Posted on 08/07/2015 3:55:43 AM PDT by markomalley
In a matter of months dozens of kids—some younger than 9—received taxpayer-funded, sex-change therapy in a state that earlier this year made it legal for minors to undergo radical treatment for “gender dysphoria” without parental consent.
Judicial Watch has obtained documents from the Oregon Health Authority that show 56 minors have received assessments or therapy related to “gender dysphoria” under the state’s taxpayer-funded health plan since January. Seven of the children were aged 0-9, according to the records obtained by JW, 22 were between the ages of 10 to 14 and 27 were 15-17 years old. The publicly-subsidized Oregon Health Plan delivers treatment that can include hormone-suppressing drugs and surgery for those who claim to have gender identity disorder.
Seventeen of the minors received hormone treatments or other drugs since January, the records show. This is described in the state documents as “medications to suppress puberty in gender questioning youth.” It may seem insane, or even criminal, for a licensed medical professional to administer drugs to a child who may be questioning their gender in order to suppress that child’s puberty. The medications as well as psychotherapy and doctor visits are all covered under the state measure, according to the records.
Publicly-funded, sex-change therapy is quite popular in Oregon and state officials evidently wanted to promote the benefit among children even if it means excluding parents. To qualify for the perk, also known as “cross-sex hormone therapy,” under the state-run insurance plan patients must show that they “have any significant medical or mental health concerns reasonably well controlled.” This may seem incredibly subjective, especially for youngsters in the throes of puberty.
Those who want to have sex-change surgery must also complete 12 months of hormone therapy appropriate to their “gender goals,” the documents state. An agency called the Oregon Health Evidence Review Commission (HERC) is responsible for setting the standards and changing the state’s policies to allow for the administration of “medications to suppress puberty in gender questioning youth,” according to the records obtained by JW as part of an ongoing probe into the matter.
As of July 438 people—adults and children combined—received services for “gender dysphoria” in Oregon, the records say. Ten adults have received sex-change surgeries since January but no minors so far. The cost to Oregon taxpayers for the procedures, officially known as “gender reassignment surgery,” during this seven-month period was $29,900. JW will continue monitoring Oregon’s program to obtain updated figures as they become available.
The cost of sex reassignment operations are also being passed along to taxpayers at the federal level. Last year JW reported that Medicare, the government’s health program for the elderly and disabled, changed its longtime policy to cover the procedures for transgender patients. For decades Medicare automatically denied requests for sex reassignments surgeries, but the agency committed a shocking about-face last summer by acknowledging the procedures as medically necessary and effective treatment for individuals who don’t identify with their biological sex.
Is this not child abuse?
Oregon, California, Washington... Nothing liberals do in those states surprises me anymore.
But don’t let minors smoke, get a tattoo, make a pistol with their fingers, or watch an R rated movie. Oh no, that’s a no-no. Bad kiddie, bad.
This is no surprise. Liberals have long believed in helping people who identify as criminals achieve their goals, so why not obey Satan in scrambling God’s DNA for good measure?
Genital mutilation of kids. Who is driving this deviance? The LGBTP alliance. The psychotic queers continue to control the children of other people.
Of course it is child abuse. It is medical malpractice as well. As the insanity spreads, the legal system becomes corrupted as well.
This would require the government to drag any child of mine out of my house by gunpoint. And I don’t think I would fare well. But my point would have made.
The lifespans of “sex-reassigned” persons are much shorter than average. Could this be an effort to save the state money in the long term by avoiding the payouts for late-life illnesses?
Because government has been so good for children. Just look at the product of their work.
But I cannot give them a band-aid, an aspirin, nor pull a splinter from their thumb without signed parental permission ....
Correct me if I am wrong but don’t surgical procedures require parental consent from doctors and hospitals??
Barbara Wagner was a beneficiary of Oregon’s “Death with Dignity Law.” When faced with a $4,000 per month cancer treatment expenditure as opposed to a one time $50 expenditure, the state of Oregon chose the latter, sending her an unsigned letter informing her of their decision. She should have claimed she had “gender dysphoria.” “Gender dysphoria,” AIDS treatment, and other approved diseases will be covered by all government programs. Other diseases not so much.
The lede paragraph in this story is misleading. It implies that children as young as 9 in Oregon do not require parental consent for Medicaid funded gender-bender therapies. In Oregon, the age of consent is 15. Thus, children at age 15 do not require parental notification and medical personnel cannot consult parents, since doing so would violate the patient’s privacy.
Children as young as 9 are getting these treatments, funded by Medicaid, but with the collusion of — or indoctrination by — their lunatic parents. The no-need-for-parents doesn’t kick in until 15.
If Oregon’s age of consent for medical procedures is 15, I would presume it would be the same for sexual activity and other life choices. The pedophile agenda wants to push this lower age of consent —and even voting rights!! for children— into the other states.
What needs to happen here, is the age of consent needs to be raised to 18, if not 21. Get kids out of the clutches of the state and the LGBT pedo-pushers, and back under the control of their parents.
At the very least, I would move out of the state if the freaks in charge tried to mutilate my child over “gender dysphoria” without my consent. That is exactly as bad as amputating a healthy leg because of another variant of “body identity dysphoria”. This is an insane and evil policy.
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