OR: director of child transgender clinic paid off by puberty blocker developer

Children are wonderful, sweet, cute, lovable, curious and pretty stupid compared to many adults, save those who allow their children to make life altering decisions with their undeveloped little brains. Those adults are even more stupid because they don't have the excuse of being a child.

The very idea that parents would allow their child who believes he or she is the opposite sex they were born with, is unconscionable. Many do it for self-aggrandizement, or to be cool and woke and the public recognition they hope to receive. 

They're just so open-minded that their brains fell out of their heads.

The very idea that pediatric gender clinics exist is a statement about the moral decay we are facing in the West.

In Oregon, such a pediatric gender clinic known as The Doernbecher Children’s Hospital exists and the director of that clinic, Kara Connelly, has reportedly received over $3,000 from Endo Pharmaceuticals in 2018, according to the US government's Open Payments transparency program. This is the most recent data the program shows, so the amount is likely much higher.

Open Payments data reveals that Connelly was compensated for consulting services directly related to Supprelin LA, a product of Endo Pharmaceuticals that is used off-label as a puberty blocker, but is normally used in precocious puberty.

And there are serious risks involved with the drug that has a $37,000 list price. Risks such as brain swelling, permanent vision loss, emotional changes such as irritability and crying spells. The Mayo Clinic listed general side effects of the drug in children:

The medicine can cause a brief increase in blood levels of some hormones. During this time, you may notice more signs of puberty in your child, including light vaginal bleeding and breast enlargement in girls. If your child's symptoms do not improve within 4 weeks, or if they get worse, call your doctor.

This medicine may cause some children to be agitated, irritable, or display other abnormal behaviors. Make sure the doctor knows if your child is having trouble sleeping, gets upset easily, has a big increase in energy, or starts to act reckless. Also tell the doctor if your child has sudden or strong feelings, such as feeling nervous, angry, restless, violent, or scared. If you or your caregiver notice any of these side effects, tell your doctor right away.

Using this medicine may increase your child's risk of having seizures. Check with your doctor right away if your child starts to have convulsions, muscle spasm or jerking of all extremities, sudden loss of consciousness, or loss of bladder control.

This medicine may cause intracranial hypertension or pseudotumor cerebri (increased pressure in the head) in children. Check with your doctor right away if your child has blurred or double vision, change in ability to see colors, especially blue or yellow, continuing ringing or buzzing or other unexplained noise in the ears, dizziness, eye pain, hearing loss, nausea and vomiting, or severe headache.

In an analysis by ProPublica, it was found that “doctors who received payments linked to specific drugs prescribed more of those drugs.” The report went on to add that “On average, across all drugs, providers who received payments specifically tied to a drug prescribed it 58% more than providers who did not receive payments.”

So it stands to reason that Kara Connelly prescribed Supprelin LA over and above other drugs. 

The Doernbecher Children’s Hospital explains that it offers “pubertal suppression,” which, citing WPATH, it says “gives adolescents time to explore their gender,” noting that “some teens may go on to transition with hormone therapy or surgery.”

Of course these kids will 'explore their gender' with parents as their guideline and any parent who takes gender exploration of their young child seriously, or who promotes exploration of the child's gender, is refusing to allow their child to outgrow their confusion and is thereby committing child abuse.

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