Mick Hartley

Looking at the explosion in mastectomies for young teens in the US, from the perspective of a woman with breast cancer. Dana Kennedy in the NY Post:

When Amy Sousa was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer in April, she went into “icy cold panic” about whether doctors could shrink the 10-centimeter tumor in her right breast — or if she would need a mastectomy.

It’s a tragic, and ironic, place to be in for an activist who has spent the past five years warning young women about the “contagion” of transgender ideology and the celebratory trendiness of top surgery — having your breasts removed as part of gender-affirming care — on social media.

“Radical double mastectomies on girls are not a product of their so called ‘mental illness,’ they’re a product of social indoctrination,” Sousa, who holds a master’s degree in psychology, told The Post from her home in Port Townsend, Wash.

“Kids are being disassociated from the realities of life and are being indoctrinated by publicity and marketing to think that surgery and lifelong drugs will make them happy.

“They’re being manipulated to turn something normally viewed as painful and serious to associate it instead with something to envy and with celebrity status.”

Now she’s using the pain and fear triggered by trying to save her cancerous breast from amputation to shine even more of a light on what she sees as sharp rise in the glamorization and marketing of top srugery for biological females who don’t identify as women or are transitioning to men….

Young people ages 13 to 17 are the biggest group that identify as transgender in the US — around 1.4% of the age group, or about 300,000 of them, according to the Williams Institute at UCLA.

The overall number of Americans undergoing gender-affirming surgery is on the rise, research in 2023 revealed, almost tripling between 2016 and 2019 alone.

Between 2018 and 2021, at least 776 mastectomies were performed in the United States on patients ages 13 to 17 with a gender dysphoria diagnosis, according to data analysis based on insurance claims. This tally does not include procedures paid for out-of-pocket.

The sex reassignment surgery market was over $733 million in 2023 and is projected to surpass $2 billion by 2032, according to the Global Market Insights research firm.

There's money to be made here, and plenty of it. And yes, we meet again those ghouls cashing in, like Siobhan Gallagher – “Dr. Teetus Deletus”. 

Gallagher, who is originally from Ireland, has said she does more than 500 gender-affirmation surgeries a year, some of them to teens under 18.

She was reported to the Federal Trade Commission in 2022 for using her enormous social media platforms “to appeal to hundreds of thousands of underage social media users, advertise Gallagher’s ‘gender affirming’ plastic surgery services, and sell them to a vulnerable and impressionable population of children and youth experiencing distress with their gender identity and developing bodies.”

“Just realized I only get to yeet 4 teets next week,” Gallagher posted to Instagram atop a selfie of her looking sad….

And it’s not just Gallagher. Instagram and TikTok are replete with videos of “Yeet the Teet” parties commemorating voluntary mastectomies, as well as users who post photos of their bandaged chests and talk about still being drugged up on morphine.

“Ya (trans) boy is getting top surgery tomorrow! Time to yeet those teets,” wrote one poster on Reddit as commenters cheered.

“Chesticles to da recepticles! wrote one….

“If you go on GoFundMe right now, there are so many girls trying to get their top surgery,” Sousa said. “It’s incredibly disturbing. These girls are mimicking each other. They’re following each other. And they’re creating this as a trend. I see this as a social contagion.

“They’re in the hospital after these radical double amputations, smiling and posting pictures while they’re showing their followers their chests that are still leaking blood,” Sousa added. “But if you go to a cancer site and look at the women who have gotten a double mastectomy because of cancer, you’ll see a much different look on their faces. They’re talking about how hard the recovery is and how they can’t lift anything and how much pain they’re in.”