The medical profession has gone through so many scandals since the days of Brinkley its hard to enumerate them: eugenics, forced sterilizations, lobotomies, baby theft from single mothers, ECT, thalidomide, recovered memories, satanist panic... And yet here we are again. They believe they have reached the heights of ethical awareness yet they still proceed not only with the gender ideology but with other blatantly problematic things like commercial surrogacy.
The only thing that seems to work is money - there are already rumblings of the financial compensation avalanche coming. Apparently it is starting hard to get malpractice insurance for gender practitioners. Its coming because of the good work and persistence of people like you, so pls keep going.
Great post. I'm interested in your thoughts on and experiences with tongue tie and frenotomy; you appear to be saying it'll go the way of other medically useless surgeries? Apologies if I'm reading that wrong - very sleep deprived with my 2 month old who I've been told needs a frenotomy and I've been trying to read up on it and very interested in any insight you might have!
My opinion on frenotomy is that while necessary for a very small proportion of babies, now it has morphed into the inappropriate answer for many breastfeeding problems that could be helped without this intervention. From what I have observed, many health professionals trying to help with breastfeeding lack the skills and the time to support mothers who want to breastfeed, and a diagnosis of tongue tie allows them a sort of "escape route" from not knowing what to do. And as always, follow the money (in many countries); this is a real money spinner for some who can charge high fees without any real accountability.
(I have read the recent NYT pieces and responses, though tongue tie frenotomies are not done for profit where I am, rather performed at cost to the national health service. Not that this means they can't be overdiagnosed or the surgeries unnecessary though)
(I have read the recent NYT pieces and responses, though tongue tie frenotomies are not done for profit where I am, rather performed at cost to the national health service. Not that this means they can't be overdiagnosed or the surgeries unnecessary though)
Lucy Leader, you articulate so brilliantly how harmful it is to look away and not to step forward in defense of our children. You eloquently describe the absurdity -and misogyny- behind it all. How can we speak as intelligent people in defense of preserving, protecting, the environment, yet consider it "beneficial" to harm our natural bodies and the natural environment of the baby --his mother's body? So, is nature good or bad? Do we really understand, as a society, the danger of continuing to undermine normal, natural, systems? I am so grateful for the way you ask the tough questions, and how you stand up for health and the wisdom of nature.
Lucy, when you follow the money, it is easy for anyone to understand that it is greed, not health, not happiness, that feeds this machine.
The medical profession has gone through so many scandals since the days of Brinkley its hard to enumerate them: eugenics, forced sterilizations, lobotomies, baby theft from single mothers, ECT, thalidomide, recovered memories, satanist panic... And yet here we are again. They believe they have reached the heights of ethical awareness yet they still proceed not only with the gender ideology but with other blatantly problematic things like commercial surrogacy.
The only thing that seems to work is money - there are already rumblings of the financial compensation avalanche coming. Apparently it is starting hard to get malpractice insurance for gender practitioners. Its coming because of the good work and persistence of people like you, so pls keep going.
Great post. I'm interested in your thoughts on and experiences with tongue tie and frenotomy; you appear to be saying it'll go the way of other medically useless surgeries? Apologies if I'm reading that wrong - very sleep deprived with my 2 month old who I've been told needs a frenotomy and I've been trying to read up on it and very interested in any insight you might have!
My opinion on frenotomy is that while necessary for a very small proportion of babies, now it has morphed into the inappropriate answer for many breastfeeding problems that could be helped without this intervention. From what I have observed, many health professionals trying to help with breastfeeding lack the skills and the time to support mothers who want to breastfeed, and a diagnosis of tongue tie allows them a sort of "escape route" from not knowing what to do. And as always, follow the money (in many countries); this is a real money spinner for some who can charge high fees without any real accountability.
That makes sense, thank you for your reply. I can definitely see it being an overdiagnosed 'cure' for a myriad of problems.
(I have read the recent NYT pieces and responses, though tongue tie frenotomies are not done for profit where I am, rather performed at cost to the national health service. Not that this means they can't be overdiagnosed or the surgeries unnecessary though)
(I have read the recent NYT pieces and responses, though tongue tie frenotomies are not done for profit where I am, rather performed at cost to the national health service. Not that this means they can't be overdiagnosed or the surgeries unnecessary though)
Lucy Leader, you articulate so brilliantly how harmful it is to look away and not to step forward in defense of our children. You eloquently describe the absurdity -and misogyny- behind it all. How can we speak as intelligent people in defense of preserving, protecting, the environment, yet consider it "beneficial" to harm our natural bodies and the natural environment of the baby --his mother's body? So, is nature good or bad? Do we really understand, as a society, the danger of continuing to undermine normal, natural, systems? I am so grateful for the way you ask the tough questions, and how you stand up for health and the wisdom of nature.
Lucy, when you follow the money, it is easy for anyone to understand that it is greed, not health, not happiness, that feeds this machine.
Thank you!