FL Surgeon General: Don’t Get “Unsafe” New Booster

FL Surgeon General: Don’t Get “Unsafe” New Booster

I thought I had posted this, but I can’t find it and I hurt so badly both emotionally and physically, I am just going to do it again. This guy is a complete scammer. His whole graft before he was hired to be a shield for DeathSantis was to hock ivermectin as a cure for covid via over the internet consultation, where he charged hundreds of dollars before giving the prescription. He was part of the “Front Line Doctors” group run by the woman that claimed that diseases were caused by demon seed, meaning demon sperm, being put in people. This guy was hired by DeathSantis to back up his anti-mask anti-vaccine screed but then DeathSantis insisted a major state run university also hire him making his yearly salary almost $600,000 a year. So it is no wonder he is willing to parrot and claim any political thing DeathSantis wants. And just to be clear, Florida had more deaths from Covid by far than states that did push masking and vaccines, but DeathSantis did not care how many people died, he wanted the state to have tourist revenue.

To be clear, this jerk is one that Tildeb used to claim that gender affirming care for youth is harmful. And others believe and follow Tildeb as if he is a sincere truth telling person. In fact, he is a lying anti-trans bigot that misinforms and spreads lies about trans people and gender affirming medical care. I have no tolerance for such people because they cause harm to both kids and adults that identify as a different gender / sex than assigned at birth. Such people deny advances in medical science and want the world to return to a past when this issue was not discussed or addressed medically. Hugs

Fox News reports:

While speaking at a Thursday news conference for Gov. Ron DeSantis in Jacksonville, Florida, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, that state’s surgeon general, advised people to steer clear of the updated booster vaccine for COVID-19. “There’s a new vaccine that’s coming around the corner, a new mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, and there’s essentially no evidence for it,” Ladapo said during the news conference, according to local news outlets.

“There’s been no clinical trial done in human beings showing that it benefits people” he said. “There’s been no clinical trial showing that it is a safe product for people — and not only that, but then there are a lot of red flags.” Ladapo warned that the updated vaccines “actually cause cardiac injury in many people.” He l urged Floridians to make their own decisions based on their particular “resonance of truth,” rather than on “very educated people telling you what you should think.”

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MarkOH Sam_Handwich3 days ago

He needs to be STRIPPED of his board certification

Ninja0980 Sam_Handwich3 days ago

Same here.
People can listen to this fucking quack if they want but I won’t.

Boreal3 days ago

Needs to be in jail for endangering the public health.

Joseph Miceli Boreal3 days ago

Of course, the people most likely to listen to this ass-hat are most likely the ones holding the rest of us back, so there’s that.

B Snow Boreal3 days ago

I hope there’s an enormous class-action lawsuit against him and DeSantis sometime in the future, brought by the relatives of people who should have gotten the booster but didn’t, because this asshole said “Don’t listen to subject matter experts.”

jmax 3 days ago

He urged Floridians to make their own decisions based on their particular “resonance of truth,” rather than on “very educated people telling you what you should think.”

Or you could listen to the ravings of a complete lunatic liar

stretchdad jmax3 days ago

WTF is “resonance of truth”, anyway? Sounds like he’s encouraging people to believe whatever pops into their heads.

Claude Jacques Bonhomme stretchdad 3 days ago

Resonance of truth exists in the same parallel universe as Kellyanne’s alternative facts.

RoyalScribe stretchdad3 days ago

That’s exactly what he’s saying. Basically, “trust your gut instead of experts.”

Bungee jmax3 days ago

That mentality must be where the “I did my own research!!” crowd originated.

jmax Bungee3 days ago

“My knot-headed beliefs are just as valid as your scientific facts.”

carswell3 days ago

Advising the public to adopt harmful behaviour based on zero scientific evidence. In other words, a charlatan. Should be arrested and jailed for public endangerment.

chris3 days ago

Follow the Money applies.

How he maintains the medical license boggles the mind.

Posthumously chris3 days ago

He tells Republicans what they want to hear.

Australian study finds gender-affirming care halves suicidality among trans people

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/08/study-gender-affirming-care-trans-people/

As more and more of these studies get done and made public, it is getting harder for the NTI-TRANS haters to deny the good that gender affirming care does. It also shows the lie that these red state anti-trans care laws are to protect the children. That fact is they hurt children! Hugs

A landmark new study has found that access to gender-affirming care halves suicidality among transgender people. (Getty)

A new landmark study has found that access to gender-affirming healthcare significantly reduces rates of depression, gender dysphoria, and suicidality among transgender people.

