Introduction… Why We Must Stop the Gender Mutilation Racket
In this report, we provide scientific evidence that promoting gender mutilation of minors is state-sponsored child abuse. We should begin by noting that this report is not an attack on Transgender people or an attempt to control how people choose to live their lives after they become adults. Instead, this is a report on why specific, cancer-causing drugs, including puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, should not be given to children under the age of 18. This report is focused solely on the right of children to be raised in a drug-free environment where they will have the greatest chance of having a happy childhood and growing into happy, productive adults.
The drug industry uses the term “Gender Affirming Care” to describe giving children these toxic drugs. We maintain that this term misleading both to parents of gender-confused children and to the public. We will therefore use the term “Gender Mutilation” to describe giving these toxic drugs to minors – as the end result of giving minors these experimental drugs is that their sex organs will be mutilated and the child will become sterile.
In addition, puberty blockers have been known to cause brain tumors. In July 2022, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US issued a warning label about the risk of puberty blockers after six minors (ages 5-12) experienced severe symptoms of tumor-like masses in the brain.
In addition, in this report, we provide several studies linking cross sex hormones to huge increases in cancer rates.
You will see throughout this report that real child development experts recommend child and family counseling as the best option for resolving problems. The goal is to help the child learn coping skills and other problem solving skills to resolve their issues.
Child Development should be based on Science not Politics
We recognize that in recent years, this subject has become a political football in the United States. Currently, about 25 states led by Republicans have passed laws banning gender mutilation of minors.
Meanwhile 20 State Attorney Generals of states led by Democrats have filed legal briefs in favor of gender mutilation of minors. Sadly, these State Attorney Generals promoting gender mutilation of minors include Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson who is current running for Governor of Washington state. Voters in Washington state need to know that if Ferguson is elected Governor this year, the future of hundreds of thousands of children in our state will be put at risk.
We will look at a couple of misleading claims made by Ferguson in his legal brief in a moment. First, we will look at the recent changes to policies on banning gender mutilation of minors in Europe, where science rather than politics seems to be better recognized. Here is a brief summary of recent changes by country.
Sweden: While Sweden was the first country in the world to allow people to legally change their gender in 1972, it has recently moved away from recommending gender mutilation drugs and towards counseling as the besst option for minors. In 2022, the Swedish government’s National Board of Health and Welfare published a study concluding that puberty blockers and hormone treatments for minors “should be provided only in exceptional cases,” adding that the risks of puberty suppressing drugs and gender-affirming hormones currently outweigh the possible benefits. “Health care should not provide interventions that we do not know to be safe and beneficial,” Mikael Landén, a professor and chief physician at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and co-author of the report. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37069492/\
United Kingdom: Children at schools in the United Kingdom will no longer be taught gender identity after a several hundred page study called the Cass Review was published in February 2022 finding that the curriculum was extremely harmful to child development. The study of gender identity services for children and young people was written by Dr Hilary Cass, past president of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health.
Denmark: In 2023, a major medical journal Ugeskrift for Læger, the Journal of the Danish Medical Association, confirmed that there has been a marked shift in the country’s approach to caring for youth with gender dysphoria. Most youth referred to the centralized gender clinic no longer get a prescription for puberty blockers, hormones or surgery. Instead they receive therapeutic counseling and support. https://segm.org/Denmark-sharply-restricts-youth-gender-transitions
Finland: After years of research, in 2020, a public health body in Finland concluded that “medical gender reassignment is not enough to improve functioning and relieve psychiatric comorbidities among adolescents with gender dysphoria.” They therefore now recommend that minors experiencing gender dysphoria first be provided with counseling and, if further medical treatment is pursued, that the patient be made “aware of the risks associated with these drugs.” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31762394/
France: In February 2022, the French National Academy of Medicine recommended the “greatest reserve” when considering puberty blockers or hormone treatments due to possible side effects such as “impact on growth, bone weakening, risk of infertility.”
Norway: In 2023, the Norwegian Healthcare Investigation Board concluded that “Gender Affirming Care is not evidence based” and thus recommended that gender-affirming care drugs such as puberty blockers be defined as experimental.
Australia: A 2023 long term 9 year study in Australia found that giving minors gender mutilation drugs did not improve their mental health. Before taking the drugs, 88.6% suffered from mental health problems. After taking the drugs, in a follow up 9 years later, 88% still suffered from mental health problems. https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/10/2/314
The shifts in policy in these nations and the research underlying these shifts were summarized in a report published in 2023. Here is the link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11930-023-00358-x
Here are some quotes from this report: “Results of long-term studies of transgender populations failed to demonstrate improvements in mental health, and suggest there are treatment-associated harms. Public health authorities in Finland, Sweden, and England concluded that the risk/benefit ratio of youth gender transition ranges from unknown to unfavorable. As a result, there has been a shift from “gender-affirmative care,” to a more conservative approach that addresses psychiatric comorbidities.”
