Pediatric gender clinics: We may look back and ask 'what were we thinking?'

StarTribune (Minneapolis) ^ | 6/20/2019 | Katherine Kersten

[RightGeek]

In April 2019 the Twin Cities’ flagship facility for pediatric care, Children’s Minnesota, launched a clinic for transgender and “gender diverse” young people. Ironically, within days of that opening, the Times of London reported that five clinicians at the Tavistock Centre’s Gender Identity Development Service — England’s only National Health Service pediatric gender-identity clinic — had resigned “as a matter of conscience.”

The clinicians expressed “alarm over the number of adolescents being prescribed body-altering drugs” at Tavistock. “This experimental treatment” is being performed on “very vulnerable children, who have experienced mental health difficulties, abuse, family trauma” that are often “whitewashed” but may contribute to gender confusion, one told the Times. “I felt for the last two years what kept me in the job was a sense there was a huge number of children in danger and I was there to protect them from the service, from the inside,” explained another.

Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, Children’s new gender clinic is portrayed as an unmitigated good. Yet what’s happening in England — where, as here, the number of young people presenting with gender confusion is skyrocketing — suggests that current treatment of pediatric gender-identity problems ignores underlying causes and entails risks that are not being discussed.

Several studies indicate that a strikingly high percentage of young people, especially girls, who identify as transgender have pre-existing autism, ADHD and/or psychological problems, all of which may underlie their gender confusion.

Yet, as the Tavistock clinicians noted, medical personnel are under intense pressure to ignore these “complex histories” in a “rush to accept and celebrate every young person’s new transgender identity,” in the Times’ words. A primary reason, according to the Times, is that transgender lobby groups are “allegedly promoting transition as a cure-all solution for confused adolescents.”

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[cpdiii]

When a man or women becomes 18 years of age he or she is consider an adult. You can vote. To impose gender altering medication or even surgery is simply child abuse in the extreme until they become of age. After 18 it is their choice but not before.

My playmate in my youth was a tom girl. She was just as tough as the rest of us boys. At 13 years of age she started becoming an incredible beautiful woman. She still rode horses and was a virile beautiful woman. Her sexuality was never in doubt, nor her chastity must to my regret.

In her earlier years when she played with us boys in boy games, should her parents questioned her sexulity? She was just a normal kid that grew up into a most beautiful lady.

[clearcarbon]

So far life in the 20-teens has been like living in 20th century horror movies.

[cradle of freedom]

Speaking of mutilation; there were several girls to boys transsexuals who had had their breasts removed and were marching in the Boston gay pride parade naked from the waist up with huge ugly scars where their breasts had once been. Things you can’t unsee.

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