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Source: The Highwire with Del Bigtree

ARE GENDER TRANSITION DRUGS SAFE?

May 11, 2023 · 18m 47s

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I am a D-Transitioner. I am an 18-year-old D-Transitioner. I originally came out publicly with my story in January 2020 while I was still in the transition. I've seen firsthand the horrors that transitioning so young can bring. I came out here to share my experience as somebody who I felt could have avoided this. This is our goal overall, is to bring awareness to D-Transitioners. We've gone through

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it, we've escaped out of it, and we're exposing the truth of their lives. At 15, I underwent a double mastectomy in my breast for permanently removed. I wanted to be a mother one day. And if I were to continue down the path of being a foe male, I never would be able to do that. I saw transition. I started socially transitioning at the age of 15.

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The medicalization began at 17 with a very high dose of testosterone. When I turned 18, my birthday present to myself was cutting off my boobs. I went on testosterone and estrogen blockers at age 17 and then age 19. I had a double mastectomy, but that mastectomy went very wrong. I ended up having massive bilateral hematoma, which is like pulling of blood underneath the skin. And my

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surgeon, he was nowhere to be seen. It was just let me take your money, let me like, you know, use a scalpel on you and then... I knew in the beginning there wasn't going to be any support. They claimed to be the good guys, but the good guy did not yell at people, silence them, give them credible death threats. My daughter was being socially transitioning to

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believing that she was a boy. My daughter's school was socially transitioning her behind my back. And she had a teacher who was using male pronouns and a new made-up name for her. This was when she was 11 years old. Decided that she was a boy at the age of 13. And I watched my daughter mental health decline significantly when she took on a trans identity. We

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had a parent that came to us and we had teachers that came to us. That they were being told by the administration. The title 9 includes confidentiality to lie to parents, telling these children that they can't trust their parents with this critical issue that they're dealing with in their life. You're undermining the very foundational element of that which nurtures a child. At that moment we say

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we might be trans, we are automatically affirmed in giving a pathway to medicization and surgeries. Even adult patients who I've talked to, they feel like they were duped into something that they were lied to by the doctors that they weren't really given the full picture of how transitioning would affect them. Parents are being lied to who are vulnerable with suicidal children and being told that if

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they don't affirm medicalize and unilaterally and sterilize their child, that that child will kill themselves and it's just not true. We're in a society where there's a quick fix for everything. They want to give you a pill for everything. They want to give you a procedure for everything. Most of the kids are on some sort of medications all the times. My daughter, friends, group, they're all

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popping pills at an insane pace. The adults in the community were telling them it could be helpful for the kids to take drugs that could ruin their endocrine system and get surgeries that could leave them with pain for life and incontinence and risk of sepsis. There's no one on the medical side who can help them de-transition because this is all an experiment. They don't understand why

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the de-transitioners have pain. They don't understand why things ache. They don't understand why they have incontinence. They don't know. We're talking quarter million dollars over the course of a 15-year. So we'd love to have a transgender patient, right? This one you write in your pocket. I want to stop the practice. I'm medically transitioning and forming these children. We have to get this away from children because

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children are very impressionable young minds. We need actual safeguards. This is a gender war. It's occult in children and mentally ill people are on the front lines going straight down the conveyor belt to the altar to cut off body parts. This is when you're relating otherwise beautiful, perfect young children. We need to stop these procedures for everybody under the age of 18. We have to finally

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legislatively ban this practice. I do know people who, you know, very well at least believe that they were going to end their life. They didn't get transitional medicine. I do feel like if we gave people psychological interventions that maybe we wouldn't be seeing the necessity for the medical interventions whatsoever. They say a woman is a Barbie. And what they say a man is GI Joe and

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nobody's either of those. We're all in the middle and we should celebrate our differences and never tell a child that everything is wrong with their body. You cut off body parts of children when they don't fit right. You teach them how to live into these kids. We're perverting people's completely normal feelings and their struggles. That their bodies are wrong. Not they should change them. That's not

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right. We should be teaching people from the get-go is that you are whole. Nothing will make you whole. You have to find that within yourself. I know all of these things. And I just think, you know, how little is known about this. And as I was working on this, one of my, you know, favorite doctors out there came to mind Dr. Patrick Flynn. They call him

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the hormone whisperer. He is the author of I disagree. And I wanted to ask him some questions. So I'm really psyched to be joined by Dr. Patrick Flynn right now. Dr. Flynn, it's great to see you. And this discussion and what I find shocking is really, you know, as from Lucas perspective, how little is known. And one of the things you and I have been on

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stages speaking, you know, all of the country. You've been all over the world. You're very focused on how even more important than vitamins is, you know, hormones and our balance. And so I really wanted to ask you, you know, what happens to a body when we just inject, you know, woman with or a girl with testosterone a child or we, you know, take a boy and

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inject them with estrogen. Is it just that simple, easy, peasy. And now we're just, you know, turned it with different gender. I have to imagine since you are so, you know, specific about every little nuance of your hormones affecting your future. What are your thoughts on this issue? Well, to me, it's very scary for the things that because there's a big difference between men and women.

