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Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Trump is fighting Biden’s drug-price battle — but patients will pay the cost

 The Trump administration is experiencing some cognitive dissonance: The new president’s Justice Department is going to bat for former President Joe Biden and his signature legislative accomplishment.

Senior Justice officials say they’ll head to court to stick up for Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and its price controls on prescription drugs.

Meanwhile, the White House’s top health-care policymakers warn that those very price controls will kill American patients, undermine our economy and ultimately increase government health-care spending.

“IRA price negotiations and controls will lead to fewer life-saving drugs coming to market,” cautions Dr. Joel Zinberg, a special assistant to the president at the National Economic Council.

Theo Merkel, a special assistant to the president at the Domestic Policy Council, has testified to Congress that under the price controls “everyone agrees that there will be some reduction in future innovation” — and that the economic and human costs of “future disease that does not get cured” will be high.

The health wonks are right. The rest of the Trump administration would be wise to listen — and neuter the Inflation Reduction Act to the greatest extent possible.

There are far better ways to make drugs more affordable.

The IRA Act gave Medicare the power to set prices for drugs the program covers, starting with 10 medicines under the Part D prescription drug benefit in 2026. Fifteen more under Part D will be hit with price controls in 2027.

In 2028, 15 drugs across Part D and Part B, which covers drugs dispensed in-clinic, will be subject to price caps. And starting in 2029, Medicare will apply price controls to 20 more drugs across both programs each year.

The problem with price controls is that they upend the economics of developing new pharmaceuticals: When the government caps the price of a breakthrough medicine, it limits investors’ ability to recoup their costs and make a return.

The incentive to invest in drug development disappears.

As a result, fewer drugs will reach patients. A Vital Transformation study estimated that the IRA’s drug-pricing provisions will lead to 139 fewer new drugs over the next decade.

That’s bad news for patients hoping for medical breakthroughs.

Price controls will also discourage companies from launching their drugs in the United States — and make it harder for patients to access medicines that are already on the market.

Consider what has happened in the UK, which requires companies to sell their medications at a “competitive” price to be included on the government-run health system’s formulary, or list of covered medicines.

That doesn’t exactly encourage manufacturers to hurry up and launch their medicines in Britain. So many don’t.

As a result, Britons wait longer for medicines that US patients are already taking. A RAND analysis found that about three-quarters of the drugs launched worldwide from 2018 to 2022 were available in the United States by the end of that period — but just 43% were available in the UK.

The availability of cutting-edge medications determines whether many patients survive their illnesses.

The American Cancer Society cites new life-saving medicines as a major reason the US cancer death rate fell 33% between 1991 and 2023. By comparison, the UK’s cancer death rate has fallen just 19% since the early 1970s.

The Trump administration need not import these problems into the United States. Other reforms can lower the costs of prescription drugs and make them easier to access.

Start by taking a hard look at pharmacy benefit managers. Insurers hire PBMs to negotiate lower drug prices with manufacturers in exchange for favorable placement on a health plan’s formulary.

However, PBM compensation is generally tied to the size of the discounts they negotiate relative to a drug’s list price, creating a perverse incentive for PBMs to favor higher-cost drugs with larger discounts.

Because patients’ cost-sharing is based on list prices — not the steeply discounted negotiated prices, which are kept secret — consumers end up paying more at the pharmacy counter.

De-linking PBM revenue from the size of the discounts they secure — and instead requiring them to charge a flat fee — would go a long way toward reducing the cost to patients.

Defending price controls in court, while simultaneously warning of their deadly consequences, is like pouring gasoline on a blaze and then complaining about the heat.

It’s time for the Trump administration to put out the fire.

Sally C. Pipes is president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute and author of “The World’s Medicine Chest.”

https://nypost.com/2025/03/16/opinion/trump-fights-bidens-drug-price-battle-patients-will-pay/

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They Knew. They All Knew

 by John Hinderaker

It is now just about universally acknowledged that the covid-19 virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where gain of function research was being conducted with the support of the U.S. government. This was vociferously denied for years by Western governments, apparently because they were afraid to cross the Chinese Communist Party. But it came out a few days ago that Germany knew all along that covid-19 was a lab leak.

