Medical
A person’s chromosomes are imprinted on every cell of her or his body. It is not possible for a human body to change sex. Accordingly, attempting to ‘transition’ someone to the other sex via hormones and surgeries is both futile and highly unethical, especially when these interventions are performed upon minors or others who lack the capacity for full and meaningful consent.
"Gender Affirming" or "Trans medicine" in pediatrics often starts by giving prepubescent children a medication called Lupron to "block" or "pause" puberty. After a year or two on Lupron, most children are given synthetic estrogen or testosterone. Many continue on to "gender affirming" surgeries.
Some of the known long term effects of this process are:
- sterility and sexual dysfunction in adulthood,
- early onset osteoporosis
- brain swelling
- life long dependency on synthetic hormones
- For boys and men taking estrogen: gynecomastia and breast cancer, blood clots, heart disease, stroke, gallstones, elevated cholesterol
- For girls and women taking testosterone: vaginal and uterine atrophy, voice deepening, male pattern baldness, thickening of the blood, liver dysfunction, heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, breast and uterine cancers
The full scale of effects is still unknown.
Children are unable to consent to this process.
Children are able to obtain hormones and seek surgeries in many places throughout Virginia.
Below are recorded phone calls to schedule:
1. a "top surgery" (mastectomy) consultation for a 13 year old at Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters,
2. "hormone" appointment for a 12 year old at Planned Parenthood of Charlottesville
3. a "gender affirming orchiectomy (testicle removal)" at Children's Hospital at Virginia Commonwealth University
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