You might be thinking that I’m going to be linking to LifeSiteNews or Lifenews or MercatorNet for this one. After all, the title sounds pretty far-fetched. After all, how could the secular left be so bold as to want to push unproven medical procedures onto children, if there could be such costly side effects? But, today’s article is from the UK Telegraph. Prepare to be shocked.

Here is the article from the UK Telegraph: (archived)

Leaked emails show other medical professionals admitting that trans patients do not always understand the consequences of gender reassignment.

The cache of files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), which sets guidelines that have influenced NHS treatment, show that doctors are carrying out life-changing surgery and prescribing puberty blockers even though they are aware the adults and children may not fully understand the long-term ramifications.

One doctor talked about a transgender person who died of cancer as a result of his hormone treatment.

“I have one transition friend/colleague who, after about eight to 10 years of [testosterone] developed hepatocarcinoma [a form of liver cancer],” the doctor wrote.

“To the best of my knowledge, it was linked to his hormone treatment… it was so advanced that he opted for palliative care and died a couple of months later.”

It’s not clear from the documents if the person who died was made aware or knew about the side effect.

It was a 16-year-old girl:

Another said they would go ahead with a double mastectomy (called “top surgery”) on a 16-year-old girl even though hormones had likely given her liver cancer.

I blogged before about how cavalier the doctors are about giving letters to health insurance companies, explaining that they approve of the need for sex-change drugs and surgery.

The e-mails reveal more:

A gender therapist said they had only turned one person down for treatment in 15 years.

“I have also intervened on behalf of people who have been diagnosed with major depressive disorder, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, homeless and got at least an orchiectomy [testicle removal],” they said.

“In the last 15 years, I had to regrettably decline writing only one letter, mainly because the person evaluated was in active psychosis and hallucinated during the assessment session.

“Other than that – nothing – everyone got their assessment letter, insurance approval, and are living (presumably) happily ever after.”

A number of doctors admitted that their patients often did not understand the ramifications of hormone treatment or surgery – such as developing facial hair.

A child psychologist said in a leaked email featured in the report: “[It is] out of their developmental range to understand the extent to which some of these medical interventions are impacting them.

“They’ll say they understand, but then they’ll say something else that makes you think, oh, they didn’t really understand that they are going to have facial hair.”

If you’re wondering why the secular left is so committed to transing children, just because they ask for it, and even though they can’t possible understand the consequences, it’s the money.

Here is a story about one expose reported by Daily Wire:

“It’s a lot of money,” VUMC Clinic for Transgender Health’s Dr. Shayne Sebold Taylor said at one Medicine Grand Rounds lecture, video reveals. “These surgeries make a lot of money.”

Taylor noted that a “chest reconstruction” can bring in $40,000 per patient, and someone “just on routine hormone treatment, who I’m only seeing a few times a year, can bring in several thousand dollars … and actually makes money for the hospital.”

Citing the Philadelphia Center for Transgender Surgery, Taylor said vaginoplasty surgeries can generate $20,000, gushing that it “has to be an underestimate,” since hospital stay, anesthesia, post-op visits, and other add-ons are not included in the total.

“And the female-to-male bottom surgeries, these are huge money makers,” the doctor continued, adding that such surgeries could bring in “up to $100,000” for the hospital.

Some clinics are “entirely” “supported” financially by such phalloplasty surgeries, Taylor boasted.

“These surgeries are labor intensive, there are a lot of follow-ups, they require a lot of our time, and they make money,” she emphasized. “They make money for the hospital.”

If you don’t believe that God exists, then this life is all you have. So, you find ways to justify getting more and more money any which way you can. You’re not out there trying to help people. After all, on the secular leftist view, human beings are just the accidental by products of natural processes that did not have them in mind. There’s no free will. No objective morality. No consequences for moral choices after death. Right and wrong are just “customs” that different societies have developed. They vary by time and place, and none of them is any more valid than cooking customs or dressing customs. It makes a huge difference what people believe. Beliefs are the rails on which they run their lives.

If I asked you to name two dominant characteristics of secular leftists today, what would you say? I would say their morality is “don’t judge” and they don’t like to be held accountable for their poor choices. Usually, the decisions of these secular leftists only costs them in their personal lives. But sometimes, innocent bystanders are the victims.

