is that they will make grown-up decisions with grown-up repercussions without the perspective that comes with being a grown-up.”
“And some of those decisions will be hard to live with. This is why we are lucky as a community to have a pediatric transgender clinic in town,” she wrote. “We have a place where kids who are dealing with huge decisions with far-reaching implications can speak with medical professionals. They can find support and have their questions answered. They can hear from adults who have perspective they don’t have.”
But credential medical professionals have warned about the harms of transgender surgeries and drugs, including in children.
California endocrinologist Dr. Michael Laidlaw previously warned that females who take puberty blockers could set themselves up later in life for risky pregnancies, due to their pelvis not fully developing.
“When puberty blockers are used on a young girl, along with the drop in bone density relative to her peers, her pelvis will be ‘frozen’ in a childlike configuration,” Dr. Laidlaw explained. “It is not known if stopping puberty blockers by a certain age might still allow a window of opportunity for the female pelvis to reach optimal configuration for birth.”
RELATED: 5 men and women harmed by ‘trans’ surgeries share mental health struggles
“A pelvis that is not optimally configured for birth could put mother and baby at increased risk for obstructed labor,” he warned, as part of an extensive review on the research into transgender drugs and surgeries.
Furthermore, three medical school professors, based on a review of available data on transgenderism and mental health, concluded that “it would not seem prudent to embrace hormonal treatments and sex reassignment as the foremost therapeutic tools for treating this condition.”
“While there is much that is not known with certainty about gender dysphoria, there is clear evidence that patients who identify as the opposite sex often suffer a great deal. They have higher rates of anxiety, depression, and even suicide than the general population,” Washington University School of Medicine professor Dr. Paul Hruz wrote, along with Johns Hopkins’ psychiatrists Dr. Lawrence Mayer and Dr. Paul McHugh.
Part if being a parent is protecting a child from making terrible decisions that literally cut them off from being involved in humanity.
Reminds me of that epic episode of "Better Call Saul" wherein Saul Goodman defends a trio of teenagers who had broken into a mortuary at midnight and videotaped themselves "skull-f*cking" a "client."
He used the "boys will be boys" argument.
The prosecuting attorney, in turn, wordlessly turned on the videotape machine and played the video to the jurors.
Guess who won the case!
Regards,
Back in 1964 when Tennessee went for LBJ, Nashville went for Goldwater like the deep South did. The 1968 graduating class of West End High School had all clean-cut students and they still had a rod and gun club in that public school.
Nowadays, Nashville is one of the liberal parts of Tennessee. Vanderbilt has been a lost cause for decades. The University was ahead of the curve in getting rid of Confederate names and erasing history. Back when Dr. Barney Brooks ran things at Vanderbilt Hospital, they worked on serious and necessary surgeries. Their first neurosurgeon was Cobb Pilcher who was a friend of the famous sports writers Fred Russell and Grantland Rice. Rice, a Vanderbilt alumnus, penned the words, “... For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, he writes not that you won or lost but how you played the game.” The problem today at Vanderbilt is that few believe in the “One Great Scorer”. Instead, they believe what the trendy set believe.
If they truly believed the crap they spout, they would also agree that teens can smoke and drink, since teens make bad choices..Here are 2 more...They would never, ever advocate for smoking an drinking...at least not publicly....
If people think young people (under the age of 16) are wise to make life decisions, then maybe the endorsement should occur with allowing 10-year old kids to have a driver’s license, buy smokes or booze, sign up with the Army, or marry.
It’s one thing to let them make bad decisions that are valuable in teaching life’s lessons that will not cause permanent harm.
This is a totally different level and it IS part of a parent’s job to protect their children from making foolish, life altering/damaging decisions that they are not mature enough to make on their own.
They are teens, for crying out loud. That almost qualifies them for being mentally ill. Something about all those hormones interferes with rational thought.
Oh hell just go shoot up heroin then
Child mutilation is evil, and those sanctioning it should be tried and imprisoned.
Author of op-ed supporting Vanderbilt transgender clinic fails to disclose her role as university spokeswoman Argues that ‘part of being a teen’ is being allowed to make bad decisions, even if that includes cutting off healthy body parts.
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WRONG moron
‘part of being an ADULT’ is being allowed to make bad decisions.
‘part of being a parent’ is to make sure you children are punished for making bad decisions so they learn accountability and critical thinking.
Exactly! THIS is why responsible parents carefully the activities that are appropriate for children.
My kids were not allowed to date until after 16, were not allowed to get a tattoo, smoke, drink alcohol (other than the occasional sip of wine or beer), curse, etc. etc.
Behaviors (decisions) have consequences. Good parents protect their offspring from the consequences of bad ones; and they certainly don’t encourage them.
“Primum Non Nocere”
Sure sounds like the musings of another lunatic liberal white woman.
Looks like that rag that doesn’t believe in full disclosure is owned by a property company there in Nashville...
My, what a can of worms this could open.
“Primum Non Nocere”
Only applies to Deep State.
The rest of us are just more of Fauci’s beagles.
After the Mid-Terms, Vandy can go back to the status quo. Tennessee might be solid red, but the governor and legislature are solid RINO.
I fondly remember my teen years when I cut off my penis, wore dresses, and went by Tina…
Even a tattoo (one of the dumbest teen decisions) can be removed. A sex-change in most cases cannot be undone. Certainly not a cutadikfrome.
A large part of being a parent is setting boundaries and saying NO!
Can kids now get their ears pierced without parental permission yet?
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