2 Why Gender Transition is an extreme form of Child Abuse
The American College of Pediatricians is a national organization of pediatricians and other healthcare professionals dedicated to the health and well-being of children. Their objective is to foster and stimulate improvements in all aspects of healthcare of infants, children, and adolescents. They have issued a 20 page report summarizing 55 scientific studies on the drawbacks of gender transitioning minor children. You can download and read their report at this link: https://acpeds.org/assets/imported/corrected-REVISED-NOV-2018-Gender-Dysphoria-in-Children-1.pdf
From a purely scientific standpoint, humans possess a biologically determined sex. The brains of all male infants are masculinized prenatally by their own endogenous testosterone, which is secreted from their testes beginning at about eight weeks’ gestation. There are literally hundreds of differences between male and female development. For example, serotonin levels in the male brain are 10 to 20 times higher on average than serotonin levels in the female brain. It is not possible to change a person’s genes through hormones or surgery. Sex change is objectively impossible.
The current scientific term for children who may be unhappy with their biological sex is called Gender Dysphoria (also called GD). It is estimated that this condition is rare – occurring in less than one percent of all children. Even then, among children who are clinically diagnosed as suffering from Gender Dysphoria, the condition resolved itself in about 90% of all cases without any medical intervention. For example, a 30 year study of 139 young biological boys who suffered from GD found that only 17 or 12% still suffered from GD when they were adults. The remaining 122 or 88% no longer had any problem with their biological sex. Here is a link to this study: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.632784/full
Thus, at most, this condition is a long term problem for less than one in one thousand students. Therefore, forcing all young students to be exposed to such a damaging life-altering treatment means that at least 999 of these students will run the risk of being harmed – and even the one in a thousand students that might benefit from gender transitioning will be subjected to serious harm as described next.
Consequences of Sex Mutilation Drugs
When children are given drugs to alter their appearance, the use of gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists followed by cross-sex hormones results in the sterility of minors. In addition, GnRH agonists arrest bone growth, decrease bone accretion and prevent the sex-steroid dependent organization and maturation of the adolescent brain.
In 2019, a study was published of more than 3,000 minors given hormone drugs. The study confirmed that the risk of breast cancer rose 46 times (4,600 percent) in minors subjected to trans hormone drugs.
https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/365/bmj.l1652.full.pdf
Oral estrogen administration to boys also places them at risk for experiencing thrombosis/thromboembolism, cardiovascular disease, weight gain, elevated blood pressure, decreased glucose tolerance and gall bladder disease.
Negative Impact of sex reassignment surgery in adults
Surveys suggest that transgender adults initially express a sense of “relief” and “satisfaction” following the use of hormones and sex reassignment surgery (SRS). In the long term, however, SRS does not result in a level of health equivalent to that of the general population. Instead GD encouraged youth will face a transgender adulthood which will predispose them to certain morbidities and an increased risk of early death. For example, a 2001 study of 392 male-to-female and 123 female-to-male transgender persons found that 62 percent of the male-to-female (MtF) and 55 percent of the female-to-male (FtM) transgender persons were depressed. Nearly one third (32 percent) of each population had attempted suicide. A thirty-year follow-up study of post-operative transgender patients from Sweden found that thirty years out from surgery, the rate of suicide among post-operative transgender adults was nearly twenty times greater than that of the general population.
See Cecilia Dhejne, et al., Long-term Follow-up of Transsexual Persons Undergoing Sex Reassignment Surgery: Cohort Study in Sweden, (Feb. 22, 2011) https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016885
As the following chart shows, adverse outcomes including death occurred throughout the follow up period.
Below is a table of adverse outcomes compared to normal controls:
Look at the far right column in the above table to see the risk ratio for transgender adults compared to control adults. For example, those who had gender mutilation surgery were 3 times more likely to abuse drugs or commit a violent crime. No rational caring person would approve of sending any child down such a horrible path.
Texas Attorney General issues opinion that Gender Transition is Child Abuse
On February 18, 2020, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton released a formal legal opinion concluding that performing certain “sex-change procedures” on children—including surgeries, cross-sex hormones, and puberty blockers—constitutes child abuse under Texas law. https://texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/global/KP-0401.pdf
“You ask whether the performance of certain medical and chemical procedures on children—several of which have the effect of sterilization—constitute child abuse. You specifically ask about procedures falling under the broader category of “gender reassignment surgeries. Additionally, you ask whether “providing, administering, prescribing, or dispensing drugs to children that induce transient or permanent infertility” constitutes child abuse.”
“These procedures and treatments can cause “mental or emotional injury to a child that results in an observable and material impairment in the child’s growth, development, or psychological functioning. These procedures and treatments can cause a physical injury that results in substantial harm to the child. Based on the analysis herein, each of the “sex change” procedures and treatments enumerated above, when performed on children, can legally constitute child abuse.”