“Evidence does not support the notion that “affirmative care” of today’s adolescents is net beneficial. Despite claims of the lifesaving nature of gender transition for adults, none of the many studies convincingly demonstrated enduring psychological benefits. The longest-term studies, with the strongest methodologies, reported markedly increased morbidity and mortality and a persistently high risk of post-transition suicide among transitioned adults.”
Blatant lies made by Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson in his legal brief
In August 2022, Bob Ferguson along with 19 other Attorney Generals from Democrat led states, filed a legal brief in a federal case challenging an Alabama law which banned giving gender mutilation drugs to minors. Here is a link to the brief: https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/documents/eknes-tucker-v-marshall-states-amicus.pdf
The judges for the Court of Appeals ruled against Ferguson and in favor of Alabama concluding that Alabama had a right to regulate drugs with known risks being given to minors and that the Alabama law did not discriminate against Transgender people because the law applied to all children. This case and several others will be reviewed by the US Supreme Court in October 2024. Given the mountain of science on the drawbacks of giving gender drugs to minors, it is likely that the US Supreme Court will also rule against Ferguson and in favor of the 25 states that have banned giving gender mutilation drugs to minors.
Later in this report, we will review several more studies on the drawbacks of giving gender mutilation drugs on minors. Here, as examples of how badly misinformed Ferguson is on consequences of gender mutilation of minors. we will look at two studies cited by Ferguson that he claimed were in favor of giving kids gender mutilation drugs Here is an example of an extremely misleading quote from the Ferguson legal brief:
“A survey of over 3,500 transgender adults found that individuals who received pubertal suppression during adolescence had almost 20 percent lower odds of lifetime suicidal thoughts compared to individuals who wanted this treatment but did not receive it.”
This quote was one of several in the Ferguson brief claiming that those given gender mutilation drugs had better outcomes than those who were not given gender mutilation drugs. However, the actual study had a radically different conclusion. Here is a link to the study this claim was based on: https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/145/2/e20191725/68259/Pubertal-Suppression-for-Transgender-Youth-and
Here is the actual table of outcomes in the study:
The study found that 90.2 percent of those not given drugs thought about committing suicide while 75.3 percent of those given drugs thought of committing suicide. The difference is 15% - not 20% claimed by Ferguson.
But much more important, 45.5% of those given gender mutilation drugs attempted to commit suicide in the previous 12 months with the attempt putting them in the hospital. Meanwhile, only 22.8% of those not given gender mutilation drugs had a suicide attempt that put them in the hospital.
To understand how both of these “facts” can be true, all we need to do is look at the average age of those given drugs versus those not given drugs. Here is Table 1 showing the claimed age difference:
Note that the average age for the entire sample was 23.4 which was also the average age for those not given drugs. Meanwhile, the average age for those given drugs was only 21.7. But a huge flaw of this online self report survey was that the minimum age to take the survey was 18. Also, the most common response for age was 18 – which clearly indicates a non-random response. In fact, it is certain that many 16 and 17 year olds took the survey and checked the 18 box because there was no 16 ot 17 box. These younger people were very likely to be in the group given drugs since government payment for those drugs in the US was only available since passage of the Affordable Care Act 4 years before the survey. When we adjust for this fact, the actual age of those given Trans drugs is about 20.
In addition, it is known that suicide risk is much higher, Trans or Not, after the onset of puberty. We will assume puberty starts at age 12. Thus the Trans Drug group had a Suicide “Lifetime” of 20 minus 12 equals 8 years while the Trans No Drug group had a Suicide “Lifetime” of 23.4 minus 12 equals 11.4 years. Therefore, the Trans Drug group Suicide Attempts Percent per year was 41.6% divided by 8 years equals 5.2% percent per year. Trans No Drug group Suicide Attempts Percent per year was 51.2% divided by 11.4 years equals 4.5% per year. Combining this fact with the fact that in the previous 12 months before the survey, the Trans Drug group had more suicide attempts than the Trans No Drug group, it becomes obvious that giving drugs to transgender youth increases their rate of suicide – for the equally obvious reason that Trans drugs do not deal with the underlying mental health problems like Depression that led to the Gender Confusion in the first place. In short, the data from this study leads to the opposite of the claim made by Bob Ferguson and his accomplices.