While it’s no secret that providing gender-affirming care to transgender individuals who ask for it can greatly benefit their well-being, an increase in transphobic rhetoric and bans on gender-affirming healthcare has prompted thorough medical studies into the impact of such care.

Now, brand new research conducted in Melbourne, Australia, has found that allowing transgender people to access the care they’re after can reduce suicidality by a stunning 55 per cent.

As part of the first-ever randomized controlled trial (RCT) on gender-affirming care, researchers took 64 transgender and gender-diverse adults who had been looking to start testosterone therapy and randomly split them into a treatment group and a control group.

While the treatment group was allowed to begin hormone therapy that week, the control group waited three months for their treatment to begin.

The RCT trial noted a 55 per cent drop in suicidality among transgender individuals who received gender-affirming care. (Getty Images)

Before the study began, both groups were evaluated on depression, gender dysphoria, and suicidality. Three months later, the two groups were evaluated again.

RCTs for medical care can often be hard to conduct due to practical and ethical concerns. However, researchers of this study found a way to hold an RCT for this study by incorporating a shorter follow-up period. Rather than giving the control group a placebo drug, or no treatment at all, they were simply given a longer wait time.

The results showed a notable decrease in gender dysphoria, depression, and – most significantly – suicidality.

The group that received gender-affirming care right away saw a 55 per cent reduction in suicidality compared to a 5 per cent drop within the control group.

Depression scores in the treatment group decreased by half, while gender dysphoria rates also significantly decreased.

Breaking down their findings, researchers Brendan J. Nolan MBBS, Sav Zwickl, PhD, and Peter Locke wrote: “There was a statistically significant decrease in gender dysphoria in individuals with immediate [access to gender-affirming care] compared with delayed initiation of testosterone therapy.

“A clinically significant decrease in depression and a decrease in suicidality also occurred with immediate testosterone therapy.

“The findings of this trial suggest that testosterone therapy significantly decreases gender dysphoria, depression, and suicidality in transgender and gender-diverse individuals desiring testosterone therapy.”

The results showed a notable decrease in gender dysphoria, depression, and – most significantly – suicidality. (Jama Network)

Of course, this isn’t the first time that research has shown significant drops in depression and suicide rates among transgender individuals who receive gender-affirming care.

A 2022 medical study showed that young transgender people who have access to puberty blockers are 73 per cent less at risk of suicide and report improved well-being.

But, as anti-trans activists advocate for further bans on gender-affirming care, one of the key arguments is that the evidence in support of the care isn’t up to scratch with GRADE (Grades of Recommendation, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation) standards.

So research like this landmark RCT is so significant to the transgender community and its allies as the fight for their healthcare rights rumbles on.

Cis Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Britons Overwhelmingly Support The Trans Community – #LGBWithTheT

This is in direct refutation of the anti-trans haters that keep claiming that all other countries are stopping trans treatment. It is, like everything else they claim, a lie. Hugs

My last post about my childhood

Hello readers and followers. In my last post I put in the line I needed to go clear my mind of the post. That was because I had to go over and over what I wrote to correct it. However I do not want people to take that as I might not want comments on the post. If you have a comment to make, please feel free to do so. And I will respond. I belong to a survivor’s forum and talking about the abuse and feed back from others can be helpful. That is why all the therapist I have seen in the past recommending writing it out even if it was only in a letter I wouldn’t ever send. It is just a way to get it out of my mind and body and try to let it go away. If you try to ignore it or deny it, if you do what I did for so very long and bury it as deep as possible never letting on why you are hurting it leads to consequences such as self harm. Thank you. Hugs

Let’s talk about Biden, recommendations, and information….

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I love massages, and I used to give Ron them all the time. He can’t do them for me due to his hands hurting. But I enjoy it so much and with my hard rock tight muscles it is such a relief. I really wish I could get one of these. Hugs

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Horrifying. I was once working in the yard before I understood what fire ants were when we first moved to Florida. They swarmed my legs before they started to sting as a group. That is what they do, the first ant doesn’t sting, they wait until they have a bunch of them when dealing with large prey. By dogs that love gravy, that is painful. Ron’s mother had to be hospitalized because of a fire ant attach. They are nothing to take lightly. They can kill a fully grown cow because they swarm the prey / threat. Hugs

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Trans information and medical resource material.

