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Wisconsin clinic hides online information about ‘transgender health’ program for minors Dr. Katherine Gast, a plastic surgeon, describes the various 'gender affirming' procedures and surgeries available to kids.
Life Site News ^ | September 26, 2022 | Jean Mondoro

Posted on 10/09/2022 10:15:35 PM PDT by Morgana

A “transgender health” clinic affiliated with the University of Wisconsin (UW) provides “gender affirming” puberty blockers and surgeries, and the program’s director has said she will operate on minors.

On Friday, Libs of TikTok shared a series of posts with information about the Comprehensive Gender Services Program at UW Health. Dr. Katherine Gast is a plastic surgeon and director of the program. The clinic’s website has since been removed and all YouTube videos made private.

“Now the standard of care is doing puberty blockers which are completely safe, completely reversible,” Gast said in an interview that has also been hidden from the public. “[It] just turns the kid into basically a late bloomer, and you give the kid more time and the parents more time to figure things out.”

“At age 15, 16-ish, then you can start cross hormone treatment if the kid wants. And if for whatever reason the kid changes their mind or things change, you can just stop taking the puberty blockers and the kid goes through puberty normally and grows normally and no harm done.”

In another video, Gast casually describes some of the various surgeries she performs on her patients, including “penile inversion vaginoplasty,” or the forming of a so-called vagina in a man’s body. She also details how she will take tissue from a woman’s forearm, leg, or from both areas to ‘create’ a penis in a phalloplasty procedure. Lastly, the surgeon explains how “top surgery” or a “cosmetic mastectomy” removes healthy breasts from women, a result that she describes as “a happy day for everybody.”

Dr. Gast will perform any of these surgeries on minors with parental consent.

According to the same interview, the program was developed to combine the work of the pediatric and surgical teams to conduct the work of mutilating the healthy bodies of children in a more smooth and efficient manner.

“There wasn’t this kind of central person to help patients get the referrals they need and access the care that they really needed within the system. So, that’s what we’re working on, we’re working on care coordination and patient navigation through a large, academic health system,” she said.

UW Health also provides a detailed document explaining how minors can attain the required “letter of readiness” to obtain “gender affirming” procedures. According to the guidelines, the letter must be written by a “mental health professional with at least a master’s degree.” It also requires proof of the “stability of [the] patient’s mental health” and “if the patient has depression or anxiety,” proof that “it is being managed.”

Accompanying the fact that this requirement being vague and undefined, research has shown a higher risk of depression and suicide among “transgender” youth. A 2015 study found that minors who “transition” are facing greater risks of “mental illness, including depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts and attempts, and self-harm than their non-transgender peers.”

The claim that puberty blockers, cross sex hormone “treatment” and “gender affirming surgeries” save children from committing suicide is unsubstantiated.

Last week, Vanderbilt University Medical Center was exposed for promoting “transgender” surgeries as a way to make money, deleting all of the evidence as UW has done. However, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has launched an investigation into the hospital’s care of minors.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: bigpharma; childabuse; children; gender; hormones; malpractice; plannedparenthood; prolife; tranny; wisconsin

1 posted on 10/09/2022 10:15:35 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

At 16 most of us are too stupid to make such permanent decisions.


2 posted on 10/09/2022 10:17:47 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

Even at 18 we were too stupid.


3 posted on 10/09/2022 10:19:56 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor. )
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To: Morgana
There needs to be a massive lawsuit against the University of Wisconsin and the doctors which perform these operations. And the legislatures are going to have to suck it up and ban these procedures for minors. Also the insurance companies which carry the malpractice insurance on these "doctors" need to be notified that they are going to be targeted too.

I seriously can't understand why a legislature full of grown men can't man up and put a halt to this overnight.

4 posted on 10/09/2022 10:22:46 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
“Now the standard of care is doing puberty blockers which are completely safe, completely reversible,” Gast said in an interview that has also been hidden from the public. “[It] just turns the kid into basically a late bloomer, and you give the kid more time and the parents more time to figure things out.”

“At age 15, 16-ish, then you can start cross hormone treatment if the kid wants. And if for whatever reason the kid changes their mind or things change, you can just stop taking the puberty blockers and the kid goes through puberty normally and grows normally and no harm done.”

Lies, beginning to end. Hormones are powerful chemicals and can not be taken lightly in their effect on a growing human body.

It’s not simply a matter of stopping them and your body continues growing where it left off. Permanent changes have already been made and cannot be undone. They are NOT safe and their effects are completely reversible. There is harm done.

This is beyond something superficial like coloring your hair.

5 posted on 10/09/2022 11:55:31 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: metmom

Puberty blockers are used for children with NCCAH to prevent the damage that can occur due to rapid and premature onset of puberty.

Anything else is quackery.


6 posted on 10/10/2022 12:40:29 AM PDT by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....!)
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To: TheWriterTX

I understand the need for them in certain rare cases.

However the point was that this person was lying in the claim that they are basically of no consequence and safe and reversible.


7 posted on 10/10/2022 12:52:09 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: Morgana

Who would have ever guessed the #1 groomer tactic of

” it’ll be our little secret”

would become

systemically institutionalized

into academia and government and health care ?

Spit.


8 posted on 10/10/2022 1:49:29 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: metmom

I wasn’t disagreeing with you, Metmom. There are legitimate medical uses, but how they are being used on kids is horrifying.

And you are correct. The effects are not irreversible.


9 posted on 10/10/2022 2:08:03 AM PDT by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....!)
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To: Morgana

The brain really doesn’t mature in people until about 25.


10 posted on 10/10/2022 2:31:10 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
I seriously can't understand why a legislature full of grown men can't man up and put a halt to this overnight.

Maybe they figure, by bending the knee to these freaks, they might buy some votes.

11 posted on 10/10/2022 3:50:24 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: Cronos

Forget stupidity.

A kid that age isn’t capable of legal consent for treatment in a lot of states.


12 posted on 10/10/2022 3:57:59 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: Morgana

It’d be a real shame if this “doctor” got some late night visits from an angry parent or two.

Yep. A real shame.

L


13 posted on 10/10/2022 4:12:08 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

We have a very republican legislature but the leadership is weak. I hope Michels wins so we can get stuff done here.


14 posted on 10/10/2022 4:18:40 AM PDT by ooker312 (ooker)
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