Dan Crenshaw Grills Doctor Who Supports Providing Gender Affirming Care For Minors

At yesterday's House Energy Committee hearing, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) questioned witnesses about gender affirming care for minors.

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[indnganksta]

As a physician, I’m gonna go ahead and say she’s not practicing evidence based medicine, only what comes from her own “deep convictions”. It’s a mockery of medicine.

[dramallamarama]

The lobotomy was once the ‘standard of care’ in the treatment of mental health disorders until it was understood that it was a monstrous practice that silenced patients rather than helped them.

[usonly]

I love how she tried to be condescending and ask him if he’s aware of a certain study and he actually had done his homework, unlike her. 😂

[debbiefreeman]

Everyone who did anything to a minor without their parents consent needs to be prosecuted.

[mickeysmith]

She needs her medical license taken away from her

[CH-gchf]

Good for Dan for exposing her incompetence.

[Catherine-]

Truly frightening and that she believes this ideology as science

[samuelgoldman]

Doctors like her should be locked up for life.

[Lochlann]

She was quite literally saved from making a further mockery of herself by the fact that his time ran out. I would have loved to watch her struggle with this for longer.

[calidreams]

She thinks her title as a doctor gives her authority to define and dictate a “standard of care” for these children and the scary part is that she actually does currently. 😱😱😱

[CaptainBeano-lzmm]

“15 year olds are too immature and under developed to have a beer!”

Same people: “15 year olds are mature enough to understand the repercussions of chemically castrating themselves for life!”

[Zippadeedoodab]

She’s definitely getting paid really well to do what she does to kids. She found her niche and is trying to get rich. No surprise she has such strong conviction.

[wakeupfool]

As a retired doc I can say that most patients would be frightened beyond belief if they understood how insane many future doc's there are in every graduating class in every medical school.

[janelleshetron]

Dan is a beast, , great job calling her out.

[kellydean]

I absolutely LOVE the 'you're just saying words' phrasing! It calls their bluff and they cannot defend their position with any actual scientific studies. Shuts up their argument immediately!
Keep it up!

[rev_isle]

Wow that was pathetic on her part. As part of the scientific community, she could not name ONE to back her up? How shameful! If I was her I would leave the field immediately, dye my hair and change my name in shame!

[terryshepard]

She Should Lose Her License And Be Held Accountable If She Has Touched One Child 💯🤬

[mohammadal-yatama]

As a doctor, we take an oath, some of the things included in this oath are:
To protect a patients privacy and confidentiality, to transfer knowledge, respect for peers, TO PERSCRIBE ONLY BENIFICAL TREATMENTS, and to DO NO HARM to the best of our ability.

This dr is one of 2:
She is incompetent in that this garbage actually represents her best ability to do no harm and to only manage patients in a way that benefits them. In such a case she is not fit to practice medicine. Her licence should be revoked.

She is competent and yet she deliberately breaks her oath. In such case not only is she is not fit to practice medicine, she is a criminal, her license should be revoked and she should be sent to jail.

[BrianSteck]

Thank you for being an intelligent, well spoken and respectful (yet not afraid to challenge differences in thought) politician. Thank you for fighting for kids that are too young to understand the importance of considering the long term effects of these decisions.

[richardgrainger]

This doctor genuinely terrifies me. Like a lot of woke nonsense, it seems like it comes from a good place but is insanely harmful. I continue to be shocked time and time again by 1) how stupid some very intelligent people can be and 2) how unqualified people seem to feel duty bound to drive change in a field they do not understand or even try to understand properly. People doing this to other humans without trying to properly help and understand them properly should be locked up for child abuse and/or grievous bodily harm.