Let’s start back in 2016, when some Syrian refugees were let into the UK.

Here is an article from the far left BBC from 2016: (archived)

Three Syrian men have been cleared of sexually assaulting two schoolgirls in a park.

Mohammed Alfrouh, 20, Omar Badreddin, 18, and Mohammed Allakkoud, 18, of Newcastle, were cleared of all charges at Newcastle Crown Court.

Mr Badreddin was cleared of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old in Leazes Park, Newcastle, in May.

Mr Alfrouh was cleared of three counts of sexual assault and Mr Allakkoud of a single charge of sexual assault.

Pay close attention to that name “Omar Badreddin”. Remember that name.

Here is how the BBC covered the refugees: (archived here)

The text says:

Over the course of 11 months, Newsnight’s Katie Razzall and producer Maria Polachowska chart one family’s journey from a war-ravaged Syrian town to a new life in Newcastle. When their son, Omar, is accused of sexual assault, their nightmare continues. After a three-week trial, Omar was found not guilty.

So this piece was focused on Omar Bahreddin, the guy I told you to remember. And the secular leftists responsible for it are Katie Razzall and Maria Polachowska. The BBC made this documentary to try to put the immigration policy in a good light, and cast blame on those who objected to it.

Now let’s go back to the present day, and we will see the rest of the story.

This report is from the left-leaning Newcastle Chronicle, from this week:

A grooming gang who repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted a young girl in Newcastle city centre while passing her around “like a toy” have been jailed for a total of 36 years.

Four men sexually exploited a girl when she was aged just 13 and 14 years old. After meeting her one day in Newcastle, brothers Mohamed and Omar Badreddin quickly identified her as someone who could be easily manipulated and she was groomed with alcohol, cigarettes and compliments before being abused.

That’s the same Omar Badreddin who the secular leftists were defending and painting as a victim in their little BBC documentary. These secular leftists were so indoctrinated in “don’t judge” that they wanted to praise the results of the immigration policy. And they wanted to condemn anyone who objected to the immigration policy as “racists”.

The UK is one of the most anti-masculine countries in the world, going all the way back to Minister of Equality Harriet Harman, and her outrageous anti-male policies. In the UK, self-defense has been outlawed. You can be jailed for “hate speech”. Government regularly overrules the authority of fathers. Fathers are routinely ejected from the home, only to be replaced with secular leftist social workers and welfare benefits. The male protector role has been utterly destroyed by feminists. The police and the courts in the UK DO NOT EXIST TO STOP CRIME. They exist to stop moral judgments, spiritual leadership, and acts of self-defense by law-abiding taxpayers against criminals.

You can read the article to find out what the little girl had to say about what happened to her. She describes it as “torture”.

By the way, this is not the only time that UK police and UK judges have gone easy on certain criminals. The police in the UK are constantly ignoring victims of grooming gangs run by men of Middle Eastern origin. I’ve written about it many times; here is one and here is another. Their society is set up to ignore the little girls who are victims of these men.

But that’s not the point of this post. The point of this post is that I want everyone to have an accurate understanding of how secular leftists operate. They loudly proclaim the virtue of their “don’t judge” worldview. They think that they are better than you.

By the way, this is how the secular leftists respond to people who are asking them for comments about their puff piece on the Syrian refugees:

Two gay Dads are better than one Dad in a natural marriage

And this isn’t the only time this has happened. It happens a lot. In 2013, I blogged about a case out of Australia, where another secular leftist virtue-signaled about her great tolerance for gay men adopting children born through surrogacy. You can guess what happened to the child next.

The most amazing thing about my post is what the journalist did when she found it and read it. She left a comment saying that her good intentions should have produced good results. She followed her heart, and wasn’t responsible for any harm caused by her actions. She asked me to take the post down, because it made her look bad. No remorse, no accountability, just an attempt to bully me out of judging the results of her actions. “Don’t judge!” she cried.

The silence of the men

Many men today are silent about abortion, no-fault-divorce, single mother welfare, false accusations, biased custody laws, anti-gun laws, daycare, public schools, green energy, black lives matter, transgender indoctrination of kids, etc. Those men have compared the rights of the weak with the sex offered by secular left women, and decided that sex is more important. But one day, I believe that those men are going to change their position and choose to protect the little ones. And no amount of shaming, blaming, make-up and cosmetic surgery is going to deny their birthright as men.