Now, it’s the U.K.:


So basically, everyone in power knew all along that the Chinese Communist Party was responsible for the covid-19 epidemic, perhaps with an assist from Anthony Fauci’s NAIA, which funded gain of function research in Wuhan, despite Fauci’s later, desperate denials.

So whoever believed government assurances about the genesis of covid in 2020 and thereafter was a sucker. This goes, too, for those who believed government claims that it was unsafe to gather in public (unless you were a George Floyd protester), that masks would prevent covid from spreading, that it wouldn’t hurt to shut down schools, businesses and churches, that vaccination would prevent you from getting or spreading the disease, and so on.

Democrats wonder: why doesn’t anyone trust the government anymore? It is because our government has lied persistently across a broad range of issues, and has now been found out. When you lie, and are caught lying, people don’t tend to trust you. This apparently comes as a surprise to the Democratic Party.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/03/they-knew-they-all-knew.php

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The New York Times finally comes clean about Covid

 In June 2021, Jon Stewart appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and ridiculed people that dismissed the possibility of a lab leak origin for Covid. He quipped: “Oh my God! There’s been an outbreak of chocolatey goodness near Hershey, Pennsylvania. What do you think happened? ‘Oh, I don’t know, maybe a steam shovel mated with a cocoa bean.’ Or it’s the fucking chocolate factory! Maybe that’s it.”

At the time, former CBS News anchor Dan Rather called Stewart’s rhetoric “dangerous and short-sighted.” Washington Post columnist Paul Waldman fumed that “celebrities” shouldn’t be considered reliable sources of information and Forbes rounded up viewers uncomfortable with Stewart’s words.

And now here we are, five years after we began the “two weeks to slow the spread.” So-called experts are finally catching up to Stewart and the average American, who saw the plainly obvious reality that the coronavirus lab with famously lax security protocols may have something to do with the original outbreak of a coronavirus in the same city. 

Over the weekend, in the New York Times, Zeynep Tufekci informed us, “We Were Badly Misled About Covid.” Who misled us? Zeynep Tufekci and the New York Times played a key role, as it turned out. 

Writing in August 2020, Ben Smith reported:

When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told Americans in January that they didn’t need to wear masks, Dr. S. Vincent Rajkumar, a professor at the Mayo Clinic and the editor of the Blood Cancer Journal, couldn’t believe his ears.

But he kept silent until Zeynep Tufekci (pronounced ZAY-nep too-FEK-chee), a sociologist he had met on Twitter, wrote that the C.D.C. had blundered by saying protective face coverings should be worn by health workers but not ordinary people.

“Here I am, the editor of a journal in a high profile institution, yet I didn’t have the guts to speak out that it just doesn’t make sense,” Dr. Rajkumar told me. “Everybody should be wearing masks.”

Writing in the Times a year after the pandemic started, Tufekci argued “Maybe We Need Masks Indoors Just a Bit Longer.” 

Even in her reevaluation of the failures of Covid, driven by the paper she was writing for, Tufekci still couldn’t resist taking a jab at the people who were actually right the entirety of the last five years. She wrote, “Some of the loudest proponents of the lab leak theory weren’t just earnestly making inquiries; they were acting in terrible faith, using the debate over pandemic origins to attack legitimate, beneficial science, to inflame public opinion, to get attention.” 

Got that? We should have deferred to sainted scientists like Anthony Fauci, who changed his position on masks with no discernible scientific reasoning, after having previously downplayed their efficacy. Anthony Fauci, the same legitimate scientist who supported the gain-of-function research at labs like the one in Wuhan, can only be questioned in what Tufekci determines to be “good faith.” You’re allowed to be right, but do you have to be so harsh about it? 

Tufekci wasn’t alone in reevaluating the mistakes of Covid; the NYT’s Apoorva Mandavilli did her share as well, writing “Science Amid Chaos: What Worked During the pandemic? What Failed?” 

In May 2021, Mandavilli tweeted, “Someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots. But alas, that day is not yet here.” 

Now we know that intelligence services in the UK and the United States are of the belief that the virus originated in the lab in Wuhan instead of in the wet market nearby. It turns out the lab that was experimenting with the viruses unsafely may be the more likely culprit instead of bats flying thousands of miles, only to be eaten in that particular market in Wuhan, China. As my friends in the South say, “Well, blow me over with a feather.” It took five years for these experts to get here.

