Transgender youth who rely on Medicaid may have access to more treatment. Here's what research says about gender confirmation surgery for youth.https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/local/vermont/2019/08/06/research-transgender-youth-gender-confirmation-surgery-vermont-medicaid-rule-change-lgbtq-coverage/1757662001/ …
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There are so many problems with this story, one doesn't know where to begin. First, I suppose, is the fact that you're performing irreversible medical & surgical interventions for a condition that's literally an idea in someone's mind. You're treating emotional pain with surgery.
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There is no evidence --zero, none -- that there is a physical. medical condition whereby someone has a male brain in a female body (or vice versa). They've been looking since the 1950s and come up empty. By "brain" they mean "thoughts and feelings and emotional distress."
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Second, even if it were medically ethical to treat emotional distress and ideas with surgery and hormones (which are completely medically unnecessary since there's no physcial problem), there are many other troubling issues as well.
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For example, hormone blockers are only tested & approved for precocious puberty (a real physical condition). For trans kids, these drugs are associated with permanent infertility, serious bone thinning, & a significantly lowered IQ. Again -- to treat emotional distress.
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As another example, cross-sex hormones raise the risk of certain problems (such as clotting, strokes, heart attacks) higher than in people who have these hormones naturally in their body. A huge risk, to treat emotional distress.
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As a 3rd example, surgery: there's no reason to remove healthy breasts of a kid who's experiencing adolescent distress with her body. Contrary to what you might have heard, you can't just go get new breasts. The surgeries come with risks -- again, to treat *emotional* distress.
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Final point: This treatment of children has not been fully researched and vetted. The research you cite about the breast surgery for example. YES, in the ***short-term***, kids who want their breasts removed will be happier if you remove their breasts.
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There are a lot of things which kids know they want, which we don't give them. They want no bedtime. They want McDonald's for dinner. They want to go drinking on Saturday night. If you give them those things and then test to see whether they are "happier" the answer is yes.
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The question is whether they will look back in 5 or 10 years, and say, "I'm glad I had no bedtime and McDonald's for dinner and was allowed to go drinking on Saturday night. It really moved my life in the right direction. Thanks, Mom and Dad."
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When my daughter announced she was starting testosterone, I looked for studies looking at its effect on a woman’s body. There were none. Only studies I could find looked at elderly men treated for ED. In this context, what does my daughter’s “informed consent” even mean?
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