Re: Thousands of sex-change surgeries performed on minors in 5-year period

On 10/10/2024 11:26 AM, John Smyth wrote:
> This is some sick shit.
> You can't change your sex anymore than you can change your species.
> These people are crazy.
> 
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> 'Thousands of sex-change surgeries performed on minors in 5-year period'
> 
> <https://www.christianpost.com/news/thousands-of-sex-change-surgeries-performed-on-minors-database.html>
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> <https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4270071/posts>
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> 'Thousands of sex-change operations were performed on trans-identified
> minors from 2019-2023 in the United States as several states have worked
> to prohibit the life-altering procedures, a new database shows.
> 
> Do No Harm, which describes itself as a coalition of "physicians,
> nurses, medical students, patients, and policymakers focused on keeping
> identity politics out of medical education, research, and clinical
> practice," unveiled a new database documenting the incidence of gender
> transition procedures on minors with gender dysphoria Tuesday.
> 
> The advocacy group found that a total of 13,994 minors underwent some
> form of "sex-change treatment" from 2019-2023, while a total of 5,747
> sex-change surgeries were performed on minors and 8,579 received either
> cross-sex hormones or puberty-blocking drugs during this period.
> 
> Sex-change surgeries are procedures that involve the removal of healthy
> body parts that correspond to a person's biological sex or the creation
> of artificial body parts that align with an individual's stated gender
> identity.
> 
> Do No Harm's findings also document that all forms of so-called
> "treatments" performed on minors generated at least $119,791,202 in
> charges. Overall, a total of 62,882 "sex-change prescriptions" were
> written for minors suffering from gender dysphoria.
> 
> In a statement reacting to the database's launch, Do No Harm Chairman
> Dr. Stanley Goldfarb identified the effort as an expansion of "our
> mission to expose the dangers of experimental pediatric gender medicine
> and bring the practice to an end."
> 
> "This first-of-its-kind project provides patients, families, and
> policymakers with a resource that reveals the pervasiveness of
> irreversible sex-change treatments for minors in America," Goldfarb
> said.
> 
> "While this data represents the tip of the iceberg, this is the first
> step in holding the medical establishment accountable for participating
> in, and often times promoting, predatory and unscientific medical
> interventions for children."
> 
> The database is based on an analysis of thousands of insurance claims
> from hospitals and healthcare facilities nationwide. Do No Harm also
> examined websites and publicly available information on each profiled
> hospital to determine the services they offer. The organization compiled
> a data set using procedure codes and drug codes commonly used in
> "gender-affirming care." These codes were collected from multiple
> sources, including commercial insurance providers, Medicaid, Medicare
> and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
> 
> "The procedure codes and NDC codes were reviewed and assigned
> corresponding confidence levels to indicate the likelihood they were
> directly related to a gender-related condition," the website states.
> "This process was then reviewed by multiple medical professionals and
> cross-referenced with patient diagnoses for gender-related conditions to
> accurately determine which procedures and drugs were used for gender
> medical interventions."
> 
> Chloe Cole, a detransitioner who has emerged as one of the most
> outspoken critics of efforts to provide youth struggling with their
> gender with life-altering gender surgeries, also weighed in on the
> database in her capacity as Do No Harm senior fellow and spokesperson.
> 
> "The new project from Do No Harm proves the lies from the medical
> establishment and radical politicians who argue that cases like mine are
> rare," Cole, who says she experienced suicidal thoughts following a
> double mastectomy she received as a minor, said.
> 
> "The stats in this database represent thousands of kids who are being
> treated like Guinea pigs for unproven, and sometimes dangerous, medical
> experiments," Cole continued. "I hope politicians and parents alike use
> this database to see where these treatments are happening and protect
> their children from being rushed into irreversible, life-altering
> treatments."
> 
> The database contains a detailed breakdown by state and hospital of all
> gender-change procedures that were performed on minors in the years
> examined.
> 
> While several states have enacted laws banning some or all forms of
> gender-transition procedures on minors, no such restrictions existed in
> 2019 or 2020, meaning that they have occurred in all 50 states at some
> point in the last five years.
> 
> Currently, 26 states have laws prohibiting the performance of some or
> all gender transition procedures on youth with gender dysphoria:
> Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa,
> Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New
> Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina,
> South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.
> 
> The efforts to ban the procedures at the state level come amid concerns
> about their long-term impacts.
> 
> The American College of Pediatricians lists potential side effects of
> puberty blockers as "osteoporosis, mood disorders, seizures, cognitive
> impairment and, when combined with cross-sex hormones, sterility."
> Meanwhile, the organization has warned that cross-sex hormones can put
> youth at an "increased risk of heart attacks, stroke, diabetes, blood
> clots and cancers across their lifespan."
> 
> As for surgeries, the office of Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis
> has shared images of the unsightly scars left behind from the mutilation
> of forearm tissue in trans-identified females to create an artificial
> penis as well as the removal of healthy breasts. The procedures can also
> have negative effects on the mental health of youth with gender
> dysphoria.
> 
> Cole, one of several detransitioners who once experienced gender
> dysphoria as a child and once identified as a member of the opposite sex
> but later saw her discomfort with her biological sex subside as she got
> older, has filed a lawsuit against the medical professionals who
> subjected her to gender transition procedures as a minor.
> 
> The filing maintained that her experience, including a double
> mastectomy, left her with "deep physical and emotional wounds, severe
> regrets, and distrust of the medical system."
> 
> '

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