Mississippi middle school is slammed for offering SHAPEWEAR to its young female students to help them with their 'negative body image'

A Mississippi middle school has offered body-slimming shapewear to female students this month, leading to furious backlash.

Southaven Middle School in northern Mississippi sent a letter home to parents of teen and tween girls, educating on the issue of negative body image.

It concluded with an offer from the school's counselors to provide shapewear — a foundation garment that's used alter a person's body shape — to any of the students, aged 10 to 14, whose parents agreed to it.

The shocking letter was shared on social media by mom Ashley Heun, who said that she was 'beyond p***ed.'

Heun was shocked by the letter, and told Today that she turned to social media to 'rally the troops to change this and to really let the school know how exactly tone-deaf it was.'

She wrote on Facebook: 'I am beyond p***ed, though I’m not sure if I’m more pissed at the fact that they had the "balls" to send this home or the VERY IGNORANCE of the ‘counselors’ at the school.'

'So you begin this masterpiece detailing how damaging a negative body image is for girls, how the stress of conforming to an impossible perceived image can adversely affect their mental health, and then OFFER TO GIVE THEM SPANX SO THEY CAN BETTER FIT THE PERCEIVED IMAGE?!? What. The. Very. F@%text.”

Other social media users have expressed their disgust as well.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10399333/Mississippi-middle-school-slammed-letter-home-parents-offering-SHAPEWEAR-female-students.html

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UK: Supporters of popular doctor silenced

Cancer patients who say they were ‘written off’ by doctors are leading a backlash against an effort to strike a world-renowned oncologist off the medical register.

The patients claim to have been ‘silenced’ by a disciplinary panel that will this week decide the fate of Professor Justin Stebbing, a Harley Street oncologist and Imperial College cancer researcher.

In October, Prof Stebbing admitted 30 charges relating to over-treatment, not obtaining full patient consent, dishonesty and inappropriate behaviour in regards to 12 of his patients.

But supporters say evidence from some of the hundreds of patients satisfied with his care has been dismissed ‘out of hand’ by the Medical Practitioners’ Tribunal Service (MPTS), which rules on cases brought by the General Medical Council (GMC).

Leading oncologists and medical researchers – some with personal experience of Prof Stebbing treating friends or family – also wrote to the MPTS to back him. In all, 600 messages of support arrived, of which 25 were submitted – but rejected – as potential evidence to the MPTS.

Extracts from letters praising the oncologist have also been passed to The Mail on Sunday, without the knowledge of Prof Stebbing or his legal team.

Restaurateur Graham Rebak, 47, who credits the oncologist with saving him from colon cancer, said: ‘I don’t understand why the GMC has done this to Justin. He only wants to help people.’ Another unnamed man with an ‘extremely rare’ cancer claimed he was told by another private oncologist that he would not ‘risk his career or pension’ to prescribe drugs that strayed from the ‘standard protocol’.

By contrast, he recalls, Prof Stebbing ‘has supported me’, adding: ‘If you have a rare or more complicated cancer in the UK you might as well be dead, as there is no room for thinking outside the box.’

Some former patients allege that insurance companies wanted to see Prof Stebbing’s wings clipped.

Efforts by Prof Stebbing’s lawyers to have testimonials admitted as evidence were twice rejected by an MPTS panel, which ruled them to be ‘of little (if any)’ value.

Medics at leading institutions including Imperial College London and Columbia University in New York have also written in his support.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10300621/Cancer-patients-written-doctors-claim-silenced-bid-save-maverick-doctor.html

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