https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-15/teenage-boy-was-given-estrogen-developed-breast-tissue-while-in-l-a-county-juvenile-hall-lawsuit-alleges
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The teen, whose identity is being withheld because of his age, was diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder, or ODD, two days after he was arrested and housed at Eastlake Juvenile Hall in June 2019, the lawsuit said. Medical records reviewed by The Times show that the teen’s testosterone levels were “slightly high” when the doctor who diagnosed him prescribed daily doses of estrogen.
Estrogen regulates the development of female sexual characteristics and reproduction. Men produce the hormone at much lower levels.
After taking approximately 13 daily doses of the hormone, the teen was diagnosed with gynecomastia, defined as the enlargement or swelling of breast tissue in males whose estrogen level is too high, medical records show.
ODD, a behavioral condition that is sometimes suffered by patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, is normally treated with therapy, said James McGough, a professor of clinical psychiatry at UCLA.
“Estrogen is not a treatment for ODD. I can’t be more emphatic about that,” McGough said. “You won’t find a reference anywhere that supports the use of estrogen for ODD.”
Preface: This isnt some 'lets rip on trans people' post. so put your pitchforks away. This is about the insanity of california and their march off the cliff of progressivism. this is something that should NEVER have been done, and was aparently done to more than one child. Fuck off if that's your goal.
People jokingly said "they're not literally just going to start shooting problematic boys up with estrogen". Any sane person would agree, that a sane government, and sane system would not do this, or EVER allow this to happen. Nobody in their right minds would EVER do this. i firmly believed this.
i was apparently wrong.
i pray to god this was incompetence, and not some nutjob shooting up juvie kids with estrogen out of some misguided ideological move. there is no logical reason to have ever done this. he literally FORCED a teenage boy to grow breasts.
i talked to a friend about this, who works specifically as a psychiatrist, and his immediate reaction was: 'you're lying. no sane doctor would ever prescribe estrogen for ADHD/ODD in a child'. he was literally in complete and total disbelief when i showed him this article this morning.
so my questions become -
1. Was this a one off situation?
2. Was this more widespread and this is just the first we've heard about it?
3. Why did the doctor do this?
4. Was it ideologically motivated?
5. Was this done to more boys kept in the juvinile detention centers?
6. was this done anywhere else other than LA?
From what i'm reading, other news sources are reporting that this was potentially a
standard procedure within the LA juvenile system. if that is true... what in the absolute shit has happened? if this was approved by any level of the government of california - WHY?
This quote.....
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“He’s like a different person. He just wants to be in his room, and he don’t come out for nothing, all day in his room,” the father said. “He was never like that.”
yea i wouldnt want to come out of my room either if someone sent me to juvie and i wound up being forced to grow tits.