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I truly appreciate what you’re trying to do! But respectfully, informed consent is kinda a joke. I remember “consenting” a very intelligent high powered attorney (she had her work laptop with her, typing away, while in her hospital gown in the gurney ) for a gallbladder removal. Went over in detail all the side effects, alternatives etc… then at the end she asked, completely straight, “but if you take my bladder out how will I be able to pee?”

We medical people think things are obvious sometimes, but they’re not, and real informed consent is illusory. The patients trust us and trust our judgment and training.

Which is why even opening this mutilatory medicine up to the legitimizing language of informed consent is the wrong approach, I think. Just stop castrating/sterilizing children! Embrace the power of “no”…

And don’t play along with the National lampoon theory of suicidality:

https://gaty.substack.com/p/trans-substantiation-part-3

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Sadly too many of your colleagues are all-in with castrating and mutilating children. How they got there, I have no idea, but here we are.

Given this horrific situation, informed consent laws are one tool that can be used to try to stop (or at least slow down) this terrible and ongoing crime against humanity.

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