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Post by clusterchuck » Mon May 29, 2023 4:52 pm

There's no such thing as "child gender-affirming care". But adults intentionally causing gender confusion in children, then designing "medical procedures" to immorally impose life long issues through child mutilation is very real.

See if you can connect the dots as they relate to Paxton impeachment in the following series of articles.


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Sex-Change Procedures at Texas Children’s Hospital
Doctors said that they would stop such medical interventions. Whistleblower documents prove that they haven’t.

/ Eye on the News / The Social Order, Health Care
May 16 2023

Last spring, executives at Texas Children’s Hospital announced that they would cease performing transgender medical procedures on children, citing potential legal and criminal liability. The hospital’s chief pediatrician, Catherine Gordon, an advocate for “gender-affirming therapy,” abruptly resigned.

I have obtained exclusive whistleblower documents showing that, despite its public statements, the Houston-based children’s hospital—the largest in the United States—has secretly continued to perform transgender medical interventions, including the use of implantable puberty blockers, on minor children. (When reached via email, hospital spokeswoman Kelley Carville responded: “We have no comment.”)

As an institution, Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) has openly promoted “gender-affirming care” to its physicians. In January of this year, TCH and Baylor College of Medicine, which works in partnership with the children’s hospital, hosted a “pediatric grand rounds” presentation titled “Medical and Psychological Care of Gender-Diverse Youth,” describing the process of sex-change interventions, from puberty blockers to cross-sex hormones to genital surgeries.

According to this presentation, TCH and Baylor College of Medicine encouraged doctors to begin treatment with puberty blockers and hormones during adolescence, and then consider surgeries, including breast removal and genital reconstruction, in adulthood—though the presenters explained that some surgical procedures could be appropriate for “adolescents on [a] case-by-case basis.”

Richard Roberts, a University of Virginia-trained endocrinologist and assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine who co-presented the grand rounds, is also listed in medical records as performing transgender medical procedures on minors at TCH. According to these records, Roberts has managed patients ranging in age from 12 to 17 years old for “gender identity” and “gender dysphoria,” with indications for “medication,” “testosterone levels,” “medicine refill,” and “specialty services.”

Despite the hospital’s statement that it had ceased these practices, Roberts has continued to manage a heavy caseload for “gender-affirming care,” including multiple patient visits in a single day last week for “gender dysphoria” and “gender identity,” and another for “HRT [hormone replacement therapy].”

Another doctor at Texas Children’s, a Harvard-trained surgeon and assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine named Kristy Rialon, has also been involved in conducting transgender surgical procedures on minors. The records indicate that Rialon inserted and removed “non-biodegradable drug delivery implant[s]” for “gender dysphoria in pediatric patient[s]” throughout 2022 and 2023—including one procedure on an 11-year-old “female-to-male transgender person,” listed in records for three days after the hospital had announced that it had stopped performing “gender-affirming care.”

The patients getting implants (or removals) from Rialon were 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 years old. Other medical records confirm that Rialon has administered the drug Supprelin LA, an implantable gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) medication that is one of the most commonly used drugs for blocking puberty in transgender-identified children.

The executives at Texas Children’s appear to be playing a duplicitous game. They announced that the hospital had stopped performing transgender medical interventions on minors, but this is simply untrue. TCH doctors administered such procedures days after the announcement, and they have continued to perform them throughout 2022 and 2023.

If “gender-affirming care” is truly the gold standard in medicine, TCH should defend it openly, not perform it in secret. State legislators, currently considering a bill to ban such procedures, should launch an investigation into the hospital and require those involved to account for their practices—or face severe consequences.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/se ... s-hospital

Edit: add italicized words: See if you can connect the dots as they relate to Paxton impeachment in the following series of articles.
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Largest US Children’s Hospital Will No Longer Offer Transgender Medical Procedures: CEO
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Katabella Roberts
May 26 2023

Texas Children’s Hospital, the nation’s largest children’s hospital, will no longer offer transgender medical procedures for children, according to the hospital’s CEO Mark Wallace.

The decision will place the hospital in compliance with legislation, Senate Bill 14, which passed in a vote mainly along party lines on May 11.

The legislation will take effect on Sept. 1 once it is signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott, who has signaled he will do so.

Under the legislation (pdf), procedures and treatments for gender transitioning, gender reassignment, or gender dysphoria that are intended to transition a child’s biological sex, will be banned.

