A mother of a teenage heart patient is furious that her daughter was exposed to ideas of gender fluidity and the LGBTQI ideology when she was quizzed about her sexual preference by a doctor at the University Hospital of the West Indies during a routine visit last week.
According to the mother, her child, who is a student at a popular high school, was asked about her relationship status and whether she prefers “boy or girl” by the medic who she was seeing for the first time.
The mother said her daughter has a heart condition and has been doing heart checks at the hospital from she was about a month old, but during Friday’s session, she was asked by a young female doctor to vacate the room so she could have a private discussion with her 16 year old daughter. The mother said, she was puzzled by the request, but complied, thinking they wanted to discuss her daughter’s weight loss.
The mother told the Freedom Come Rain newspaper that her anxiety increased as the private session went on for a while with the doctor. After her daughter was finally allowed to go, the child disclosed the nature of the discussion while on their way to make an appointment for her next clinic visit.
“First she started the conversation with which school she attends, if she has friends, boy or girl, and then she started to ask her some other questions like if she is happy, if she smokes, and other questions. The last question she ended with was, what is her sexual preference, boy or girl?” the upset mother recounted.
The mother said her daughter was obviously traumatised on their way home.
“This is the way they are having their hidden agenda, their LGBT agenda coming in creepingly, to really disrupt people’s mind,” she said.
Jamaica’s chief medical officer, Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor- McKenzie is not aware of this specific case, however, she noted that generally there are occasions when a parent might be asked to leave the room to allow a medical doctor to question a child, however, the parent would have to give consent.
“I would suggest that if the parent has a complaint, that the parent makes a report and for it to be investigated so that the matter could be dealt with. Because if what the doctor was asking was not harmful in any way, then this could be explained to the parent so that the parent can understand, and if it is that the doctor was doing something that was not correct, then that also needs to be corrected so that the matter can be addressed and it doesn’t happen again,” she told the Freedom Come Rain newspaper.
The mother had asked another female doctor if the private questioning was a new policy, and was told that private consultation with patients was something that generally takes place, but the mother said she has never had that experience before. She said she does not intend to leave her daughter alone again with any doctor and advised parents to be vigilant.
“I am going to tell them that if I can’t be a part of the conversation, they cannot question her alone and I need to find out what are some of the questions that they need to ask her,” she said.
There has been growing concern about the targeting of adolescents for LGBTQ discussions without the knowledge of parents by different government and non government entities. Last month, the Ministry of Health and Wellness (MOHW) was forced to suspend the National Family Planning Board’s (NFPB) Yute Expression’s Yute Chatz chatbot, after Christian advocacy group, the Love March Movement found that children were being referred to a local LGBTQ group for advice through the app.
Several church groups had protested in front of the Ministry of Health New Kingston headquarters last month, to express concern about the infiltration of LGBTQ ideologies in some of the ministry’s programmes. The MOHW is yet to say what has been the outcome of a promised assessment of the Youth Chatz chatbot that was suspended following public outcry.
Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor- McKenzie