Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Gender-Affirming Care=CHILD ABUSE? Dystopian Texas Bill Would See Trans Kids ROUNDED UP: Researcher" video.

@carsythe I doubt that most adults who are severely dysphoric can make a sound decision. Are you willing to allow a child to sue later, for being treated before age 18? Or are you determined to shield doctors from all liability, no matter what the circumstances? Do we have a good model of what permanent gender dysphoria is? I don't want to see these treatments made criminal, for the sake of the one person in two or three million who truly needs the care as early as possible. But the doctors are not regulating themselves. We know that. Whatever happened to holistic medicine??
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@LPAFilm Medicine for every person is supposed to be individualized. I don't support criminalizing these medical procedures because it will harm the one person in two or three million who genuinely needs the invasive treatments as early as possible, but we also know that there has been a massive increase of prescribing drugs and doing surgeries without the safeguards that were once in place. The call for laws always means that a group in society has failed to regulate themselves.
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@ZoeyZoco I don't want to see this criminalized, either, but when a treatment that can result in functional castration or permanent infertility is being given to a minor, and there are not appropriate safeguards in place, I see why people want there to be a law. I don't understand what happened that is now preventing the profession from regulating itself and giving good advice to families. The Precautionary Principle and "first do no harm" used to be followed. I don't like what has happened to them.
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@ZoeyZoco This isn't the case right now.
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@jonmeyer7402 Your last two lines are the most despicable innuendo. You are not a credible actor.
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@dustinbaker8272 Why? She was literally under 18.
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@jonmeyer7402 Should a parent be allowed to have their 13-year-old sterilized? Or how about lobotomized? No, your logic is flawed. The whole debate has degenerated into extremism, because the medical establishment is not policing itself. It should have never come to this. We end up either medicalizing or criminalizing everything, and both involve curtailing human rights.
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@Reclaimer77 In general, I don't support criminal laws intruding on medicine. Criminal laws don't belong in that domain, and if they prove to be necessary, it represents a much deeper breakdown of the medical system than just this issue; criminalizing this would hurt the one child in (probably) several million that actually needs more aggressive treatment; and I believe in any case that the burden of proof for any new criminal law is on the proponent: you have to prove something should be a crime. We don't assume it. We've had too much encroachment on personal liberty: people lost their JOBS over COVID vaccines, including those who had worked all through 2020 and had recovered from COVID; a ten-year-old pregnant child had to cross state lines to get the immediate care she needed, and her doctor got death threats. This is crazy, all of it. We always want to make something we don't like a crime. Our prisons are the biggest in the world. (edited for paragraphing)
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@Phil Davidson They are used when children as young as 5 appear to be entering puberty. Off label, up until now, they were used on older children who were suicidal, and only after other interventions were tried and had failed. Is that an answer for you? I hope so.
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That's what I've been asking, too.
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@jonmeyer7402 So then why did you say that despicable thing? To imitate the far right that you pretend to oppose?
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@rogerward801 If the doctors cannot regulate themselves, their insurance companies will!
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@jonmeyer7402 Matt Walsh isn't here. You attacked some private person. If you hate being labeled that way, why wouldn't they? Blocked.
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I see an interesting comment in my notifications thread from less than 10 minutes ago, and it is nowhere to be found. They have really got to let up on the mind less sense or ship.
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@dustinbaker8272 Yes. She was still a minor. Is there or is there not a clear-cut, bright line rule?
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Sounds good to me. :) (The proposal is more criminal laws . . . who would have thought?)
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@lucthin6245 AMEN
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@briandewolfe It's not for you to decide, either. Everything you said is vague. What is "gender affirming care?" Pulling out a prescription pad after a 30-minute appointment? Fast-tracking people to major surgery without considering other options? All medical care is regulated in some respect. We don't do electroconvulsive therapy the way we once did, either, nevermind lobotomies. Believe me, most of us care a lot less than you think. No need to shout. "Not my kid, not my problem" is the American default position, isn't it? Actually, I wonder what you think you're responding to. Maybe the fact that I did approach this logically, and opposed instant criminalization? Is logic a threat to you? LOL
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@Phil Davidson Agreed. I think it's a hugely drastic measure for anything but precocious puberty, BUT it might be truly necessary for someone.
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@MaisieDaisyUpsadaisy You know exactly what I'm talking about, and I know exactly why you're all over me, when I said I was opposed to criminalizing these treatments. But it's never enough, is it? No one has a problem with counseling youth. What are you talking about? Everyone agrees with that, and the goal is to make sure all INSURANCE pays for the counseling and other psychological care young people need Blocked as being in bad faith.
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@MaisieDaisyUpsadaisy All doctors do what the very best doctors do, huh? Sure they do. Insurance pays, too. /s
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@hrs2044 As long as they are rich white people, I don't care what they do. I say have at it. /s Seriously, though, a failure to provide certain types of life-saving and health-preserving treatment to a child is indeed considered child abuse or child neglect. If you don't know that, then you are not sufficiently informed to discuss very difficult policy issues like this one. I'm not for criminalizing these treatments, because it will deprive that one rare child in several million from getting the care they truly need. But that's because I believe care must be individual. I also believe that the medical community is failing to regulate themselves properly. This is why you see the state stepping in. Of course we should care.
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This is exactly the problem. Perfectly stated. I don't want this to be the subject of a new criminal law, because it would deprive that one child in several million who truly needs early intervention, but it is obvious that the medical profession is failing to regulate itself. We must protect children, just as we do from parents who neglect them when they need emergency medical care to save their lives.
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