More gender surgery for minors

[George K]

I was assured that this never happens.

Boston Children's Hospital director calls for drastic increase in capacity for gender surgeries for minors

Boston Children's Hospital co-director at its Center for Gender Surgery called for a drastic increase in capacity for what he called "gender-affirming care" (GAC), including surgeries, for kids as GOP states enact bans on the practices.

Oren Ganor is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon who specializes in gender-affirming surgeries. He has previously stated in an email that the hospital is "slightly flexible" when it comes to the age of transgender girls seeking genital surgery," according to a local outlet. The policy had not been finalized, he said, "because of the issue around consent for sterilization."

The children's hospital clarified to Fox News Digital that it does not provide genital surgeries on kids. A patient needs to live in their new gender for 12 months before the genital surgeries are considered.

In a March 14 article he co-wrote with a medical school student, Shawheen J. Rezei, in The Journal of the American Medical Association, he said that the capacity for gender surgeries for kids needed to be increased.

"Physicians who provide GAC will face a greater burden due to constraints in certain states… work to criminalize GAC for adolescents," the article stated. "Especially as certain states work to criminalize GAC for adolescents, there will be an increased flux of patients traveling to seek care in states with more open legislation."

It called for more clinics to be opened up with targeted knowledge on the gender-affirming model. They outlined several steps "to improve capacity for this patient population" since "there will be an increased flux of patients traveling to seek care in states with more open legislation."

The authors recommended medical school residency programs expose future physicians to GAC by "increase training efforts" for "gender-affirming surgeries."

In contrast, proponents of "gender-affirming care" believe it is life-saving treatment for children with a disproportionately high rate of suicide.

[Mik]

Insanity. Actually believing that surgically altering kids so that they are neither male nor female will prevent suicides.

[George K]

@Mik it would stand to reason (but, I'm kidding here, right?) that this type of stuff needs parental/guardian approval. You have to wonder how much whack-a-doodle parenting is going on to permit/encourage this.

[Mik]

Plenty.

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K said in More gender surgery for minors:

@Mik it would stand to reason (but, I'm kidding here, right?) that this type of stuff needs parental/guardian approval. You have to wonder how much whack-a-doodle parenting is going on to permit/encourage this.

Would you prefer a dead daughter to a living son?

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in More gender surgery for minors:

Insanity. Actually believing that surgically altering kids so that they are neither male nor female will prevent suicides.

Teen suicide ideation and attempts dropped drastically for three decades until 2009, when they started increasing again.

What happened in 2009?

[Aqua Letifer]

@LuFins-Dad said in More gender surgery for minors:

@Mik said in More gender surgery for minors:

Insanity. Actually believing that surgically altering kids so that they are neither male nor female will prevent suicides.

Teen suicide ideation and attempts dropped drastically for three decades until 2009, when they started increasing again.

What happened in 2009?

Uh... can you think of something else that was happening then that maybe had a little more pervasive impact on the world and mental health?

This is like trying to explain the Titanic sinking by pointing to the number of trannies on board.

[LuFins Dad]

@Aqua-Letifer said in More gender surgery for minors:

@LuFins-Dad said in More gender surgery for minors:

@Mik said in More gender surgery for minors:

Insanity. Actually believing that surgically altering kids so that they are neither male nor female will prevent suicides.

Teen suicide ideation and attempts dropped drastically for three decades until 2009, when they started increasing again.

What happened in 2009?

Uh... can you think of something else that was happening then that maybe had a little more pervasive impact on the world and mental health?

This is like trying to explain the Titanic sinking by pointing to the number of trannies on board.

Nope… Univariate Fallacy is the standard new format for debate. If it’s being held up as the standard for logic and discourse, then who am I to argue?

[LuFins Dad]

@Aqua-Letifer said in More gender surgery for minors:

@LuFins-Dad said in More gender surgery for minors:

@Mik said in More gender surgery for minors:

Insanity. Actually believing that surgically altering kids so that they are neither male nor female will prevent suicides.

Teen suicide ideation and attempts dropped drastically for three decades until 2009, when they started increasing again.

What happened in 2009?

Uh... can you think of something else that was happening then that maybe had a little more pervasive impact on the world and mental health?

This is like trying to explain the Titanic sinking by pointing to the number of trannies on board.

Wait! Obama! Obama made the world queerer AND made kids want to kill themselves more!

[Jolly]

@LuFins-Dad said in More gender surgery for minors:

@George-K said in More gender surgery for minors:

@Mik it would stand to reason (but, I'm kidding here, right?) that this type of stuff needs parental/guardian approval. You have to wonder how much whack-a-doodle parenting is going on to permit/encourage this.

Would you prefer a dead daughter to a living son?

Let me think on that one...You know, I'd prefer a son who was mildly unhappy, but would probably outgrow it, than a daughter fairly likely to be miserable and possibly commit suicide.