Posted on 02/21/2025 2:15:43 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain
He’s been on this journey for four years.
Once a week, the 17-year-old transgender boy injects testosterone into his body. He’s already frozen his eggs in case he wants to have his own biological children one day. He’s talked with his parents, his psychologist, and says he knew he was ready.
For this teen, the next logical step was almost here: surgery to remove the breast tissue he was born with.
“Getting this treatment isn’t fixing something that’s wrong with me,” says the teen, who lives in the Chicago suburbs and asked that his name not be used to protect his privacy and safety. “It’s just helping me grow more into who I want to be and who I can feel most comfortable existing as.”
But as his mom, Jane, waited for a call to schedule the surgery at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, she received a voicemail from the hospital, and before she even listened to it, she knew what they would say — the surgery wouldn’t happen.
She had read on social media that Lurie would no longer perform gender care surgeries for youth younger than 19 in the wake of an executive order from Republican President Donald Trump.
“We are being threatened,” Jane says. “The trans community is being threatened and parents are being threatened. … We will do what we need to do to take care of our children.”
Her son says he feels hurt and confused. He says doctors told him they would fight as hard as they legally could to support him. But then hospital leaders decided to cancel surgical appointments and not schedule new ones.
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And if anyone is looking for a reason to defund NPR, here's a big one.
Arrest them and charge them all with child abuse and depravity.
If she is serious she can do it when she is 19.
4 years of child abuse. Yet the adults want more.
Every one of the adults involved in any capacity in messing up these kids minds and bodies should have to get the same treatments done to themselves.
Imagine all the money not being made by this. Bonanza is over!
That’s as bad as the “news” stories about “her penis”. Does the left really believe that most people take them seriously?
Some day these children will be glad to have bodies that are not mutilated.
If we’re supposed to be respectful of the way God made you, why in God’s name would kids need surgery and hormone injections?
“He’s already frozen his eggs...”
Typical it would read...THEY froze THEIR eggs. Confusing.
Put the parents on Fentanyl and beat the kids into reality.
I am sure she can get the treatment she wants, they just want someone else to pay for it.
Imagine if I “identified” as a male with three arms, should taxpayers be forced to pay for this
Utter clap trap
But.... I thought we were told that “transgender” minors NEVER got surgery.
Quite telling, except for the pronoun errors.
The “transgender” “industry” is pure evil!
Not only do they cary our these vile, inhuman “treatments”, but then they turn around and label anyone who objects as a “bigot”!
This girl and her parents are all idiots.
Defund NPR.
HER eggs and NOBODY is being “threatened”.
No, boys don't have eggs. They have sperm.......This is a female, not a boy.
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