Such procedures include those that sterilize children, such as castration, vasectomy, hysterectomy, and vaginoplasty, as well as drugs that induce temporary or permanent infertility, or block or delay normal puberty.

In a memo to staff shared on Twitter, Wallace said the bill has “clear and direct programmatic implications for our patients, families, faculty, staff, and care teams” adding that over the next few months, the hospital will “modify” its “gender-affirming care to comply with the new law.”



The CEO said the hospital will work with patients and their families to find alternatives for gender surgeries and hormone therapies out-of-state, and will “continue to offer psychological support and any form of care within the bounds of the law.”

“The transition we will embark on is going to be immensely heart-wrenching, but we will lead through this adversity and navigate these next steps together with grace, love, and compassion like we always do,” Wallace said.

‘Painful’ Decision
Wallace noted that as the largest pediatric health care provider in the nation, “being unable to serve and support these children and families the way we have in the past is painful.”

“It is difficult for me, the In-Chiefs & Chairs, executives, faculty, staff, and care teams to know that this is where we find ourselves,” he continued.

A spokesperson for Texas Children’s Hospital confirmed the authenticity of the memo when contacted by The Epoch Times.

The spokesperson said the hospital is not canceling any current appointments.

The memo from Wallace comes just days after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced an investigation into Texas Children’s Hospital over claims that it provided gender transition-related care to minors, despite stating last year that it would stop. Abbott previously issued an order asking state agencies to investigate gender-affirming care as child abuse.

“I’ve been clear that any ‘gender transitioning’ procedures that hurt our children constitute child abuse under Texas law,” Paxton said in a statement released May 19.

Whistleblower Claims
The attorney general noted that recent reports indicate that the hospital “may be unlawfully performing such procedures” and that his office is working to “uncover the truth.”

A whistleblower claimed the hospital continued to secretly perform transgender medical interventions on minors despite the announcement last year, including one procedure on an 11-year-old girl just three days after its announcement.

“I am committed to investigating any entity in our state to ensure that our children are protected. Though many unhinged activists compromising the healthcare field think otherwise, children are not to be treated as science experiments. Doctors and hospitals should not be pushing mutilative and irreversible ‘gender transitioning’ procedures that will negatively impact innocent children for the rest of their lives,” Paxton said.

Paxton is also investigating Dell Children’s Medical Center over “unlawful behavior” related to gender transitioning procedures.

Senate Bill 14 includes exemptions such as in cases where treatments are needed for the purpose of normalizing puberty for a minor experiencing precocious puberty, or if a child was born with a medically verifiable genetic disorder of sex development, among others.

Republicans have argued that the legislation is needed to protect children from making potentially fatal life-altering decisions and have pointed out that there is no high-quality scientific evidence suggesting that “gender-affirming” procedures help children overcome gender dysphoria.

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Re: News related to the Paxton Impeachment

Post by clusterchuck » Mon May 29, 2023 4:54 pm

Texas AG Ken Paxton’s COVID-19 vaccine investigation could stick it to Big Pharma execs
By Miranda Devine
April 30, 2023 10:21pm Updated

It’s sickening how much Big Pharma bosses have profited from the COVID-19 pandemic, after overselling billions of people around the world on the wondrous qualities of their vaccines.

Moderna chief executive Stéphane Bancel made nearly $400 million last year on his stock options and still owns a reported $2.8 billion of shares in the company plus his salary and perks.

His Pfizer counterpart, Albert Bourla, pocketed a $33 million salary last year, on top of the millions in Pfizer shares he sold.

But before they ride off into the sunset to count their filthy lucre, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton plans to investigate whether their companies misrepresented the efficacy and safety of the vaccines and manipulated vaccine trial data.

On Monday, Paxton will launch an investigation into potential violations of his state’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act by Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, he has revealed exclusively in The Post.

He also wants to know whether the pharmaceutical giants engaged in gain-of-function research and misled the public about it.

Immune … to laws
The Texas investigation could have widespread implications for the legal immunity granted to manufacturers of the COVID-19 vaccines and open the door to class-action lawsuits from people injured by the mRNA jabs, amid reports of rare but serious adverse effects.

“The catastrophic effects of the pandemic and subsequent interventions forced on our country and citizens deserve intense scrutiny, and we are pursuing any hint of wrongdoing to the fullest,” Paxton said in a statement.

“This pandemic was a deeply challenging time for Americans. If any company illegally took advantage of consumers during this period or compromised people’s safety to increase their profits, they will be held responsible.

