Thank you for giving more background, including to (the lack of) legal precedent.
I am watching the response to the Cass Review and the whistleblowers in the US with horror. What do the people trying to silence these whistleblowers think is going to happen to all these patients given these interventions inappropriately? No matter how much someone repeats a lie, that doesn't make it true. The truth is going to be written on the bodies of these young people and the years of their lives wasted because they believed a lie.
HHS--please get a clue. Do your job. This is inexcusable.
HHS could just follow medical best practices. Surely there is some MD over there. Or they could ask the National Academies which said already in 2011 that systematic reviews are needed for reliable clinical guidelines.
As an interested physician not in pediatrics, I have developed a growing concern about ‘gender dysphoria’ being presented as a diagnosis for young people simply navigating the rough seas of puberty. I have held my tongue, as I did for a while regarding physicians using OxyContin to treat chronic pain. Then, I raised my voice along with other Colorado physicians to fight this problem. We, at least drove it underground, or perhaps stepped aside to allow the drug cartels to take over. Medical associations and the Department of Justice did not step in to oppose us, threaten our medical licensure, or take us off to jail. Even though we knew Purdue and other powerful forces opposed us, they did not take this critical step of doubling down on their self interest.
What we see here is different and similar to the opioid battles that I helped to fight. Similar in that pain doctors and gender doctors are wallowing in money made at the expense of their patients… different in that gender doctors are backed by our government. This is indeed a hill to die on! I shudder over this battle; it will be epic!
Parents need to sit their kids down now and as a family have an honest conversation about biological sex and puberty. It needs to be an ongoing conversation, with enough information for the kids to be voluntarily on board.
Drove it underground ! really not willing to stay in the battle doctor. This is the problem - groups with power capitulate to the government. You are the government, doctors have great power but continually cave to the AMA a criminal group who sold out to big pharma long ago and to the CDC -see hospital death protocols in place
during covid in all hospitals and still in
place. Killing fields rewarded greatly for implementing demanded treatment protocols ending in death or severe injury brought on by treatment. Welcome to the American “medical” model. You are part of a criminal enterprise every time you administer a vaccine - why else would all covid treatment give full liability immunity to medical practitioners - legally maiming and murdering fellow citizens.
What do you suggest people do to stop it? Once they are informed?
I think a lot of people are worried right now but don't know what to do once they get informed (thanks to the excellent reporting coming out about it!).
When my 7 year old child's medical records were stolen from Mayo Clinic in a bizarre story that involved falsification of police reports, false prosecutions, and a host of other misconduct on behalf of law enforcement covering for one of their own, the DOJ did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. The fact that they allowed an entire county justice system a free pass when the evidence was overwhelming was "bewildering" (to quote a member of the MN AG's office). When the government acts as an agent against the people instead of as an agent of the people, by the people and for the people, we're royally screwed. At that point there is no redress for grievances.
Thank you for covering this and providing the link to support Dr. Haim's defense. He recently gave a one hour interview to the Gender: A Wider Lens podcast which anyone can watch or listen to if interested. The brazenness of TX Children's is stunning, but it's a good illustration of what we're dealing with.
I see that Rufo is highlighting another whistle blower which Texas Children's Hospital has set the feds on. This one appears to uncover the fact that TCH was using medicaid funds to pay for gender affirming care for minors in direct violation of Texas law. https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-murky-business-of-transgender-medicine
I am pondering the same question. This legal case is unprecedented; it will probably go to a high court for a final verdict. On the waterfront: I believe patients are being harmed and that they will ultimately be heard. Until then I think harm will continue as the dominant political party supports this practice.
I also noted that the DOJ stated he maliciously wanted to harm Texas Children's. That was not his intention, but an unavoidable consequence of blowing the whistle on the procedure.
HIPPA used as a weapon against whistle blower. During covid it was common to be asked by medical personnel as you checked in for an appointment in my city as to your vaccine status. This was in my estimation a violation of HIPPA law committed by various hospital systems. My medical history is to be private Did anyone complain? Not I, I henceforth limited interaction with this system due to lack of trust and I still do. I remain convinced US government can access my medical record at anytime for any reason. This is a total loss of freedom and supposed protection under the law. Poor doctor used redacted records - he should have created anecdotal recap
Of what he saw transpiring in Texas health system but alas he was motivated to prevent a catastrophe for these children in the here and now. Thank you for your efforts doctor - next time seek legal advice - as you save one or more lives you sacrifice your own- I only believe that unless doctors act as a large group regarding these matters will any actual change take place.
