New data indicates U. S. facilities performed at least 5, 747 gender-disfiguring surgeries on adolescents between 2019 and 2023, according to a collection released by Would No Harm, an advocacy group of medical experts. The statistics also show 13, 994 British children received another trans treatments, such as puberty-blocking and opposite-sex estrogen, in those four decades.
According to the collection, the majority of the women who were subjected to such methods were girls between the ages of 12 and 17. Medical specialists made more than$ 119 million from the procedures, the information says.
Four young Americans who had previously experienced transgender medicine were kicked out of their vendor hall this week by the American Academy of Pediatrics ( AAP ). A related group of “desisters” met a nice welcome next month in Orlando, Florida, at the Catholic Medical Association’s Annual Educational Conference. A panel of transgender younger adults sat down for the medical conference, which included 750 doctors from across the country.
Seven young individuals who were entirely injured by sex-transition procedures formally explained the damage these treatments caused at the CMA occasion. For the first time, these young adults were given a tone at a U.S. monthly medical conference to notify and inform health professionals about the irreversible harm that “gender medicine” causes.
A CMA media release notes that the CMA’s decision to invite detransitioners to talk at this year’s event indicates a growing gap in the medical field regarding how to best address young people’s gender distress. It also demonstrates the willingness of CMA officials to identify and treat those who have been harmed by these practiced methods.
Especially in American “gender treatments”, negative and harmful results have been ignored, and at times suppressed, by some significant health organizations, said Tim Millea, MD, the president of CMA’s Conscience Rights Protection Task Force. He claimed that this goes against the long-held medical custom of allowing “ideas to get discussed and debated in an open, honest, and open way.”
‘ Medicine’s Ability to Harm Is Almost Unlimited’
Pediatrician Patrick Hunter, a Florida Board of Medicine part, organized the board. He stated that his goal was to “bring awareness to the damage that is being done, and to enhance the overall treatment for trans-identifed youth.”
According to Hunter,” No one should want what is happening to these young people and young people.” ” Our profession does not tolerate the fact that hurt and regret are occurring,” said one employee. Everyone in the medical career may be concerned about the lack of problem and the inability to recognize it.
Prisha Mosley, a detransitioner, claimed to be the victim of manipulation by activists and therapist into consenting to a double mastectomy and hormone injections as a minor.
” It is crucial for doctors to learn how to prevent the harm and to try and repair what has been done. In the CMA’s media release about the event, she claimed,” It is bad for the very occupation that hurts detransitioners to constantly change us aside.” I’m glad for any health professional who is willing to listen.
Hunter said he has heard from almost 100 children who regret their moves, and found the participants ‘ reports “very painful”. ” Medicine’s ability to harm is almost endless, while the ability to treat does have limits”, Hunter said.
” This is why the concept of ‘ First, do no hurt’ is sound and uniformly accepted”, he said. It acknowledges our need for humility, our need to know when our limitations are, and when we should and should n’t act.
Refusing to Acknowledge Detransitioners
Hunter said he had spoken with several health organizations before proposing the panel, urging more organizations to learn detransitioners ‘ voices. Both the AAP and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry ( AACAP ) rejected the proposal, he said, matching the World Professional Association of Transgender Health ( WPATH) stance of ignoring detransitioners. The WPATH administration has stated that it is” considered off limits for many in our neighborhood” to acknowledge these individuals.
” People are being harmed by gender change. That cannot be disputed”, Hunter said. ” Clinical evidence fails to demonstrate that people will consistently benefit.” We are failing as practitioners, but more importantly, we are failing the people who are being harmed if the health profession does not understand and learn from those who are being harmed. The health industry has “lost its manner.”
A “dirty few” of the U.S. clinics that perform the most sex-disfigurement procedures on juveniles are highlighted by The Stop the Harm Database. They are:
- The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
- Family’s Minnesota
- Seattle Children’s
- Children’s Clinics Los Angeles
- Boston Children’s Medical
- Rady Children’s Clinics
- Children’s National Medical Center
- UCSF Benioff Children’s Clinics California
- Children’s Clinics Colorado
- UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
- Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
The collection also includes the names of the American doctors ‘ employers, who received the highest reimbursement for child mutilation operations between 2019 and 2023. The top-billing doctor for child sex surgeries in that timeframe worked at Boston Children’s hospital, and charged more than$ 5 million for the procedures.
” California, one of the first says to proclaim itself a’ shelter state’ for trans procedures, also had the most inevitable surgeries, with 1, 359 minors undergoing medical procedures, followed by Oregon with 357, Washington with 330, Pennsylvania with 316 and Massachusetts with 300″, Fox News reported on the Do No Harm data.
Warring Medical Organizations
Based on experience and studies that have shown how critical female medicine interventions are to children, some European countries have curtailed or stopped them in the past year. But most American health organizations have remained staunch activists, dismissing well-documented risks and problems associated with puberty blockers, cross-sex estrogen, and transgender therapies.
The Cass Review’s release in April and the leaked WPATH files indicating that the organization pushes drugs without giving informed consent sent clear messages about transgender medicine that American medical organizations like the AMA and the AAP have largely ignored or dismissed. They are ignoring “objective and evidence-based data”, Millea said.
Still, some U. S. medical organizations do oppose gender mutilation, including the American College of Pediatricians, Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, American College of Family Medicine, and the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. The” Doctors Protecting Children Declaration”, published by ACPEDS, represents thousands of health care workers who want such practices ended.
A number of cases have been and will continue to be filed in courts all over the country challenging the authority of medical professionals to challenge the federal and state laws governing transgender interventions and their right to refuse to take part in them, according to Millea.
The CMA will support court cases to halt this harm in medicine, joining other organizations ‘ challenges in the form of amicus briefs, and if necessary, serving as plaintiffs, Millea said.
Last month, state attorneys general sent a letter to the AAP president demanding the AAP defend its support of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical interventions for minors with gender dysphoria. By October 8, the attorney generals had requested a thorough explanation of this non-evidence-based policy.
” I heard from many attendees that the panel discussion was the most significant thing they heard all week, and perhaps at any conference,” Hunter said. The medical industry is “unable to remain silent.” We must speak out and take action. We must seek regulation of the profession so that evidence-based, ethical, and effective care is provided for trans-identified youth. We must return medicine to its pre-industrial era, where it was first practiced to care for patients and not to advance social or political goals.
Ashley Bateman blogs for Ascension Press and writes for The Heartland Institute about policy. Her work has been featured in The Washington Times, The Daily Caller, The New York Post, The American Thinker and numerous other publications. She previously held positions as editor, writer, and photographer for The Warner Weekly, a publication for the German-speaking American military community in Bamberg. She previously held positions as adjunct scholars for The Lexington Institute. Ashley serves on the board of a Virginia-based Catholic homeschool cooperative. Along with her brilliant engineer/scientist husband, she educates four incredible children at home.