Tamara Pietzke exposed the dangers of ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors. Then, she lost her job. She reveals the cost of speaking out—and why she has no regrets.
There is a big difference in deciding as an adult or an adolescent. Having coached young girls from 11-18 years of age for 35 years I’ve learned they’ll eventually find what they are comfortable with, especially in today’s society!
Give them time, give them space!!
Don’t interject for heavens sake, therapists also have baggage.
These two amazing women cared more about their patients than themselves!
Saying “thank you” while their lives are shattered by the employers is hardly enough!
PS: I have decided to nominate Pamela Paresky, PhD (psychology) to replace Director Thema Bryant in my upcoming postal mail letter to each member of APA Board of Directors. My letter will make the case against [Tx in the absence of Dx]. I will forward pdf to whistleblower website.
I will donate money to Tamara after my retirement check arrives. Tamara is a witch as am I. If you don’t speak your mind, you will go crazy. Speaking out is the only way to preserve your sanity. My MPH degree specializes in behavioral science, the research field that informs psychology. In October 2023; I postal-mailed all 50 governors a list of 6 questions with instruction to ask these questions to the pediatric EHR. In doing so, each governor can see that no psychological assessment tool exists to capture Trans. Therefore, the MD has no method for separating Trans from “non”. Last week, I asked a PhD psychologist colleague to comment to me privately about previous sentence. He refused.
I should have been clear that my daughter does not need gender affirming care. She just needed some counseling for anxiety. But it is hard to find counselors for teens because they are afraid if the teen says anything about gender confusion they could lose their licenses if they don’t offer gender affirming care. Sorry for the confusion.
Thank you SO much, Tamara and Jamie for your courage and devotion to the children. I am also so happy to hear about your LGBT Courage Coalition. It will help so many families struggling with this issue.
Donald E.L. Johnson says: If you have spent the last 50 to 60 years making horribly bad decisions you probably are still making horribly bad decisions.
Ask Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
Medical "experts" lie like Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
What a wonderful article. I truly wish the world were safe for us to speak out about these dangers to our youth. I find it really sad that my 83 yr old best friend told me I was successful as a parent because I'm raising a child who knows she's a girl...Pretty low bar.
Tamara has tremendous courage as does the Free Press. I now call Leftists Maoists and this article proves exactly why . We have gone from Liberalism, to Leftism and now Maoism; where a dissenting opinion is not tolerated. The best examples of this are scorned Leftists such as Tamara and the founder of The Free Press the wonderful Bari Weiss . Terminated and ,so they thought , disgraced by the New York Times . No Bari has found a nice home here . Where she is beloved for her opinions , her tremendous talent and slowly doing her part to make the world a better place.
Many thanks to the Free Press for covering the stories of these courageous public servants. I hope that a good next chapter for Ms Pietzke will emerge quickly.
A friend of mine decided to comb through all of the different entities that are represented in his retirement portfolio and he came across some Disney stock. He was able to find their voting form for their Board of Directors. It was eye-opening. They are trying to shut down and keep out anyone that might question their agenda to give as much "gender-affirming" medical care as possible. I feel terrible for these hurting and confused kids. It's grotesque what's being done to them in their vulnerable states. I applaud you, Jaime and Tamara, for walking the walk!
When her story came out, Tamara had left her job at one of Washington State’s biggest hospital systems and was just three weeks into her new one. Days later, her boss called and asked for her resignation. Tamara was given no reason for the termination.
It doesn't matter how many of the people in this story are Democrats.
It never does with Bari Weiss and her crew.
It sure as fuck matters if they are Jews, anti-Semites or Republicans. But it NEVER matters if they are Democrats. Never...
I think the saddest thing about this is that these people seem to be very competent, caring and thoughtful counselors. Given that there is a massive shortage of counselors and therapists right now, it's insane that institutions are firing people like this and not even being up front about it!
Brave and courageous human beings!
