“Medical Groups, Doctors Express ‘Serious Concerns’ about Gender-Transition Treatment for Minors."
“By BRITTANY BERNSTEIN
June 8, 2024 9:25 AM
Eighteen health-policy and medical organizations have signed onto a statement expressing “serious concerns” about gender-transition treatment for minors.
The “Doctors Protecting Children” declaration, signed by the conservative American College of Pediatricians, the Catholic Medical Association, and nearly 100 doctors and health leaders, says “responsible informed consent is not possible” with minors due to the “extremely limited long-term follow-up studies of interventions, and the immature, often impulsive, nature of the adolescent brain.”
Most gender confusion in minors “will resolve those mental incongruencies after experiencing the normal developmental process of puberty,” the declaration says.
Physicians should instead recommend psychotherapy for underlying mental health issues including depression, anxiety, autism, and prior emotional trauma, the statement adds. There are “serious long-term risks associated with the use of social transition, puberty blockers, masculinizing or feminizing hormones, and surgeries, not the least of which is potential sterility.”
“Evidence-based medical research now demonstrates there is little to no benefit from any or all suggested ‘gender affirming’ interventions for adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria,” the declaration says.
American College of Pediatricians executive director Jill Simons said the group has been “sounding the alarm” since leaked internal documents from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) showed experts privately acknowledging that young patients often lack proper understanding about the severity of the life-altering medical decisions they’re making and the possible consequences involved, including sterility, derailed sexual development, and general regret.
This despite WPATH publicly advocating in its Standards of Care 8 for those with diagnosed “gender incongruence” to have access to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries, as long as patients can demonstrate “the emotional and cognitive maturity required to provide informed consent/assent for the treatment.”
The documents show that WPATH president Marci Bowers acknowledged during a January 2022 board meeting that the effects of puberty blockers on fertility and the “onset of orgasmic response” are not fully known. Boys who experience early puberty blocking can have “problematic surgical outcomes” and extreme difficulty climaxing, she said.
Other WPATH members have said the current transgender-treatment protocol might be correlated with advanced disease, such as cancer. One doctor reported treating a 16-year-old patient who developed large liver tumors after being prescribed norethindrone acetate, which can serve as a puberty-blocker substitute, to suppress menstruation for several years and testosterone for one year.
WPATH member Dianne Berg, a child psychologist and co-author of the child chapter of Standards of Care 8, acknowledged children lack the ability to “understand the extent to which some of these medical interventions are impacting them.”
Meanwhile, a recent study in England found no comprehensive evidence to support the routine prescription of transgender drugs to minors with gender dysphoria.
The WPATH leak and the English study offer “overwhelming evidence that these so-called gender-affirming care treatments should not continue,” Simons told EWTN News Nightly.
“We thought that our colleagues here in the U.S. would take heed and also do the same and put a pause, [but] they’ve continued,” Simons added. “We just came together as a coalition of medical doctors, organizations, and said, ‘Enough.’”
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