Dr. Ryan Pasternak (He/His)
Children's Hospital of New Orleans employs monsters treating children and teens
Question the ‘gender assignment’ of a 13 year old girl? Definitely.
But do not dare question the authority of the medical establishment treating her.
The Washington Examiner last week posted this article by investigative reporter Breccan F. Thies telling the story of a gender-confused 13 year old girl named Violet. Her parents, desperate for help as Violet was doing the self-harm associated with this sort of confusion - cutting herself - sought treatment for their daughter at Children’s Hospital of New Orleans.
There, they encountered Dr. Ryan Pasternak, a doctor who not only fell for the lie of masking, but “affirms” the lie that is “gender affirming care.” His pronouns are “He/His.”
Dude is down with wearing the face diapers, eh?
And he enters into conversations with “She/Her” people whose job title is “Reproductive Justice Engagement Coordinator,” whatever that is:
It’s abundantly clear where Dr Pasternak’s politics have taken his medical practice:
He seems quite fond of Leftist priorities:
And traveled to Baton Rouge to battle the state’s efforts to protect children from predators like himself:
Here’s his taste in “art” to which he affixes “a lot of feeling” after “fighting” at the Louisiana Legislature:
To each their own when it comes to “art,” but as the writer Thies tells it, Dr Pasternak (He/His) places his sick political agenda ahead of the rights of parents to care for their children.
Here’s Violet’s story…
When Tandy Lynn Hebert's and Sean Chiasson's daughter Violet was 13 years old, she struggled with her identity to the point of self-harm. The young girl cut herself "enough to where she has scars that look like ridges," Chiasson said, and even attempted suicide.
That is when Violet was brought to the Children's Hospital of New Orleans, where Hebert and Chiasson were confronted by Louisiana laws and hospital protocols stacked against their ability to decide what was best for their child.
The hospital staff used "emotional blackmail" to pressure them down the path of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and genital mutilation surgery. "Would you rather have a dead daughter or a live son," they said.
I’m sure, like I do, you find the threats of suicide as a consequence for good parenting deeply offensive, a style of hostage-taking, a manipulative tool with evil intent. Indeed, the problems run deep at Children’s Hospital of New Orleans. Thies continues…
"How dare you," Chiasson said of the medical staff pressure to gender-transition their daughter without parental consent. "They treat us like we are the enemy; like they're not our kids."
Violet’s parents were locked out of the room
A Washington Examiner investigation revealed how Louisiana's laws and CHNO's records policies for adolescent patients worked in tandem with Epic, a medical records software company, to remove parents from their child's healthcare to allow minors to choose a path of transgender drugs and surgeries at the behest of doctors who advocate for them.
"If parents are blocked from seeing their children’s electronic health records, they are left in the dark about life-altering decisions being made for their children by medical professionals with a political bias or agenda," Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of the medical advocacy group Do No Harm, told the Washington Examiner. "The profound impacts on the future health of these kids could bring irreversible harm to an entire generation.”
In under an hour of meeting Violet for the first time in 2019, and with her parents locked out of the room, doctors in the adolescent medicine unit determined that she must truly be a boy and attempted to start her on a regimen of puberty blockers. Hebert said when Violet left the room, her demeanor had changed and that Hebert was "all of a sudden the enemy."
You did not misread that: “In under an hour, doctors determined Violet must truly be a boy.”
Doctors told Hebert and Chiasson they must be "affirming" of Violet’s new identity.
"They didn't give me any other options… They just went straight to talking about testosterone."
Louisiana law makes this complicated:
While several states have passed laws allowing children around the ages of 12 and 13 to consent to their own medical care without their parent's knowledge, Louisiana does not set a minimum age requirement.
"The consent of a spouse, parent, guardian, or any other person standing in a fiduciary capacity to the minor shall not be necessary in order to authorize such hospital care or services or medical or surgical care or services, or administration of drugs to be provided by a physician licensed to practice medicine to such a minor," the law reads.
Enter Ryan Pasternak (He/His):
When Violet's parents raised concerns about the gender transition treatment, medical staff, including Dr. Ryan Pasternak, sought to lock them out of the process, they said.
Violet’s parents needed their 13 year old’s permission to view her medical records:
"That's when all the communication got cut for me," Chiasson said, with Hebert adding, "When I asked about looking at her health records, they said that I would have to have her permission."
It is hospital policy:
It is CHNO's policy to cut parents out of being able to view their child's medical records once they turn 13. In the state of Louisiana, children can consent to medical treatment without parental confirmation or knowledge, and there is no legal minimum age for doing so.
CHNO decided to call Violet by a different name without telling her parents, and when Hebert called the hospital to talk to her own daughter, "The staff didn't even know when I asked for her by her real legal name. They didn't know who I was talking about."
“We separate kids and parents”
At the hospital, one of the attendants at the front desk asked only for Violet's contact information, which seemed inappropriate to Hebert.
"I'm like, 'Well, wait, do you need mine too? And she was like, 'No, you know, at 13, we separate kids and parents,'" Hebert said. "I'm just like, is this for real? You don't want to get mine as well? I mean, she's still a minor."