Paxton is probing potential violations of Texas’ Deceptive Trade Practices Act by Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson.

“If public health policy was developed on the basis of flawed or misleading research, the public must know.”

He says Big Pharma had a “vested interest” in the success of its COVID-19 vaccines because of the record profits they drove.

“This vested interest … combined with reports about the alarming side effects of vaccines, demands aggressive investigation.”

The existence of federal vaccine mandates “means this investigation into the scientific and ethical basis on which public health decisions were made is of major significance.”

Paxton will demand the companies hand over documents relating to the “decision-making behind pandemic interventions forced on the public, especially when a profit motive or political pressure may have compromised Americans’ health and safety.”

Checking Big Pharma
The Texas investigation comes on the heels of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ call for a grand jury investigation into “crimes and wrongdoing committed against Floridians related to the COVID-19 vaccine.”

DeSantis has appointed independent experts such as Stanford University professor Jay Bhattacharya to a new Public Health Integrity Committee to examine “adverse events from mRNA vaccines.”

“The Biden administration and pharmaceutical corporations continue to push widespread distribution of mRNA vaccines on the public, including children as young as 6 months old, through relentless propaganda while ignoring real-life adverse events,” DeSantis office said in a statement in December.

“These risks include coagulation disorders, acute cardiac injuries, Bell’s palsy, encephalitis, appendicitis, and shingles.”

DeSantis and his state Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo maintain that, while the vaccines were effective in protecting older and vulnerable people, risks for younger people may have outweighed the benefits.

Meanwhile, author Alex Berenson last week sued President Biden, other federal officials and Pfizer bigwigs — including $33 million boss Bourla and board member Scott Gottlieb — for “conspiring to violate my Constitutional rights.”

A shot in the arm
Berenson has been the tip of the spear when it comes to holding Big Pharma accountable.

He sued Twitter and forced it to hand over documents showing that senior Biden administration officials were behind his ban from Twitter in August 2021.

According to Berenson’s lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court, Gottlieb, the former Trump FDA commissioner-turned-Pfizer board member, allegedly pressured Twitter to de-platform Berenson for tweeting that the mRNA injections don’t stop transmission of the virus, a fact that CDC Director Rochelle Walensky admitted in testimony to Congress last week.

In other words, claims that vaccine mandates would stop the spread of the virus were wildly exaggerated.

But they were great for vaccine sales.

Twitter was forced to reinstate Berenson’s account and acknowledge that his “tweets should not have led to suspension.”

But the Big Tech censorship regime first uncovered by Berenson’s court case, and later in the “Twitter files” and lawsuits by the states of Missouri and Louisiana, show that truthful statements about the benefits of natural immunity and the efficacy of vaccines were suppressed in ways that benefited Big Pharma.

Paxton’s probe will further add to our knowledge about how that cozy arrangement worked.

“Given the unprecedented political power and influence over public health policies that pharmaceutical companies now wield, it is more important than ever that they are held accountable if they take dangerous, illegal actions to boost their revenues,” he said.

Amen.

https://nypost.com/2023/04/30/texas-ag- ... rma-execs/
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Pharma funded more than 2,400 state lawmaker campaigns in 2020, new STAT analysis finds
By Lev Facher
June 9, 2021

PharmaBuysStateCongress.jpg

Interactives by Kaitlyn Bartley

WASHINGTON — State lawmakers in Oregon have tried to lower high drug prices from nearly every angle: They’ve sought to cap how much people can pay for insulin, install a panel that could determine how much state agencies should pay for medicines, and even import drugs in bulk from Canada. Nearly every proposal has failed.

One reason, at least according to the effort’s supporters: Two-thirds of the state legislature accepted at least one campaign check from the drug industry during the 2020 election cycle. The trade group PhRMA, alone, wrote checks to 43 of the legislature’s 90 lawmakers.

It was even more dramatic in Louisiana, where 84% of lawmakers accepted funding from pharmaceutical companies. In California, it was 82%, and in Illinois, 76% of legislators cashed a check.

“It’s gross,” said Rachel Prusak, a Democratic state representative in Oregon who has introduced a number of drug pricing bills. “I’m sure it influences other people that take a lot of money. That’s why we can’t get bills passed.”

The same dynamic has played out in nearly every state across the country. In the last two years, at least 2,467 state legislators — over one-third of all state lawmakers nationwide — used pharmaceutical industry cash to fund their campaigns, according to a new STAT analysis of campaign finance records that spans the full 2020 election cycle. The industry wrote over 10,000 individual checks totaling more than $9 million.

