My favorite cartoon on this...
Posted on 01/20/2024 7:30:55 AM PST by NetAddicted
'I think when we just say, "Oh puberty blockers are just reversible and it’s a very noninvasive treatment," I would say it’s more invasive than oftentimes the media makes it out to be or other people', one pediatrician said.
(LifeSiteNews) — Top American pediatricians acknowledged major concerns connected to transgender drugs for children in resurfaced videos from 2022, The Daily Caller reported in an exclusive article published Tuesday.
During a 2022 conference for the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), which sets the standards for transgender “care,” including age ranges for certain treatments like puberty blockers, double mastectomies, and other interventions, numerous physicians were recorded expressing some of the major medical problems linked to the increasingly popular pharmaceutical interventions.
In one such video, WPATH certified pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Daniel Metzger expressed a “concern” that puberty blockers can restrict proper calcium development such that it will never fully occur in children who start on the drugs at puberty.
Metzger says he explains to families interested in starting the drugs that “normally puberty is the time of putting the calcium into your piggy bank.”
“You’ve got a piggy bank for your calcium and you better get it all in by 25 because at 25 you’re going to live off that piggy bank,” he said, adding that puberty-blocking drugs “slow that calcium accrual back into the bones quite a bit, back to the prepubertal level.”
“This is a concern that not everybody is getting their piggy bank completely filled up with calcium” by the cut-off in the early- to mid-20s, he warned.
Metzger also warned that the drugs could prevent the natural development of tissue that would be necessary to continue with reconstructive transgender surgery to make a male more closely resemble a female, and acknowledged that informing families about the fertility complications is one of the most challenging aspects of his job because children and teens generally have little concept of what their future fertility means.
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In addition to the video featuring comments by Metzger, another video obtained by The Daily Caller shows Dr. Scott Leibowitz, whom the outlet pointed out had been “a co-lead in the development of the adolescent chapter of the WPATH Standards of Care and member of the WPATH Board of Directors,” as he “challenged the reversibility of puberty suppression,” even as it is presented by pro-trans legacy media outlets.
“I think when we just say, ‘Oh, puberty blockers are just reversible and it’s a very noninvasive treatment,’ I would say it’s more invasive than oftentimes the media makes it out to be or other people,” he said.
“There’s challenges with puberty suppression that we have to acknowledge and that’s why it’s ‘reversible asterisks,’” Leibowitz said. “One cannot be on puberty suppression endlessly. You get to a place where physiologically we need hormones.”
As alluded to by Leibowitz, the notion of “reversibility” of transgender drugs is something of a misnomer since the vast majority of children who start on that track will continue on it by taking cross-sex hormones, which will very likely sterilize them.
Around the same time that the WPATH doctors were expressing concerns, Dr. Kathryn Lowe, a board-certified pediatrician and member of the executive committee of the American Academy of Pediatricians section on LGBT Health and Wellness, acknowledged in a 2022 virtual meeting that transgender hormone drugs would likely render gender-confused kids unable to have children of their own in the future.
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“The big thing is, here, the infertility concerns with starting gender affirming hormone therapy,” Lowe said in the video, LifeSiteNews reported. “For kids who go on a blocker at tanner stage two, and then they add in gender-affirming hormone therapy — there isn’t a lot of research about this out there — but what we do know is these kids probably will be infertile.”
Similarly, pediatric endocrinologist and director of Boston Children’s Hospital’s GeMS (Gender Management Service) program Jeremi Carswell, MD, admitted in a resurfaced video that rates of gender dysphoria have “skyrocketed” and that transgender drug regimens can damage fertility.
And calcium deficiency and infertility are not the only likely ramifications of transgender interventions.
As LifeSiteNews has extensively reported, the drugs and surgeries have also been linked to permanent physical and psychological damage, including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, strokes and blood clots, and suicidality. The serious risks come even as leaders in the field have acknowledged that “social contagion” is a factor in the growing phenomenon of transgender identification and subsequent surgical and chemical mutilation by “affirming” practitioners.
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This is settled science. They did this to a few kids back in the 50’s The kids killed themselves in their 20s. They stopped doing it. I don’t know why they think it will change now.
Interesting info about calcium, but I’m a lot more worried about mental health.
