Kids will have to wait until they are 19 now
The University of Pennsylvania’s medical system will no longer remove healthy testicles, breasts, and other organs from kids who have gender dysphoria.
Penn Medicine recently announced the decision to comply with federal directives that prohibit removing healthy organs to make kids look like the opposite sex. The orders also prohibit injecting girls and boys with drugs to help them look like the opposite sex – for example, giving girls testosterone so they grow facial hair.
This is called “gender-affirming care,” though it is the opposite, since it supports someone in looking like the opposite of their true gender.
“This is a difficult decision that we know impacts patients and families who place their trust in our care teams,” Penn Medicine’s Senior Vice President Patrick Brennan stated, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian.
Brennan made clear he does support surgical and chemical procedures on kids but is trying to follow the law.
He stated:
We remain deeply committed to ensuring a respectful and welcoming environment for all members of the communities we serve and providing comprehensive medical and behavioral health care and psychosocial support for LGBTQ+ individuals while complying with federal government requirements.
State Rep. Rick Krajewski, a Penn graduate, called the decision “disappointing, unnecessary and wrong.”
“Gender-affirming care is healthcare. It saves lives,” Krajewski wrote on X. “The University must stop giving into bigoted federal demands without a fight.”
Biologists meanwhile have affirmed that sex is immutable, a fact supported by federal law under President Donald Trump.
According to a Jan. 20 executive order:
The erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive impact not just on women but on the validity of the entire American system. Basing Federal policy on truth is critical to scientific inquiry, public safety, morale, and trust in government itself.
This unhealthy road is paved by an ongoing and purposeful attack against the ordinary and longstanding use and understanding of biological and scientific terms, replacing the immutable biological reality of sex with an internal, fluid, and subjective sense of self unmoored from biological facts.
Furthermore, claims that mental health is improved by transgender drugs and surgeries has been disproven.
An expensive, federally funded project found the drugs did not improve the mental health of recipients. However, the lead researcher tried to bury the results because she supports injecting people with drugs. Researcher Johanna Olson-Kennedy claimed kids were not responding to the injections because they had better mental health already. However, as noted by the Free Beacon, this contradicts prior statements she made.
Furthermore, around 60 to 98 percent of kids with gender dysphoria will overcome this diagnosis by adulthood provided they are not encouraged to cross-dress or take drugs and surgeries, according to the Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine.
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