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A 14-year-old girl walked into a private clinic in Quebec, said she was trans, and was given a testosterone prescription in less than 9 minutes! The doctor also started asking her about surgeries, and if she wanted to preserve her fertility after only 5 minutes! Yes, this was her first appointment. This documentary was produced by Radio-Canada, the French arm of Canada’s government-funded broadcaster. Narrator: “This is the first time the doctor has seen the patient. She quickly goes to the heart of the matter.” Doctor: “You can tell me, a little deep down, since when did you know you were not in the right body? Is it in childhood? Is it more in puberty?” Sacha, the 14-year-old, describes how she vomited at age 12, and her mother took her to see a psychologist. Sacha: “That’s when they said I had an eating disorder. I told myself that it couldn’t be eating disorders. It didn’t make sense in my head.” “But at 13, I came across a video of a trans person who talked about having eating disorders, but in fact it was because she was in the wrong body. “At that moment, I really recognized myself in that person.” Narrator: “Five minutes in to the consultation, the doctor addresses the question of surgeries.” Doctor: “Are you considering surgeries in the future?” Sacha: “Surgeries? Yeah.” Doctor: “Gender Mastectomy. Removing the chest. Sacha: “Yeah.” Doctor: “There are other surgeries that exist. We have a uterus at the bottom, with ovaries. So basically, it’s possible to remove. It’s something that can cause dysphoria.” Narrator: “Testosterone can make a woman infertile. Fertility is the subject of a question.” Doctor: “Is fertility, I understand that it is perhaps far away for you at 14, but is fertility something you want to maintain before you start?” Sacha: “No, I always knew I don’t want children.” Narrator: “And finally, less than 9 minutes into the consultation:” Doctor: “Basically, the logic right now, I will prescribe hormones today, because the logic is that, basically there is nothing in your profile that would stop me from giving you hormones. “I’ll start at one dose. It’s not a mini-dose. It’s like an intermediate dose between adults and non-binary, let’s say.” Sacha: “Okay.” Doctor: “No problem. The best is yet to come.” When Radio-Canada confronted the doctor after the appointment, she said “A medical consultation cannot be evaluated in terms of duration, but rather in terms of quality of the exchange of information.” @iciradiocanada, this doctor needs to be investigated by the College des Medicine du Québec. How can I find out her name?