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Women come to their hormones. For example, if you just even take a look at the basic science of how hormones are produced and converted. Do you understand that, that the females will have different enzymes in a higher level enzymes to help convert their hormones to other forms. Males have this a little differently, but so they're not the same level. And to give you an example, you

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know, if you look at just testosterone cell. Guys can actually handle a certain level testosterone because what it does is actually produced and then convert to other forms. So they're meant, their bodies biologically meant to take it. And therefore, if you get too high or too low, there's physical and there's mental things that happen, even if boys or men get too high or too low testosterone.

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It gets even a little bit more devastating. What also comes to women because they have so many more conditions that can happen if they end up with like estrogen dominance or even low progesterone. But things this, they each have different factors that cause them to convert to different forms. And I can give you example. If you look at the normal ranges of just even like let's

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say estrogen for males. If you look at the, the, the, the, the women is about four or five times more than a, than a male. A male has a roughly range about zero to 40. And if you look at this way and, and take a look at this, it's just a simple research. You know, sex is a major determinant. Once skin of some of the enzymes

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that we do have, there's great research. Other you can pull up and put meb and to show that they have much more capability of converting that. Now if they automatically stick that level of astrogens into a male, their body is meant to handle it. It can't. It doesn't have this, the specific load. I can, I can show you some research. I just saw what happened to

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Kelly Klein there where she was in New Zealand. New Zealand actually under their medical, uh, one of their medical websites. They even talk about how these certain enzymes right there. The drug metabolism. If you look, there's certain enzymes. I mean, you see they're called P453 or four. It's part of the liver, poor small intestine. But look at six down looked at it right down. Women have

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higher levels that more activity than men. And what that shows is this, their ability to convert hormones, they're really to convert. Estrogens is predominantly much higher with them. So, so I actually had something that can sit right here, my labs right here and this, this drove me absolutely crazy. So I have this hospital. This person had lab sent to me. They have female adult ranges. They

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have, uh, male adult ranges. And then they have transgender ranges. And this was a male for their estradiol, their estrogen levels. And all of a sudden I, I had to call the hospital because I said, listen, I had lab sent down by a patient. And all of a sudden I look in and you go, Hey, listen, the male estradiol ranges go from roughly 2060. The, the

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females obviously go from, you know, it's 70 to 200. Okay. And, but the transgender for males, converting to a female is 100 to 200. How do you determine where you're going to put that value in there? And they had no other reason. They said this. What they put down on their form when they put male or female, that's where we put their ranges in. And it

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was interesting. So even though the patient's deciding not doctors, not medicine, not science, just whatever the patient's doing and whatever their psychologist has decided to roll with, there you have it. What are, what are the, you know, the health implications of a woman, let's say, having too much testosterone in their body, if that happened naturally, which is something you would deal with, what are the health

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implications of that for a woman? Well, two things. Take a look at Luca when she was transitioning before. Look at her skin. Did you see the acne? Did you see the changes are in her facial structure? But also here's happens. You have a increased testosterone like that. You're going to end up with major conditions. You're going to put PCS on top of it. If you kind

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of look, if those levels get even higher, they can get both forms of cancer. The sad part of that is this is they're not meant to handle that levels of testosterone. So therefore they end up with major conditions. But here's the one thing. And here's one thing. I'm going to give you an example of a, this is about 2008. Don't call me exactly those are in

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2008. I, the young girl that came in, she came with her mother and she ended up having a cystic acne and she had some excess of facial hair growth. She had some really strong periods. So it happens. I said, listen, let's get your hormones measured. And at this time, I asked her for her past doctor's labs. And of course, we can get into it. They, they

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have a very incomplete how to look at both female male hormones. So we probably test her. We did a whole ray of test that way. I got them back in her testosterone levels really high. Well, what happens this? We so focused on the physical things that happen. We could see it. And I saw our testosterone levels were about probably about 84, if I remember, which is

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almost double the range. And I looked there and said, listen, I said, there's physical mass stations that happen with hormones. But there's also psychologic ones that happen. And she goes, can you explain? I said, well, listen, testosterone is a very aggressive dominant. It actually gives even a male sex drive. And then that her mom stopped me and said, can we talk about something? And the daughter's

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right there. She's about 19 years old. She looks at, she looks and says, she's a listen. She goes, we're here because my daughter also thinks she's a boy. And I looked there and I saw the shame come over. They see young lady and I looked at her. I looked at right now. As I said, I said, I got a question for you. You understand that this.

