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

On 2025-03-24, P. Coonan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
> https://readlion.com/minnesota-childrens-hospital-offers-gender-affirming-
> care-to-minors-even-toddlers/

But the libbys are claiming this doesn't happen.
They are liars, every single one of them.

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