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Thank you so much for the reply Mark, I greatly appreciate any dialogue you can provide.

Please correct me if I am mistaken, but I believe the only course of treatment that PEI health offers gender clients is affirmation?

I have discussed this with my family doctor and to his knowledge no one on PEI has ever been denied affirmative care of their choice, we find these odds concerning.

My biggest concern is that the entire model is flawed, as PEI Proudly follows the WPATH Standards of care treatment model, which is sounding off alarms across the globe, as more countries every day are turning away from this harmful treatment protocol.

Can you tell me please, are you aware of the outcome of the Cass review? And have you looked into the expose on the wpath files?

Are patients being informed about this study and is it being taken into consideration as part of informed consent?

When young people, whose frontal lobe is not fully developed until minimum age 25, (if there is no neurodivergent issues), give consent to these irreversible treatments are they informed about the rising rates of detransitioners? Are they being offered any form of care if they should at some point change their mind about transition?

Are they told that they cannot actually change sex, and even if they change their genitalia and their sexed appearance with cross sex hormones and surgeries, that they cannot change the fact that every cell marker in their body has been developed based on their XX or XY chromosome during their development?

My son, (as I mentioned is on the autism spectrum), is almost two years now in this affirmative treatment care and has yet to receive any mental health support. He tells me that he was put on a waiting list but that no care has been offered to him to date, just renewed prescriptions.

I understand that this is a very sensitive topic, with very strong beliefs on both sides of the fence. I am not aware of any other physically altering medical treatment that is given for a mental health issue. And I understand that this is all experimental treatment as the entire concept of gender being separate from sex has only become a strong belief (based on a current popular ideology), in the last decade and is not based on biological fact.

GAC Is an example of scientists literally flying the plane while they are still building it....and our vulnerable children are the guinea pigs of this frankencience.

Again, as I said I very much appreciate any dialogue, and I hope that you do some more research into this situation.

I do believe it's just a matter of time before all of Canada pulls away from the GAC model, and I believe PEI could lead the way.

Also, I would like you to be aware that our [http://pei%20parents/]PEI parents[http://pei%20parents/] have gathered to date more than 1300 signatures from concerned Islanders. We have tried to find an MLA that will present our petition in the Legislature, but of course none are willing to because of the blowback that they would get from the very aggressive trans-activists here on the island.

But, respectfully, we are not going anywhere, especially those of us that are parents witnessing our children's destruction at the hands of the PEI healthcare system.

In closing, I am begging you, as one parent to another, to please look deeper into this very serious controversial issue, this is NOT the same as gay.

If one of your daughters came to you and told you that she believes she was born in the wrong body, wanted to take harmful experimental pharmaceuticals for the rest of her life, cut off her breasts and mutilate her reproductive system... you may say that you would be accepting, but until it actually happens to you, I beg to differ.

As you can imagine this issue has completely stolen away the last two years of my life, as I can think of nothing else but trying to save my son from this deep darkness that can only lead to misery and a life of suffering.

Thank you so much for your time.

I hope to hear from you again

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Thank you for reaching out. We always appreciate hearing about people's experiences with our health system

The Gender Affirming Care Clinic follows an assessment process to determine the appropriate course of treatment and supports to meet an individual's needs. Gender-affirming care is prescribed based on the informed consent model that respects a person's right to self-determination. As part of the informed consent model, an individual's competency to make decisions is assessed before a treatment plan is pursued.

If you wish to share your feedback with Health PEI's quality and safety team, you can do so at https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/en/service/health-pei-patientfamily-public-feedback

Mark

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