My university fired me over my views. Now it's paying the price

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Like many professionals, I've spent most of my life honing my skills -- through study, practice and experience -- to become the best I can possibly be at what I do.
58% : I also said that, based on my 35 years of child and adolescent psychiatric practice, I didn't believe children and teens were emotionally mature enough to decide difficult questions of gender identity.
58% : I also said that, based on my 35 years of child and adolescent psychiatric practice, I didn't believe children and teens were emotionally mature enough to decide difficult questions of gender identity.
48% : All that seemed clear and straightforward enough, but the nationwide wave of cultural enthusiasm for gender transition was already building, and I quickly learned that what I said was not what some politically correct educators and medical professionals wanted to hear. Facts, it turned out, didn't matter.
41% : As men and women who've taken an oath to do no harm, doctors owe their patients thoughtful treatment unbiased or encumbered by social pressures and political orthodoxy.

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