Medical Establishment Wants Less Free Speech, More Mutilated Children | Opinion

Regardless, there are three major takeaways here.

First, this episode reveals that no matter how contentious the issue and sacrosanct the matter all the way down to altering the bodies of children progressively inclined organizations will seek to collude with the government and “private”-sector auxiliaries to punish dissenters, free speech be damned, in pursuit of their radical agenda. In fact, the more contentious and sacrosanct the matter, the more likely such institutions may be to sic the full power of the regime on their foes.

Second, this episode shines a light on just how devoted the state and medical establishment are to encouraging gender transitions for children. It is likely that there are some true believers among both groups in the medical and moral merits of “gender-affirming care.” But there are obviously some cynical motives at work, too: For those in government, the push to transition kids can create a wedge between parents and children to be exploited. It also challenges human biology and normalizes that challenge. For those in the medical establishment, that they would seek to collude with the state and Big Tech betrays a base desire simply to protect what has been exposed as a profitable, if sordid, business.

Third, this episode represents still another illustration of Science’s capture by Woke ideology, and the imperative to impose Woke-captured Science’s tenets by stamping out dissent. During the pandemic, we saw the push to racially ration COVID-19 treatments. We also saw efforts to quash dissenting views on everything from the disease’s origin to the efficacy of masks, vaccines, and outpatient treatments, and now have leading medical schools embracing courses on “medical misinformation.” Now, we see the AMA et al. seeking to deputize the Department of Justice and Big Tech to police “disinformation” challenges to its gender-affirming orthodoxy on one of the most highly contentious and highly dubious treatment/procedure sets anyone could imagine. Science of course demands openly grappling with competing views. Suppressing them the aim of the AMA et al. letter to the DOJ is fatal to Science, and ultimately to us.

via www.newsweek.com

Ben Weingarten.