A Brief Look at the History of Medicalising Sex & Gender — Part Two
The INTENTIONAL GROWTH of the Gender Identity business from the 1960’s to the the 1980’s — Charing Cross Hospital Gender Identity Clinic & Harry Benjamin & creating the WPATH monste
Jennifer Thetford-Kay
The war in Ukraine made Georgia a new surrogacy hub, with prices and demand shooting up. Agencies are struggling to find surrogates in a country of 3.5 million people.
Before the war started, both Russia and Ukraine were considered international surrogacy hubs. Georgia has since become the country where parents go looking for surrogates abroad. In the US, surrogacy fees can surpass $150,000, while in Georgia they're closer to $22,000.
The NHS is 75 years old today!
I fully support the idea of a National Health Service….. here is some history of how it came to be and where we are now:
The Emergency Hospital Service (later Emergency Medical Service) was established at the outbreak of World War II in 1939, giving central government a right of direction over voluntary and municipal hospitals. The service was a loose alliance of separate organisations, working together to deal with a national emergency, but paved the way for separate and competing institutions to come together as part of the National Health Service.
A Brief Look at the History of Medicalising Sex & Gender — Part One
The first F-M sex-change operation in a transsexual patient, i.e. the construction of a penis (so-called phalloplasty), allegedly took place in the Netherlands in Arnhem in 1959–1960. The first university-based gender clinics operated in the United States from the early 1960s to approximately 1980. During this two-decade period, doctors and researchers would attempt to find a cause and a psychiatric treatment (i.e., a cure) for transsexuality.
They would ultimately fail in this search for an aetiology/etiologic cause and would move toward surgical and hormonal treatments….
NHS England – Interim CAYPGI & Public Consultation
INTERIM SERVICE SPECIFICATION
Interim Specialist Service for Children and Young People with Gender Incongruence
The Service will provide care to children and young people, and their families, who
express gender incongruence and who are likely to benefit from clinical support.
The Service will adopt a holistic, multi-disciplinary integrated approach to assessing
and responding to an individual’s needs in view of the range of co-presentations
that may typically present in this patient cohort, and the range of complexities
relating to gender identity development. The most appropriate clinical pathway in
the best interests of the child or young person will be determined through an
integrated multidisciplinary team (MDT) approach, fully involving the child or young
person and their family................
Dating Etiquette — What Values Do We Want?
#Disclaimer I’m 43 and married so this comes from a place of historic dating & inquisitiveness around what is acceptable, or do we want to be acceptable in modern dating etiquette (behaviours or expectations)
Apotemnophilia, Paraphilia or Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID), Dysphoria Resolved by Self-Amputation (GB 1992): Case-History 12-Year Follow-Up (2009) with Medical Ethical Issues— to 2023
READ ON MEDIUM HERE OR BELOW: Body integrity dysphoria (BID, also referred to as body integrity identity disorder, amputee identity disorder and xenomelia, formerly called apotemnophilia) REFERENCES: Mia @_CryMiaRiver Ottawa, Ontario & Jen @JenKTeach England, UK
#FeminismIsCancer?
Well cancer can be fatal OR it can be treated and go into remission. What path 4th wave decides to go forward with into it’s 5th wave will be Key.
Cells send chemical signals to each other all the time. Normal cells obey signals that tell them when they have reached their limit and will cause damage if they grow any further. Unlike all other cells in the body, cancer cells don’t stop growing and dividing when there are enough of them, something in cancer cells stops the normal signalling system from working. So the cells keep doubling, forming a lump (tumour) that grows in size.
Mail Online: Ex-barrister wins right to sue after he was kicked off his degree course ‘for raising his fears about “potentially irreversible” medical treatment given to children questioning their gender
James Esses will have his claims that he was treated unlawfully tested at tribunal
The former barrister will sue the UK Council for Psychotherapy for discrimination
He alleges he was kicked off degree course for expressing gender critical views
The Cass Review
Independent review of gender identity services for children and young people
“It is absolutely right that children and young people, who may be dealing with a complex range of issues around their gender identity, get the best possible support and expertise throughout their care.”
— Dr Hilary Cass