What caring, rational person would advocate spending hundreds of millions of dollars giving tens of thousands of minors gender mutilation drugs when the result of giving them those drugs results in a huge increase in suicide attempts that result in hospitalization?
As you may know, no one is allowed to blatantly lie to a court. It is called perjury. But an attorney has a special duty to not lie to a court. And an Attorney General needs to be held to an even higher standard. But here, Ferguson did not just lie to any county or state court or even any federal court. He blatantly lied to the federal Court of Appeals which is only one step below the US Supreme Court.
But he did not merely lie to the Court of Appeals, he lied to the American people, including millions of parents and children, about a gender mutilation policy that is currently harming millions of children and costing the tax payers billions of dollars.
In short, this may be one of the worst crimes Bob Ferguson has ever committed. The voters need to know about this crime because Ferguson is now running for Governor here in Washington state.
Here is another misleading claim made by Ferguson in his legal brief:
“A 2020 study found that adolescents who begin gender-affirming treatment at later stages of puberty were over five times more likely to have been diagnosed with depression and over four times more likely to have anxiety disorders than adolescents who seek treatment in early puberty.”
Ferguson claimed that this is why gender mutilation drugs need to be given to younger teenagers rather than waiting until they are age 18 adults and can therefore legally give informed consent. Once again, the actual study he cited to support this claim had a completely different explanation.
Here is a link to the actual study: https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/146/4/e20193600/79683/Mental-Health-and-Timing-of-Gender-Affirming-Care
The study defined “early puberty” as 14 and “later puberty” as 16.
So Ferguson is claiming that kids who start gender mutilation drugs at 16 “were over five times more likely to have been diagnosed with depression and over four times more likely to have anxiety disorders” than kids who start gender mutilation drugs at 14.
Here is what the study actually found:
“78% of all youth reported one or more mental health problems. Depressive and anxiety disorders were reported by 40.0% of younger youths (average age 14) and 44.3% of older youth (average age 16). “
More Older Youths than Younger Youths reported depression (46% vs 30%), had self-harmed (40% vs 28%), had considered suicide (52% vs 40%), had attempted suicide (17% vs 9%).
Below is a chart of the differences between the two age groups (younger group in green and older group in gray):
In short, 16 year olds suffered from more Depression but had about the same anxiety disorders as 14 year olds. So where did the misleading Ferguson claim come from? The answer is that it was referring to the fact that the study also did a statistical process called a logistic regression analysis. The result of the regression analysis was reported as follows:
“Late pubertal youth were 5.49 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.14–26.32) times and 4.18 (95% CI: 1.22–14.49) times more likely to report depressive and anxiety disorders, respectively, compared with early pubertal youth.”
While this appears to match what Ferguson wrote in his brief, he fails to report the most important fact (lying by omission). The omitted fact is the 95% confidence level is extremely wide. For example for depressive disorders, the range includes all values from a ratio of 1.14 to a ratio of 26.32. With a range this wide, the result is almost meaningless.
Yet Ferguson uses this nearly meaningless study to justify giving gender mutilation drugs to 12 year olds.
Later in the study, the authors admit that other things might explain the result. For example, they state that “ The prevalence of pediatric depression increases with age (25) and peaks after the onset of puberty (26).
25 Perou R, Bitsko RH, Blumberg SJ, et al; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Mental health surveillance among children—United States, 2005–2011. MMWR Suppl. 2013;62(2):1–35
26 Thapar, Collishaw, Pine, Thapar. Depression in adolescence. Lancet. 2012;379(9820):1056–1067
Neither of these links is very helpful. But since I have a Masters Degree in Child Development and have spent years studying this problem of Depression in teenagers, I will explain what is actually happening.
We have known for at least 50 years that mental health problems in teenagers increase with age. In short, these problems have nothing to do with being transgender or starting taking gender mutilation drugs. They have to do with being a teenager. Below is a chart from the CDC from a recent study: https://www.cdc.gov/childrensmentalhealth/data.html
Most parents of teenagers have also observed this as they wonder what happened to their normal child who suddenly went crazy when they became a teenager. But this does not mean teenagers need a pile of toxic drugs. What they may need is mental health counseling such as CBT (Cognitive Behavior Therapy).
Thankfully, on August 21, 2023, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Bob Ferguson and in favor of the right of the state of Alabama to protect their children from gender mutilation drugs. Here is a link to their 59 page opinion. https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/202211707.pdf
Here is a quote from their decision: “States have a compelling interest in protecting children from drugs, particularly those for which there is uncertainty regarding benefits, recent surges in use, and irreversible effects… these medications can cause loss of fertility and sexual function.”
