Jordan Peterson: ‘Medics causing harm by bowing to trans ideology’

Dr Jordan Peterson has lamented the medical profession’s surrender to radical gender ideology and abandoning the principle of “do no harm”.

Writing in The Daily Telegraph, the clinical psychologist questioned society’s treatment of children when a US surgeon boasted that he had carried out more than 3,000 double mastectomies on young, gender-confused women.

The psychologist said the Hippocratic Oath has been replaced by “lies” and “delusion” that “by blocking the puberty of children, and then surgically altering them, we are only restoring what is theirs by right”.

Ask no questions

Dr Peterson highlighted American Psychological Association (APA) guidelines which instruct psychologists to affirm gender-confused patients, claiming they should examine how their use of language “may reinforce the gender binary”.

I believe that the acts of the medical ‘professional’ rushing to disfigure, sterilise, and harm young people with what are clearly ill-advised, dangerous, experimental procedures cross the line from ‘do no harm’ to outright harm.

He said that clinicians are pushed to accept doctrines “without question”, and if you disagree, “you better be watching over your shoulder”.

The psychologist warned that APA’s principles established for the US are spreading to other countries in the West, including Britain.

‘Outright harm’

Dr Peterson commented: “I cannot abide by what have become the doctrines of my discipline. I believe that the acts of the medical ‘professional’ rushing to disfigure, sterilise, and harm young people with what are clearly ill-advised, dangerous, experimental procedures cross the line from ‘do no harm’ to outright harm.

“Only if we bury our heads in the sand will sterility, impaired or absent sexual function, complex reactions to poorly understood hormones, expense – and, intermingled with all that, misery and confusion – continue for countless young people.

“We must address the threat posed to the integrity of the entire education system as indoctrination into the same philosophy that spawned this surgical enterprise and the APA ‘guidelines’ grows.”

UK problems

Earlier this month, the Attorney General for England and Wales said turning the “basics of biology” upside down is causing social havoc.

Suella Braverman told The Sunday Telegraph she believed ‘trans rights culture’ was “out of control” and a threat to the wellbeing of children, stifling free speech and causing legal uncertainty.

In May, Braverman made clear that teachers were under no legal obligation to use a child’s ‘preferred pronoun’, to allow boys to wear girls’ school uniform, or to compromise on access to single-sex toilets.