For years, criticizing gender reassignment surgeries for minors would unleash a cancel campaign over being “transphobic” and intolerant. The media amplified such attacks. Then the issuance of the Cass Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People led countries to significantly curtail such procedures in Europe. However, many academics in the United States continue to push back on the Cass Report and the effort to curtail transitioning procedures for children. Now, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons has published a position statement recommending that surgeons delay gender reassignment surgeries until a patient is 19-years-old.
The ASPS represents more than 11,000 physicians around the world.
The release notes that:
“Available evidence suggests that a substantial proportion of children with prepubertal onset gender dysphoria experience resolution or significant reduction of distress by the time they reach adulthood, absent medical or surgical intervention. Evidence regarding adolescent onset presentation, which has become increasingly common since the mid-2010s, is more limited but similarly does not allow for confident prediction of long-term trajectories.”
This is an extension of a statement issued last year that added the specific age recommendation.
As many parents have argued, that “resolution” is part of maturation for many children. However, the complaint is that psychologists and other experts push parents to begin gender transitioning while children are still minors, often warning that failure to do so could lead to the death of their children by suicide.
That complaint was at the heart of a case this month that led to the first major verdict against doctors for such surgeries. In New York, a jury awarded $2 million to Fox Varian, 22, over the double mastectomy performed on her while she was a minor. Psychologist Kenneth Einhorn and surgeon Simon Chin were held responsible for failing to follow the standards of care of reasonable doctors.
Teachers, school administrators, school boards and teacher’s unions that conceal a child’s gender dysphoria from parents should also sued for negligence and be held financially liable. If childhood gender dysphoria is considered to be a medical diagnosis, the actions of teachers and administrators to conceal this information from the child’s parents may also be criminally liable for practicing medicine without a license. This will only stop when some of them, especially the teacher’s unions, are successfully sued into oblivion.
. Of all that people have endured through these Obama times, the LGBT group takes the gold medal. IMO
And we were all looking forward to a revival of Castrato Music…….NOT!
Too bad the beautiful voices of Vienna Choir Boys have to compete with that history.
Finally. Someone/s have a degree of common sense. Another nail in the woke leftist coffin.
(1) I agree with the delay in gender-transforming surgeries and treatments, but for a reason not discussed: the underdevelopment of research into the role of chemical and environmental elements in creating or enhancing gender dysphoria and sexual identity, – especially endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). Reread that sentence.
But don’t focus on my words. Simply use your search engine for words like “hormone disruption and gender dysphoria” or “EDCs and gender identity” or “gender fluidity and hormone disruption” or “chemical exposure and gender/sexual ambiguity,” etc. Even RFK Jr. (for all his medical “whims”) mentioned atrazine (an herbicide frequently found in U.S. drinking water supplies) and its gender-altering powers in an interview years ago.
(2) The increase in LGBTQ incidence in recent decades is well-documented, and goes well beyond simply the freedom to “come out” or engage in transgender dress/conduct. Without looking into causation, and whether or not the ^above (1) plays any role, ill-informed parents, the media, and Hollywood all play roles in “supporting” sexual ambiguity and transgenderism/LGBTQ in general. “Heated Rivalry” is the hot ticket this year. Added to this is the nascent lucrative medical market factor. Also, delay in transition treatment has been identified by some medical professionals as creating more complication and unnecessary surgeries if not treated pre-pubescently. This denies the role of eventual pubescent hormonal production and natural reversal/correction.
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(3) Several years ago, a friend showed me a porn magazine that featured nude males with fully-developed genitalia, but who also had Dolly-Parton-like breast implants and were wearing bright red lipstick and mascara/false lashes, etc. It seems like, with all the overplay of “sex” in media and print over the years, especially visual imagery,-it is taking more and more “variations on a theme” for one-stop shopping these days!
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Lest anyone be mislead to believe that the ASPS has somehow rediscovered their moral bearings (or even scientific foundations), the timing of the announcement hard on the heals of the New York jury verdict (and well after a full year of the final Cass report) tells the real story – its all about money. Notice also this is just a recommendation. Members in good standing may still engage in the barbarism of mutilating children. The ASPS is figuratively “washing their hands”.
Foster change! Don’t wait for the guys that make $$$ off these procedure to come around to an ethical decision process! That is just a facade.
Sue the pants off of every physician, every counselor, every facility that carried out these procedures. And, lest we forget, EVERY teacher/school administrator that groomed these child victims. Let the real games begin!
Foster change! Don’t wait for the guys that make $$$ off these procedure to come around to an ethical decision process! That is just a facade.
Sue the pants off of every physician, every counselor, every facility that carried out these procedures. And, lest we forget, EVERY teacher/school administrator that groomed these child victims. Let the real games begin!