Thank you for this information. I make 2 ancillary points:
Firstly: the use of hormone blockers to prevent the onset of puberty is not an approved use in this country. PHARMAC records overall figures for the drug but does not distinguish approved from unapproved use. This disguises the extent of uses of Blockers. While requiring recording the unapproved use of medicines may be difficult it should be required; not least because in a system of tax based funding we all pay for, or at least subsidise use.
Second: MOH, as you say, provides an extensive list of transition surgeries provided by the our publicly funded health service, but in practice funds very few surgeries. The young person, as you say, may embark on transition possibly believing they will get surgery for free. There is however only one practice providing these surgeries. These young people go onto the long public waiting list, but find themselves stuck waiting in limbo. They then have to option of paying for the same service from the same provider privately. Hence the numbers of youngsters pleading for money to fund transition on the internet, and enormous pressure on parents to pay the significant costs involved.
IN EFFECT THE PUBLIC SYSTEM HAS ORGANISED THE CLIENT LIST FOR THE PRIVATE BUSINESS. JUST LIKE IVF THIS BARNCH OF MEDICINE BECOMES HUGLY PROFITABLE FOR PRIVATE HEALTH PROVIDERS. I AM SURE YOU KNOW COUPLES MORTGAGE THE HOUSE FOR IVF. NOW THE SAME PRESSURES WILL BE PRESSED INTO SERVICE TO PAY FOR TRANSITION.
Laura Lopez thank you so much for this work. I have been wanting to know the answers to a lot of these questions and you have done the work for us all.
I left the Green Party because of this, and I told them. Exactly these points. I told them. I mean: multiple emails with MPs who I was in direct communication with on other matters. Quite some time ago. And then of course there was Jill Abigail.
Oh so you're a man? A man insisting on forcing his way into women's toilets (gave yourself away there mate, even you know they're not for you and it's not okay to force your way in) and encouraging children to sterilise themselves in the hope they can have their breasts or penises removed as soon as they turn 18? That kind of helping the children?
“Social influences of some kind are also the only plausible explanation for the dramatic increase in people seeking medical transition, other than unlikely theories about microplastics in the water.”
We’re social influences also responsible for the dramatic increases of people identifying as homosexual in the past?
There were very few homosexuals in the 70s and 80s compared to the 90s and 00s.
Thank you for this information. I make 2 ancillary points:
Firstly: the use of hormone blockers to prevent the onset of puberty is not an approved use in this country. PHARMAC records overall figures for the drug but does not distinguish approved from unapproved use. This disguises the extent of uses of Blockers. While requiring recording the unapproved use of medicines may be difficult it should be required; not least because in a system of tax based funding we all pay for, or at least subsidise use.
Second: MOH, as you say, provides an extensive list of transition surgeries provided by the our publicly funded health service, but in practice funds very few surgeries. The young person, as you say, may embark on transition possibly believing they will get surgery for free. There is however only one practice providing these surgeries. These young people go onto the long public waiting list, but find themselves stuck waiting in limbo. They then have to option of paying for the same service from the same provider privately. Hence the numbers of youngsters pleading for money to fund transition on the internet, and enormous pressure on parents to pay the significant costs involved.
IN EFFECT THE PUBLIC SYSTEM HAS ORGANISED THE CLIENT LIST FOR THE PRIVATE BUSINESS. JUST LIKE IVF THIS BARNCH OF MEDICINE BECOMES HUGLY PROFITABLE FOR PRIVATE HEALTH PROVIDERS. I AM SURE YOU KNOW COUPLES MORTGAGE THE HOUSE FOR IVF. NOW THE SAME PRESSURES WILL BE PRESSED INTO SERVICE TO PAY FOR TRANSITION.
Holy smoke, Laura - a smoking gun indeed! Thanks for your detailed investigation, it will be most useful.
Laura Lopez thank you so much for this work. I have been wanting to know the answers to a lot of these questions and you have done the work for us all.
Thanks so much for this comprehensive overview of the situation in NZ. There is no other mental health issue that is 'fixed' by mutilating healthy bodies: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/sticks-and-stone-can-break-my-bones
I left the Green Party because of this, and I told them. Exactly these points. I told them. I mean: multiple emails with MPs who I was in direct communication with on other matters. Quite some time ago. And then of course there was Jill Abigail.
Oh so you're a man? A man insisting on forcing his way into women's toilets (gave yourself away there mate, even you know they're not for you and it's not okay to force your way in) and encouraging children to sterilise themselves in the hope they can have their breasts or penises removed as soon as they turn 18? That kind of helping the children?
“Social influences of some kind are also the only plausible explanation for the dramatic increase in people seeking medical transition, other than unlikely theories about microplastics in the water.”
We’re social influences also responsible for the dramatic increases of people identifying as homosexual in the past?
There were very few homosexuals in the 70s and 80s compared to the 90s and 00s.