Gender Confusion is best treated with Counseling not Drugs
Hundreds of scientific studies support the conclusion that counseling for underlying mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and emotional trauma should be the first line of treatment for children who are confused or distressed about their sex. Counseling for both the child and family, was once and is increasingly again recognized as the standard of care for minors with gender dysphoria. Giving kids toxic drugs does not address mental health issues or trauma issues or reduce suicides. There are better mental health alternatives to gender mutilation drugs which address underlying issues, rather than dodging them. There are more effective ways with better long term outcomes to deal with gender confusion than the chemical sterilization and surgical mutilation of healthy young bodies.
Estimate of number of children being harmed by Gender Transition Child Abuse in Washington State
10 years ago, there were only two gender transition clinics in Washington State. Currently, there are now more than 70 Gender Transition clinics in Washington state. Some clinics currently are transitioning (abusing) as many as 800 children. Here is an example of the growth of children harmed annually at a single clinic in Portland Oregon in the past 10 years:
Therefore, as many as 70 times 800 or 56,000 children are being subjected to gender transition abuse here in Washington State. Another way to estimate the number of children harmed in our state by gender mutilation drugs is to multiple the number of high school students by the reported rate of Trans students per either the CDC or Gallup surveys. Both surveys conclude that about 20% of high school students have been brainwashed into joining the Trans Gender cult. Since we have about 300,000 high school students, 20% times 300,000 is an estimate of 60,000 students in the Trans Gender Cult Club in Washington state.
Estimate of the cost of harming 60,000 children with Gender Mutilation drugs in Washington State
The cost of gender mutilation drugs for a single child for a single year is about $40,000. The treatment typically goes on four 10 years. Surgery adds another $100,000 and cancer treatment can range from $100,000 to $500,000 total cost (with most paid for by tax payers). But skipping the cancer treatment, the cost will be at least a half million dollars per child. Multiply a half million times 60,000 students and the total cost is 30,000 million dollars or about $30 billion for ten years or about $3 billion per year just here in Washington state. Nearly all of this cost is paid by tax payers.
In summary, the lies told by Bob Ferguson and Chris Reykdal to promote drugging and severely harming tens of thousands of kids by pushing the Gender Mutilation Drug racket is robbing $3 billion per year from us tax payers and giving it to billionaires like Bill Gates that own both the drug companies and corrupt politicians like Bob Ferguson and Chris Reykdal.
This report is divided into 25 sections
Hopefully, you now have a better understanding on the kind of lies and fake science being used by Snake Oil Salesmen like Bob Ferguson and Chris Reykdal to promote giving toxic gender mutilation drugs to minors (often without their parents knowledge or consent). However, this is just the tip of a very ugly iceberg. In fact, the Gender Mutilation racket may be one of the worst crimes ever committed. As you read each of these 25 sections, you may and should get angry at the harm Ferguson and Reykdal are inflicting on innocent children. But please do your best to channel your anger into positive action. Help us replace Reykdal and Ferguson with people who actually care about the well being of our children.
In the following 25 sections, we will go further into both the science and politic corruption underlying the Gender Mutilation Racket:
1 Lies about Child Gender Transitions (Mutilations)
2 Why Gender Transition is an extreme form of Child Abuse
3 Why Minors can not give informed consent
4 Gender Dysphoria related to environment rather than genetics
5 Adverse Child Events underlying Gender Dysphoria
6 Social Media in the Development of Gender Dysphoria
7 State Superintendent Reykdal orders teachers to lie to parents
8 La Center School District threatened for telling parents the truth
9 Consequences of Teachers Lying to Parents
10 Who is making money from this monstrous child abuse?
11 Senate Bill 5599 Eliminates Parental Notice
12 Backlash against SB 5599 led to the Parents Rights Initiative
13 May 2024 Legal Challenge to the Parents Rights Initiative
14 State Superintendent Reykdal blocks Parents Rights Initiative
15 Federal Health Centers put in schools to avoid parental notice
16 Washington laws promoting Gender Mutilation of Minors
17 US Supreme Court ruling on Parents Rights
18 Exposing WPATH Crimes against children
19 Inside the Gender Mutilation Scam Industry
20 Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria
21 Florida judge rules gender mutilation is safe and effective
22 King County Judge Rules Against Parental Notification
23 Supreme Court to review state bans on gender mutilation
24 Resolution Opposing Giving Gender Mutilation Drugs to Minors
25 Four Steps to protect our kids from state child abuse