On February 10, 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootsellaar, who identified as a female, shot to death seven people, including his mother and step-brother, and injured two dozen others in British Columbia before turning the gun on himself. On February 16, Robert Dorgan, in a murder-suicide, shot to death his ex-wife and son at a Rhode Island hockey arena. Before she was killed, ex-wife Ronda Dorgan wrote “gender reassignment surgery, narcissistic + personality disorder traits,” as the grounds for her 2020 divorce from the shooter, reports the BBC.
Media publications have provided multiple testimonials about both shooters’ bizarre behavior. “This must END,” stated a New York Post editorial after the Van Rootsellaar shooting. “Teenage boys can act unpredictably and dangerously even without irreversible drug treatments or surgeries on their genitals: Confirming paranoid suspicions and warning them that society hates them is like releasing time bombs into the world.”
John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., an attorney and an emergency room physician who has treated many patients with psychological illnesses, spoke with Health Care News managing editor, AnneMarie Schieber, on the accountability of physicians who perform gender reassignment procedures on patients when they turn violent.
Health Care News: Now that there has been a successful malpractice suit against doctors who performed gender surgery on a minor patient, does this open the door for further litigation against these physicians when their patients act out violently?
Dunn: Before we can answer that, it is important to understand that what we are seeing with all these cases is a phenomenon recognized in the psychiatric community known as ‘narcissistic rage.” Narcissism is a personality disorder, and like all personality disorders, it can result in socially disruptive behavior. Narcissism is created in people by very attentive mentors who enable and encourage ‘special’ status, often starting at a young age. They often lack conscience, which can lead to antisocial, sociopathic behavior.
When confronted by the fact that people don’t appreciate the ‘wonderfulness’ of the narcissist, the response is anger, resentment, and a sense of victimhood, with a desire to strike out.
Enabling a narcissist to get treatment for transition is to feed into these narcissistic, selfish, antisocial attitudes, when in fact they should get treatment or counseling to stop their fetishist/obsessive-compulsive behavior.
When confronted by the fact that people don’t appreciate the ‘wonderfulness’ of the narcissist, the response is anger, resentment, and a sense of victimhood, with a desire to strike out.
Enabling a narcissist to get treatment for transition is to feed into these narcissistic, selfish, antisocial attitudes, when in fact they should get treatment or counseling to stop their fetishist/obsessive-compulsive behavior.
Surgeons or pediatricians should know the potential negative effects of what they do, just like they would claim to know the benefits.
Health Care News: Couldn’t a practitioner argue the procedures were done with full consent, maybe no longer with a minor after the most recent case, but certainly with an adult?
Dunn: Now, you introduce the ethical and immoral nature of transition pushers, who, by the way, make a good deal of money from their work. They are ideologically flawed, just like the counselors and schoolteachers who encourage their disordered thinking. Sometimes it is a parent who is living through the child. In psychology, there is a term for it, “Munchausen’s by Proxy.” In the case of parents, they may have latched onto a socialist-communist agenda to create social chaos and conflict. Sowing gender confusion is a disruptive strategy by the left.
So, my answer would be no. These doctors are doing human experiments, especially when they are done on minors, and that is a violation of the Nuremberg and Helsinki guidance on medical ethics. When they do these human experimental treatments on adults, it is tortious behavior because they know or should know the risks and harms of the treatments, and still carry on their work for ideological or financial motives.
Health Care News: Do you think any of the victim’s families could file a wrongful death suit, and what success do you think they might have in the jurisdictions of Rhode Island and British Columbia, Canada?
Dunn: A lawsuit loaded with a political element is a crapshoot because of the potential for prejudice, bias of jurors, and judges.
The trans treatment rage was a terrible example of mass psychosis that produced malpractice. What kind of physician would say that a person can change his or her “gender” as though the sex determined by genes doesn’t matter?
I delivered a lot of babies at one time in my career and never had a problem deciding the sex of the baby. There are some very rare events of children with a genetic or hormonal problem that have “ambiguous” genitals.
Syndromes such as Turner and Klinefelter have nothing to do with trans delusions, fetishes, and abnormal obsessions, often enabled and encouraged by adults with personality disorders.
The average citizen needs to read up on personality disorders—they have exploded in number and effect. Personality disorders are hard to correct. Psychiatrists do not like to treat personality disorders—the individuals think they are fine, and the world around them, the people around them, are the problem
AnneMarie Schieber is a research fellow at The Heartland Institute and managing editor of Health Care News, Heartland’s monthly newspaper for health care reform.