It’s about trust:
Violet had little or no interest in identifying as a boy prior to in-patient treatment at CHNO, according to her parents. But viewing social media to encourage transgender identity and having online access to doctors through Epic coerced Violet to consider the drastic measure, they said.
"I want to be able to trust medical professionals, I want to be able to bring her to counseling and things like that," Hebert said. "But no, I can't trust any medical professionals right now."
“Pasternak just laughed at me”
When Hebert raised concerns to Pasternak about her parental rights in the medical treatment of her daughter, including the hospital's policy to cut parents out at 13 and Louisiana's law facilitating the policy, "he just laughed at me."
"That was kind of frightening," Hebert said. "I was afraid that if I did not consent, who knows what would have happened."
Thies describes Pasternak as “an active advocate for keeping these records secret from parents.” In fact, he’s written this paper, including:
Studies with adult patients reveal the open sharing of clinician treatment notes led to improvements in patient-clinician communication, medication adherence, and safety. Similar benefits may exist for adolescents, but equally compelling ethical and technical concerns about undermining adolescent confidentiality have been described, including through widespread access by parents to their adolescents’ protected EHI.
Clinicians at the nexus of these systems are well-positioned to support adolescent privacy and equity in health care delivery.
The extent of confidentiality protection is unclear when an adolescent patient discloses to their health care provider information about their gender identity, such as preferred name or pronouns, that they wish to keep confidential from parents/guardians or others who might have access to the medical record.
Parents and guardians should have access to nonsensitive information not legally protected from disclosure or that the adolescent does not object to sharing.
Even when adolescent portals are used to protect confidential information and communications, recent studies reveal parents and guardians often are able to access those portals or the contents of the medical record through other means. Clinical staff need to be educated to avoid defaulting to entering parental contact information in patient-specific fields or altering proxy access on the basis of parental requests.
Pasternak wrote of patient portals, which can enable children to work around their parents. Thies writes:
Hospitals can bypass parents through the use of electronic health records and patient portals.
CHNO uses MyChart, which is an online portal that holds medical records and enables patients to schedule appointments run by a company called Epic. That is how Violet, and patients like her, are able to talk to doctors without even having to secure transportation to a hospital or clinic.
Thies included the legislature’s recent vote to overturn the governor’s veto of Representative Gabe Firment’s bill to protect children from the predators at Children’s Hospital of New Orleans:
… the Louisiana legislature voted to enact a ban on transgender procedures for children in the state, overriding Gov. John Bel Edwards's (D-LA) veto and joining 20 other states with similar bans. Most of the other bans are tied up in lawsuits, and some have seen judges block their implementation.
Many believe one way to help block the procedures for children is to change the age of consent to 18.
Things seem to have turned out okay for Violet, but for no other reason than she lacked transportation to the hospital to receive the services that were pushed on her by Pasternak and staff, despite the objections of Violet’s parents. Thies concludes:
Violet, whose gender transition was thwarted, in part, due to not having access to transportation to the medical center, is "doing better" and stopped self-harm.
"I'm not saying it's perfect," Hebert said, "You know, there's good days and bad days, but hey, that's with any teenager, right?"
Despite all the critics’ hysterics, there exists a clear need in Louisiana for state protection of minors. Indeed, the law obstructs parents from protecting their own children from Leftist predator activist doctors like Ryan Pasternak (He/His.)
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As a bit of laignaippe, let’s look at one example of the bizarre attitudes at work among the Left:
To which we responded:
This started, evidently, when two men, “married” with two children, posted about leaving Louisiana because of the “hate” etc…
How can it surprise people that many others are uncomfortable (to put it mildly) with two married men purposefully denying their children a mother? That the radically-changed understanding of institutions as vital as marriage and parenting cannot be shredded without a vigorous defense of those institutions? How have so many people in society so quickly and seemingly easily come to accept that men can marry, and men can pay women to carry and deliver babies for them (which is a not-so-subtle form of slavery and human trafficking)? How can people smart enough to be chemists and heart doctors be dumb enough to fall for the propaganda of “It’s hate-fueled bigotry” and “Don’t Say Gay Bill” and “Anti-LGBTQ+ laws”?
Leftist transgressives are truly strange and destructive individuals.
Dr Miriam Grossman has done tremendous work on this topic. “You need to understand how our medical organizations have been hijacked.”
A post-operation transsexual Canadian has requested that the socialised healthcare system provide an assisted suicide lethal injection in order to end long-term suffering and pain from a surgery to manufacture a “neo-vagina”.
Lois Cardinal, a self-described “sterilized First Nations post-op transsexual”, has expressed immense regret over a 2009 surgery to create an imitation vagina out of an inverted penis, saying that euthanasia would be preferable to the constant pain from the novel operation. The aftermath of the surgery often leaves many in pain, with the resulting “neo-vagina” effectively being an open wound that needs to be dilated daily to prevent it from closing.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Cardinal said: “I’m in constant discomfort and pain… It’s taking this psychological burden on me. If I’m not able to access proper medical care, I don’t want to continue to do this.”
How has it come to this madness?