That comes from this article about a clinic at the University of California at San Francisco that concerns itself with transgender children.
The article continues: "The controversy — whether gender dysphoria is permanent or ephemeral — has occasionally made its way into the UCSF clinic ...". Occasionally.
Oh, and there's this: "Clinicians say they are no longer taken aback by youths seeking some kind of boutique treatment — often “just a touch of testosterone” for an androgynous, nonbinary identity." Right you are.
Some years back, in Australia:
"But as the wheels squeaked towards the operating table he was struck by an unshakeable thought: "It's not right." He remembers telling the surgeon: "I think I'm doing the wrong thing, it's not right, I think we've got to stop it."
The surgeon stroked Andrew's face, telling him it was natural to feel frightened before an operation. He protested again, insisting it felt wrong. Then it went black. When he woke up he was sure the surgery had been cancelled. The romantic tales he'd read of transsexuals who awoke post-surgery feeling "reborn" convinced Andrew the operation had been halted, because he felt no different.
"Then I remember lifting up the sheets and putting my hand down and feeling it all bandaged and packed. I just started bawling my eyes out and screaming … I remember saying to myself, you f--king idiot, Andrew, how could you be so bloody stupid?"
"But as the wheels squeaked towards the operating table he was struck by an unshakeable thought: "It's not right." He remembers telling the surgeon: "I think I'm doing the wrong thing, it's not right, I think we've got to stop it."
The surgeon stroked Andrew's face, telling him it was natural to feel frightened before an operation. He protested again, insisting it felt wrong. Then it went black. When he woke up he was sure the surgery had been cancelled. The romantic tales he'd read of transsexuals who awoke post-surgery feeling "reborn" convinced Andrew the operation had been halted, because he felt no different.
"Then I remember lifting up the sheets and putting my hand down and feeling it all bandaged and packed. I just started bawling my eyes out and screaming … I remember saying to myself, you f--king idiot, Andrew, how could you be so bloody stupid?"
Andrew issued legal proceedings as a result of these events and was met with a limitation defence. You can find the first instance decision on the limitation issue here and the appeal here.
The first instance judgment includes this judicial pronouncement: "At or about this time it is also to be noted that he started upon a surgical process of reversal. He had been advised that such process was limited. This is not a field where donors abound." Quite.
I note without comment that the defendants' solicitors at first instance are recorded as "Tress Cocks" and "JW Ball & Sons", presumably known as "Balls".
The first instance judgment includes this judicial pronouncement: "At or about this time it is also to be noted that he started upon a surgical process of reversal. He had been advised that such process was limited. This is not a field where donors abound." Quite.
I note without comment that the defendants' solicitors at first instance are recorded as "Tress Cocks" and "JW Ball & Sons", presumably known as "Balls".
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