STAT’s findings provide an unprecedented look at drug industry influence in state capitols across the 2020 election cycle. The dataset includes the largest 23 U.S. drug manufacturers by revenue plus the trade groups PhRMA and BIO. It builds upon a previous analysis that STAT published prior to the election, and now includes complete data from nearly every state, including all contributions made through Dec. 31, 2020.

The analysis accompanies a separate review of donations to members of Congress. For both projects, readers can browse interactive maps that chart drug companies’ donations to states, political parties, and lawmakers.

It’s hard to compare the drug industry’s spending in the 2020 election to past election cycles, since similar analyses don’t exist. But it’s clear that pharmaceutical companies found themselves in an unprecedented political moment: At the start of the cycle, widespread and increasingly vocal animus over high drug prices spurred a slew of aggressive new policy proposals.

Then the Covid-19 crisis plunged the drug industry into a vaccine race that overhauled both its priorities and its reputation writ large. But there’s still plenty of pressure on lawmakers to help consumers save money on medicine, advocates insist.

“Pharma is fighting us hard in any way that they can: By campaign contributions, by lobbying, whatever angle they can get to gain a foothold,” said Maribeth Guarino, a health care advocate for the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group, a nonprofit. “Oregon has no contribution limits for campaigns. Pharmaceutical companies can spend as much as they think it’ll take to win.”

In state legislatures, a small corporate contribution can go a long way. While a member of Congress might view a $2,500 PAC check as largely symbolic, in a competitive local race, the same money can help to fund TV ads, T-shirts, and lawn signs, and by extension, win votes.

Even Prusak, the Oregon lawmaker who is outspoken on drug pricing issues, accepted two $1,000 contributions as she campaigned for reelection in 2020: One from Gilead Sciences and another from Genentech.

Prusak, a nurse practitioner, was unaware of Genentech’s contribution, but said that often, lawmakers or their aides cash checks without much thought. Overall, her colleagues in Oregon received an outsize share of pharmaceutical cash: The drug industry gave more money to state legislative races in Oregon than it did for elections in any state besides California and Illinois.

If drug companies continue to oppose her price-transparency bill, however, she said she would take a tougher line.

“I will have to make the decision: I’m not taking pharma money,” she said. “If it ends up landing in my path, I can send it back. And some people would say: ‘That’s stupid, Rachel. You should take their money. You’re never going to vote with them.’ But it’s a statement, right?”

Many lawmakers raked in far larger sums. Chad Mayes, formerly the California State Assembly’s top Republican and now a political independent, accepted $79,600 from drug companies — the most of any lawmaker in the country. Three state Democrats in the California Assembly were close behind, having cashed between $65,000 and $75,000 in total.

One Oregon lawmaker, Tim Knopp, cashed the cycle’s biggest contribution from a drug company: a $25,000 check from the trade group PhRMA. Knopp is the vice-chair of the Oregon Senate’s health care committee.

In most cases nationally, the drug industry donated to politicians running for reelection, and avoided supporting candidates who were challenging incumbents. Such practices are typical for corporate campaign donors, who often see the checks as helping to build relationships and secure access to people currently in power.

Still, drug companies were adept at picking winners. Of the more than $9 million the pharmaceutical industry spent on state legislative races, less than $500,000 went to candidates who lost. Most of the money helped to fund winning reelection campaigns, though $1.8 million went to candidates who retired instead of running again in 2019 or 2020.

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Post by nolaxride » Tue May 30, 2023 10:42 am

Why has the GOP consistently refused to regulate drug prices?
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And there goes LibMaggot nobrain again...
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Post by nolaxride » Tue May 30, 2023 11:48 am

ROTFLMAO... great entertainment is the number of posters on this board who consistently deflect from the subject in lui of personal insults.

Yes, you. Stop rolling your eyes; your brain cell is hiding. You won't find it.
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Post by nolaxride » Fri Jun 02, 2023 11:36 am

Is this the same Paxton who the Texas GOP is impeaching?
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Post by clusterchuck » Fri Jun 02, 2023 11:47 am

nolaxride wrote:
Fri Jun 02, 2023 11:36 am
Is this the same Paxton who the Texas GOP is impeaching?
Perhaps some day, the reality of Uniparty will penetrate the space between your ears.
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Post by Evil » Fri Jun 02, 2023 11:51 am

When your tribe gets so bad that you can't defend it anymore resort to either "both sides" or " uniparty."
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