The Biden administration has unfurled a transgender medical policy that calls for irreversible procedures on minors that are shown to reduce their life expectancy by as much as 50%.
As the Washington Examiner reported in a series on transgender children, surgery and hormone treatments can have devastating psychological and physical effects, often leading to the early onset of cancer, tumors, strokes, and other diseases, medical research shows.
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“These are children. No child should be allowed to make a decision that impacts them for the rest of their life,” said former trans man Candace Sharpe, 23, who had a hysterectomy and mastectomy in her teens. “You can’t put that kind of responsibility on to the kid and affirm this new way of coping. This is very dangerous.”
Dozens of cases were uncovered in which teenagers had debilitating problems due to medical procedures, including a transgender teenager who killed herself by standing in front of a train. She had been taking hormone blockers and testosterone shots after being counseled at high school that this was her correct path in life.
However, the Department of Health and Human Services mentions none of this in its two-page document titled “Gender Affirming Care and Young People.” The document pushes for early medical intervention on children and was released Thursday, a day President Joe Biden proclaimed a “Transgender Day of Visibility.”
“For transgender and nonbinary children and adolescents, early gender affirming care is crucial to overall health and well-being as it allows the child or adolescent to focus on social transitions and can increase their confidence while navigating the healthcare system,” the document said.
Among the list of HHS-approved procedures are mastectomies, hysterectomies, and male genital removal. These are referred simply as “top surgery to create male-typical chest shape or enhance breasts” and “bottom surgery on genitals or reproductive organs.”
HHS Transgender Document.JPGSharpe will likely endure a lifetime of pain after de-transitioning and is angry over Biden’s HHS document.
“Why is ‘psychological evaluation’ not on here?” she asked. “Children don’t just hate their body and want to change it naturally. No one is born into the wrong body that needs surgery and medicine to change it. Gender dysphoria isn’t some innate thing that needs treatment with experimental surgeries. It’s a symptom.”
However, the HHS stresses that the procedures are safe and needed for transgender well-being:
“Research demonstrates that gender-affirming care improves the mental health and overall well-being of gender diverse children and adolescents. Because gender-affirming care encompasses many facets of healthcare needs and support, it has been shown to increase positive outcomes for transgender and nonbinary children and adolescents.”
The president of the American College of Pediatricians disagrees.
Dr. Quentin Van Meter said that while he’s seen a 500% increase over the past decade in transgender children, a revolving door exists on the other end in which people are trying to revert back to their previous selves. The physical harm coming with this has caused European countries such as Sweden and Demark to outlaw procedures on minors.
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“Sometimes, they have pain and agony the rest of their lives,” he said. “Blocking puberty in the adolescent does irreversible harm to bone density, and it sterilizes the patient. It’s really irreversible.”
For Sharpe, the battle to be normal again will take a lifetime. She will never be able to have children and wishes someone would have stopped her from undergoing the medical procedures.
“There’s nothing wrong with being gay or gender nonconfirming, but we don’t need to change kids’ pronouns and bodies because of it,” she said. “That’s cruel and regressive and not accepting of the kid — and not helping kids with their actual problems.”
The percentage of U.S. adults who identify as LGBT is 7.1%, according to Gallup. That number jumps significantly to 21% when just focusing on “Generation Z,” those born between 1997 and 2003.
