Posted on 08/13/2024 7:41:52 PM PDT by algore
Hundreds of girls aged 12 and under have had 'top surgery' to remove their breasts in the US since 2017, data suggests.
And more than 6,000 girls aged 13 to 18 had the 'gender-affirming' surgeries in that time, according to an analysis seen by DailyMail.com.
High profile Democrats, including Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, had previously claimed sex change surgeries 'don't happen' on children.
Researchers at the conservative Manhattan Institute think-tank carried out what they call the biggest ever analysis of transgender care for minors, reviewing more than 4 billion insurance claims from 155 million people between 2017 and 2023.
Overall, they found that between 5,288 and 6,294 children under 18 years old had 'top surgeries' over the six years studied.
'Top surgery' or a double-mastectomy is a type of gender-affirming care where the breasts are removed in order to masculinize the chest.
There were also between 50 to 179 girls aged 12 years and under who they said had the procedure.
The researchers said doctors may sometimes record a child suffering from gender dysphoria as one suffering from a separate condition.
The team said, however, that their figures may be an under-estimate because they did not include procedures paid for out-of-pocket.
Puberty in girls normally begins around the ages of 10 or 11, with breast development being the first physical change that youngsters experience.
Surgery to remove the breasts leaves long scars on the chest below the nipples, and also leaves youngsters at risk of a serious infection or a loss of sensation in the chest or nipple area. It cannot be reversed.
at the federal level, there is no age limit on gender-affirming surgeries or other gender-affirming care.
In their analysis, researchers analyzed insurance claims data from health systems, data aggregators and other healthcare databases nationwide
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And Tim Walz signed legislation for these surgeries in Minnesota.
Transgender holocaust.
Coming soon to the entire nation if Harris/Walz have their way.
The are fact checking saying he didn’t? What is the story?
I heard he signed the appropriate legislation. I await further facts if he didn’t.
What percentage of them were White? I’ll bet it’s over 95%.
They want to sterilize the White population.
And only White people are weak and browbeaten enough to think they have to go along with every new progressive thing.
Blacks, Hispanics and other minorities are not so obsessed with the demon who goes by the name of “progress”.
All these girls will be rich but will have no breasts. Sue the hell out of these bastard doctors.
> gender-affirming care
Even our language isn’t safe from mutilation.
well put
Doctors are well protected.
You are about to be the only friends of Joseph Mengahla.
Didn’t a court rule someone under 12 doesn’t fully understand free speech, therefore someone under 12 doesn’t have first amendment rights. So how in the world can a child of 12 then have the mental acuity to determine to have their body mutilated. When they are too young to even get a tattoo.
Gee. I wonder how God feels about this?
That’s right.
Gender affirming care is a contradiction in terms the way people use that terminology.
If we were truly administering gender affirming care, to affirm the gender of a troubled individual, we would counsel girls and women that they were born female, and that they are female , and we would affirm that the fact that they are female.
The same thing will be true of males who have gender dysphoria; we would counsel them to affirm the fact that they are male.
Unnecessary plastic surgery and it will never change someone’s sex only destroy their lives
War crimes trials.
We should perform fingernail removal “surgery” on all of the parents of these children.
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