‘Keep the Voices Down’: In Unearthed Video, Doctors Discuss Putting Mentally Ill Patients, Including Kids, on Hormones

. . .Several top doctors advocated for patients, including children, to remain on hormone treatments despite having serious mental health issues, according to footage from a 2022 conference exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), an international organization that creates medical guidelines for transgender procedures, hosted an educational series in September 2022 in Montreal, Canada. The DCNF obtained roughly 30 hours of video recordings from the 2022 conference through a public records request.

During one recorded session, Dr. Chris Booth, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the University of British Columbia, said that psychotic symptoms should not necessarily prevent a patient from being on hormone therapy. He also discussed dealing with psychiatrists who want to end hormone treatments for patients undergoing psychotic episodes.

“I’ve had trans masculine individuals who’ve come in [to the hospital] with psychotic symptoms, and then the treating psychiatrist wants to stop their hormones” over concerns these drugs were exacerbating the patients’ mental health problems, Booth said. “I try to explain to them that having them resume menses would likely be a much greater detriment than having them remain on their hormone therapy.”

According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), people suffering from psychosis “typically experience delusions (false beliefs, for example, that people on television are sending them special messages or that others are trying to hurt them) and hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that others do not, such as hearing voices telling them to do something or criticizing them).” (Read more from “‘Keep the Voices Down’: In Unearthed Video, Doctors Discuss Putting Mentally Ill Patients, Including Kids, on Hormones” HERE)