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WARNING! Disturbing images of failed 'top surgery' on young women/girls trying to 'transition' to look like men (BELOW).A YOUTUBE account, Buck Angel (a trans for the past 30 years), wants to get the word out to the young who are considering "gender affirming surgery." Many who experience severe complications and side effects. Buck is adamant that the young should not be given this kind of surgery, that they have a mental disorder (gender dysphoria) instead of a medical need.Buck's video includes a portion wherein a young girl with poor surgical results says 'we need to normalize' atypical scarring etc. Buck...

A 20-year-old woman has accused Planned Parenthood of rushing her into a gender transition when she was 18, leaving her with lifelong side effects. Cristina Hineman has filed a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest single provider of abortion, contraception, reproductive care, and sex education. The organization has in recent years also become a leading provider of gender transition hormones for young adults, offering the service at more than 400 locations. At least 40,000 patients have gone to Planned Parenthood for hormone treatment this year. Hineman claims she was given a prescription for testosterone following a 30-minute consultation with...

WASHINGTON — Medical doctors and a mom of a trans-identifying child are urging the government to shut down medical operations that are harming children. Their efforts to resist the medicalization of gender has led them to discover that government-funded research now allows wrong sex hormones such as testosterone to be given to girls as young as 8. At a Thursday panel at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, Dr. Michael Laidlaw addressed the medical harms of hormonal treatments and surgical interventions being performed on young people who believe they are the opposite sex. Doctors administering these treatments are advocating...