Posted on 01/06/2009 12:48:04 PM PST by GonzoII
Monday January 5, 2009Doctors Urge Puberty Blockers for Children Considering Sex Change
By Kathleen Gilbert CHEVY CHASE, Maryland, January 5, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An international medical organization has recommended that children as young as 12 who question their sexual identity should be given drugs to block the physical changes of puberty. The New Scientist reports that the injunction comes as part of a set of guidelines, the first of its kind, published last month by the Endocrine Society. The Guidelines For Health Organisations Commissioning Treatment Services For Trans People call for healthcare administrators around the globe to provide full coverage for hormonal and cosmetic procedures sought by individuals identified as "transsexual." The doctors project that relatively new puberty-blocking drugs could "buy time" for young teens who may later decide they are unsatisfied with their sex, and thereby avoid undergoing the bodily changes that belong to the sex that they are dissatisfied with. We recommend that adolescents who fulfill eligibility and readiness criteria for gender reassignment initially undergo treatment to suppress pubertal development, New Scientist quoted the guidelines as saying. The document also noted that children under 16, who would normally need parental consent, ought to be allowed treatment against their parents' wishes, if they have been deemed "Gillick" competent by a clinician - referring to the 1985 court case Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbeach which found that if a child is found to have adequate understanding the requirement of parental consent may be overcome. The recommendations rest upon the results of trials at a Netherlands clinic where puberty blockers have been administered to more than 70 children under sixteen, with one patient as young as 11. Currently Canada, Australia, Germany, and some clinics in the U.S. permit the puberty-blocking drugs. The effects of the drug are designed to wear off should the patient discontinue use, but the long-term effects of chemically delaying puberty are virtually unknown. Peggy Cohen-Kettenis of the Free University of Amsterdam Medical Center, who helped write the new guidelines, acknowledged that "people are always afraid that it will be harmful for the children," but added that "what they never take into account is that it is also harmful to not give them this treatment." The document emphasizes that the goal for treatment of such individuals is "to obtain lasting personal comfort in terms of phenotype and gender role." Dr. Russell Viner of the Institute of Child Health warned that early manipulation of natural development could tamper with a child's maturing self-perception. "The real question is: if you intervene early in a young person who would otherwise change their mind, do you reinforce their gender identity disorder? Do you remove the chance for change?" asked Viner. Bioethicist Wesley Smith told LifeSiteNews.com that encouraging the use of untested chemicals that interfere with normal biological development treads a dangerous line. "Do we know what the impact of such heavy hormonal interference will be on the health of these young people?" he asked. "If not, doesnt this border on unethical human experimentation?" |
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“Boredom is having too many choices.”
— Soren Kierkegaard, if I remember correctly.
Peter Pan Drugs?..............
When do I get to go Claire Wolfe on these motherhuggers?
Isn’t it sad that stories like this are becoming main stream and even sound acceptable to many.
Insanity - I will ping it out a bit later for sure. !!!!
Why not? You have doctors pushing hormone supressing birth control on minors as they undergo the changes of puberty.
As usual, LifeSite is skewing the story to fit their agenda. A lot of the children who are “questioning their gender identity” and being examined/treated by doctors because of it, actually have clear anatomical and/or chromosomal abnormalities that make their gender a less than black-and-white matter. These children are either going to have to have medical intervention to steer their bodies in one direction or the other, or be left to mature into a form which will not enable them to function anywhere near normally as either male or female. For those children, it does make a lot of sense to postpone making irreversible medical decisions (including the decision to allow breasts or facial hair to develop when that development won’t correspond to the child’s genital anatomy) until they are a bit older, and better able to participate in the decision-making.
The same crowd that is critical of Islamic genital mutilation champion this form of genital mutilation.
Remember that in CA, the gender of a child is determined by that child. Whatever the child says “it” is must be respected. If he wants to be called a she, the school must go along with it, and vice versa, and the locker room or bathroom is to be allowed accordingly. Fun fun fun.
Doesn’t giving kids with Gender Identity Disorder puberty blocking drugs sound akin to giving a depressed person a gun? Or, like telling a Schizophrenic to go ahead and listen to the voices in their head. What the heck happened to treatment (as if I didn’t know)?
Am screaming here, can you hear me? THESE ARE CHILDREN!!!!
I have a better idea...Give them gender appropriate porn mags until they come to their senses and see what they would be missing!
What if he wants to be a space ranger and she wants to be a princess and he wants to be a basketball star and she wants to be a pony?
Exactly right.
They should all be put on puberty blockers until they're twenty-five.
< /cane shake>
Welcome to Hell folks! Watch your step when getting off the crazy train.
Why should a child even be considering a sex change? Maybe they have adults in their lives (homosexual adoption) that are encouraging them to think about the subject?
AMEN! When they start screwing up our kids then it is by God time to freakin’ FIGHT!
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