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Updated and Verified: October 05, 2024 (News page records significant changes.)

Mastectomy is a procedure and form of dismemberment. A mastectomy dismembers one or both of a woman or girl's breasts. Usually, this dismemberment serves the medical purpose of combatting the woman or girl's breast cancer.1-2 Sometimes, the dismemberment serves as gender affirming care to cosmetically disguise the woman or girl's sex. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, protocols exist to commit a cosmetic dismemberment to a female child's breasts: "follow the SOC [Standards of Care] for children and adolescents. . . . published . . . by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).3

WPATH: World Professional Association for Transgender Health

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health is a nonprofit that receives millions of dollars every year to promote transgenderism.4 The United States federal government exempts WPATH from taxation.5 WPATH "repudiate[s]" and denounces as "harmful" any attempt to dissuade children from aligning with WPATH's worldview, including WPATH's self-assumed authority for its psychiatrists to declare a child "gender diverse" and, thereby, to assume authority over the child's thoughts and body parts.6 (p. S67) WPATH's psychiatrists promote the scientifically baseless stigma of "autism spectrum disorders and other neurodiversity."6 (p. S70) For that repudiation, WPATH cites, among other sources, the United States Federal Government's declared aim to outlaw any conversations with sexually confused children, except those conversations that promote sterility and population reduction: "Ending Conversion Therapy: Supporting and Affirming LGBTQ Youth"6 (p. S235), 7

References

References

  1. What is a mastectomy? American Cancer Society. Published December 20, 2023. Accessed July 11, 2024. https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/breast-cancer/treatment/surgery-for-breast-cancer/mastectomy.html
  2. Mastectomy. Johns Hopkins Medicine. Published August 8, 2021. Accessed July 11, 2024. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/breast-cancer/mastectomy
  3. By Michael Hu MD, Tuesday M 1. InService insights: Gender-affirming mastectomy. American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Accessed July 11, 2024. https://www.plasticsurgery.org/for-medical-professionals/publications/plastic-surgery-resident/news/inservice-insights-gender-affirming-mastectomy
  4. World Professional Association for Transgender Health Inc. ProPublica. Published May 9, 2013. Accessed July 11, 2024. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/942675140
  5. Mission and vision. World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Published August 19, 2022. https://www.wpath.org/about/mission-and-vision
  6. Coleman E, Radix AE, Bouman WP, et al. Standards of care for the health of transgender and gender diverse people, version 8. Int J Transgen Health. 2022;23(sup1):S1-S259. http://doi.org/doi:10.1080/26895269.2022.2100644
  7. Ending conversion therapy: Supporting and affirming LGBTQ youth. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. https://store.samhsa.gov/sites/default/files/sma15-4928.pdf

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Obviously, those standards are extremely conservative, if not heavy-handed. However, one should remember that many of those people in government who uphold such strict standards have seen the stuff of nightmares: predictable, preventable, terrible consequences when the least capable and least conscientious people make the worst decisions - whether medically, legally, nutritionally, or otherwise. So, it is not wildly unreasonable to promote - even to legally command - erring on the safe side. Still, various jurisdictions do provide some exceptions to those exceptionally strict standards under law.

Here in Minnesota (and in many other U.S. states and territories) a person can help you with certain aspects of your medical, legal, and metabolic status and circumstances - even when that person is not formally licensed by the jurisdiction. Minnesota, for example, allows various people besides licensed nutritionists and registered dieticians to give metabolic advice and guidance: certain Complementary and Alternative Health Care providers, which Minnesota allows under law. Minn. Stat. ยง 146A. Thus, one need not feel completely locked into the strict standards listed above (though jurisdictions do typically still hold alternative providers to certain basic standards under law). Instead, in the USA, one can discuss the information on this website, and receive guidance about it, from various experts - whether jurisdiction-licensed or not. Meanwhile, this thorough and smart-sounding notice and explanation should not tempt any visitor into having any extra trust for the information in this website. At most, as the saying goes: "trust but verify."

Sincerely,

Dr. R. Floyd Lindquist

Her Metabolism: Founder, Treasurer, Secretary, Lead Data Scientist, and Director of Communications and Research

PhD (Thanatology), PsyD (Psychology), DLP (Law and Policy), MPH (Nutrition & Epidemiology), MS (Nutrition), MA (Counseling)

floyd[at]hermetabolism[dot]org

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