This is not a surprise, but since the media decided it was okay to promote that hormone therapy is safe (we all know it isn't!) it is nice to know that finally media is speaking up about this. People, when it comes to media ALWAYS do your research. Any corporate backed up company dailymail, NY Times and so on..) are paid to write, they don't always write the truth news. Sites like saltyvixenstories.com, dailywire and so on, we will do the research for you, to get the truth out there for you!
A physician who helped pioneer transgender hormone treatments for children in Europe is now speaking out about the dangers of medicalizing gender-distressed children.
Dr. Riittakerttu Kaltiala, 58, is the chief adolescent psychiatrist at Finland’s Tampere University Hospital. In 2011, she was put in charge of Tampere’s new youth gender clinic, making her one of the first physicians in the world to lead a clinic devoted to gender-distressed youth.
However, Kaltiala had concerns about the so-called “affirming” model of transgender treatment from the start, and now she is warning about the dangers of affirming children’s new gender identities and green-lighting medical intervention.
“I had some serious questions about all this,” Kaltiala wrote in an op-ed in The Free Press published Monday.
“We were being told to intervene in healthy, functioning bodies simply on the basis of a young person’s shifting feelings about gender,” she wrote.
When the youth gender clinic began services, Kaltiala said they expected to see a small number of boys who had persistently declared they were girls. Instead, they saw “droves” of patients, 90% of whom were girls aged 15 to 17, and many of them had “severe psychiatric conditions” she said.
Some of the girls had family issues, and “many” were on the autism spectrum, Kaltiala said. In addition, many had suddenly announced their gender dysphoria in adolescence.
“Now they were coming to us because their parents, usually just mothers, had been told by someone in an LGBT organization that gender identity was their child’s real problem, or the child had seen something online about the benefits of transition,” she said.
Soon after the clinic began offering transgender hormone treatments for youth, Kaltiala and her colleagues began to see that the “miracle we had been promised was not happening.”
“What we were seeing was just the opposite,” Kaltiala said. “The young people we were treating were not thriving. Instead, their lives were deteriorating,” including the youth becoming socially isolated.