The law used to destroy the patients normative sex and create havoc in their lives is legal mutilation brought to us by the medical industrial complex for profit and control. We live in a post scientific medically out of control universe. Normal development can and will be disrupted using draconian laws with no basis in real science and overriding reality of nature. Science gone mad- used as a weapon to destroy and maim see covid vaccine and read Bailiwick News re weaponization of bio weapons and counter measures legally authorized to cull the population via democide. Killing normal sexual development prior to puberty is the goal of our current medical system resulting in endless pain and suffering for the children and their families via social control that has nothing to do with reality.
Well the DOJ can't "strip him of his medical license" because that licensure is done by the State of Texas. If he's convicted of a felony, THAT could be grounds for the State Medical Board to restrict or revoke his license. Sadly, THAT will be political too and depend on the politics of the majority of the Board I suspect. Of course if he's serving time in a Federal Penitentiary, his medical license will be of limited value to him! Medicine is built on a theory of regulation and enforcement by peer review and one of the necessary pillars of support to that system is the sanctity of "whistle blowers" or people who "say something when they see something." If through a miscarriage of justice, this man is convicted, it will have a generally demoralizing impact on the entire peer review system of medicine. Not good when the ethical challenges to the practice of medicine are proliferating as they are today! The medical profession should resist the federalizing of the regulation of practice with every ounce of resistance it can muster!
This is so exasperating on so many levels. Garland has shit the bed again & again. It will take Congress to haul his ass in front of a subcommittee where he will lie through his teeth about any of this. SHAME ON BIDEN & GARLAND!!!!! VOTE THEM ALL OUT!
Thank you for giving more background, including to (the lack of) legal precedent.
I am watching the response to the Cass Review and the whistleblowers in the US with horror. What do the people trying to silence these whistleblowers think is going to happen to all these patients given these interventions inappropriately? No matter how much someone repeats a lie, that doesn't make it true. The truth is going to be written on the bodies of these young people and the years of their lives wasted because they believed a lie.
HHS--please get a clue. Do your job. This is inexcusable.
Xavier Becerra's job at the head of the HHS was to be a political hack and turn medical science into a culture war pawn.
You saw his interaction with Rep Crenshaw, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUgcp1DKlLk
HHS could just follow medical best practices. Surely there is some MD over there. Or they could ask the National Academies which said already in 2011 that systematic reviews are needed for reliable clinical guidelines.
https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/standards-for-developing-trustworthy-clinical-practice-guidelines
How long does it take that information to get from one building to the other over in DC? I mean, if they actually care about these kids....
They don’t care about anything but control and power. Wake up.
As an interested physician not in pediatrics, I have developed a growing concern about ‘gender dysphoria’ being presented as a diagnosis for young people simply navigating the rough seas of puberty. I have held my tongue, as I did for a while regarding physicians using OxyContin to treat chronic pain. Then, I raised my voice along with other Colorado physicians to fight this problem. We, at least drove it underground, or perhaps stepped aside to allow the drug cartels to take over. Medical associations and the Department of Justice did not step in to oppose us, threaten our medical licensure, or take us off to jail. Even though we knew Purdue and other powerful forces opposed us, they did not take this critical step of doubling down on their self interest.
What we see here is different and similar to the opioid battles that I helped to fight. Similar in that pain doctors and gender doctors are wallowing in money made at the expense of their patients… different in that gender doctors are backed by our government. This is indeed a hill to die on! I shudder over this battle; it will be epic!
Parents need to sit their kids down now and as a family have an honest conversation about biological sex and puberty. It needs to be an ongoing conversation, with enough information for the kids to be voluntarily on board.
I don't think it's money that is motivating them, it is ideology - if we incorrectly say it is moneys they will double down!
Drove it underground ! really not willing to stay in the battle doctor. This is the problem - groups with power capitulate to the government. You are the government, doctors have great power but continually cave to the AMA a criminal group who sold out to big pharma long ago and to the CDC -see hospital death protocols in place
during covid in all hospitals and still in
place. Killing fields rewarded greatly for implementing demanded treatment protocols ending in death or severe injury brought on by treatment. Welcome to the American “medical” model. You are part of a criminal enterprise every time you administer a vaccine - why else would all covid treatment give full liability immunity to medical practitioners - legally maiming and murdering fellow citizens.
What do you suggest people do to stop it? Once they are informed?
