Posted on 03/11/2022 8:18:29 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The largest pediatric hospital in Texas has announced that it will no longer provide puberty blockers to children after the state’s Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote an opinion labeling the practice “child abuse.”
In a statement Friday, the Houston-based Texas Children’s Hospital, the largest pediatric hospital in both the United States and Texas, announced that it will pause “hormone-related prescription therapies for gender-affirming services.”
The hospital cited the “Attorney General’s and Governor’s Actions” as factors in its decision, referring to Paxton’s assertion in last month’s non-binding Opinion No. KP-0401 that the prescription of puberty-blocking drugs “can legally constitute child abuse under several provisions of chapter 261 of the Texas Family Code.”
“The mission of Texas Children’s Hospital is to create a healthier future for all children, including transgender children, within the bounds of the law,” the hospital added. “This step was taken to safeguard our health care professionals and impacted families from potential criminal legal ramifications.”
Paxton reacted to the hospital’s decision in a tweet Friday, remarking that he was “glad to hear that today Texas Children’s Hospital halted their child-abuse procedures.”
In his non-binding legal opinion, the attorney general maintained that sterilization of minors by removing their genitalia and the prescription of puberty-blocking drugs can cause “mental or emotional injury to a child that results in an observable and material impairment in the child’s growth, development, or psychological funding.”
“These procedures and treatments can ‘caus[e] or permit[] the child to be in a situation in which the child sustains a mental or emotional injury that results in an observable and material impairment in the child’s growth, development, or psychological funding,’” he added.
Paxton also warned that the procedures can cause a “physical injury that results in substantial harm to the child.”
As Texas Children’s Hospital indicated, Paxton is not the only public official in the state to view puberty-blocking drugs and gender reassignment surgery for minors as a form of child abuse.
Last summer, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services commissioner wrote a letter classifying “genital mutilation of a child through reassignment surgery” as child abuse in response to a request from Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.
Last week, President Joe Biden released a statement slamming elected leaders in Texas for launching a “cynical and dangerous campaign targeting transgender children and their parents.”
“Like so many anti-transgender attacks proliferating in states across the country, the Governor’s actions callously threaten to harm children and their families just to score political points,” the statement reads. “These actions are terrifying many families in Texas and beyond. And they must stop.”
The president insisted that contrary to what Texas officials are proclaiming, “Respected medical organizations have said that access to gender-affirming care for transgender children can benefit mental health, lower suicide rates, and improve other health outcomes.”
The American Medical Association wrote an open letter to the National Governors’ Association expressing opposition to efforts to interfere in the “health care of transgender children.”
However, the conservative American College of Pediatricians has long voiced its opposition to using puberty-blocking drugs on children with gender dysphoria, calling such treatments "experimental."
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, led by Xavier Becerra, also condemned what he described as “the Texas government’s attacks against transgender youth and those who love and care for them.”
HHS issued guidance “making clear that denials of health care based on gender identity are illegal, as is restricting doctors and health care providers from providing care because of a patient’s gender identity.”
The push to declare gender reassignment surgeries for minors child abuse follows the airing of a “60 Minutes” segment featuring testimony from “detransitioners” who underwent medical procedures to change their gender when they were younger only to regret doing so when they got older. They reverted back to identifying with their biological gender.
Many of those the newsmagazine program spoke with contend they were rushed into “gender-affirming” care and continue to suffer adverse health consequences due to their previous embrace of “gender affirmation.”
The Food and Drug Administration hasn’t approved the use of puberty-blocking drugs for the sake of gender transition but has approved such medication for children who start puberty at a very young age.
“Doctors” are actually doing this. The mind reels. What is the medical condition they are addressing? Answer: None.
The kid is being treated for believing he does not get adequate attention
Puberty blockers are used to treat non-classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia by mitigating the effects of early puberty (a side effect of this endocrine disorder).
Had my son been diagnosed earlier, he would not have suffered premature bone maturation which cut 6 inches off his adult height.
My little man will now forever be a little man, instead of 6 feet tall like his brother and father.
Not everything has a nefarious purpose.
“First, do no harm.” I can’t believe TCH was abusing children. I’ll bet you can’t get Ivermectin there to save your life.
Pediatrics has a high level of leftist Democrat scum.
Pure evil.
Have the Texas Rangers(the ones with badges, not the ball club, though making either of them angry is a bad idea) break down the doors and take them to jail.
Any person, with a health care professional license or not, who gives even one dose of puberty blocker to any human being should be jailed for the same term as for murder - since that what this “therapy” essentially is. The essential person God created has been eliminated. Clearly other mammals have been victims in the “testing” in support of the homosexual agenda to tear it all down. Dr. Mengele is smiling.
Waiting for the childen’s hospital in Dallas to announce same. NOT HOLDING MY BREATH!
All these highly trained doctors had to be offically told to stop doing this to children. They don’t know any better or view their patients in a detached manner, focused on short term ‘benefits’ of this experimental treatment.
Give a minor life altering hormones and you are a-o-k. Give a dying man ivermectin and hospital administration drags you in front of the star chamber.
“...the largest pediatric hospital in both the United States and Texas...”
When did Texas become a territory of the US losing state status? I knew they were changing the names of locations and pulling down statues, but this was unexpected. Course there are so many illegals crossing the borders down there with federal assistance that I knew Biden would buckle sooner or later.
wy69
It’s a good start; now fire all the “practitioners.”
As always, “First do no harm” serves as a rule. And rules, as well as ethics and morals and laws, don’t apply to libs.
Territory, hell - if we’re not a state, we’re a republic.
Good
Including ADMIRAL Levine.
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