Despite growing evidence that gender confusion is just a problem for most children, the United States remains an outlier when it comes to allowing drugs and surgeries for teens and young adults. ing. step.
Much of Europe has distanced itself from the junk science surrounding sex reassignment, especially pediatric sex reassignment.
But transgender extremism has a firm grip on America’s medical institutions, cultural elites, progressive politicians, and school boards.
As Karol Markowitz points out, a large 15-year study conducted in the Netherlands has just confirmed that transgenderism among children is largely a fad. is.
Dutch researchers have found that most teens who experience gender dysphoria eventually “get over” it (and often resolve larger mental health issues). ) found that they felt well-adjusted by early adulthood.
Federal regulations issued under President Barack Obama said doctors could not refuse gender reassignment surgery on children if it was recommended by a “mental health professional.”
The nationwide order was issued despite medical experts at the Department of Health and Human Services saying the gender reassignment process itself can be harmful to minors.
These drastic procedures include puberty-suppressing drugs, interactive hormone therapy, and radical plastic surgery, which can treat heart disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer, low bone density, and other serious conditions. Surgery increases the lifetime risk of side effects, not to mention infertility and irreversibility of most diseases.
Leaked documents from the World Association of Transgender Health Professionals show that some doctors have privately acknowledged the devastating and lasting side effects, yet object to disclosing the potential risks. This is making it clear that this is adding to the madness.
Locally, the Equal Rights Amendment on the New York ballot in November would write this dangerous insanity into the state constitution. Although portrayed as protecting abortion rights, it could permanently remove parents’ right to veto their children undergoing transgender surgery or puberty blockers.
The hard truth is that activists jumped to the wrong conclusions about what was best for these children, and while the world’s medical establishment initially relented, they realized the truth was far more complex. I only realized it now.
Cries of “bias” may still frighten American institutions (and much of the media), but locking bad junk science into law is beyond madness.
