Going Too Far?
If you are an adult, and want to get your parts rearranged, that’s your business (as long as it’s not taxpayer funded). But there is a doctor at Boston Children’s that has opened a clinic for Transgendered children, SOME AS YOUNG AS 7!
He’s apparently not a surgeon; he offers:
counseling and drugs that delay the onset of puberty. The drugs stop the natural flood of hormones that would make it difficult to have a sex alteration later in life, allowing patients more time to decide whether they want to make the change…Spack also offers some teenagers hormone therapy, a drastic step that changes the way they grow and develop. While the effects of drug treatments can be stopped, long-term hormone therapy can be irreversible, causing permanent infertility in both sexes.
Sorry, but what is this doing to them long-term? Obviously, this is a parental decision, as a young child is intellectually incapable of making this decision.
It’s hard to believe that a hospital with Boston Children’s stature would even consider this, in light of the potential adverse effects, as well as the fact that this is not a life-threatening condition.
The full article is here.
Comments?
If aliens landed here from outer space, what would they think? This is just gross. What kind of parent would make a decision like that on behalf of a child? It should be an adult decision. Who’s paying for this? Gawd!!
I personally know of a patient receiving testosterone shots in preparation for an addadictomy procedure. She had it payed for by Medicaid….
Is an addadictomy procedure what I think it is?
You got it…
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Addadictomy
LOL. I *heart* the Urban Dictionary.
A parent’s best weapon to find out what their kids are talking about