Children's Hospital Boston Offers
"Sex Change" to Adolescents
"They'll probably be infertile"
says "sex change" doctor
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By Michael
Baggot
LifeSiteNews.com
April 21, 2008
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BOSTON, MA (LifeSiteNews.com) - Endocrinologist
Norman Spack of the Children's Hospital Boston (CHB)
is continuing to promote the Gender Management Service
Clinic, whose services include giving "transgendered"
children puberty-delaying drugs so that they can choose
the gender of their body.
"Unique in the Western hemisphere,
the clinic will also care for children and young adults
who present as transgendered - those who have no known
anatomic or biochemical disorder, yet feel like a member
of the opposite sex," stated the Pediatric Views,
a publication of the CHB.
"The puberty-blocking drugs work
best at the beginning of the pubital process, typically
age 10 to 12 for a girl and 12 to 14 for a boy,"Spack
explained to the Boston Globe.
Delaying puberty makes it easier to
undergo "transgender" surgery.
"It's important to point out that
simply because one undergoes mutilating surgery and
decides to administer to themselves the hormone of the
opposite gender, doesn't actually make you that gender.
It is surgery but it doesn't actually turn a girl into
a boy. The chromosomal differences remain," Ari
Taube of MassResistance.com observed.
Spack admits that the puberty-delaying
procedure will likely leave the patient infertile.
"When young people halt their puberty
before their bodies have developed, and then take cross-hormones
for a few years, they'll probably be infertile. You
have to explain to the patients that if they go ahead,
they may not be able to have children," added Spack.
"When you're talking to a 12-year-old,
that's a heavy-duty conversation.
Does a kid that age really think about fertility?"
LifeSiteNews.com previously reported
that Spack has stated that only 20 percent of "transgendered"
children continue to experience gender confusion into
adulthood.
Dr. Paul McHugh, University Distinguished
Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University,
contends that "sex change" surgeries hurt
rather than heal those struggling with their sexual
identity.
"We psychiatrists, I thought, would
do better to concentrate on trying to fix their minds
and not their genitalia," McHugh wrote of "transgendered"
patients in his 2004 First Things article 'Surgical
Sex.'
"I have witnessed a great deal
of damage from sex-reassignment. The children transformed
from their male constitution into female roles suffered
prolonged distress and misery as they sensed their natural
attitudes. Their parents usually lived with guilt over
their decisions-second-guessing themselves and somewhat
ashamed of the fabrication, both surgical and social,
they had imposed on their sons."
"As for the adults who came to
us claiming to have discovered their 'true' sexual identity
and to have heard about sex-change operations, we psychiatrists
have been distracted from studying the causes and natures
of their mental misdirections by preparing them for
surgery and for a life in the other sex. We have wasted
scientific and technical resources and damaged our professional
credibility by collaborating with madness rather than
trying to study, cure, and ultimately prevent it,"
added McHugh.
See related LifeSiteNews coverage:
Boston Children's Hospital Opens "Transgender"
Children's Clinic http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/may/07051806.html
Boy, 12, Given Questionable Sex-Change
Therapy after "Diagnosed" as Transsexual
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/jan/07012902.html
Read Dr. McHugh's Surgical Sex article
in First Things:
http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=398&v
To contact Children's Hospital Boston:
300 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115 USA
617-355-6000
617-355-0443 (TTY)
http://www.childrenshospital.org/about/email.cfm?s=1394&c=7&u=webteam
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