Posted on 03/05/2024 12:33:33 PM PST by Red Badger
The encore episode of the "Generation Indoctrination" podcast, hosted by Brandon Showalter, delved into the heartrending story of a father fighting against the medicalization of his gender-confused son, revealing the depth of the impact of entrenched gender ideology on family courts, legal systems and medical institutions.
The story of Ted Hudacko, a father from the San Francisco Bay Area, was the focus of the season three bonus episode, titled “A Father Fights Back: How the Family Courts Facilitated The Sterilization Of His Gender-Confused Minor Son.” The story, according to Showalter, epitomizes the struggles many face in the complex and often polarizing issue of gender dysphoria in minors.
Hudacko's ordeal began when his ex-wife, with the backing of doctors at the University of California San Francisco Health Care System, had a hormone-blocking device surgically implanted in their teenage son's arm, initiating him on cross-sex hormones at a cost of over $200,000 billed to Hudacko's insurance. This was done in violation of a court order that required Hudacko's consent for any gender identity-related surgery.
Showalter described this situation as a "multi-headed Hydra," underscoring the complex interplay of various systems in enforcing gender ideology.
The case first gained widespread attention through journalist Abigail Schreier's detailed report in the Manhattan Institute's publication City Journal, which laid bare the ideologically driven actions of court officers that severely limited Hudacko's parental rights and pushed his son toward so-called “gender-affirming care.”
Adding to the complexity, the doctor involved, Stephen Rosenthal, has been reported to receive funding from pharmaceutical companies that produce puberty blockers. He is also a recipient of federal research grants for studies on gender-confused children.
The financial and emotional toll on Hudacko has been immense, he told Showalter. He discovered a charge of over $200,000 on his health insurance statement for the puberty blocker implantation. The realization that his son could be permanently sterilized, without his knowledge or consent, was devastating.
“Doctors told me, ‘Ted, that is really serious. That's really bad. You need to get that removed because your son's going to be permanently sterilized in four months because, in addition to the suppression, the mother had started my son on estrogen, and the two of those in combination will cause sterility,’” he said.
Hudacko's legal representative, Tracy Henderson, outlined the two-fold nature of their legal battle: a family law case addressing the violation of a court order and a federal suit claiming infringement of Hudacko's fundamental rights. The case highlights significant concerns over medical ethics, parental rights and the influence of ideology in the family court system.
Throughout the podcast, the depth of the ideological capture within the judicial system was laid bare. From bizarre courtroom questions to the apparent pre-judgment of cases, Hudacko's experience paints a disturbing picture of a system swayed by a specific set of beliefs.
“Parents navigating the tangled web of gender ideology when the family courts are involved often find themselves calculating what they say and how they say it, given the depth of the ideological capture in the judicial system,” Showalter explained.
The podcast also touched on the broader implications of trans medicalization, including the potential cognitive impact of puberty blockers on children, as discussed by Dr. Sally Baxendale. This aspect of the treatment, often understated in public discourse, Showalter said, raises crucial questions about the long-term effects of these interventions on young minds.
“Many Americans are understandably alarmed that if a child on this pathway is given a combination of puberty-blocking drugs and cross-sex hormones, he or she will almost certainly be rendered permanently sterile. But an undiscussed impact of hormone blockers in children is a sort of freezing effect of the drug on the child's developing brain,” he said.
Baxendale agreed: “How has this been allowed to develop as a treatment, when we know so much about brain development, and stopping puberty and what happens in puberty? We can kind of predict that cognition is going to be really, really important. How has nobody been looking at all of the thousands of patients that have gone through this treatment? It's, I think, a medical scandal,” she said.
As the case continues, with mounting legal fees and ongoing challenges, Showalter said Hudacko's story is a stark reminder of the complexities and controversies surrounding the issue of gender identity in minors. It exposes the entanglement of legal, medical and ideological factors that can profoundly affect families and children, often with irreversible consequences.
“In California, we're in a lot of trouble, and the only way out of it is to not participate,” Henderson said. “You have to not use the language. Boys cannot become girls. Girls cannot become boys. I don't care what anybody says. You need a therapist if you think so. If you're a parent that believes that, you need help, and that's it. You cannot participate … for the most basic level, you just cannot participate in this.”
To learn more about efforts to protect children from trans medicalization in California, check out ProtectKidsCA.com.
Ping!.....................
“ Adding to the complexity, the doctor involved, Stephen Rosenthal…”
I’d pay him a little late night visit.
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This is driven almost exclusively by women, for some reason.
