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Vanderbilt Hospital Cites 'Parental Consent' But Parents Cannot Consent To Emotional Blackmail
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Vanderbilt Hospital Cites 'Parental Consent' But Parents Cannot Consent To Emotional Blackmail

'Trans suicide' is extortion

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Matt Osborne
Sep 22, 2022
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Caught red-handed by conservative journalist Matt Walsh yesterday, Vanderbilt University Hospital has scrubbed their website of everything related to “gender affirming” medicine. Mainstream media is reporting the story as a dangerous example of right wing fanaticism, insisting that nothing is out of the ordinary.

But any opinionator who cites the “parental consent” of children being sterilized and mutilated for profit will come to regret it soon enough. This legal fig leaf will not save Vanderbilt, or the American hospital system, from the consequences of the pediatric transition fad.

It will fail as a courtroom defense because the “trans suicide” myth has been used to extort family participation. Parents cannot consent to emotional blackmail.

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