Another local psychiatrist put it on. He is the medical lead for the region in both the areas of developmental disability (i.e. autism and intellectual disability) and now transgender issues. I know this psychiatrist pretty well, he is actually a decent person, so this was doubly shocking.
He came to the hospital where I practice and presented for about 1.5 hours. There was only a small audience.
I attended out of sheer curiosity, to see what the medical "position" is on this subject.
The presentation was almost purely political... hardly medical at all.
It introduced "correct speak" and impassioned pleas for affirmation and safe spaces.
It was practically a political cartoon.
Then he went on to speak enthusiastically about the increased access to hormone therapy and surgery for minors....
With the impassioned plea not to place barriers to these "therapies" as "patients are suffering".
I actually interjected at one point to clarify that these are not in fact "therapies", to which he confusingly agreed, despite the fact that he had labelled the slide with the title" therapies".
No one seemed to understand what I was getting at.
It was actually sickening.
