There should be a special place in hell for anyone complicit in giving Roux-n-Y surgery to any minor. I'm against it for everyone always, but for doctors, parents, members of the eval team (I'm looking at you, fellow psychologists).....to impose this life-long, life-changing surgery on kids to don't have the knowledge or power for full consent....just so, so morally wrong, regardless of outcome.
My heart breaks for these 81 children being coerced into life-changing organ-mutilating experimental surgeries at the whims of doctors who don't care about their long-term survival.
I'd like to add that supplements like iron and calcium can be VERY hard on the stomach, and I can't imagine how much worse it is when your stomach has been surgically mutilated. "poor compliance" may have been a combination of ineffectiveness (since the GI tract now has less ability to absorb nutrients) AND outright refusal to take pills that cause extreme pain with nausea/vomiting. I can't imagine how those poor kids felt. I wonder how they're doing today.
Honestly, this all gives some really bad vibes. History tells us that nothing good comes from forcing experimental surgeries on marginalized groups who cannot consent.
This is truly horrific. It seems to me it's akin to recommending lobotomy for the treatment of mild depression. Bad enough to foist it on adults, but to do this to children is truly evil. I never thought I was naive about human nature and the capacity for self-delusion and group think, but I cannot fathom how anyone with a modicum of critical thinking ability could look at this study and think it supports moving ahead with this protocol. These people are either unabashedly corrupt or too stupid to be trusted ... or both!
There should be a special place in hell for anyone complicit in giving Roux-n-Y surgery to any minor. I'm against it for everyone always, but for doctors, parents, members of the eval team (I'm looking at you, fellow psychologists).....to impose this life-long, life-changing surgery on kids to don't have the knowledge or power for full consent....just so, so morally wrong, regardless of outcome.
My heart breaks for these 81 children being coerced into life-changing organ-mutilating experimental surgeries at the whims of doctors who don't care about their long-term survival.
I'd like to add that supplements like iron and calcium can be VERY hard on the stomach, and I can't imagine how much worse it is when your stomach has been surgically mutilated. "poor compliance" may have been a combination of ineffectiveness (since the GI tract now has less ability to absorb nutrients) AND outright refusal to take pills that cause extreme pain with nausea/vomiting. I can't imagine how those poor kids felt. I wonder how they're doing today.
Honestly, this all gives some really bad vibes. History tells us that nothing good comes from forcing experimental surgeries on marginalized groups who cannot consent.
This is truly horrific. It seems to me it's akin to recommending lobotomy for the treatment of mild depression. Bad enough to foist it on adults, but to do this to children is truly evil. I never thought I was naive about human nature and the capacity for self-delusion and group think, but I cannot fathom how anyone with a modicum of critical thinking ability could look at this study and think it supports moving ahead with this protocol. These people are either unabashedly corrupt or too stupid to be trusted ... or both!
This is so scary and heartbreaking.
Where are all the anti-trans youth healthcare voices on this one? Strangely silent...