He says that he cannot smell anymore - I imagine because of the plastic surgery ("facial feminising surgery") that makes his nose like that. He also said that he previously had meningitis and went cross-eyed for a few years. Was this brain damage a contributing factor??I'm not even sure if your friend passes as a troon in that picture, or maybe my brain is just being scrambled by the electrolysis rash. I feel the hair, especially at the top just looks male, looks like what you'd expect on a guy that grew his hair out. The nose is very interesting as well -- uniquely shaped nostrils.
The actual presentation just seems like it's directly cribbed from some gender affirmative care handbook (or some reddit resource), and then made less grammatical. Did he have a bibliography?
If I had to guess, it's probably all from one source, but then combined with his own personal knowledge & experiences. I personally suspect that that the "don't ask transwomen to do their male voice" dot point was a conscious addition based on past experience. The surgery point may belong in the same category, but that's more generic. Neither of them are really relevant to pediatric care.
The lack of a theoretical basis is also standard in all gender affirming care narratives, at best you'll get some oblique reference to gender identity being "established" at 18 months or maybe to some Olson-Kennedy study about how gender non-conforming children are - get this - gender non-conforming with respect to their sex (this is peer-reviewed Science, you see). It's worth noting that the sense in which they mean "established" is hard to establish though. In fact, often they seem to stake out a position wherein gender is some sui generis form of identification that follows some predetermined (but unknowable) path. This is the ad hoc defense offered against the obvious fact that their patients' 'gender identities' do in fact commonly change.
In order to then justify the medical interventions they then just assert that non-affirmed patients are a high suicide risk. The evidence for this is literally internet surveys with poor data validation conducted by partisan organizations & individuals. This is also where the 41% statistic comes from. Many of the clinicians are quite conscious of the absurdity of their position, and I think that's what drives the impetus to trivialize the medical interventions they push. Hence, Olson-Kennedy's "if they want their breasts back later then they can just go get 'em re-attached" quip or the constant insistence on the benignity of puberty blockers.
There was no reference list at the end, though admittedly we did not finish the presentation because he ran over after 2 hours. No portion of the presentation was devoted to the outcomes of transitioning with regards to mental health. I will admit that I zoned out because it was so boring, but from my memory, the only message was "it's so hard to transition because all doctors are evil and gatekeep... you have to help them! No questions asked!"
In the Q&A section the speech therapist asked "I have transgender youth coming to me asking for help with changing their voice to be more feminine, I cannot do this, who do I refer to?" and my coworker says "it's so hard to find places, I found my voice coach online. It was an older MTF in USA." - are we to refer teenage boys to grown trans groomers???
I could go on for days about this coworker.
He shows up at 8:59 for a 9:00 appointment and immediately has to go to the toilet because of his ulcerative colitis. He wears jeans and open toed sandals to work every day. He goes on his phone DURING sessions (he is not treating anyone as he does not have registration, but still is observing others). He swears and uses adult language in front of the children. He has no social grace whatsoever - just lingering, walking into rooms without knocking, talking about himself, being boring. He makes personal comments, e.g. you can use a real life (impersonal) story to relate to kids "when I was young I also loved the sandpit, once I made a tunnel so long I stuck my leg into it", but don't make it personal "when I was your age I was bullied for having red hair, and it made me depressed". He uses his female voice - which is a croaky frog whisper which is impossible to understand, but then will shout "OH FUCK" in a deep booming MAN voice because ... he saw a bug ... in Australia....
He complains that he doesn't make any money TO CLIENTS and complains about having to come into work. This is an internship, and guess what buddy, it's NOT mandatory! Be grateful! He also brags that a relative died and left him with $20,000 in the bank. He lives with his mother and has braces at age 28. He complains that he's single in the country because there's no good lesbians about (a good reason for me to remain closeted at work). He wants to move to Sydney and hook up with all the sexy lesbos. Frankly, I don't think he cares about children at all.
He complains that he doesn't make any money TO CLIENTS and complains about having to come into work. This is an internship, and guess what buddy, it's NOT mandatory! Be grateful! He also brags that a relative died and left him with $20,000 in the bank. He lives with his mother and has braces at age 28. He complains that he's single in the country because there's no good lesbians about (a good reason for me to remain closeted at work). He wants to move to Sydney and hook up with all the sexy lesbos. Frankly, I don't think he cares about children at all.