There is a big difference in deciding as an adult or an adolescent. Having coached young girls from 11-18 years of age for 35 years I’ve learned they’ll eventually find what they are comfortable with, especially in today’s society!
Give them time, give them space!!
Don’t interject for heavens sake, therapists also have baggage.
These two amazing women cared more about their patients than themselves!
Saying “thank you” while their lives are shattered by the employers is hardly enough!
PS: I have decided to nominate Pamela Paresky, PhD (psychology) to replace Director Thema Bryant in my upcoming postal mail letter to each member of APA Board of Directors. My letter will make the case against [Tx in the absence of Dx]. I will forward pdf to whistleblower website.
I will donate money to Tamara after my retirement check arrives. Tamara is a witch as am I. If you don’t speak your mind, you will go crazy. Speaking out is the only way to preserve your sanity. My MPH degree specializes in behavioral science, the research field that informs psychology. In October 2023; I postal-mailed all 50 governors a list of 6 questions with instruction to ask these questions to the pediatric EHR. In doing so, each governor can see that no psychological assessment tool exists to capture Trans. Therefore, the MD has no method for separating Trans from “non”. Last week, I asked a PhD psychologist colleague to comment to me privately about previous sentence. He refused.
I should have been clear that my daughter does not need gender affirming care. She just needed some counseling for anxiety. But it is hard to find counselors for teens because they are afraid if the teen says anything about gender confusion they could lose their licenses if they don’t offer gender affirming care. Sorry for the confusion.
Thank you SO much, Tamara and Jamie for your courage and devotion to the children. I am also so happy to hear about your LGBT Courage Coalition. It will help so many families struggling with this issue.
Donald E.L. Johnson says: If you have spent the last 50 to 60 years making horribly bad decisions you probably are still making horribly bad decisions.
Ask Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
Medical "experts" lie like Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
God Bless you courageous and strong women.
I'd like to invite you to sit for an interview on a local podcast. 253-332-3615
What a wonderful article. I truly wish the world were safe for us to speak out about these dangers to our youth. I find it really sad that my 83 yr old best friend told me I was successful as a parent because I'm raising a child who knows she's a girl...Pretty low bar.
Tamara has tremendous courage as does the Free Press. I now call Leftists Maoists and this article proves exactly why . We have gone from Liberalism, to Leftism and now Maoism; where a dissenting opinion is not tolerated. The best examples of this are scorned Leftists such as Tamara and the founder of The Free Press the wonderful Bari Weiss . Terminated and ,so they thought , disgraced by the New York Times . No Bari has found a nice home here . Where she is beloved for her opinions , her tremendous talent and slowly doing her part to make the world a better place.
Many thanks to the Free Press for covering the stories of these courageous public servants. I hope that a good next chapter for Ms Pietzke will emerge quickly.
So what? That has nothing to do with TFP article
A friend of mine decided to comb through all of the different entities that are represented in his retirement portfolio and he came across some Disney stock. He was able to find their voting form for their Board of Directors. It was eye-opening. They are trying to shut down and keep out anyone that might question their agenda to give as much "gender-affirming" medical care as possible. I feel terrible for these hurting and confused kids. It's grotesque what's being done to them in their vulnerable states. I applaud you, Jaime and Tamara, for walking the walk!
Heroes!
When her story came out, Tamara had left her job at one of Washington State’s biggest hospital systems and was just three weeks into her new one. Days later, her boss called and asked for her resignation. Tamara was given no reason for the termination.
It doesn't matter how many of the people in this story are Democrats.
It never does with Bari Weiss and her crew.
It sure as fuck matters if they are Jews, anti-Semites or Republicans. But it NEVER matters if they are Democrats. Never...
I think the saddest thing about this is that these people seem to be very competent, caring and thoughtful counselors. Given that there is a massive shortage of counselors and therapists right now, it's insane that institutions are firing people like this and not even being up front about it!