Transgender thread

[Anonymous]

Jeff,
I see you took my thread down. I actually did not see it going off its main topic at all.
I wrote the thread because, as a doctor, I am seeing a whole lot of patients directing their care in very dangerous ways. This transgender issue is one that I discuss frequently with my colleagues. More and more, practitioners are feeing powerless to deny care as patients request it. The internet feeds into this. People are getting directions online about how to ask for certain drugs, what to say to the doctor and so on. We are aware of it.
The documentary scared me. To see young people demanding that their parents take them to a certain clinic, or else.
I want my kids to live in a world of inclusion, but on another level, not everything we want or want to be is realistic or good for us.
Many other conditions that I will not list here are on a similar crash course, where little good could come from what we are doing.

[jsteele]

I am not sure how a discussion of ADHD fits into the topic of whether or not transgender culture is becoming a cult. More importantly, there were several messages toward the end (which I removed) discussing Caitlyn Jenner and which pronouns should be used. We have plenty of Caitlyn Jenner threads already and certainly don't need another.

The broader topic you describe above is interesting, but you are probably overly-optimistic to think such a discussion could evolve from a topic with the subject line you chose.

[Anonymous]

OP (the doctor), please start a new thread! We'll do our best to behave, Jeff.

[Anonymous]

I would love to have the conversation the OP is discussing - SEPARATE from transgender discussions.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:I am not sure how a discussion of ADHD fits into the topic of whether or not transgender culture is becoming a cult. More importantly, there were several messages toward the end (which I removed) discussing Caitlyn Jenner and which pronouns should be used. We have plenty of Caitlyn Jenner threads already and certainly don't need another.

The broader topic you describe above is interesting, but you are probably overly-optimistic to think such a discussion could evolve from a topic with the subject line you chose.

Agree about the Caitlyn thing, and I posted the line about the thread being about children, rather than adults.
The list of overly medicated conditions includes ADD/ADHD (fairly undisputed in the clinical world), pain conditions with narcotics, anxiety disorders, childhood allergies, childhood insomnia, and others. What concerned me is that this transgender movement could result in PERMANENT harm to children
I intentionally used the word cult, i.e. obsession with, fixation on, mania for...watch the documentary. Not sure what Frontline's goals were, but to me, it was totally irresponsible.