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#1841 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 12 March 2024 - 09:34 AM

Children to no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England confirms

The decision follows a review after a sharp rise in referrals were recorded at the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) run by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, which is closing at the end of March.

 

 

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#1842 Nparker

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Posted 12 March 2024 - 09:40 AM

What people choose to do their minds and bodies as an adult is their business. Children need to be protected.



#1843 dasmo

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Posted 12 March 2024 - 12:12 PM

Not here. We have The Infants Act. Which removes parental consent. 



#1844 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 12 March 2024 - 12:14 PM

Even in Alberta under the new rules puberty blockers will be allowed for 16+.

The UK is much more limiting (18).

#1845 Nparker

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Posted 12 March 2024 - 12:14 PM

We need The Socialists Act to remove the NDP.



#1846 lanforod

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Posted 12 March 2024 - 01:13 PM

We need The Socialists Act to remove the NDP.

 

Careful, that could be considered hate speech. 



#1847 Nparker

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Posted 12 March 2024 - 01:16 PM

I feel especially compelled to exercise my right to free speech before Bill C-63 is enacted.

#1848 Mike K.

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Posted 14 March 2024 - 12:39 PM

I can’t find it any more, but earlier today Island Health posted on social media how Victoria hospitals are 22 and 29 best in Canada, and how proud they are to have ranked that high. Vancouver General was 9. 1-4 are in Toronto.

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#1849 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 14 March 2024 - 12:42 PM

It shouldn’t be a contest.
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#1850 Nparker

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Posted 14 March 2024 - 12:54 PM

It's not as if you need to go to the ER in Victoria you can just pop on over to Toronto or even Vancouver. As a Canadian taxpayer I should have access to the same quality of public healthcare wherever I am.

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#1851 dasmo

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Posted 14 March 2024 - 07:43 PM

In the western world at least, it is normal for new treatments to undergo rigorous testing before being accepted into mainstream medicine. Often, the complaint from those who might benefit from therapies is that approval takes too long. This ­excess of caution may be frustrating for those who need help but far worse would be a system in which patients became guinea pigs in unregulated mass experiments with potentially life-altering and irremediable consequences. Such is the case with puberty blockers which for years have been fed to children in this country who are confused about their identity and sexuality. The use of these substances to impede physical development in youngsters who question their gender, despite an absence of sound scientific understanding of the long-term effects, is a medical scandal of the first order, a reckless exercise in 21st-century quackery.

https://archive.ph/2...icine-8z6tv5nf3

#1852 aastra

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Posted 14 March 2024 - 08:25 PM

 

...earlier today Island Health posted on social media how Victoria hospitals are 22 and 29 best in Canada...

 

Did they crack the top ten in BC? Seriously, wouldn't finishing in the mid-twenties effectively mean every other large city hospital and/or large university hospital in the country was ahead of you?



#1853 Mike K.

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Posted 15 March 2024 - 07:47 PM

Yes.

It’s tragic.

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#1854 Tony

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Posted 15 March 2024 - 07:54 PM

2022 number of hospitals in Canada 1280, BC 145

 

https://www.statista...on and supplies.



#1855 Tony

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Posted 15 March 2024 - 09:46 PM

Website used re hospital ratings.

 

https://www.newsweek...als-2024/canada

 

Great variability in placement for most hospitals depending on rating criteria and survey organization.


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