The title says it all. Walgreens and CVS are selling abortion drugs, and there is a connection to the Biden administration. Let’s see the story and then take a look at what you should know about these drugs. After all, you might get into a conversation about this story, and I want you to have the facts.

Here’s the story from Daily Wire:

Pro-life advocates slammed a decision on Friday from pharmacy giants Walgreens and CVS to begin selling abortion pills.

Both retailers announced that they would start selling mifepristone, the pill that is used in over half of all abortions, at certain locations. The announcement, which was applauded by the Biden administration, comes ahead of a Supreme Court hearing on whether the FDA improperly approved mifepristone and other restrictions on the pill.

“As two of the world’s largest, most trusted ‘health’ brands, the decision by CVS and Walgreens to sell dangerous abortion drugs is shameful, and the harm to unborn babies and their mothers incalculable,” Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America’s State Policy Director Katie Daniel said in a statement shared with The Daily Wire. “This reckless policy was made possible by the Biden administration, which is pushing to turn every pharmacy and post office in America into an abortion center for the sake of abortion industry greed.”

[…]President Joe Biden called the decision a “major milestone” in a statement praising the move.

Why is this important? Well, after the repeal of abortion on demand through all 9 months of pregnancy at the Supreme Court, abortion activists like Joe Biden have been looking for a way around the ruling. And shipping abortion drugs across state lines is one way for them to do it:

Medication abortion has increasingly become a more common form of abortion, especially in states that have sought to ban abortion. Activist networks have been shipping foreign-made abortion drugs in red states to bypass state laws protecting the unborn.

So, when it comes to this issue, I like to look for the peer-reviewed research. What is this drug? Should they be selling it? Are they liable if something bad happens to the mother?

Well, I have good news, and bad news. The good news is that there is published journal articles that discuss the risks of this drug. The bad news is that the journals decided – right before they went on sale – that these papers were very, very bad.

Daily Wire has that story as well:

Major scientific studies on the potential harm of abortion pills were retracted on Monday by their publisher, just weeks before the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on the availability of such drugs.

Three studies, including two on the potential harms of the abortion pill just, were retracted on Monday by Sage Publishing, an independent academic publishing company.

[…]The authors of the studies say the retractions are a politically-motivated effort to discredit research that was cited in U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s April 2023 decision to suspend approval of mifepristone, the drug used in roughly half of all abortions in the United States. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in March on the legality of restricting the abortion pill based on Kacsmaryk’s ruling, proceedings that will certainly be impacted by the retractions.

Dr. James Studnicki, a listed author on all three studies in question, told The Daily Wire that the retractions were “completely unjustified” and that the retractions were meant to discredit scientific research that challenged the pro-abortion bias engrained in academia.

Studnicki, who trained at Johns Hopkins University and has spent decades conducting scientific research, said that he and his fellow researchers were targeted “because of the visibility of our work, because of the fact that our work was having such an influence on the discussion about abortion that was occurring in the states and in the courts at the highest levels.”

OK, great. Show me the numbers.

One of the now-retracted studies, published November 9, 2021, found that the rate of emergency room visits following chemical abortions had spiked 500% from 2002-2015, according to Medicaid claims data. Another one of the studies, published May 20, 2022, analyzed the likelihood of recurring emergency room visits for women who did not disclose to doctors that they had a chemical abortion.

These two studies were cited in Kacsmaryk’s decision to suspend FDA approval of mifepristone.

So what should happen?

Well, red states should just pass laws that allow people who take these drugs to sue the companies if there are complications. Or, they can just go after the businesses, if they choose to ship drugs into states that have banned late-term abortions. I would expect that states like Florida and Oklahoma will take the lead on this. Ron DeSantis has shown that he’s been willing to go after companies that try to mess with Florida’s conservative laws. He’ll probably go first. I’ll keep an eye out, and update you if anything happens.

In the meantime, stop shopping at CVS and Walgreens. I already have. They don’t deserve your business. Just keep driving and go somewhere else.