Mandavilli would like to know what failed during the pandemic. Our institutions, science, a myriad of culprits. But the bottom line failure was that of basic common sense, and the bravery to just plainly state objective facts. The emperor had no clothes, and it took the New York Times five years to say it aloud. 

https://thespectator.com/topic/new-york-times-comes-clean-about-covid-zeynep-tufekci-apoorva-mandavilli/

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JFK Files Released... Here They Are

 Update (2120ET): Roughly 80,000 pages of JFK files have finally been released in the form of 1,123 PDF files on the National Archives website, after President Donald Trump announced on Monday that they would be made public.

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"So, people have been waiting for decades for this, and I’ve instructed my people… lots of different people, [director of national intelligence] Tulsi Gabbard, that they must be released tomorrow," Trump said during a visit to the Kennedy Center in Washington.

"You got a lot of reading. I don’t believe we’re going to redact anything. I said, ‘just don’t redact, you can’t redact.'"

The files, so far, still point to Lee Harvey Oswald as the culprit.

A few notable findings:

Cuban diplomats initially assumed the CIA killed JFK in order to get revenge on the botched Bay of Pigs invasion.

"If the Yankees or CIA assassinated Kennedy to resume the assault on Cuba, then a third world war would start," one diplomat said, according to journalist Sean Davis.

In a separate deposition, one American intelligence operative noted that multiple CIA assets connected to a particular CIA agent had been spreading “misinformation” that Cuba was behind the assassination in the immediate wake of JFK’s murder. -Sean Davis, X

This file has CIA, FBI and Secret Service interviews.

Here's the FBI denying Lee Harvey Oswald was an informant.

People are also sharing the below PDF - which contains a claim in the June, 1967 issue of "Ramparts" in which Gary Underhill - a Harvard graduate and former military affairs expert, suggested that "A small clique within the CIA was responsible for the assassination."

After WWII, Underhill worked as a military correspondent for Life magazine and had intermittent contact with the CIA’s Domestic Contact Service from late 1949 to the mid-1950s, performing occasional “special assignments” rather than being a full-time employee. 

Shortly after the JFK assassination, Underhill visited the home of friend Charlene Fitsimmons shortly after the incident - and suggested that Lee Harvey Oswald was a “patsy” set up to take the fall. Underhill also claimed to have insider knowledge of the perpetrators, linking their actions to failed plots against Fidel Castro (possibly referencing CIA operations like Executive Action), and expressed fear for his life, saying he needed to leave the country.

On May 8, 1964, Underhill was found dead in his Washington, D.C., apartment with a gunshot wound behind his left ear, an automatic pistol in his left hand. The D.C. police ruled it a suicide, but the circumstances sparked suspicion among some friends and researchers.

Then there's this:

Yet...

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President Trump on Monday announced that his administration is about to release 80,000 pages relating to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Jr. Trump told reporters the mass-release will happen on Tuesday afternoon. Fittingly, he broke the news on an afternoon visit to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

 

"While we're here, I thought it would be appropriate: Tomorrow we are...giving all of the Kennedy files," Trump told reporters. "I don’t believe we’re going to redact anything. I said 'Just don't redact. We can't redact'. It's going to be very interesting...you'll make your own determination." On Monday evening, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said the released files will be accessible at the National Archives JFK Assassination Records website.

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Three days after his January inauguration,Trump signed an executive order instructing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Attorney General Pam Bondi to come up with a plan for "the full and complete release of all John F. Kennedy assassination records," and records relating to the killings of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. The order made the JFK files the first priority. "More than 50 years after these assassinations, the victims’ families and the American people deserve the truth," said Trump in announcing the order. 

Last month, the FBI disclosed that, pursuant to the order, it found approximately 2,400 new records pertaining to the JFK assassination, saying they "were previously unrecognized as related to the JFK assassination case file." It gave no indication about the substance of that batch of records. In 2022, the National Archives claimed that more than 97% of its Kennedy assassination documents were available to the public. At the time, the agency said the entire collection comprised approximately 5 million pages. 