Sexual weirdos are NOT harmless...
It is a form of Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy..................
Rope.
Tree.
Perverts.
Some assembly required.
This sort of perversion will continue until it becomes dangerous for the perpetrators.
The father himself obviously already is a capon, else he already would have spirited his son away to somewhere this wouldn’t be possible.
Baseball bat with ten penny nails.................
Leftism is a death cult. Abortion, contraception, mutilation, faggotry, environmentalism, animal-fetishism ... their ideologies are profoundly anti-human.
No it isn’t.
“In California, we’re in a lot of trouble, and the only way out of it is to not participate,” Henderson said. “You have to not use the language. Boys cannot become girls. Girls cannot become boys. I don’t care what anybody says. You need a therapist if you think so. If you’re a parent that believes that, you need help, and that’s it. You cannot participate … for the most basic level, you just cannot participate in this.”
Delusion Will Never Defeat Biology!
Today’s culture of affirmation is mere delusion and mental illness that is doing a disservice to addressing the mental health needs of children. Now people are identifying as Cats and Dogs.
TORRANCE STEPHENS, PHD, FEB 25, 2024
When a person has or maintains a false belief or judgment about overt and objective external reality, and holds such views in defiance despite unquestionable authentication to the contrary, clinicians and therapists appropriately describe this as delusion and reflective of some form of mental disorder. Delusions are beliefs that are plainly untrue and that indicate an abnormality in the affected person’s content of thought. More problematic is these individuals are positively assured that the delusion is real.
From a mental health perspective, delusions may be indicative of multiple mental disorders including but not limited to Psychotic disorders, substance-induced psychotic disorder, Bipolar disorder, Major depressive disorder, delusional disorder, schizophreniform disorder, shared psychotic disorders, brief psychotic disorder, and several others. Typically these refer to individuals who show a diminished or distorted sense of reality resulting in the inability to tell what is real from what is unreal.
If identifying yourself as clown gender isn’t a sign of sever mental disorder then nothing is.
Delusion Will Never Defeat Biology!
Hudacko's ordeal began when his ex-wife, with the backing of doctors at the University of California San Francisco Health Care System, had a hormone-blocking device surgically implanted in their teenage son's arm,
Every article I have ever seen on any incident like this, has the father protecting his children, and the estranged wife perpetrating the perverted sexual violence with the connivance of the court system.
Twenty years from now, people will look back and this time and just shake their heads at the madness.
And they aren’t doing that, then it means we have descended into a Dark Age that will last centuries.
And now you know, boys and girls, why there is such a push to operate and medicate these children. IT'S A NEW REVENUE STREAM and you are a TRANSPHOBE if you object.
To quote Maha Rushi, follow the money.
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Stephen Rosenthal, MD
Professor
Pediatrics
stephen.rosenthal@ucsf.edu
+1 415 476-2266
Dr. Stephen M. Rosenthal is co-founder and medical director
of the multidisciplinary UCSF Child and Adolescent Gender Center (CAGC), where he cares for young transgender patients.
He also cares for pediatric patients with endocrine disorders, such as abnormalities involving thyroid function or growth and puberty. He previously served as program director for pediatric endocrinology and director of the pediatric endocrinology clinics.
Rosenthal has conducted numerous multicenter clinical trials (studies that evaluate promising new treatments using human subjects). He is one of four principal investigators for “The Impact of Early Medical Treatment in Transgender Youth,” a multicenter study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He has published many papers on the care of transgender youths in scholarly journals, such as Pediatrics and the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. He was an appointed author of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s updated standards of care. He also directs a collaboration between the CAGC and the San Francisco Department of Public Health to develop community outreach services for gender-diverse youths.
Rosenthal earned his medical degree from the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, where he also completed a residency in pediatrics. He completed a fellowship in pediatric endocrinology at UCSF.
An active member of the Pediatric Endocrine Society, Rosenthal has served as its president and on multiple committees. He also serves on the board of directors for the Endocrine Society. When that international organization created a task force to revise guidelines on care of transgender patients, he served as the Pediatric Endocrine Society’s official representative and as a co-author.
Rosenthal feels fortunate to work in gender health and to be part of a dedicated care team. An avid figure skater outside of work, he has participated in adult competitions both nationally and internationally.
Interests: gender non-conforming/transgender youth and adolescents, gender, transgender
Can you think of any cases where it was the father, against the wishes of the mother, who forced their son or daughter to transition?
Bkmk.
The good doctor needs a new Maserati...............
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