A Reuters report revealed that transgender clinics appear to pressure parents into treating their children with puberty blockers.
After following the parents of 39 minors considered to be transgender, the parents of 28 children reported feeling “pressured or rushed to proceed with treatment,” Reuters stated.
In another incident, an endocrinologist said a child was a “good candidate for puberty blockers” after a 15-minute meeting.
Those parents were then directed to a parental support group, where they were told to simply “let your kid drive the bus. Wherever they lead you, that’s what you should do.”
Reuters noted that 7 out of 18 clinics that participated in interviews with the media organization said that “if they don’t see any red flags and the child and parents are in agreement, they are comfortable prescribing puberty blockers or hormones based on the first visit, depending on the age of the child.”
Dr. Eric Meininger from the Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis told Reuters, “For those kids, there’s not a value of stretching it out for six months to do assessments.”
“They’ve done their research, and they truly understand the risk,” he said.
Reporting from National File:
Dr. Blair Peters, a “queer surgeon” at the state-funded Oregon Health & Science University Hospital, recently described the experimental procedures in a video interview, revealing that he uses a medical robot to craft a fake vagina for little boys whose developmental process has been “suppressed” with puberty blockers. To accomplish this, Peters says that he rips out the boys’ stomach lining to create a mock vaginal canal – a procedure that is still in its infancy, making each child victim of Peters’ surgeries a living test subject. “We use all of that tissue to basically create the vulva as well as line the internal vaginal canal and as a specialty, those of us that do a fairly high volume of genital gender-affirming surgery, we’ve maybe done a couple, a handful of pubertal-suppressed adolescents as a field and no ones polished on it yet.”