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What if I told you that you couldn't control it? And she perked up a little bit. I said, you understand hormones by nature are called messengers. Therefore, if you have these elevated messages going in your body, it's going to affect you both physically and psychologically. And it can change how you view the world. It can change how you see yourself. It can change how you see

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the other sex. It can change how you see the other sex. You can see everything. And actually started to cry because she realized that she didn't have control of her something that was going to have normal body. And within three months of getting her hormones back normal, all of a sudden she came into her console. And I wasn't going to retest her hormones for about six

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months. And she came in about three months or so. And her mom and I just get this can be. And my job was not to worry the manifestations happens to get those hormones back normal because when you get those hormones back normal, the skin changes, those periods of change, those hair changes, by nature, you're genetically programmed to go back to normal. And if there's wrong messages,

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guess what? If the messages just start to go right, all of a sudden they're so happy. They sit down and say, Doc, Doc, Doc, guess what? And she goes, I now feel like a young woman now. So I ran her lab for just a strong drop right back down to normal. And no joke, it's a stay. She's doing fantastic. She's married, has kids now and everything.

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But what and that's where when I see these people that actually, you know, are going through this. I have big, I have a lot of empathy for them because you know why ladies, you know this. Let's say that you just have period cramps or you have some other psychological thing that happens. Depression, anxiety, because your hormones are too low or too high. It's how your control.

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It really is. We think that we can control this. And then we look at them and go, you know, you're just making a choice. What have I told you that there could be hormone issues that could lead to these psychiatric issues that could really change how you even feel the world and feel yourself. It's been fun, you know, when you speak is a lot of fun

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to your talks because you just talk about how, you know, we're judging each other a lot. And maybe we just need to adjust and take a look at our hormones. And in this case, you have children that are, you know, you have doctors that don't know what they're talking, forcing a total shift on the body. Just sort of wrapped this up because I want solutions. I

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hate doing stories, you know, you know, Luca is out there really trying to warn children, warn parents, making really important statements about the internet and watching how our children are being trained in this. But can I ask you this, when you watch the story of Luca, there's obviously this growing body of people now, as you watch that, these rallies that are going on, that are trying

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to detransition out of this. Do you, is there a space? I mean, they seem to be up against doctors as saying, we don't know what to do here. Though the story you just told us about a natural girl, I mean, who's naturally out of balance, is there possibly a fixing system that is so totally radically hit their body with an unnatural charge of either estrogen in

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a boy or testosterone inside of a young girl? Of course, because here's what happens. When you put that level of testosterone into the body, remember, that's the metabolize, that's to convert to other forms. And their organ systems are not meant to deal with that. So they don't, and really they don't have the support or the enzymes that do it that way. So that can be supported

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and you can see that transition. I would love, I would love the opportunity to not only work with Luca, get her tested properly, because that's the biggest thing. The one thing I tell you, in all of hormonal health, that, sad part is this, doctors do not do the right things to actually even test them. So what they're doing is they're trying to make decisions on them

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that's incomplete. I can actually tell you, I have a mother in this studio, in our studio right now, that dealt with the same thing with their daughter. And what happens is she wanted to take, they wanted to give her testosterone to transition her. The sad part is this, I'm like, did they ever test your hormones? And the answer over all these, no. Well, she already had

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abnormal hormones. So you're going to now give her synthetic other hormones to make them more abnormal. And it's really sad. There's so much help for individuals like Luca. And I would love to have the opportunity just to have a conversation with her. And then guess what? Show her what can be done, because she just happens. Even her body, even know they've manipulated it chemically, and they've

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altered it. Guys, this is, there's so much hope and there's so much things that can be done, because your body wants to be normal. It's been altered chemically, but what if we can support its regeneration? What if we can support its growth? What if we can normalize those hormones back to level and we can see those things transition truly back to that female state that she

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belongs to. Awesome. I'm definitely going to connect to you after this show with Luca. And you know, you let you sort of take that conversation from there for people that are interested, whether it's just in their own hormones out of balance or perhaps they're watching the show right now, or they've been handed this show by a friend saying, I'll just go through this. What's a great

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way they could reach out to you and make contact and perhaps get some proper testing done to see if they can get their lives and their hormones back into balance? Yeah, we have clinics all over the US. Just go to thewellensway.com. Find a clinic up there. We have clinics all over. Also, if you ever want to follow my stuff that way, I have a huge Instagram

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page. It's just Dr. Patrick Flynn. I share information that, and you can see the people debate on it all the time as they do here. And I've been kicked off many of the platforms before, but they always seem to let me back on and share more information. So that'd be a great way to actually for Pupa Fall. All right, Dr. Flynn. Thank you for taking the

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time. Very enlightening. And I love that you're out there, you know, helping people through all sorts of issues around the hormones. So take care. Foreman whisperer. I'll see you out there in the talking circuit. I'm soon. I'm sure. So take care. Thanks for joining us. You bet you. Thanks, Dale.

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