"People have been waiting decades for this," said Trump on Monday. "I said during the campaign that I'd do it, and I'm a man of my word." Over those decades, a growing consensus has formed around the belief that the official story is false. On the other hand, there are many competing theories about who was really responsible. Here are just a few hypotheses (if your top theory isn't listed, share it in the comments): 

  • The CIA killed JFK because of its outrage over his failure to invade Cuba in the wake of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, and his desire to "splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds."
  • The Soviet Union killed JFK in retaliation for embarrassing the USSR in the Cuban Missile Crisis. 
  • Cuba's Fidel Castro killed JFK because of US assassination attempts on him, and/or because of the Bay of Pigs invasion.
  • The Mafia killed JFK because of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's crackdown. 
  • Vice President Lyndon B Johnson conspired to kill JFK to take power. 
  • Israel killed JFK because of his opposition to the country's nuclear weapons development, potential sympathy with the Palestinians' right to return to homes they were expelled from in 1948, and insistence that the American Zionist Council register as agents of Israel pursuant to the Foreign Agents Registration Act. 

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr -- son of RFK and nephew of JFK -- may have had a big influence on Trump's move to release the long-secret documents. He's Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services, and he's long pointed to the CIA as being a top suspect in both assassinations. "The evidence is overwhelming that the CIA was involved in the murder and in the cover-up [of my uncle]," RFK, Jr said in a 2023 podcast interview. Regarding his father's death, he said evidence of the CIA's guilt is "circumstantial" yet "convincing." 

In 1992, Congress passed the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, which required the release of all records by 2017. Under that law, further delays are only allowed with a presidential certification that 

  • "Continued postponement is necessary due to an identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations, law enforcement, or conduct of foreign relations, and 
  • Such identifiable harm is of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in disclosure."

There are questions swirling around what will be released on Tuesday afternoon. It's unclear if this will truly represent "all" of the remaining pages, or if -- contrary to Trump's reassurance to reporters -- some released documents may contain redactions that leave long-suffering transparency advocates aggravated.   

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/80000-pages-jfk-assassination-documents-drop-tuesday-afternoon

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Hills to Die On: Democrats know how to pick 'em

 


By Monica Showalter

What is it about Democrats and their urge to inflict criminals and terrorists upon us?

In their quest to Get Trump on immigration, which is probably his strongest point with the public, they've picked three migrant cause célèbres they're waving at the public, promoting them as sob stories and "threats to democracy."

And boy, do they stink.

First off, the case of recent Columbia University graduate and green card holder, Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian-born "Palestinian" and citizen of Algeria who organized pro-Hamas protests there last year, promoted Jew-hate, and called for the end of Western Civilization. 

Democrats have been quick to jump on the issue as a matter of protecting the rights of green card holders.

Aside from the legalism, which will be sorted out in courts, do they really think American voters are obsessed with legal due process for someone like this over watching one of the country's great universities get desecrated by Jew-hating maniacs who leave trash all over the place, take over buildings, smash windows and furniture, spray graffiti, hold custodians hostage, whine for the cameras over food, and create such a monstrous mess at the center of the university grounds that they disrupted graduation? If someone hates the U.S. and the university that took them in that much, should they really be in this country at all? 

Explain how this character got a green card at all -- that's a second question.

But Democrats are making this their issue, their hill they die on, and all it's doing for them is dropping their public approval rating.

Khalil is far from their only poster boy.

Another charmer that Democrats and their media allies are championing is Dr. Rasha Alawieh, supposedly a noble kidney doctor in Rhode Island, who just happens to have a hankering for Hezb'allah, the evil terrorist organization that deals drugs, shoots rockets at Israel, traffics arms, takes money from the mullah regime in Iran, and was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans and Argentinians in their various terror attacks.

She got herself deported after one too many fawnings at the terrorists -- she flew to a top Hezb'allah leader's funeral in Lebanon after Israel gutted the organization. The media reported that she was just visiting "family."

Now that she's been thrown out, Democrats are unleashing howls of horror, calling Trump a dictator and all that.

Again, is this really the hill they want to die on? Nobody wants terrorist fangirls in this country like this is some kind of normal development. Why have we been importing it in? Of course she needed to be thrown out -- her loyalty to Hezb'allah is pretty clear.

