Deranged, mutilation-crazed sociopaths now control a hospital

Posted on 12 June, 2023 by C.L.

No, this isn’t medicine: Senior child psychiatrist stood down after questioning gender medicine.

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C.L. says:

12 June, 2023 at 8:03 pm

Thanks, Entropy.

The suspension of a senior staff psychiatrist over her approach to transgender patients has thrown the Queensland Children’s Hospital into turmoil, casting a spotlight on widespread concerns among doctors at the treatment of children with gender dysphoria.

The case of Jillian Spencer – stood down from clinical duties apparently accused of transphobia – has exposed a culture in which clinicians are unable to employ medical discretion or a neutral therapeutic stance and are bound by their employment to affirm children’s gender transition.

Dr Spencer, a senior staff specialist in the QCH’s consultation liaison psychiatry team, was removed from clinical duties in mid-April following a patient complaint in an unusual response from a public hospital that followed months of conflict over affirmative gender medicine and trans identity politics within the hospital.

The case has prompted other doctors to raise concerns about the operation of the hospital’s gender clinic and the lack of co-ordination with its adolescent mental health service, the young age at which vulnerable patients with complex presentations are being prescribed cross-sex hormones, and the advocacy role of the gender clinic’s nurses who are running education sessions for public school nurses on chest binding.

Some staff members employed at the QCH have spoken of their concern at the way Dr Spencer’s case was being handled after the hospital drew upon its powers to compel staff under employment law to use children’s preferred pronouns, even though doing so was regarded by the Cass review as an active treatment measure as part of a social transition process that could lead to a cascade of medical interventions.

The hospital has also banned any discouragement of referrals to the gender clinic.

Some doctors at the hospital hold concerns that children are being prescribed hormone treatments after only two consultations at the Queensland Children’s Gender Service, with teenagers being approved for cross-sex hormones, which carry side-effects of sterility and loss of sexual function, sometimes at just 14 years old. This is despite the UK and several European countries adopting a more cautious approach to the prescription of such drugs amid concerns – also expressed by NSW’s Westmead gender clinic doctors – the evidence base was lacking.

The QCGS has 922 patients on its books and, according to FOI documents, prescribed cross-sex hormones to 102 adolescents in 2022 – more than twice as many as the Melbourne Children’s Hospital’s gender clinic. However, the true number of patients on hormones may be significantly greater as many are referred to private clinicians who prescribe to children under the care of QCGS.

Nurses employed by the gender service have been running “chest binder fitting sessions” for patients, as well as providing training to public school-based health nurses on chest binding.

The hospital not only actively pushes pronouns compliance by staff but also enters patients in the medical records as the gender they identify as, rather than their sex-based gender. Some doctors are opposed to this as it renders sex-based measures such as growth charts inaccurate among other medical implications.

QCH management did not respond to specific questions concerning all of these issues. A spokesperson for Children’s Health Queensland said: “The safety and wellbeing of children and young people in our care is always our highest priority.”

“All treatment and care provided by the Queensland Children’s Gender Service is guided by the Australian Standards of Care and Treatment Guidelines for Trans and Gender Diverse Children and Adolescents, and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People (8th edition),” the spokesperson said. “In line with Children’s Health Queensland’s universal person-centred care approach, we respect the individual needs and preferences of every child … and their right to feel safe and supported while receiving clinical care through our services.”

The hospital operates on the basis that gender dysphoria results in serious mental health problems if not treated early and in accordance with internationally recognised practice.

Dr Spencer is prevented from speaking about her employment, but a number of Queensland medics aware of the circumstances of the psychiatrist’s case have spoken to The Weekend Australian.

The matter that led to Dr Spencer’s removal from clinical duties is understood to relate to an assessment she carried out in the hospital’s paediatrics ward of a mentally troubled 14-year-old who was under the care of the hospital’s gender clinic and had been taking puberty blockers.

