Doctors Gave Her Daughter Hormone Treatments (And She Couldn’t Stop Them)

i am a mother whose daughter has identified as transgender since the age of 14. i am here today because i love her and because i care deeply about her and other kids who identify as transgender these are young people like my daughter who are in turmoil and who are not getting the compassionate care that they need and deserve i am going to explain to you what happens when parents seek out expert advice to help their transgender identifying children explore their feelings and discomfort with their sex what is affirmative care the stir the current standard of treatment promoted by medical and psychological associations is called affirmative care while this sounds nice affirmative care leads directly to putting children on the path to medical transition with little chance of turning back let me explain to you how this works if you take your child to a clinic to seek help affirmative care means the therapist must follow the child's lead the professionals must accept a child's gender identity in fact this is the law in many states under conversion therapy bans questioning a child's gender identity is now illegal so if a little boy is five years old and believes he has opposite sex affirmative care means going along with his beliefs parents are encouraged to refer to him as their daughter and let him choose a feminine name teachers are told to let him use the girl's bathroom at school therapists will reassure parents that social transition is harmless and reversible is it really harmless to tell a child who still believes in the tooth fairy that he is opposite sex isn't it quite likely that this child is just confused if a 10 year old girl is uncomfortable with her developing body and suddenly insists she is a boy affirmative care means blocking this girl's puberty with powerful drugs doctors will tell parents this is a perfectly safe and reversible way for her to explore her gender affirmative care does not help this child get to the cause of her discomfort medicating her with these drugs is not safe in fact her future fertility sexual functioning and bone development may be negatively impacted once the teenage years begin affirmative care means giving young people cross-sex hormones girls as young as 12 are prescribed testosterone for lifetime usage while boys are given estrogen these are serious hormonal treatments that impact brain development cardiovascular health and may increase the risk of cancer there are no long-term studies to prove this is necessary safe or prudent while there are many known hazards to using these same hormones when medically treating adults what does affirmative care look like this is what is called gender affirming top surgery also known as a double mastectomy they are performed on girls as young as 13 years old otherwise healthy girls who believe they are transgender this is a picture of a woman's arm after the skin and other tissue was removed to fashion a fake penis jazz jennings is an example of affirmative care jazz was born a boy but raised as a girl since the age of five he was treated hormonally since age 11. last year at the age of 17 jazz had surgery to remove his penis and create a simulated vagina out of his stomach lining after surgery jazz's wounds began separating and a blood blister began to form an emergency surgery was performed according to jazz's doctor as i was getting her on the bed i heard something go pop when i looked the whole thing had split open this is a picture of jazz's face in pain from these surgical complications this is a medical experiment on a child that has been playing out on television for the past 12 years no one knows what might happen next there are teenage girls undergoing radical hysterectomies in the name of gender identity it is not acceptable for doctors to remove healthy limbs from children so why is it acceptable for doctors to remove healthy reproductive organs from children i am here today not just because i care about children who identify as transgender but because i also care about their parents and other family members parents are doing everything they can to help their kids lead healthy happy and fulfilling lives yet when parents seek out experts for help they receive a one-size-fits-all narrative that has no basis in science common sense or compassion the experts tell parents that it is harmful to question their children's beliefs that they must support their children's medical transition which includes a lifetime dependence on hormones and that if parents do not comply their children will be at higher risk of suicide these parents are being lied to as their children are harmed and their families are torn apart why not help children learn to love the bodies in which they were born isn't that what the body positivity movement is all about i traveled across the country today to speak here to make a difference i hope that my trip was not in vain transgender identifying children need our compassion and they need our help they need responsible adults to gently question their beliefs not blindly affirm them they need proper therapy and guidance not drugs and surgeries and the medical practices that are abusing them need to be shut down please speak out for these children as i stated in the beginning i am speaking out because i love my daughter and it is because of her that i know what i have told you today is true she has been a victim of gender affirming medical procedures and i was powerless to stop doctors from harming her someday i hope she will realize that i am advocating for her health and for her future she has incredible courage strength and tenacity as do many transgender identifying youth we as parents of these young people advocate for our children because we love them many of us are going through unimaginable grief because we love them we are standing together and we will never back down because we love them we parents have formed our own support groups and a new coalition the kelsey coalition to help spread this message and change the systems that failed our children will you please stand with us um

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Length: 7min 45sec (465 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 04 2019