The Transgender Ideology

An exhaustive list of those promoting and benefiting financially from the various industries involved in transgender health services would include everyone from endocrinologists and surgeons, pharmaceutical companies producing hormones and puberty blockers, and various non-profits and foundations. We have named a few of the players in this brief 4-part series.

Strangely enough, some of the highly educated doctors appear to have convinced themselves what they are doing is genuinely for the health of the patient. In the Swedish documentary Trans Train Doctor Olle Soder is interviewed about his work as an endocrinologist at Karolinska University Hospital. When discussing why he prescribed patients hormones and other treatments while knowing the potential consequences he said, "you must weigh the suffering the patients would go through without that treatment". He also acknowledges he was giving out hormones without follow up on the long-term effects before lamenting, "well, these people are suffering and they are asking for help."

We also have the case of Dr. Deanna Adkins, a professor at Duke University School of Medicine and the director of the Duke Center for Child and Adolescent Gender Care. Dr. Adkins provided an expert testimony to a federal district court in North Carolina concerning a state law governing access to sex-specific restrooms. In her testimony, Dr. Adkins contradicted accepted biology and revealed an ideological bent by stating, "From a medical perspective, the appropriate determinant of sex is gender identity." Dr. Adkins argued that gender identity is the preferred basis for determining the sex of an individual and "the only medically supported determinant of sex." Adkins also claimed it was "counter to medical science" to use chromosomes, hormones, internal reproductive organs, and external genitalia to override someone's chosen gender identity.