Last night Prime Time aired a special report about so-called ‘gender affirming care’ in which leading clinicians Dr. Donal O’Shea and Dr. Paul Moran spoke of how their concerns were “consistently ignored” by the HSE.
Both doctors – who are Ireland’s two most experienced experts in the area – say that the HSE is being led by ‘trans activists’ while pursuing an “ideological model of care”.
In recent weeks they have taken the unprecedented step of lodging a formal complaint against the HSE to health standards watchdog HIQA saying the HSE is not adhering to evidence-based care in the treatment of children expressing gender identity confusion saying children are being referred for ‘unsafe’ and ‘harmful’ treatments.
These are allegations the HSE denies.
The pair repeatedly flagged dangers in the way Irish children were being sent abroad to undergo ‘treatments’ at the now disgraced NHS Tavistock clinic with Moran telling Prime Time that these concerns were “consistently ignored” and that the HSE “showed no interest” .
Not only were their concerns ignored, but the HSE went as far as to make a complaint about Dr. Moran for an alleged breach of data protection after he shared details of an audit with another senior HSE clinician.
During the program RTÉ spoke to de-transitionsers whose stories were featured on Gript in recent months.
Regular readers will be well aware of the issues surrounding so-called ‘trans health care’ which in many cases sees vulnerable children led down a path where professionals simply agree with bizarre notions like having been ‘born in the wrong body’.
In my view, this is more or less the same in principle as telling a person suffering with anorexia that they are indeed ‘fat’ and offering them assistance in losing more weight.
This ‘gender affirming’ model is lauded by trans activists like some of those featured in the RTÉ program.
That Donal O’Shea and Paul Moran, who are actual medical professionals, have said the HSE is effectively taking cues from activists – most of whom do not appear to have medical qualifications – is deeply disturbing in this writer’s opinion and shows blatant disregard for the safety of children.
As GP Dr. Madeline Ní Dhálaigh told Prime Time, Countries like Sweden, Finland, France, and Denmark are “saying stop”
Noting that the above states are “not noted to be socially conservative,” Ní Dhálaigh said these countries are “looking at the evidence” and changing their model of care.
Shockingly, during the program a male transgender activist who was named as ‘Niamh Ní Féinead’ claimed that assisting children down a path that may lead to irreversible medical transition is much the same as “supporting a child who wants to learn a language or instrument,”
No it’s not.
Niamh, who is a member of Trans Healthcare Action, also argued that children should be allowed to choose their own treatment plan….
Until about 5 minutes ago the idea that adolescents might feel uncomfortable with their changing bodies was about as normal as having cake on your birthday. There was nothing about it that prompted medication or surgery.
I didn’t feel comfortable in my body from about the age of 12 and I thought that growing up – and all that comes with it for a girl – would mean that I could no longer be myself. I felt frightened by that.
Back then if a professional had offered me a pill with the promise that it would give me ‘time to think’ I would have wanted it. Today those pills are called puberty blockers and over 90% of kids who go on them also go on cross sex hormones.
Taking cross sex hormones has irreversible side effects for girls. According to Irish psychotherapist Stella O’Malley there has been a staggering 4,000% increase in the number of young girls expressing gender dysphoria over the past few years.
As little as three months on testosterone can cause a girl’s voice to permanently deepen to a male pitch. Testosterone causes masculinisation of the face, male pattern baldness, as well as other serious medical complications.
It does not turn a girl into a boy. Nor does synthetic oestrogen turn a boy into a girl. Biological sex is immutable.
A senior child psychiatrist told The Guardian that, “In the last five to 10 years we’ve seen a huge surge in young women who, at the age of around 12 or 13, want to become boys. They’ve changed their name and they are pressing … to have hormones or puberty blockers”
This is not normal and the push by trans activists to simply ‘affirm’ these children and lead them down a path of – in many cases- irreversible medical transition has rightly been described as the greatest medical scandal of our time.
Trans rights activist Niamh bizarrely compared ‘gender affirming ‘surgery to having one’s appendix removed saying that nobody has ongoing medical consultation before undergoing an appendectomy.
This writer begs to differ. Removing healthy parts of the body in a vain attempt to change sex is in no way similar to emergency surgery to remove infected tissue which if left untreated can cause death.
Dr. Madeline Ní Dhálaigh said “one child who is medically transitioned inappropriately is a disaster for that child,”
It seems like the ‘trans-activist led’ HSE wishes to keep its eyes shut. But the compelling evidence of these senior experts – and the complaint they have made to HIQA cannot be ignored.