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Paging Dr Mengele

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I’m working on getting a good idiomatic English translation of Streit um elfjährige Transsexuelle: Alex soll in die Psychiatrie – taz.de But in summary….. A Nurse decides (probably on religious grounds) that transsexuality is due to parental upbringing, so the eleven year old child will be confined to a locked ward in a mental hospital – then, in the unlikely event she can pretend to be “cured”, placed in a foster home, so her supportive mother will never see her again. And the court agrees. No expert medical opinion is needed. The appeal has been rejected. Moral of story: don’t support your Trans child, or they’ll be taken from you, given “reparative therapy”, and you’ll never see them again. If they live. I think it unlikely they’ll ever release her. Apparently the last girl given this treatment suicided as soon as she was given the opportunity. I can understand why,

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Community significance

“Paging Dr Mengele” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to religion and morality, while also engaging healthcare and medicine. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

As a publication record from 2012 at Transadvocate.com, “Paging Dr Mengele” provides dated evidence of how religion and morality was being argued in relation to healthcare and medicine. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.

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“Paging Dr Mengele” discusses institutions, law, or governance in connection with religion and morality. Even without a dominant policy classification, the article may help researchers identify practical consequences for healthcare and medicine.

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Religion and moralityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
100%
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Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
85%
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Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
50%
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Science, evidence, and expertiseTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
40%

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Clinical and medical analysis
100%
2
Legal analysis
46%

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How “Religion and morality” appears across the Collective corpus

This article appeared 5 year(s) after the theme’s highest annual presence in the registered corpus in 2007.

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7 2006

27 2007

9 2008

2 2009

14 2011

9 2012

22 2013

21 2014

1 2015

2 2016

6 2017

8 2018

3 2019

1 2020

1 2021

2 2025

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Article authors

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Zoe

8 publications · 1 inbound sources/citations

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Cristan Williams

324 publications · 3,096 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 2 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Healthcare and medicine, Transgender identity and history, Education and youth.