The world’s biggest global consulting firm, Deloitte, is being forced to reimburse Australian taxpayers for a shoddy report that cited non-existent studies. The consultants apparently used artificial intelligence to write their report, rather than writing the report themselves. The fact that a consultant has a fancy college degree doesn’t mean he is an original thinker. Some consultants write reports based on preconceived notions that reach foregone conclusions.
“The Big Four accountancy and consultancy firm will repay the final installment of its government contract after conceding that some footnotes and references it contained were incorrect, Australia’s Department of Employment and Workplace Relations said on Monday,” reports the Financial Times:
In late August the Australian Financial Review reported that the document contained multiple errors, including references and citations to non-existent reports by academics at the universities of Sydney and Lund in Sweden….
While Deloitte did not state that AI caused the mistakes in its original report, it admitted that the updated version corrected errors with citations, references, and one summary of legal proceedings….
Deloitte also includes some woke employees who advocate for things like giving children sex changes, a vice it shares with another big global consulting firm, Booz Allen Hamilton.
“Gender-affirming care” results in permanent and disfiguring changes. The number of “top surgeries” conducted on minors rose by 389% from 2016 to 2019. Between 2018 and 2023, states spent tens of million of dollars on “gender transition services” for kids — including puberty blockers, hormones, and sex-change surgeries.
At least 225 hospitals have provided irreversible transgender procedures to kids, and at least 6,000 kids have had transgender surgeries, according to insurance-claims data unearthed by the medical non-profit Do No Harm.
A gender transition can result in a lifetime of pain, discomfort, and medications, such as hormone therapy. As Britain’s National Health Service explains, hormones “need to be taken for the rest of your life, even if you have gender surgery.” An FDA official who supported giving minors puberty blockers conceded that they actually increase suicidality. Indeed, the “FDA knew ‘gender affirming’ puberty blockers increase ‘suicidality’ in 2017,” reported Just the News.
95% of young transgender people on testosterone develop pelvic floor dysfunction; most have bowel issues and sexual dysfunction. As the Telegraph reported, “Around 87 per cent…had urinary symptoms such as incontinence, frequent toilet visits and bed-wetting, while 74 per cent had bowel issues including constipation or being unable to hold stools or wind in. Some 53 per cent suffered from sexual dysfunction…Almost half had an ‘orgasm disorder’, while a quarter suffered from pain during sexual intercourse.”
To overcome parents’ natural reluctance to subject their kids to this suffering, doctors who do sex changes often tell parents that they need to gender transition their kid to keep them from committing suicide, even though this isn’t true. One of America’s most prominent gender doctors, “Dr. Olson-Kennedy disclosed to how she speaks with parents of gender dysphoric patients: ‘We often ask parents, “Would you rather have a dead son than a live daughter?”‘” But one study found that sex changes massively increase suicide risks, rather than reducing them.
The transgender lawyer challenging Tennessee’s ban on certain transgender treatments for minors admitted to the Supreme Court that “completed suicide is thankfully and admittedly rare” among transgender youth not given transgender treatments, and that “there is no evidence…that this treatment reduces completed suicide.”
