Posted on 04/12/2023 7:10:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“This isn’t the first time that medicine has lost its way.”
Jennifer Lahl knows a thing or two about medicine: after spending 20 years in clinical nursing, she is the founder and president of the Center for Bioethics and Culture, which works to help educate the public about the day’s most pressing bioethical issues.
Nowadays, however, that usually involves the topic of transgenderism.
“I mean, think back to what doctors were doing at Nuremberg, during Nazi Germany,” Lahl said during CP’s Generation Indoctrination conference. “Think about the Tuskegge studies that were done for several decades in the United States on men with syphilis. … So this isn’t the first time that we’re witnessing a moment in time, a moment in history, where medicine has lost its way. “
Lahl said since her days in nursing, the medical profession — and the relationships it represents — has been completely transformed.
Whereas traditionally the profession involved a relationship between doctors and patients, Lahl said now in the Google era, doctors have become “healthcare providers,” while patients are now “clients” or customers.”
“That was a big shift in our view of medical professionalism,” she said. “We used to believe, you know, ‘doctor knows best,’ and we’ve sort of swung the pendulum to the other side, so now the consumer knows best.”
That shift has always displaced what Lahl called the “trusted covenantal relationship” between doctor and patient to one which simply provides a service.
“Now we’ve become consumers of medicine,” said Lahl. “I walk in, I show up, I say, ‘Doctor, I’ve done the Google search, here’s what I want, here’s what I have ...”
Another factor, according to Lahl, is that medical ethics is no longer required in med school, the result of what she described as a medical field now beholden to politics rather than science.
“Medicine — like academics, like the media, like the cultural elites — has been captured,” she said.
That includes body mutilating sex-change operations, or what are known in trans-identified communities as “gender-affirming procedures,” which Lahl said are increasingly being marketed to minors, and parents are granting their consent to such procedures.
Lahl explored this dynamic in a 2022 documentary The Detransition Diaries, which recounts the stories of three young women who mistakenly believed that their trauma and gender dysphoria would be solved by attempting to medically transition from female to male.
It’s important, Lahl said, to make a distinction between someone who is a de-transitioner versus someone who would be more accurately identified as a desister.
“A desister is somebody who never took medical hormones, never did any surgery,” she explained. “They thought they were born in the wrong body, so they changed their name. They were Suzie, now they go by Tom.
They were ‘she/her,’ now they go by ‘him/them,’ they cut their hair short ... that’s a desister,” she added.
De-transitioners, on the other hand, are those who took the extra step of medical treatment and then later regretted it.
“These people are young children, young adolescents, young adults who have all kinds of co-morbidities, they have childhood trauma, maybe they were sexually abused,” Lahl explained.
“These are troubled young people, these are vulnerable young people, because we live in this toxic environment where we’ve told people they can change sex and we’ve told them this will help you, these young, now de-transitioners, have bought into that lie.”
Lahl pointed to the physical harm that many face during the transition process by taking medications that the female/male body was never meant to have and undergoing surgeries that cause “all kinds of complications.”
“We would need no medical training whatsoever to know that when you start doing surgeries and start taking things off the body that are normal and healthy, maybe things don’t go right,” she added.
These complications, Lahl explained, also typically fail to solve the underlying issues that drove these now de-transitioners to transition in the first place.
“What happens is all those problems that were never addressed — the trauma, the depression, the autism — all those issues were never dealt with, so they do all this, and you know what? They don’t feel any better,” she said. “It didn’t work.”
It’s that failure that underpins Lahl’s own personal conviction that transgenderism isn’t simply a political or cultural tool, but one that is satanic in its origins.
“I don't believe in transgenderism,” she said. “I think that’s a lie from the devil.”
Somebody’s getting rich from this.
ALWAYS follow the money. Butchering children has become an industry unto itself, led by the tranny agenda.
It NEVER ends well for the children.
Government has gotten so large it controls everything. The physicians are at the mercy of the hospitals who receive much of their money from the government.
Genderism is a doctrine of demons.
I encountered this last year when I went to see a new doctor in town. The medical forms had questions about things such as my preferred pronouns, my sexuality and my gender identity. I left them all blank. It was my first and last time visiting that doctor.
Surgeons, urologists, urogynecologists: Evil, sociopathic, greedy.
Anesthesiologists: Wimps, but don't sell them short: Greedy too.
Shrinks: Absolutely no moral compass. Extremely poor judgment, not a lick of sense. Crazy.
These are the essential character flaws enabling this catastrophe.
Another medical fad to deal with.
200 years ago it was blowing tobacco smoke up the rectum to calm a patient.
100 years ago it was implanting Goat testicles into men to make the virile again.
70 years ago it was lobotomies to make people more mild.
50 years ago it was giving boys Ritalin to make them less masculine.
Now it is sex changes.
So it appears the medical profession is back again blowing smoke.
If I go in for my annual Medicare physical and I come out with a vagina, I’m gonna be pissed.
Bkmk
>> This isn’t the first time that medicine has lost its way.
The medical community is a cult replete with unethical, self-deceiving cowards.
The trannies and tranny-huggers are so violent against ANYONE who disagrees with them that they won’t even listen to the explanations as to why it is WRONG.
IOW - they are married (LOL) to the notion that they are the only ones who can see reality. And they, therefore, believe that everyone who thinks otherwise is blind and unfeeling.
It is very difficult to peacefully co-exist with someone who insists that you embrace and enforce lies. But that is what is being figuratively rammed down the throats of perhaps 98% of the population.
Even those who might say, “I don’t have an opinion.” are told they must take a side.
Parents, please find a way to keep your children out of the public schools.
Dr’s and hospitals are
Lots of followup $$$ for Dr’s
Big bucks for the hospitals for the loping off of body parts
Twitter ^ | 5:33 AM · Apr 14, 2023 | Elon Musk:
@elonmusk:
Any parent or doctor, who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult, should go to prison for life!
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