But that's far from their only poster terrorist.

They made a huge stink over the weekend when President Trump repatriated hundreds of hardened Venezuelan criminals to El Salvador, which kindly offered to take them for us, into their high security -- and to criminals, deeply dreaded -- prisons, where they get their heads shaved, stand and sit in hunched formation in their underwear and are forced to say they will vow to pay their debt to society. These are the monsters who have killed a lot of Americans, particularly young vulnerable ones like 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray of Texas, attacked a lot of cops, raped a lot of women and children, and taken over apartment buildings in Colorado. They are an absolute plague on society, and as President Trump has shipped them out, Democrats and their left-wing lawyer allies are howling outrage.

Are they saying they want these thugs to stay? To allow Tren de Aragua have its way with their American hosts? That they want terrorism support to be a new normal?

The Trump administration has been very careful about deporting the worst of the worst as the cameras are on them. Yet Democrats are leaping right up to the bait, jumping to defend the world's bottom-of-the-barrels as having some kind of right to be in our country.

What planet do they live on? And why are they choosing this hill to die on? Have they no other issues but defending criminals and terrorist supporters? It sounds like they view this as an attack on their political base -- and they'd just foolish enough to go public about it in that frontal, confrontational way of theirs. The public can see whose side they are on.

It's amazing how stupid these Democrats really are.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/hills_to_die_on_democrats_know_how_to_pick_em.html

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Trump signs order to shift disaster preparations from FEMA to states, local governments

 U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order that seeks to shift responsibility for disaster preparations to state and local governments, deepening his drive to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The order, first previewed by the White House on March 10, calls for a review of all infrastructure, continuity, and preparedness and response policies to update and simplify federal approaches.

It said "common sense" investments by state and local governments to address risks ranging from wildfires to hurricanes and cyber attacks would enhance national security, but did not detail what they were or how they would be funded.

"Preparedness is most effectively owned and managed at the state, local, and even individual levels, supported by a competent, accessible, and efficient federal government," the order said. "When states are empowered to make smart infrastructure choices, taxpayers benefit."

The order calls for revising critical infrastructure policy to better reflect assessed risks instead of an "all-hazards approach," the White House said in a fact sheet on the order.

It creates a "National Risk Register" to identify, describe and measure risk to U.S. national infrastructure and streamlines federal functions to help states work with Washington more easily.

It orders top Trump advisers, including national security adviser Mike Waltz and National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, and federal agencies to publish a National Resilience Strategy within 90 days of the order. A second strategy on national critical infrastructure is due within 180 days.

Within 240 days, it calls for the national security adviser to review national disaster preparedness and response policies and recommend the "revisions, recisions and replacements" necessary to revamp current federal responsibilities.

It said that work should reflect a review of FEMA ordered by Trump in January in an order that stopped short of shuttering the country's lead disaster response agency.

A White House official said the latest order was not aimed at closing FEMA.

Shana Udvardy, a senior researcher at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said she was concerned that the order marked "another dangerous step" that would leave communities with fewer resources to prepare for future disasters.

"The executive order shifts most of the responsibility for disaster preparedness to state and local governments, asking them to make more expensive infrastructure investments without outlining the federal role in that," she said.

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-03-18/trump-signs-order-to-shift-disaster-preparations-from-fema-to-states-local-governments

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Doctors, Detransitioners Allege Medical Malpractice In Treating Gender Dysphoria

 by Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Dr. Eithan Haim, a surgeon from Texas, says that some physicians cannot handle the shock after realizing that prescribing drugs or performing surgeries for youth with gender dysphoria can cause harm.

(L-R) Detransitioners Soren Adelson, Laura Becker, Abel Garcia, and Forrest Smith speak at a Capitol Hill briefing for Detrans Awareness Day, in Washington, on March 12, 2025. Courtesy of Genspect

Haim said such doctors “have to grow a spine” and speak out about this alleged malpractice in the medical community toward vulnerable youth that “turn them into chronic medical patients.”

“Self-reflection for them would be self-immolation. Their souls, I don’t think, could survive that reality, that truth,” he said in an interview March 12 with Jan Jekielek on NTD, a sister outlet of The Epoch Times.