Lopping off sexual organs at a young age and pumping young bodies full of dangerous chemicals causing irreversible damage HAS to create full-blown mental crisis later on. I cannot imagine waking up in your 20s and realizing that the adults you trusted let you indulge your childhood fantasy of “changing sex” and you are now stuck in a disfigured body the rest of your unhappy, miserable life.
Nowhere near enough research is done on the mental health of mentally ill people who actually believe they can change their sex without changing the chromosomes in the 30 trillion cells that make up your body.
Discussion my ass. Collusion to lie about the obvious deadly, irreversible damage this does.
—” The kids killed themselves in their 20s”
Had a guy making the transition at the megacorp where I worked.
Classes, classes, and more classes.
And should you blink your eyes longer a second, you could become unemployed. So I paid attention and kept notes.
The numbers presented indicated a massive number of suicides,
around 50%.
Come Q&A, I asked.
This was a few years back, ~50% suicide for males in the first five years... depending...
About two years later, this one took his own life.
A money-quote from Dr. Kathryn Lowe.
Now why would our globalist Democratic/Communist party be pushing our grade schoolers into transgenderism?
Why would the Malthusian NWO in the USA want to follow the Marxist playbook of eliminating the middle class?
Children aren’t allowed to legally buy cigarettes or drink alcohol, but it’s perfectly all right for them to make the decision to cut off body parts and take life altering drugs. There needs to be a full-blown investigation and unmasking of the people involved in pushing this agenda. I’m not talking about the robots in their matching T-shirts with professionally made signs, that show up in the gallery in state houses to scream at legislators. I’m talking about the real powers behind the scenes that are pushing and financing this crap. Who are they and why are they doing it.
And where are the parents? The first time your son or daughter comes home and tells you they’ve changed their gender you should be at the school demanding to know who is pushing this on your child and hitting their social media activity to see who is influencing them. If you need to remove them from the school or take away their phones and tablets. Do it. It’s not child abuse to save your child from a lifetime of agony and probable suicide. Would you be complacent if they started cutting themselves at 8 y/o. What if they became anorexic? Would those behaviors be all right? Grow a pair. Don’t allow ‘educators’ ‘gender experts’ to intimidate you. This stuff is not a childhood phase that they’ll get over. Either they are being heavily influenced by someone or they have a mental illness. Either way it needs to be addressed. Once you start cutting and injecting, their lives are forever altered.
In the future this will be viewed like we think about lobotomies now.
My favorite cartoon on this...
There are lawsuits from people harmed by being encouraged to transition before they are emotionally able to do so. Adults are supposed to protect children from making poor decisions, not encourage them to make them. At 6 you are not old enough to cross the road by yourself, but you are old enough to decide that your biological sex is “wrong”?
It’s utter insanity on every level.
Tomboys used to be considered to be just a girl who liked to do traditionally boy stuff.
Now they are told that they are actually a boy and would be happier if they were to take hormone blockers and cross hormone drugs and to get radical, irreversible surgery.
Exactly right throughout.
I’m watching a lot of great westerns from the 40s and 50s. The hottest women were the young lasses on the ranches. They knew how to carry their weight on the ranch AND be feminine at church and dances. “Tomboy” was the norm.
Last night I watched “Vengeance Valley,” the first western that Burt Lancaster starred in. There were two gorgeous ranch women, Joanne Dru and Sally Forest.
Tomboys make the best lover. They are tough, bold as hell, sexy and beautiful.
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"TheTobaccoGender Care Master Settlement Agreement Master Settlement Agreement (GCSA) was entered on January 20,19982025, originally between the four largest United States gender care companies [Planned Parenthood (PP), the American Medical Association (AMA), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)] – the "original participating manufacturers", referred to as the "Majors") and the attorneys general of 46 states. The states settled their lawsuits against the gender care industry for recovery of their gender-related health-care costs.
In exchange, the companies agreed to curtail or cease certaintobaccogender care marketing practices, as well as to pay, in perpetuity, various annual payments to the states to compensate them for some of the medical costs of caring for persons with gender care-related illnesses. The money also funds a new detransition advocacy clearinghouse, the "Global Truth About Gender Initiative", that is fully-funded for enlightenment campaigns, such as "There Are Only Two Sexes", "Detransition Now", and the "XY/XX Campaign For American Prosperity", and maintains a public archive of documents resulting from the cases. In the GCSA, the original participating manufacturers (OPM) agreed to pay a minimum of US$1 trillion over the first 25 years of the agreement. "
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