I had a spontaneous urge to draw cuddles and ended up turning them into a small art meme ^^ Havenât seen many pose memes for platonic pairings, maybe itâs of use to someone!
Okay so I just got off the phone with them. I talked to a trans girl named Aurora & she was super helpful! She gave me a few doctors to talk to & encouraged me to seek therapy instead of just rushing to get my pills. She literally found a trans friendly therapist in my town & I would definitely recommend giving them a call!
A 16-year-old boy held in a Los Angeles juvenile hall was prescribed estrogen to treat a behavioral disorder, a practice several doctors say
A 16-year-old boy being held at a Los Angeles County juvenile hall developed enlarged breasts after he was prescribed estrogen to treat a behavioral disorder, a move that baffled doctors who said the treatment defied medical logic, according to a lawsuit filed last month.
The teen, whose identity is being withheld because of his age, was diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder, or ODD, two days after he was arrested and housed at Eastlake Juvenile Hall in June 2019, the lawsuit said. Medical records reviewed by The Times show that the teenâs testosterone levels were âslightly highâ when the doctor who diagnosed him prescribed daily doses of estrogen.
Estrogen regulates the development of female sexual characteristics and reproduction. Men produce the hormone at much lower levels.
After taking approximately 13 daily doses of the hormone, the teen was diagnosed with gynecomastia, defined as the enlargement or swelling of breast tissue in males whose estrogen level is too high, medical records show.
ODD, a behavioral condition that is sometimes suffered by patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, is normally treated with therapy, said James McGough, a professor of clinical psychiatry at UCLA.
âEstrogen is not a treatment for ODD. I canât be more emphatic about that,â McGough said. âYou wonât find a reference anywhere that supports the use of estrogen for ODD.â
The lawsuit described the treatment as âexperimental.â The doctor who prescribed the estrogen, Danny Wang, could not be reached for comment.
Los Angeles Countyâs juvenile detention facilities are overseen by the Probation Department. Medical needs are provided by Juvenile Court Health Services, which falls under the county Department of Health Services. In an e-mail, a Department of Health Services representative confirmed that Wang has been employed by the county since 2012 but declined to comment on his current status with the agency, describing it as a âconfidential personnel matter.â The department declined to comment on the lawsuit.
The suit â which names as defendants the county, Wang and David Oh, medical director of Juvenile Court Health Services â alleges medical battery and negligence
Probation officials and the teenâs attorney, Wesley Ouchi, declined to say why he was in custody. Ouchi said the boy, now 17, was released in April and will require surgery to treat the physical issues he developed as a result of the estrogen treatment.
Wang prescribed a daily regimen of 2 milligrams of estrogen to be taken in pill form, according to medical records. The boyâs parents were not aware that he had been diagnosed with ODD or was undergoing treatment until late July 2019. Doctors said the treatments should not have been carried out without the parentsâ consent.
The boyâs father, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect his sonâs identity, said he found out about the estrogen pills when he visited the juvenile hall one weekend last July.
âWhen I found out they were giving him the pill, I was like, why didnât they ask me? When I found out what kind of pill was it, I was like, this is terrible,â the father said. âHeâs only 16, and they were forcing him to take it.â
The father said he later confronted Oh, the medical director, over the phone. Oh admitted that Wang had made âa mistake,â the father said. The health services representative declined to comment on Ohâs alleged remark due to the ongoing litigation.
The treatments stopped last July, after the teen began to complain of negative side effects and refused medication, records show. Prior to that, Ouchi said, his client felt compelled to take the pills because he feared that disobeying Wang would have a detrimental effect on his pending criminal case.
Reports from probation officers about a youthâs time in custody can carry significant weight at sentencing hearings, and the teenâs case had not been adjudicated at the time Wang prescribed him the estrogen, Ouchi said.
Ouchi also alleges the boy was bullied by other youths in custody once his gynecomastia symptoms developed.
âAs a teenager, he felt self-conscious already,â Ouchi said. âGoing through these changes made it a lot more traumatic for him.â
Sara Coffey, director of child and adolescent psychiatry at Oklahoma State University, said ODD is normally diagnosed in children between the ages of 6 and 12. Children diagnosed with the disorder often struggle with authority, in school or in social settings. Common treatments include family therapy or medications that have had success in aiding juveniles with ADHD, including Ritalin and Adderall.
Using hormones to treat ODD might actually worsen the situation, Coffey said.
âThe other concern I have, as a psychiatrist, is that we know hormones play a role in mood,â she said. âIf his mood got disrupted, that could only further complicate things.â
Estrogen is normally stocked at L.A. County juvenile facilities for use as part of hormone therapy for contraception and treatment of gender dysphoria, according to the health services representative.
The boyâs father said the hormone therapy has had a long-term effect on his son, who now scares easily and has become antisocial.
âHeâs like a different person. He just wants to be in his room, and he donât come out for nothing, all day in his room,â the father said. âHe was never like that.â
And people wonder why I'm so critical of California.
Also I'm gonna leave this here.
New American Psychological Association guidelines suggest that certain masculine behaviors can harm everyone â including men.
A feminist professor at Occidental College recently argued that men must renounce their masculinity and âdenounce anyone who chooses to iden
Passing students can absolve personal guilt for promoting âhypermasculinity,â an exaggerated view of maleness in which emotion is suppressed
People swear we live in the handmaidâs tale. But I donât see anyone trying to fix women the way theyâre trying to fix men.
#Men and boys are not broken women!
There's that, but this also comes off as experimentation to "prove" the "gender is a social construct" theory is true but only males can be experimented on because females are the "default" and thus fine as they are.
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**1in6/RAINN Chat for Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse
Support Groups
**1in6 Support Groups
Male Survivor Support Groups
Pandoraâs Aquarium - Chat (includes chats specifically for men)
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How to Find a Shelter
Domestic Shelters Search (shelter locator with filters to find shelters specifically for male survivors)
SAFE (located in Austin, TX, but states they can help people find resources/shelters in their area)
How to Find a Therapist
**Male Survivor Therapist Directory
Mental Health Services Locator
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Love is Respect Hotline: 1-866-331-9474 (Hotline for teens)
Darkness to Light Helpline (Sexual Abuse): 1-866-367-5444
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**Male Survivor (regional, international, and online resources)
**Husband Battering: Men and Domestic Violence
**Help for Battered Men: Online Resources
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Vampires fun night Peran and Savannah going out for a all night outing of theater, drinking , dancing maybe some make-out/necking with some single and vampires and monsters/monstresses . Peran is excited and look while Savannah is also very happy but is a little frustrated about the dress Peran picked out for her .
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unfriendly reminder: this is a sex worker positive space. I will not tolerate the disrespect of sex workers here, and if you cant agree with that without a doubt then you're not welcome here.
If you, anyone in your household, or anyone you are currently interacting with regularly uses lip reading to communicate and would benefit from having this type of mask please message me. I will happily make and send you one for free, though if you live outside of the US I may ask you to help cover the cost of shipping.
4) Whether you can afford to contribute towards shipping so that I can send you my Venmo/Cash.app/PayPal if relevant. (I will send lipreading masks to anyone who needs them, and if you canât afford to pay the cost of shipping I will reach out to the generous people who have offered to donate.)
I will let you know what fabric I currently have available so you can pick the color.
Following steps 1-4 will help me get the masks out more quickly. Thank you!
(In case you are wondering: These do fog up a bit after being used for a while, but are still usable for lip reading.)
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