Despite what activists claim, harmful drugs and irreversible surgeries are being prescribed for people under 18. Let’s pray.

From Daily Caller. The Gender and Sexuality Development Program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) offers drastic medical interventions as part of the gender transition process to children as young as eight, according to statements and documents reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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The clinic has referred children as young as 14 for “top surgery,” a euphemism for mastectomies or breast construction. …

The clinic’s co-founders, Dr. Linda Hawkins and Dr. Nadia Dowshen, advocated for “top surgery” for minors in a 2021 paper published in Pediatrics, the medical journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. …

The clinic worked to secure surgical referrals for minors and even employed a social worker who served as a “surgery advocate,” collecting letters of support on behalf of gender dysphoric minors in order to persuade insurance companies to cover their surgeries, according to a 2021 report from CHOP. A staffer had previously pushed for such a position to be funded with the help of then-acting secretary of health for the state, Rachel Levine, and argued that the position would yield a high return on investment.

“I think it’s really important to remember that age is a number,” she said at the hearing. “But as an adolescent medicine and developmental specialist, we know that where a child is cognitively and socially is more important than that exact number of their age.”

CHOP professionals laid out the gender clinic’s guidelines for sex change procedures in a webinar on the clinic’s standards of care. …

The clinic advised “affirmation” of a child’s gender identity and social transition to the opposite sex for kids under the age of eight, who are too young for medical interventions under the clinic’s guidelines.

For medical interventions, patients must experience long-lasting gender nonconformity, which emerged or worsened at the onset of puberty, and have any coexisting medical, social and psychological issues addressed prior to the onset of medical treatment, according to the webinar.

Dr. Zachary McClain, webinar host and former adolescent specialty provider at CHOP, claimed there was “no regret” among patients who undergo cross-sex hormones during his webinar lecture. …

It’s impossible to gather long-term data on regret rates for individuals who underwent hormones and other procedures in recent years amid the massive surge in transgender identification and the explosive growth of transgender clinics, since most of those patients are only a few years into their medical journeys. But numerous detransitioners have come forward to express regret over undergoing cross-sex procedures in their youth, including hormones.

The clinic prescribes puberty blockers after the onset of puberty, which the webinar says can occur in children as young as eight. Dowshen also stated that children were placed on blockers as young as age eight or nine in her testimony to state lawmakers. …

The use of puberty blockers as part of the gender exploration process is an off-label use of a prescription drug developed to delay premature puberty in young children; it’s been linked to serious health problems, and some experts have argued that blockers can cement a transgender phase that most children would otherwise outgrow. …

The irreversibility of puberty blockers has been called into question by numerous experts, including 31 psychologists, neuroscientists and hormone experts who urged further study on the drugs in a 2020 paper that concluded “the full consequences (both beneficial and adverse) of suppressing endogenous puberty are not yet understood.” …

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