Tea at Trianon: A Doctor Blew The Whistle

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Saturday, January 13, 2024

A Doctor Blew The Whistle

From The Daily Wire:

Prior to the publication of this story, Haim has chosen to keep his identity a secret as he launched his career as a surgeon. He never intended to enter the public conversation over gender ideology, but what he saw as a resident doctor at Baylor College of Medicine left him no choice.

For Haim it all started in September 2022, when he saw The Daily Wire’s investigation of Vanderbilt University’s transgender clinic, where so-called “gender-affirming” care for minors was described as a “big money maker” and irreversible treatments such as double mastectomies were being performed on children.

“The public really woke up to these pediatric transgender programs,” Haim recalled. “It was the first time that people heard about gender-affirming hysterectomies by these bubbly young doctors, and people were understandably shocked.”

The 33-year-old doctor, however, thought he had nothing to worry about. He was working in Texas, after all, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had already issued an opinion stating that performing sex-change procedures on minors was child abuse. The hospital where he was a surgical resident, Texas Children’s Hospital, stated unequivocally after Paxton’s opinion in March 2022 that it was halting its so-called “gender-affirming services.” (Read more.)