Minnesota children's hospital offers 'gender-affirming' care to minors, even toddlers

Children’s Minnesota hospital offers gender treatments for minors, from 
toddlers on up.

The hospital is among a number of institutions across the U.S. recently 
exposed for offering the highly controversial gender treatments to 
children, The Post Millennial reports.

“Like all kids, transgender youth deserve to grow up happy, healthy, safe 
and strong. We’re here to help them every step along the way,” the 
hospital’s website proclaims, offering, “gender health care for kids and 
teens.”

Advertised services include gender consultations, mental health 
evaluations and treatments such as puberty blockers, gender-affirming 
hormones, menstrual suppression and fertility preservation consultations.

While the website claims the hospital aims to help transgender children 
“grow up happy, healthy and safe,” some studies have found puberty 
blockers and cross-sex hormones to be dangerous, potentially causing bone 
density issues, brain swelling and permanent vision loss, as well as an 
elevated risk of cancer.  

The director of the hospital’s Gender Health Program, Angela Kade 
Goepferd, goes so far as to claim children may know they are transgender 
by the time they are able to speak, also asserting that not all boys have 
penises, and not all girls have vaginas. 

In a video clip shared online, Goepferd explains that children begin 
understanding the differences between genders around age 2, and by ages 3 
or 4 they develop a “sophisticated understanding of physical 
characteristics and anatomy.” 

Goepferd, who reportedly considers herself “non-binary,” claims to be 
neither the mother nor father of her three children, but their “mapa.” In 
the video she says her three children, ages 4-6, were, “assigned male at 
birth” and “continue to identify as males.”  

The gender program director also uses a crayon analogy to illustrate her 
beliefs: Imagine the difference if children are only given a pink or blue 
crayon to draw themselves compared to a box of 64 crayons, she says, 
according to The Post Millennial. “If we open the box of crayons, they 
will tell us who they are.” 

In response to another Post Millennial report about a transgender health 
conference session moderated by an employee of Children’s Minnesota, the 
hospital sent the publication a legal demand to delete it, citing a lack 
of consent. Although the event was live-streamed, The Post Millennial took 
down the full video of the panel, replacing it with a three-minute clip. 

Critics of transgender ideology have expressed concerns about the 
secretiveness around treatments and policies involving minors, from 
schools to hospitals.

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