6 Informed Consent Opportunities
There are at least 6 informed consent opportunities when considering the overall transitioning of a minor. Most of this material we learned form Dr. Melanie Crites-Bachert and she can be heard discussing this in great and graphic detail in Episode 100 of The Therapy Disruptors podcast. Let's jump in.
The 6 Informed Consent Opportunities are: Parental, Social Transitioning, Mental Health Counselors, Hormone Manipulation, Cross-Sex Hormones, Surgical Transition. Let's look at each stage.
Stage #1: Parental Consent
Parents are the first and last line of defense when it comes to protecting our children. Our kids are assaulted from multiple angles: through social media, at school, neighborhood contacts, at church and through extracurricular activities. It is the parent's job to make sure the messages their child are receiving are "parent-approved". It's not as simple as it used to be to protect our kids but if the wrong message gets through to them and the parent does not put a stop to it then they have consented to that idea by default. Do not consent by default to harmful ideologies.
Stage #2: Social Transitioning
A failure to properly screen the messages a child receives at the parental level allows the social transitioning phase to happen. This typically manifests itself with the pronoun nonsense, rainbow hair-colors, piercings, tattoos, confusion about gender identities, rebellion at home and other symptoms. This stage is where a child is prepped mentally to accept the next step which involves permanent manipulation of a perfectly healthy body.
A failure to protect a child from mental manipulation designed to further a social agenda (not based on any science) is Parental Consent.
The second group of people that have bought into the lies and failed to protect a child are those trusted community positions we're counting on to protect them: teachers, principals, school boards, pastors and others we entrust our kids to every day. They are providing consent to our kids to advance to the next stage in the transitioning process simply by not telling them the Truth. Another missed opportunity to stop the process is consent.
Stage #3: Mental Health Counselors
Far too many of us have bought in to the idea that the physical body must be surgically altered to match a delusional understanding of what normal is. (Strangely this doesn't apply to plastic surgery, but only when the physical alteration of a child's sex is in play) The self-appointed center of truth, WPATH, determined what the standard protocol for transitioning should be. They have determined that the first step in the medical portion of transitioning should be a trip to a mental health counselor, one who is willing to say that this pre-pubescent child is mentally and emotionally stable and mature enough to make life decisions about their sexual identity, future child-bearing abilities or the lack thereof, and unavoidable chronic health issues that will make them a pharma-patient for life. All at the ripe old age of 12.
That counselor is asked to speak with a child they've probably never met before, spend 45 minutes with them, and make a rock-solid recommendation via letter of consent that this kid can handle it, and recommend them for the next step. For $150 bucks a counselor will move that child along to a lifetime of irreversible misery and we call that informed consent. In what world can a kid make decisions like that for themselves?
Stage #4: Hormone Manipulation
At this stage in the transitioning process we're dealing with licensed medical "professionals" who should be informing both the kid and his/her parents of the pro's and cons of what's about to happen. We're about to chemically castrate your child and stop the puberty process which is an irreversible step. Proponents of transitioning will still tell you it's reversible but they're the same people who won't give you a complete informed consent. Blocking puberty adversely affects both physical and mental development and is not something that can be made up for later if the kid changes her mind. The medical staff in these situations has ethically and criminally failed in their duty to provide a slow and careful, deliberate expose of everything the patient might expect to encounter for the rest of their lives. To do this step properly would not be profitable. The medical establishment is failing to provide an ethical and moral full disclosure.
Stage #5: Cross-Sex Hormones
The last opportunity to provide a clear and full informed consent before the surgeons get ahold of a child, this typically occurs between ages 12-16. There are white-coated medical professionals involved and they have an ethical duty at this stage to inform the patient of all possible negative outcomes of assaulting a young body with a cocktail of sex hormones intended for a biology they were not born with. One has only to interview people who have been through this step to know that this is not being done. An occasional failure by the doctor is human if not malpractice. Happening on the scale that it is points to a large-scale organized operation and again the medical doctor has failed to deliver a fully informed consent.
Stage #6: Surgical Transitioning
This is the stage at which body parts are removed and refashioned in order to make the physical fit the mental delusion. This step is largely irreversible. You cut off fully functioning breasts and they are gone forever. You can rebuild something that represents them but sensitivity and functionality are gone. You must savagely rob the body of various pieces and parts to build something that hopefully looks like a natural penis but it won't work at all like the real thing. And creating a faux vagina is nothing more than creating an open wound that the body will forever attempt to close up and heal over. All that and a lifetime of dependance on a litany of drug prescriptions. Do you really believe that these children are being told these things? They are not.
That is not happening in the informed consent discussions with the surgeons prior to this type of surgery.
Conclusion
Fully informed consent is not happening at each level of the process. If it were, common sense dictates that a portion of victims at each stage would be dropping out of the process severely reducing the number of the eventual surgeries taking place. Your thoughts?
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