Viced Rhino is an atheist YouTuber who mostly does debunking of Christian apologist. But as a father of three children including one out lesbian teenager, he has covered a lot of the anti-LGBTQIA stuff. He has compiled a pretty great list of studies and medical information. He broke it out into categories. I love it as it is easy to use and all the material to respond to anti-trans haters is in one neatly organized place. Hugs

https://linktr.ee/rhinostransresearch

Long-Term Regret and Satisfaction With Decision Following Gender-Affirming Mastectomy

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37556147/

I keep hearing the anti-trans crowd scream about how so many people who have transitioned regret it. They constantly push that trans men who have mastectomies, removing their breasts then wish they had not done so. In fact, that myth is used to push anti-transitioning care laws. Even in the comments I have some who ask about the ones who have their breast removed as if it is a large and growing number. This is a new study, peer reviewed, done by medical professionals. It debunks that myth and shows it for the made up lie it is. I will post the entire thing, it is short but rather hard to read with all the numbers they throw in. But I will put the conclusion right at the top in bold red. It shows that the 1% regret rate is true. That means for every 100 people who female to male and have their breasts removed, 99 are happy and doing better. Only one person had regrets, and in truth they can get fake breasts implanted if they are that unhappy. Again for the sake of that one person the anti-trans people want to stop the good outcomes for the other 99 people. Doesn’t make sense, does it? Hugs

Conclusions and relevance: In this cross-sectional survey study, the results of validated survey instruments indicated low rates of decisional regret and high levels of satisfaction with decision following gender-affirming mastectomy. The lack of dissatisfaction and regret impeded the ability to perform a more complex statistical analysis, highlighting the need for condition-specific instruments to assess decisional regret and satisfaction with decision following gender-affirming surgery.

Long-Term Regret and Satisfaction With Decision Following Gender-Affirming Mastectomy

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Affiliations

¹University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor.
²Section of Plastic Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
³Michigan Institute for Clinical Health Research, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
⁴Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, Ann Arbor.
⁵Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, Washington.

PMID: 37556147
PMCID: PMC10413215 (available on 2024-08-09)
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2023.3352

Abstract

Importance: There has been increasing legislative interest in regulating gender-affirming surgery, in part due to the concern about decisional regret. The regret rate following gender-affirming surgery is thought to be approximately 1%; however, previous studies relied heavily on ad hoc instruments.

Objective: To evaluate long-term decisional regret and satisfaction with decision using validated instruments following gender-affirming mastectomy.

Design, setting, and participants: For this cross-sectional study, a survey of patient-reported outcomes was sent between February 1 and July 31, 2022, to patients who had undergone gender-affirming mastectomy at a US tertiary referral center between January 1, 1990, and February 29, 2020.

Exposure: Decisional regret and satisfaction with decision to undergo gender-affirming mastectomy.

Main outcomes and measures: Long-term patient-reported outcomes, including the Holmes-Rovner Satisfaction With Decision scale, the Decision Regret Scale, and demographic characteristics, were collected. Additional information was collected via medical record review. Descriptive statistics and univariable analysis using Fisher exact and Wilcoxon rank sum tests were performed to compare responders and nonresponders.

Results: A total of 235 patients were deemed eligible for the study, and 139 responded (59.1% response rate). Median age at the time of surgery was 27.1 (IQR, 23.0-33.4) years for responders and 26.4 (IQR, 23.1-32.7) years for nonresponders. Nonresponders (n = 96) had a longer postoperative follow-up period than responders (median follow-up, 4.6 [IQR, 3.1-8.6] vs 3.6 [IQR, 2.7-5.3] years, respectively; P = .002). Nonresponders vs responders also had lower rates of depression (42 [44%] vs 94 [68%]; P < .001) and anxiety (42 [44%] vs 97 [70%]; P < .001). No responders or nonresponders requested or underwent a reversal procedure. The median Satisfaction With Decision Scale score was 5.0 (IQR, 5.0-5.0) on a 5-point scale, with higher scores noting higher satisfaction. The median Decision Regret Scale score was 0.0 (IQR, 0.0-0.0) on a 100-point scale, with lower scores noting lower levels of regret. A univariable regression analysis could not be performed to identify characteristics associated with low satisfaction with decision or high decisional regret due to the lack of variation in these responses.

Conclusions and relevance: In this cross-sectional survey study, the results of validated survey instruments indicated low rates of decisional regret and high levels of satisfaction with decision following gender-affirming mastectomy. The lack of dissatisfaction and regret impeded the ability to perform a more complex statistical analysis, highlighting the need for condition-specific instruments to assess decisional regret and satisfaction with decision following gender-affirming surgery.

Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Ms Bruce and Dr Morrison reported receiving grants from The Plastic Surgery Foundation during the conduct of the study. Dr Lane reported receiving salary support via an F32 training grant (F32HS028748-01) from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality outside the submitted work. No other disclosures were reported.