I think a lot of people are worried right now but don't know what to do once they get informed (thanks to the excellent reporting coming out about it!).
When my 7 year old child's medical records were stolen from Mayo Clinic in a bizarre story that involved falsification of police reports, false prosecutions, and a host of other misconduct on behalf of law enforcement covering for one of their own, the DOJ did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. The fact that they allowed an entire county justice system a free pass when the evidence was overwhelming was "bewildering" (to quote a member of the MN AG's office). When the government acts as an agent against the people instead of as an agent of the people, by the people and for the people, we're royally screwed. At that point there is no redress for grievances.
Thank you for covering this and providing the link to support Dr. Haim's defense. He recently gave a one hour interview to the Gender: A Wider Lens podcast which anyone can watch or listen to if interested. The brazenness of TX Children's is stunning, but it's a good illustration of what we're dealing with.
I see that Rufo is highlighting another whistle blower which Texas Children's Hospital has set the feds on. This one appears to uncover the fact that TCH was using medicaid funds to pay for gender affirming care for minors in direct violation of Texas law. https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-murky-business-of-transgender-medicine
https://timothywiney.substack.com/p/gender-appropriation
I am pondering the same question. This legal case is unprecedented; it will probably go to a high court for a final verdict. On the waterfront: I believe patients are being harmed and that they will ultimately be heard. Until then I think harm will continue as the dominant political party supports this practice.
All political parties support this practice - two party system is an illusion - the deep state makes policy.
I also noted that the DOJ stated he maliciously wanted to harm Texas Children's. That was not his intention, but an unavoidable consequence of blowing the whistle on the procedure.
This is exactly why I didn't blow the whistle when they were doing this on the sly at my hospital. I knew they would find something.
https://www.reddit.com/r/lgbt/comments/129hdjn/a_drag_show_in_the_minnesota_state_capitol/
Mocking women.
It's why I moved, unfortunately Texas is woke within the corridors of medical power, so there is no avoiding it.
Nazi justice system at work. Please continue coverage!
This is so wrong and the federal government has become a criminal organization
HIPPA used as a weapon against whistle blower. During covid it was common to be asked by medical personnel as you checked in for an appointment in my city as to your vaccine status. This was in my estimation a violation of HIPPA law committed by various hospital systems. My medical history is to be private Did anyone complain? Not I, I henceforth limited interaction with this system due to lack of trust and I still do. I remain convinced US government can access my medical record at anytime for any reason. This is a total loss of freedom and supposed protection under the law. Poor doctor used redacted records - he should have created anecdotal recap
Of what he saw transpiring in Texas health system but alas he was motivated to prevent a catastrophe for these children in the here and now. Thank you for your efforts doctor - next time seek legal advice - as you save one or more lives you sacrifice your own- I only believe that unless doctors act as a large group regarding these matters will any actual change take place.
The law used to destroy the patients normative sex and create havoc in their lives is legal mutilation brought to us by the medical industrial complex for profit and control. We live in a post scientific medically out of control universe. Normal development can and will be disrupted using draconian laws with no basis in real science and overriding reality of nature. Science gone mad- used as a weapon to destroy and maim see covid vaccine and read Bailiwick News re weaponization of bio weapons and counter measures legally authorized to cull the population via democide. Killing normal sexual development prior to puberty is the goal of our current medical system resulting in endless pain and suffering for the children and their families via social control that has nothing to do with reality.
Well the DOJ can't "strip him of his medical license" because that licensure is done by the State of Texas. If he's convicted of a felony, THAT could be grounds for the State Medical Board to restrict or revoke his license. Sadly, THAT will be political too and depend on the politics of the majority of the Board I suspect. Of course if he's serving time in a Federal Penitentiary, his medical license will be of limited value to him! Medicine is built on a theory of regulation and enforcement by peer review and one of the necessary pillars of support to that system is the sanctity of "whistle blowers" or people who "say something when they see something." If through a miscarriage of justice, this man is convicted, it will have a generally demoralizing impact on the entire peer review system of medicine. Not good when the ethical challenges to the practice of medicine are proliferating as they are today! The medical profession should resist the federalizing of the regulation of practice with every ounce of resistance it can muster!
This is so exasperating on so many levels. Garland has shit the bed again & again. It will take Congress to haul his ass in front of a subcommittee where he will lie through his teeth about any of this. SHAME ON BIDEN & GARLAND!!!!! VOTE THEM ALL OUT!