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Amy Hamm: Tribunal punishes doc for conscientious objection to puberty blockers

B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ruling shows a flagrant disregard for medical ethics and the law

The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal (BCHRT) has released another in its series of decisions that punish and publicly humiliate those who disagree with gender ideology.

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The latest: a family physician who declined to administer a single injection of a puberty-blocking drug to a 14-year-old transgender-identifying patient was found guilty of discrimination and ordered to pay $20,000 for “compensation for injury to … dignity, feelings and self-respect,” plus $8,100 for the cost of the claimant’s “expert report” and — most outrageously — was instructed to “cease the contraventions and refrain from committing the same or similar contraventions.”

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Note that I do not include the physician’s name, as he wished to protect his professional reputation with a publication ban on his identity. The BCHRT refused to do this.

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At the request of the claimant’s mother, the physician referred the claimant, who’s referred to in the ruling as “Child Q,” to the Gender Clinic at B.C. Children’s Hospital in 2020, where Lupron, an injection used to suppress puberty, was prescribed. The teen did not wish to self-administer the drug and instead preferred that a physician do it. Administrative staff at the doctor’s office booked an appointment for one of the injections without the physician’s knowledge. When he realized what the appointment was for, he declined to administer the drug.

The doctor “was........

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