Majority medical practice in this country is not healing but managing disease. If you heal the patient, you lose the patient. If you manage the disease with drugs, surgeries, or other treatments you have a continuous cash flow; at least until the patient dies. Of course, many patients prefer it this way. They would rather offload responsibility for their personal health to a professional than take responsibility for eating right, exercising. I did not realize until I became a professional myself (attorney) that “professional” is too often a synonym for “prostitute”.
Do you believe the medical industry has financial motivations to push sex change surgeries on children?
Submitted 1 year ago by Wigglehard@exploding-heads.com to askexplodingheads@exploding-heads.com
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veritas@exploding-heads.com 1 year ago
GeraldEstaban@exploding-heads.com 1 year ago
Indeed I do, because they will be able to sell this person hormones for the rest of their life afterwards. Even if the person regrets it and de-transitions afterwards they were already castrated so they’ll still need to take hormones for the rest of their lives (or deal with the awful hormone deficiency symptoms that can shorten their lives) for the medical industry it’s a win-win. Either way they get a customer for life buying the drugs for the rest of their life because they can no longer make them on their own.
That’s probably the biggest reason they’re pushing this mutilation on children, if they get them when they’re young then they’ll be customers for much longer than if they started when they were older.
melmc@freeatlantis.com 1 year ago
@GeraldEstaban @Wigglehard
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
1 Timothy 6:10 ESV
https://bible.com/bible/59/1ti.6.10.ESVadmin@exploding-heads.com 1 year ago
Exactly
Plus ongoing therapy to treat their mental issues for the rest of their life
GeraldEstaban@exploding-heads.com 1 year ago
Indeed they will. Meaning even more profits. I hope people become aware of this soon before the damage is done.
detoxlife@exploding-heads.com 1 year ago
Yes, it’s the billion dollar industry, millions to fake the change and millions more to try and reverse once the kids learn they’ve been
Sexypink@exploding-heads.com 1 year ago
Yes
serial_crusher@exploding-heads.com 1 year ago
There’s easier ways to make a buck than surgery, but it probably plays into a larger strategy.
For one, they’d rather get you hooked on pills which have a higher ROI and are easier to sell at scale. So, keep doing those puberty blockers for 10 years before you’re old enough for surgery, then keep guzzling artificial hormones etc for the rest of your life after.
Even still, I think we’re talking about small enough numbers of people that it’s not going to motivate a whole lot of effort just to get those patients’ money. But as a precedent for forcing insurance companies and/or the government to spend millions of dollars per patient, it’s a good long term play. Why not spend that much per patient on weight loss pills, ADHD medication, etc?
SJ0@exploding-heads.com 1 year ago
After the surgery you have someone who will never again be a normal person. They take a person who might never have gone to the doctor despite having insurance where you’re guaranteed to get paid to having someone who requires a lifetime of care that insurance needs to pay for who was pre-selected as having insurance.
There’s audio out there of hospital administrators talking about that exact thing.
They don’t think they’re absolutely evil because they also have been indoctrinated into thinking they’re doing the right thing. That’s despite having something where 60-90% of kids are cured if you do nothing and just let them grow up.
attributed@exploding-heads.com 1 year ago
Where’s my monehhh
ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
No more or less than “the medical industry” (whatever that is) has to push other procedures that are unethical and currently forbidden by every professional organization. Procedures which aren’t being done on children now and have no realistic chance of being done in the future.
GeraldEstaban@exploding-heads.com 1 year ago
What do you call them pushing the idea that boys can be girls and girls can be boys then huh? Seems pretty predatory to me. They’re literally trying to convince perfectly healthy boys and girls that they are the opposite gender and then offering them surgery and hormones to mutilate them to look like that gender.
And by removing their sex organs they will no longer be able to produce hormones naturally and will have to take hormones for the rest of their lives, therefore they will be customers buying those hormones for the rest of their lives, end result medical industry profits off them big time, that goes even if they de-transition since you can’t grow back your gonads.
ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Who is “pushing the idea” exactly? Do you have some examples of that being pushed? Examples of specifically “trying to convince perfectly healthy boys and girls that they are the opposite gender”?
Also do you have specific examples of under 18 children having their sex organs removed (for transition surgery not for cancer or whatnot)?
How do you feel about children like teenage girls having breast enhancement surgery?
Freedom@exploding-heads.com 1 year ago
Isn’t that the whole point?