We had our wake-up call with OxyContin. Purdue Pharma flooded the market with addictive opioids, doctors handed them out like candy because the company said it was safe and non-addictive. Hundreds of thousands died – overdoses, ruined lives, shattered families. Purdue got slapped with billions in fines (pocket change), but the executives skated free while small-town MDs went to federal prison for overprescribing and killing patients. One doctor I know personally took a plea to federal misdemeanor manslaughter; his license vanished. That was murder by prescription pad, and society finally admitted it.
Now the exact same playbook is running on steroids, but with rainbow flags and “affirming care.” Confused kids – mostly troubled teens – are being fed SSRIs like candy to “treat” gender dysphoria, then fast-tracked to irreversible surgeries: double mastectomies on girls barely old enough to drive, castration and phalloplasty on boys, hormones that sterilize them for life. These aren’t fixes; they’re chemical and surgical mayhem. In old-school California law, “mayhem” meant permanent disfigurement or disabling a healthy body part – exactly what these procedures do to minors’ healthy genitals and breasts. Yet doctors sign off, clinics cash checks, and activists scream “life-saving” while the body count climbs in different ways.
SSRIs aren’t harmless happy pills. They rewire young brains, spike aggression and suicidal ideation in some, and correlate with violence in studies – yet they’re prescribed off-label to gender-distressed kids as a gateway to “transition.” Mass shootings? The pattern isn’t random. High-profile cases over recent years show shooters on or recently off these meds, or identifying as trans/non-binary amid mental health spirals. Even if the raw numbers are low compared to overall shootings, the overlap screams red flag: mental illness untreated or worsened by quick-fix drugs and ideology. Transgender identification often masks deeper issues – autism, trauma, depression – and rushing to affirm without exploring those is malpractice.
Post-“transition,” the suicide rates don’t drop like promised. Studies show elevated attempts and completions long-term, sometimes higher than pre-treatment. Kids wake up infertile, scarred, regretful, still hating the mirror because the root pain wasn’t addressed. That’s not healthcare; that’s experimental butchery on minors who can’t consent to a tattoo, let alone lifelong medicalization. The “happier” narrative is propaganda – data quietly admits regret, detransition, and persistent suicidality.
These doctors aren’t heroes; they’re the new Purdue pushers. They prescribe mind-altering SSRIs to minors, green-light genital mutilation, all while hiding behind “gender-affirming” guidelines from ideologically captured organizations. Profits roll in: lifelong hormone dependency, surgeries, follow-ups. Big Pharma and clinics rake it while kids pay with bodies and minds.
Transgender people aren’t the villains – they’re victims. Many are genuinely suffering, exploited by a cult-like ideology that tells them chopping off parts will cure the soul. TikTok therapists, school counselors, and activists groom them into believing one bad day means you’re “born in the wrong body.” Real compassion demands pause: therapy first, no rush to drugs or knives before adulthood. Instead, we shove them toward irreversible harm, then blame “bigots” when it backfires.
Time for the reckoning. Every surgeon who carves up healthy teen bodies, every psychiatrist who pushes SSRIs as “affirmation” without exhausting alternatives – these should face criminal charges. Manslaughter when a post-op kid suicides. Mayhem for the permanent disfigurement. Conspiracy to endanger minors with experimental treatments. Strip licenses, seize assets, let them sit in cells next to the opioid docs they resemble. No more hiding behind “medicine” when it’s ideology for dollars.
We learned zilch from OxyContin if we let this continue. Graves fill quietly now: overdoses replaced by suicides, regret, sterility. Pastel-painted coffins, eulogies about “society’s hate.” No – blame the white coats who swore “do no harm” then did irreversible harm for clout and cash.
Catholic faithful, parents, sane Americans: this is evil disguised as empathy. These aren’t “transitions”; they’re mutilations. These aren’t “caregivers”; they’re accomplices in a new drug-and-scalpel epidemic. Scream stop. Demand prosecutions. Protect the kids before another generation is sacrificed on the altar of woke medicine.
History will judge harshly those who stayed silent. The truth is ugly, but ignoring it kills. Wake up, America – before the body count matches the opioid crisis.
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