“So they lie to themselves.”

Haim recently emerged from a legal battle with the Department of Justice under former President Joe Biden. The Texas physician faced charges of illegally accessing medical records when he revealed that a Houston hospital was performing gender transition procedures on minors, against state law.

Those charges were dropped shortly after the election of President Donald Trump.

Haim was a guest panelist at a Capitol Hill forum highlighting detransitioners—individuals who have undergone gender transition procedures, but later chose to halt those procedures or attempt to reverse them.

The panel, hosted by detransition advocacy group Genspect, was held on Wednesday, Detrans Awareness Day. Established in 2021, Detrans Awareness Day honors the experiences of detransitioners and raises awareness about the harmful effects of gender ideology and “gender medicine.”

Speaking during the panel, Dr. Patrick Hunter, a pediatrician, said he is “not optimistic” that doctors will change their minds about “gender-affirming care” unless motivated by public scrutiny and the threat of legal and financial action.

“Make them defend themselves, that will damage their reputation, and help save kids,” he said.

Dr. Patrick Lappert, a plastic surgeon, told attendees that hormone therapies can be reversed, but many “below-the-belt” surgeries cannot, leaving patients disfigured and unable to conceive children. They may also experience kidney, bladder, and bowel problems.

Surgical assistance to detransitioners after such surgeries involves “managing the complications of what they’ve done in the past,” Lappert said.

“Surgery is essentially management of chronic wounds and chronic problems, but there’s no way to reverse genital mutilation.”

Underlying Psychological Trauma

The detransitioners who spoke at the event said their decision to undergo gender changes was preceded by psychological trauma—sometimes involving family problems.

Growing up, Laura Becker said she suffered psychological and emotional abuse from her father. The 28-year-old artist and author said her father’s behavior was “very damaging,” and it made her feel worthless and left her considering suicide.

She said her doctor and therapists diagnosed her as transgender without addressing her family situation, drug abuse, or suicidal thoughts.

“I wasn’t being accepted by my own family, and when I found gender ideology ... I believed it because I didn’t have any other framework besides self-hate,” she said.

“My identity was self-hate. That’s what transgenderism is.”

Forrest Smith, who underwent hormone therapy, breast implants, and had his testicles removed, said his gender dysphoria was preceded by an addiction to online pornography, which began when he was a child.

The 28-year-old said the addiction quickly spun out of control, and resulted in a compulsion to view increasingly more deviant material, which disgusted him but had an iron grip on his young mind.

“It was really ugly, and I really look back and think there were pedophiles on the other side of that,” he said.

After years of shame and trauma, Smith said the prospect of gender transition seemed like a “spiritual” transformation that would help him break free of his self-loathing. He was presented with “total affirmation therapy” by doctors and psychologists, but said none of these professionals asked the question: “Where does this come from?”

He was offered the chance to be placed on a waiting list to receive breast implants.

“If I hesitated, they would say, ‘Well, you'll have a year to make up your mind and it’s free, so why not just get on a waitlist?’”

Smith also said some of the physicians seemed conflicted about their own work. When he decided to cancel his breast implant surgery, the surgeon told him he was making the right choice and that he thought many of his own patients were making a mistake.

However, Smith eventually did have the surgery, and had an orchiectomy to remove his testicles. Although he had the breast implants removed—a procedure his insurance refused to cover—his lower body surgery cannot be reversed.

“And of course, as soon as I start to question my transgender identity, the therapeutic profession doesn’t want to touch me. It’s hands-off,” he said.

California native Abel Garcia echoed this, saying his therapist never mentioned his childhood trauma until he decided to detransition. Before that, he said, it was like being on a “conveyor belt.” He had reached out to a therapist for help because he was confused about his gender identity and was quickly told that he was transgender.

Garcia told one medical professional that he did not want his genitals altered, a procedure commonly referred to as “bottom surgery.” He said he was fast-tracked for both surgeries anyway.

“Now, luckily, I only did get the implants,” he said.

The same therapist later tried to discourage him from detransitioning, he said.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/doctors-detransitioners-allege-medical-malpractice-treating-gender-dysphoria

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