Posted on 10/06/2022 10:40:32 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Across the United States, thousands of youths are lining up for gender-affirming care. But when families decide to take the medical route, they must make decisions about life-altering treatments that have little scientific evidence of their long-term safety and efficacy.
On the two-hour drive back from the hospital, Danielle Boyer kept replaying the doctor’s questions in her mind. Was her then-12-year-old child, Ryace, hearing voices? Was she using illegal drugs? Had she ever been hospitalized for psychiatric treatment? Had she ever harmed herself?
Ryace (pronounced RYE-us) was assigned male at birth, but by the time she was 4, it was clear to her parents that she identified as a girl. She referred to herself as a girl. She wanted to dress as a girl. But her parents feared for her safety if they let her live openly as a girl in their tightly knit rural community. So they struck an uneasy compromise. At home, Ryace could be a girl, wearing makeup and dresses. At school, around town and in family photos, Ryace would remain a boy.
Ryace chafed at the restrictions. When she started middle school, she grew increasingly anxious about what puberty would bring: facial hair, an Adam’s apple, a deeper voice. That’s when Danielle sought help at Akron Children’s Hospital and its new gender clinic, where staff told her they could treat Ryace with puberty-blocking drugs and sex hormones to help her transition.
“This is what I’ve always wanted,” Ryace told her mother as they left the hospital. Afterward, the pair went on a celebratory shopping trip for girl’s clothes. Danielle was relieved. After years of struggling in isolation to do what they thought was best for Ryace, the Boyers were now getting expert help from people who understood their situation.
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“Assigned male at birth”
What caca. This child has a penis and both an X and Y chromosome. There no assigning necessary - this child is a male.
This is worse then the genital mutilation some Muslims do to girl children.
/sigh
Its all in the marketing. When I was a kid, everyone had to have a skateboard and a Schwinn stingray. Now its transsexual surgery.
New headline: “As schools send kids to transgender clinics without the parents’ knowledge, parents are faced with an unreasonable situation”
Parenting is fraught with many unknowns - but determining what sex your child is ain’t one of them.
Any parent that is confused by this is a moron.
Mothers feminizing sons is an ancient story. In some cases it is done by women who either hate men or fear normal male assertiveness and physicality. In some cases by women who desperately want a daughter but have only sons. In some cases by women who have no husbands but do have a son, who they coddle, undermine and excuse because they fear being ‘left alone’. All of these bent women do evil to their sons and produce worthless, perverted or dangerous men. Now these same sort of weak, stupidly selfish women can now encourage literally destroying their sons to become some sort of twisted, physically maimed, freaks who will be a source of more social pathology. A curse on such women.
Conventional medical wisdom held/holds that drs work with bature, not against it.
Therefore any surgeries or hormones must be those which enhance the bio gender only.
I grew up in 40’s & 50’s...as a Tomboy on a dairy farm.
NEVER had any thoughts about wanting to be a boy.
“Ryace” is a name of the “Chasten” type. The parents were up to something from the get-go.
The lie starts with the headline.These children are not seeking medical care. Instead, mentally ill parents are seeking to sexually mutilate their children. A child's consent to such mutilation should NEVER be considered legally valid until he or she is AT LEAST 18 years old.
Yep and nope. Used to be.
But most of the children suffering from gender dysphoria now are females.
For some reason the males get more press but the numbers show it has recently flipped.
the Boyers were now getting expert help from people who understood their situation.
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No, they’re not.
The most important word is “consensual” that children to not have similar status and decisions are deferred to the parents and guardians not school teachers.
Does anyone recall hearing of kids committing suicide because they believed they were the wrong sex before 2010? Or did it start when schools started convincing kids they are trapped in the wrong sex?
As a young lad, I always found the tomboys very attractive. And a whole lot of fun.
It is experimental sterilization.
None of these children will ever have children.
Josef Mengele
Chopping off body parts is medical care? Mmmmph.
Only if they have gangrene or diabetic neuropathy
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