Following the consultation, an apparent complaint of transphobia was levelled by the patient, and it was deemed by the hospital executive that Dr Spencer represented a risk to the safety of trans and gender-diverse children. Sources familiar with the matter said the psychiatrist has not been provided details of the complaint by the hospital.

“This is completely unusual,” said Dylan Wilson, a Queensland paediatrician informed of the situation. “This is not standard in terms of managing complaints.”

Dr Spencer is a signatory to the National Association of Practising Psychiatrists’ guide to managing gender dysphoria and incongruence in young people, which advocates a cautious approach and comprehensive mental health assessment. Her concerns about the lack of an evidence base underpinning gender-affirmative medicine and the prescription of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children were well-known within the hospital.

“Doctors in no way should be punished for expressing any concerns about a treatment pathway in any speciality in any form,” said NAPP’s president, psychiatrist Philip Morris.

“It would be completely outrageous if expressing concerns which are echoed by international organisations resulted in any form of disciplinary action.”

Children’s Health Queensland said it was, by law, unable to comment on employment matters but noted all employees were bound by public sector codes of conduct.

Dr Spencer has become so concerned at what she believes are the harms to children of the affirmative medicine model – which came under heavy scrutiny during a review in the UK by paediatrician Hilary Cass, who concluded there is a lack of evidence underpinning it – that she has appeared at women’s rights rallies and detailed her concerns at the “massive health risks” from hormone drugs and surgeries.

She told a recent rally in Canberra she was deeply concerned at the current culture in which “anyone’s child will be encouraged at school, online, during extra-curricular activities, by their friends and by health professionals to contemplate their gender”.

“Even little kids are being encouraged to contemplate their gender,” Dr Spencer said. “For some children this turns into an enduring preoccupation and they start to believe that the solution to any difficulties that they are facing lies in changing their bodies. From this point on the nightmare for families begins.

“Because they slowly come to realise that there is collusion going on between teachers, health professionals, child protection services and even the courts to ensure that all children are affirmed even if their parents disagree with that approach.

“Suddenly you’ll see what you never had cause to notice before: rainbow lanyards around the necks of health professionals and teachers, trans pride flags … in the waiting room at the health clinic, adults asking your child their preferred pronouns and using them … Wherever you try to move there is a professional there ready to trans your child.

“It will suddenly dawn on you (you) are not in with a chance to protect your child. These people you are relying on for help in the village it takes to raise a child are not actually interested in the long-term welfare of your child. They don’t suffer if your child becomes infertile or never experiences sexual pleasure or lives with debilitating side-effects from puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

“But they feel like really good people because they’re being inclusive.”

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Natasha Robinson in The Australian
Entropy says:

12 June, 2023 at 8:04 pm

The QCGS has 922 patients on its books and, according to FOI documents, prescribed cross-sex hormones to 102 adolescents in 2022 – more than twice as many as the Melbourne Children’s Hospital’s gender clinic. However, the true number of patients on hormones may be significantly greater as many are referred to private clinicians who prescribe to children under the care of QCGS.
and says:

12 June, 2023 at 8:11 pm

The case of Jillian Spencer – stood down from clinical duties apparently accused of transphobia …

There’s that vacuous, made up, self-justifying word again – “transphobia”.
Mantaray says:

12 June, 2023 at 8:22 pm

Why should I care if leftist parents let their kids go through this?

I don’t know any leftists, so I don’t know what leftists are doing. Maybe they have kids so they can eat them. Maybe they are making dough by selling their kids to blokes in dresses. Maybe they are waiting until the kids are born, and then throwing them out the window? The fewer leftist kids get to grow into leftist adults; the better. Meanwhile…..

In real-world Qld, it’s nearly impossible to approach kiddies for a little nooky, without being bashed by irate parents. A girl with a beard will not be allowed in the chicks’ netball…..nor chicks’ anything team….and not into the dressing rooms either. Wow. What I’m missing out on by living in the sticks, eh?
Lee says:

12 June, 2023 at 8:45 pm

The people pushing all this gender/trans garbage on children are evil.

Ignorance of the pitfalls is no excuse.
Lee says:

12 June, 2023 at 8:51 pm

Since when did fringe, extreme left, lunatic activists with very little to no medical background take over the medical profession?
Buccaneer says:

12 June, 2023 at 8:56 pm

What happens when medical professionals stop practising science?
Franx says:

12 June, 2023 at 9:04 pm

No sign – yet – of new hospital departments or a new wave of hysteria on the part of the medical profession (subsequent to that of the mania of injecting children with mRNA, and, after covid, of injecting children with hormones and mutilating their genitals) to deal with emerging trends in children with dysphoria involving amputating limbs or severing spinal cords.
Bruce of Newcastle says:

12 June, 2023 at 9:42 pm

My respect of the medical profession has declined nearly to the level of journalists.
Seriously. The GP practice that I patronized for thirty years still requires masking, despite it being pointless as shown by multitudes of studies. I think I’ll be going to another GP.

The best thing about the last few years is it has highlighted the difference between credentials and reality. Unfortunately most of those credentials seem to’ve been exposed as worthless pieces of paper.
MatrixTransform says:

12 June, 2023 at 9:50 pm

Wow. What I’m missing out on by living in the sticks, eh?

mostly, the truth
C.L. says:

12 June, 2023 at 9:53 pm

Since when did fringe, extreme left, lunatic activists with very little to no medical background take over the medical profession?

Not a novelty in history, unfortunately. See the Nuremberg doctors’ trial.
Ed Case says:

12 June, 2023 at 9:56 pm

Academics are big on this sorta stuff.
The Nazis publicly burnt all the research of pioneer Sexologist Dr Magnus Hirshfeld in 1935 [erroneously called a Book Burning], he fled to Paris, where he performed the Worlds first Sex Change operation.
The victim dies shortly after.
Baba says:

13 June, 2023 at 1:05 am

Last year when I was there, the day surgery waiting room at the Queensland Children’s Hospital prominently displayed a poster promoting transgenderism.

When I raised this independently with two friends who are nurses in Brisbane hospitals, they both told me that there is a powerful LGBTIQ clique within QH which does whatever it likes. Voicing any objection is a career limiting move.
NFA says:

13 June, 2023 at 1:42 am

All part of the war against Christianity.
Baba says:

13 June, 2023 at 1:57 am

All part of the war on children.
NFA says:

13 June, 2023 at 2:13 am

The war on children, the family, women, men, traditions is all part of the evil ‘marxist’ scum attack against Christianity.
NFA says:

13 June, 2023 at 2:14 am

A Gender Dysphoria Thought Experiment
Petros says:

13 June, 2023 at 4:06 am

It speaks volumes about the principles, or lack thereof, of those psychiatrists that remain working there. Where’s the solidarity, comrades? The end result is that the remaining ones are amoral and compliant.
Texas Jack says:

13 June, 2023 at 6:57 am

… there is a powerful LGBTIQ clique within QH which does whatever it likes.

Mrs Jack works in a major city ICU department. The LGBTIQ clique running through things there is no less influential, which I find seriously odd for a hospital established by the Sisters of Charity.
Entropy says:

13 June, 2023 at 7:01 am

When I raised this independently with two friends who are nurses in Brisbane hospitals, they both told me that there is a powerful LGBTIQ clique within QH which does whatever it likes. Voicing any objection is a career limiting move.

yes that is true. Even in the nineties. Quite militant. Mainly the L bit of course.
Rockdoctor says:

13 June, 2023 at 7:25 am

I hope whoever made this decision is sued into bankruptcy when the avalanche of lawsuits culminates.
John of Mel says:

13 June, 2023 at 9:11 am

Why should I care if leftist parents let their kids go through this?

Schools don’t have to report to the parents that their child is ‘questioning’ their gender.
In Victoria they introduced a term “Mature Minor” to allow kids to make decision on their on, nudged by the evil ‘doctors’. Generally means a child from 12 yo with parents who might be against transitioning. I’m pretty sure other states are not that far behind.

By the time you learn about your child’s decision it will most likely be too late.
CL posted the story a few days ago. Please read it.
Nix says:

13 June, 2023 at 9:32 am

CL appears to believe that the tiny number of people choosing gender reassignment are a threat to his living. Also that it’s the CIA rather than Ukrainian citizens who are trying to repel a Russian invasion. And that there’s something unclear about the fact that a young political staffer took a junior female staffer to a Ministers office in the middle of the night and left her alone in the office, where she was later found unclothed.
CL is very keen on modern political debates.
twostix says:

13 June, 2023 at 10:47 am

And that there’s something unclear about the fact that a young political staffer took a junior female staffer to a Ministers office in the middle of the night and left her alone in the office, where she was later found unclothed.

What are you saying there nix? It’s not clear at all, why don’t you make it clear what you’re saying. Go on.
Nix says:

13 June, 2023 at 11:22 am

Twostix: firstly, you don’t contest those facts. Secondly, my point is that these facts are somehow obscured by a grubby carnival of political point scoring. I look forward to the inquiry into the handling of police evidence in the case. So far there has been no examination of the evidence because the trial was aborted by actions of a juror.
Franx says:

13 June, 2023 at 11:55 am

Nix, your story does not tell of ‘facts’.
A person who tagged along with another is not a person that anyone ‘took’ anywhere; and the tag-along person in a familiar workplace can indeed be ‘left alone in the office’ to make her/his own way out after completing the task that was said to be the reason for tagging along. Lying naked on a couch may not have been the intended task, though.
Cassie of Sydney says:

13 June, 2023 at 12:22 pm

“And that there’s something unclear about the fact that a young political staffer took a junior female staffer to a Ministers office in the middle of the night and left her alone in the office, where she was later found unclothed.”

LOL. What’s “unclear”?

In the meantime, I tell you what’s clear Crusader/Nix, very clear, and that is that you have no experience of women. No wonder you’re such an apologist for men who put on wigs and lipstick and call themselves women. Clearly more your taste.
Boambee John says:

13 June, 2023 at 12:37 pm

Nix

Wasn’t the evidence examined during the trial, or are you suggesting that it was a case of “Verdict first, trial later?
Old Lefty says:

13 June, 2023 at 12:37 pm

Another kind of transition is now complete: from Australian Labor Party to Academics Lawyers and Perverts.
twostix says:

13 June, 2023 at 1:03 pm

Twostix: firstly, you don’t contest those facts

Nix so badly wants to say the r word but can’t.

“It’s clear”…were they having a picnic? what is clear nix?
Nix says:

13 June, 2023 at 2:07 pm

Franx: “took” as in had the authority to obtain access to the minister’s office.
Twostix: there are quite a few options. In any case all these essentials remain buried under the classic Bannon-style flood of you know what.
Cassie: burned any witches lately?
Cassie of Sydney says:

13 June, 2023 at 2:29 pm

“Cassie: burned any witches lately?”

No, but clearly you have.
twostix says:

13 June, 2023 at 3:36 pm

there are quite a few options. In any case all these essentials remain buried under the classic Bannon-style flood of you know what

.

Oh now there’s “quite a few options”. Very clear!
rosie says:

13 June, 2023 at 3:56 pm

If you read the transcript of the Project interview Higgins complains she was waiting for Lehrmann for a long time, then fell asleep on the couch in the minister’s office.
So whatever happened by her own account Lehrmann was somewhere else for a long time, so maybe he didn’t go to the minister’s office for a sole purpose.
Boambee John says:

13 June, 2023 at 5:03 pm

Rosie

She fell asleep after waiting a long time? Had Lehrmann left by then? As I recall, he left PH after about 45 minutes. If he had gone before she fell asleep, at what point did the dress come off? While she was waiting, or did she wake up later and remove it then?