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“My contention is that the psychiatric perspective on homosexuality is but a thinly disguised replica of the religious perspective which it displaced, and that efforts to 'treat' this kind of conduct medically are but thinly disguised methods for suppressing it.”

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Book:The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement

Source: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement

“There are children, right now, who will never be able to experience orgasms as adults because their puberty was blocked when they were very young. Many of them will be sterile, as well. There is no way they could have consented to these losses at the age of eight, nine, ten, or eleven. And far more won't discover until years later how these brutal interventions predisposed them to the disease that typically affect those much older, such as diabetes, heart disease, liver disease, osteoporosis, and reproductive system atrophy. They, too, are currently barred from seeking justice due to their states' statute of limitations on medical malpractice.”

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Book:Sacrificial Lambs: A Liberal Reporter Exposes How the Progressive Left Harms Children in the Name of Gender Ideology

Source: Sacrificial Lambs: A Liberal Reporter Exposes How the Progressive Left Harms Children in the Name of Gender Ideology

“As a mom, I feel compelled to ask questions. Why are girls demanding the drug testosterone in skyrocketing numbers? Why are so many young girls and women getting mastectomies? What is happening when the young woman’s scarred mastectomy chest is glorified? Why is there a new industry profiting from removing any traces of femininity of our daughters? Why is this drastic medicalized trend rushed, creating a destructive trans train that roars fast and furious, ignoring the whole person, their history, and their family?”

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Book:The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

Source: The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

“I will ask over and over until I die why doctors, therapists, school educators, and counselors are not looking deeply at the individual in front of them and creating a treatment plan with options that heal trauma, offer tools and adaptive coping strategies to navigate their emotional life, and address underlying mental issues before placing that young person on a rapid medicalization pathway that ignores complex dynamics of their personality and experiences.”

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Book:The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

Source: The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

“Asked again to peel back our scabs, to bare our festering places, hanging our heads over the blood. We were not asked who had cut us, or why the injuries went uncleaned.”

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Book:The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders

Source: The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders

“I am against the rush to medicalize our children and young people to present as the opposite sex when they are confused or when other conditions such as autism are misattributed as trans.”

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Book:The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

Source: The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

“When I look at the US now, I am devastated and angry that we live in a country that supports the narrative that it is okay to medicalize young girls and women by prescribing testosterone and performing mastectomies as a first response to the girls’ gender confusion, stress, or mental health concerns.”

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Book:The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

Source: The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

“There is a significant lack of evidence that cross-sex hormones and surgical procedures, such as mastectomies, that attempt to chemically and cosmetically alter biological sex are effective solutions to young women’s difficulties. Transgender medicalization is an experiment that might have dire consequences on the future of our children and society.”

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Book:The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

Source: The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

“My experience as a parent whose young adult daughter needed time, exploration of treatment options, and healing of multiple issues but instead clambered aboard the medicalized trans train has led me to feel like I’m in a tortured dream state.”

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Book:The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

Source: The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

“Even when raised by a loving parent, a young adult may be influenced to the point of hopping on the fast-moving trans train and leaving the loving family behind.”

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Book:The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

Source: The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

“The biggest decision of a young person’s life, to present themselves as the opposite sex, needs time and thorough investigation of the root causes prompting the request for drastic measures of drugs and permanent surgery to remove healthy body parts.”

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Book:The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

Source: The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

“When a drastic and rushed medicalization approach based on trending controversial ideology is presented as the only option to solve the emotional, psychological, or physical discomfort of our kids, then we have failed to help the younger generation set themselves up for future health and well-being.”

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Book:The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

Source: The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology