Travis Morrell, MD MPH

MD | Gender/DEI unbeliever.🗽Real empathy demands real evidence. 🇺🇸 Do No Harm Senior Fellow | Not med advice.

[Travis Morrell, MD MPH @MorrellMDmph]

State’s #2 paper says @ProtectKidsCO “FAILED,” but

With 70% votes in, Chat projects: WIN for Save Girls’ Sports (134) and Protect Kids from “Gender” Surgery (135).

1.@Erin4Parents = hero
2. 3500 volunteers: same
3. Voters saw through NGO💰& media spin
4. Nat’l help: never came

[Travis Morrell, MD MPH @MorrellMDmph]

“**Trusting doctors does not mean abandoning critical thinking. And questioning medical practices is not the same as attacking families.**”

[Erin for Parental Rights @Erin4Parents]

Ross, for someone so eager to lecture others about ignorance, you've demonstrated a remarkable lack of comprehensive research.

You've talked to a few families with trans-identifying children and a couple of trans adults. Congratulations. Now try talking to:

• Parents who were told to affirm their child's new identity or risk losing them to suicide or losing custody. Like @QuantumRecall

• Detransitioners living with irreversible medical consequences, regret, and lifelong complications. Like Antoinette De La Cruz or Prisha Mosley @ethical_care @PrishaMosley

• Physicians who have raised serious ethical concerns about performing irreversible procedures on otherwise healthy minors. Like @MorrellMDmph @ColoradoDoctors

• Researchers who've exposed the weak evidence, methodological flaws, and circular reasoning underlying pediatric gender medicine. Like @_CryMiaRiver @JanuaryDoNoHarm @donoharm

You might also investigate why countries once considered pioneers in pediatric gender medicine have reassessed their approaches and tightened restrictions in response to evidence reviews.

And citing Kyle Clark, who has publicly mocked parents raising concerns about these issues, as some sort of moral authority? That's rich.

**This is the frontal lobotomy scandal of our time.**

Imagine bringing your child to a doctor for a headache and being told the solution is to amputate their foot. Absurd, right? But when the proposed treatment involves removing healthy breasts or reproductive organs to address psychological distress, we're supposed to stop asking questions because a doctor recommended it?

**Trusting doctors does not mean abandoning critical thinking. And questioning medical practices is not the same as attacking families.**

You don't get to declare the debate settled simply because you haven't bothered to investigate the other side.

[Travis Morrell, MD MPH @MorrellMDmph]

@MsGluck I can count more than one non-medically indicated procedures in this video.

[Travis Morrell, MD MPH @MorrellMDmph]

@ForestMommy Them’s the rules.

Doctors literally determine reality.

[Travis Morrell, MD MPH @MorrellMDmph]

@FreeStateColor1 @ForestMommy If a doctor or media personality says shrinking a kid’s gonads and brain with puberty blockers is good, then it is. I don’t make the rules.

Literal surgical castration? Same.

(This is sarcastic. I will get replies if I don’t say this.)

[FreeStateColorado @FreeStateColor1]

Imagine being a Dad who lost custody of your child because you were concerned about irreversible medical procedures being performed on your child and then being lectured by media personalities...

[Travis Morrell, MD MPH @MorrellMDmph]

@ForestMommy Please say it again, not enough people heard it.

There is maybe one red state. Maybe a couple. Maybe zero.

The rest are blue throughout academics, regulators/gov’t and in big cities. There’s nowhere to run. Y’all are gonna have to go to a school board meeting at some point.

[Travis Morrell, MD MPH @MorrellMDmph]

@ProphetChaos714 @ForestMommy No one is talking about you. We are talking about protecting kids.

Relevant:

[Forest Mommy🌲🗡💪🏹🌲🌲 @ForestMommy]

@ProphetChaos714 @MorrellMDmph It's not about you. It's not always about you.

[Travis Morrell, MD MPH @MorrellMDmph]

When I learned my profession was ok making a generation of castrated gay men,

I was moved so much I’ll risk my career to stop that.

I feel the same for the lesbian and straight women that will regret at 25 or 30 they have scars instead of breasts.

Call that what you will.

[The Chaotic Option @ProphetChaos714]

@MorrellMDmph @Erin4Parents Oh dont act like you care about people.

[Travis Morrell, MD MPH @MorrellMDmph]

@Erin4Parents We don’t hate this kid.

We just want this kid to not get castrated at 17. I’d argue over the long term, we’d all want others to protect us from underage castration. That’s abuse.

We want all kids to be able to play sports in their correct league, for fairness and privacy.

[Travis Morrell, MD MPH @MorrellMDmph]

@TNPrincipledMDs @FoxNews @Erin4Parents Good to see Erin!!

[Travis Morrell, MD MPH @MorrellMDmph]

@Charles95684721 @PeerReReview Correct.

[Travis Morrell, MD MPH @MorrellMDmph]

@Erin4Parents Your generosity continues, but yes, I’m very right—saying something doesn’t make the unreal real.

Even if a doctor says it.

And published evidence remains on my side.

[Travis Morrell, MD MPH @MorrellMDmph]

@ProphetChaos714 @Erin4Parents I super care that kids don’t get their testicles or breasts cut off.

My goal is zero castrated gay adults. I’ve heard their stories and it’s painful.

[Colorado Principled Physicians @ColoradoDoctors]

Look at this trans industry propaganda article by Colorado Public Radio, written without any regard to the democratic process by Coloradans of voting YES! to Prop 134, or thought for the rights of girls to privacy and safety. The writer, a Rae Solomon, argues that protecting girls sports from boys "effectively pushes transgender athletes out of school sports". How? Well, Rae uses the example of a boy who decided in the 7th grade that he was a girl. Looks like none of the students at his current school know he's a boy, as he and his parents are either lying to the school about his sex or the school is lying for him. Apparently they are now concerned he will be "outed" for being a boy should he wish to play sports. So, to get this straight, this boy has been using girls restrooms and locker rooms so far, and violating girls privacies, but Rae Solomon is not concerned at all how the girls would feel if they realized it, or even that this is fundamentally wrong - to deceive by impersonation. Who is to blame for this situation? The boy, his parents, his teachers, his doctors, Colorado law, or all of them? Luckily, Colorado voters have passed Prop 134 to preserve girls sports for girls, so atleast some of the gross disservice to them can start to be undone. Read the propaganda yourself: https://t.co/FtMITsX08f

[Travis Morrell, MD MPH @MorrellMDmph]

@Erin4Parents @Rossputin Irreversibly cutting off kids’ healthy functional organs is not medicine. Even if a doctor, or TV/radio personality tells you it is.

It’s not medicine, it’s abuse, and that’s why Colorado voters said it should be illegal.

[Travis Morrell, MD MPH @MorrellMDmph]

Cutting off healthy functional organs is not medicine. Even if a doctor (or TV or radio personality) tells you it is.

[Erin for Parental Rights @Erin4Parents]

Ross, for someone so eager to lecture others about ignorance, you've demonstrated a remarkable lack of comprehensive research.

You've talked to a few families with trans-identifying children and a couple of trans adults. Congratulations. Now try talking to:

• Parents who were told to affirm their child's new identity or risk losing them to suicide or losing custody. Like @QuantumRecall

• Detransitioners living with irreversible medical consequences, regret, and lifelong complications. Like Antoinette De La Cruz or Prisha Mosley @ethical_care @PrishaMosley

• Physicians who have raised serious ethical concerns about performing irreversible procedures on otherwise healthy minors. Like @MorrellMDmph @ColoradoDoctors

• Researchers who've exposed the weak evidence, methodological flaws, and circular reasoning underlying pediatric gender medicine. Like @_CryMiaRiver @JanuaryDoNoHarm @donoharm

You might also investigate why countries once considered pioneers in pediatric gender medicine have reassessed their approaches and tightened restrictions in response to evidence reviews.

And citing Kyle Clark, who has publicly mocked parents raising concerns about these issues, as some sort of moral authority? That's rich.

**This is the frontal lobotomy scandal of our time.**

Imagine bringing your child to a doctor for a headache and being told the solution is to amputate their foot. Absurd, right? But when the proposed treatment involves removing healthy breasts or reproductive organs to address psychological distress, we're supposed to stop asking questions because a doctor recommended it?

**Trusting doctors does not mean abandoning critical thinking. And questioning medical practices is not the same as attacking families.**

You don't get to declare the debate settled simply because you haven't bothered to investigate the other side.

[Travis Morrell, MD MPH @MorrellMDmph]

No, Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a teen girl who loses her breasts in underage body modification can NOT just “go and get them” later.

A physician’s experience:

[Colorado Principled Physicians @ColoradoDoctors]

READER REPORT: A physician describes her first mammogram

The other day I went for my first breast cancer screening mammogram. I was thankful to have a female tech because of how intimate the contact was. As I played vertical Twister with the x-ray machine complicated by the tech squeezing and manipulating my breasts, we both joked that if men needed mammograms, there would be better protocols. Honey, she said, I've been doing this 20 years, and nothing has changed at all. Except I have noticed more and more men come in needing mammos. Do you get a lot of trans-identifying men, I ask. Yes, she says, the number has definitely increased over the last five years. Do they dress like regular women when they show up, I ask out of curiosity. Her face goes red. "You know, most of them dress a lot younger than their age, with girlish clothes that don't suit their frames. They seem a little lost. It's also very uncomfortable touching a man pretending to be a woman because it seems to erotic to some of them, unlike just men here because they have lumps."

Later that week I was told I had an abnormal mammogram and needed a repeat, along with an ultrasound. It was another female tech. She tells me she has sisters in Oregon and California, and both of them have teenage daughters who have decided they are boys. What are the odds? We decided it's a very sad state of things if girls don't feel safe enough to develop naturally into women. As I lay waiting for the ultrasound, I started to freak out about my breasts. There were some calcifications. They were probably going to want to biopsy it. I worried about the biopsy scar. I worried about losing my breasts. As the warm gel was rubbed over me, my mind turned to the thousands of teenager girls who had lost their breasts to the trans industry before they could ever get a screening mammo. Before their minds could fully enjoy the what it means to have a nice set and enjoy looking in a mirror. Knowing any regret would be too late, that breast implants will never be real breasts.

Memories from a decade of following the "transgender" explosion started flashing before my eyes as the tech kept digging into the right outer quadrant where the suspicious part was. I remembered that talk where a physician called Joanna Olsen-Kennedy laughed as she talked about regret, that if women and girls later wanted breasts, they can always "go out and get them". But no, they can't. I think about the detransitioner who complains online about her blocked milk ducts and how she can't breastfeed her newborn baby. About the physical and mental pain. I remember the photo from the Miles Top Surgery Instagram page where the male surgeon smiles triumphantly, holding up buckets of discarded breasts he has just removed from young women hoping to run from womanhood into manhood. Impossible. Atrocious. I remember the surgeon Sidhbh Gallagher posting about how she was sad she only got to "yeet the teets" of three girls that week. The image of the 15 year old I had to look after in the ICU after the surgeon gave her mastectomies and liposuction and she aspirated while being extubated came up. She was intubated again. The image of the 20 year old suicidal young woman I had to look after in the ICU after another attempt made an appearance. She ran away from Florida at 17 to my state so the taxpayer could fund her testosterone and mastectomies at 18. She was able to arrange for those faster than she could get insulin for her type 1 diabetes. Nobody talked about how her suicide attempts increased after the testosterone was given to her. Not on rounds, not in the medical records, simply erased from hearts and minds of the physicians looking after her due to brainwashing by the trans industry.

My tears flowed freely. It was finally over. She mopped up the gel. I mopped up the lacrimal fluid. I pretended it didn't happen. She pretended she didn't see me cry and shake and moan. After all, we both had lots of patients waiting, and many women cry when having diagnostic breast ultrasounds. I sat for half an hour alone in a dark room while the radiologist read the images. He came in and told me that I would have to get a mammo in six months but he doesn't recommend anything further now. I hugged my jugs as I changed. They get to live another day. I'm sure on the same day many women heard a different diagnosis, a different plan, woke up to terminal breast cancer diagnoses or lost their breasts. Some of that is an inevitable part of womanhood. Removing the breasts of minors before their frontal lobes develop in a grotesque experiment to help them mimic the opposite sex is not. Girl, you will never be a man, and that's okay. In fact, as I look down at myself, it is simply magnificent.
"Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it."
~ George Carlin
#MedTwitter #medx #truestory #mammogram

[Ian Kingsbury @PeerReReview]

Nearly half of those sent the survey didn’t respond.