DIVERSITY: Using Our Children To Create Chaos, Destroy The Family, Church, And The Republic: Part 7.
"...every cell of her body is going to go right on thinking it’s female." (Jay Richards)
“The risk in any grim line of work is that you get used to it — that true horrors cease to appear horrible. I assume the folks who clean up crime scenes and conduct autopsies get used to their work. Otherwise, they’d crack.
I spend my days studying a new line of business called “gender-affirming care.” That’s a euphemism for the current craze of treating teenagers who struggle with gender dysphoria. In response, doctors who practice “gender-affirming care” try to drug and cut these young bodies to fit their self-diagnosed internal sense of gender. This internal sense is called “gender identity.” Don’t ask for a better explanation. There isn’t one.” Jay Richards, thefederalist.com
I know how Jay feels. It is a familiar and frequent knotting of the stomach. But Jay missed something. Jay missed the fact, the documentable fact that “gender-affirming care” is not limited to “teenagers”.
Unfortunately, this cannot be written without learning about procedures that I never knew existed and then understanding that there are hundreds of “gender-affirming” clinics in the United States alone that will perform those procedures on children under the age of 18 and in some cases as young as 12 and probably younger or provide those children with hormone blockers and injections of testosterone or estrogen depending on the desired outcome.
The following is a brief explanation from the University of Kentucky Healthcare Aesthetics Center - a tax payer funded facility - of the gender-affirming procedures that they perform.
”Gender affirmation surgery
This is also known as sex-reassignment surgery or gender-reassignment surgery. These surgeries help patients’ physical appearance and function, as well as resemble their identified gender.
The surgery can be divided into “top surgery” and “bottom surgery.”
“Top surgery” creates breasts for male-to-female transgender patients or removes breasts for female-to-male transgender patients.
“Bottom surgery” for male-to-female transgender patients includes removing male genitalia and creating female genitalia.
“Bottom surgery” for female-to-male transgender patients includes creating male genitalia from one’s own tissues or using of implants in combination with one’s own tissue.”
That surgeries are being performed on children is now an “open secrete”. Matt Walsh, of “What is a Woman?” fame was the first to reveal that Vanderbilt University has a Pediatric Gender Clinic that has been performing “top surgeries” on male and female children. When confronted by a number of state and federal legislators from Tennessee and the state’s Governor, Vanderbilt spokes-person, Deputy CEO and Chief Health System Officer, C. Wright Pinson, wrote this to a group of Tennessee legislators: “We are PAUSING gender affirmation surgeries on patients under 18 while we complete this review, which may take several months….” The review he referred to is described as a process of “…seeking advice from local and national clinical experts….” I have no idea what that means. Exactly what advice is Pinson seeking from those experts and who are they?
I do know this; based on my 30 years of understanding bureaucrat speak this is what Pinson is really saying: Vanderbilt will take your concerns under advisement and get back to you once this media circus has all died down.
More on Mr. Pinson’s “local and national clinical experts” later.
So is Vanderbilt an island of pediatric gender-affirming surgeries? Hardly. According to the Gender Mapping Project there are more than 400 “gender clinics” across North America that treat children. Even the New York Times has reported on the increase in the number of “gender-affirming” clinics that treat children:
”The New York Times surveyed leading pediatric gender clinics across the country: Eleven clinics said they carried out a total of 203 procedures on minors in 2021, and many reported long waiting lists. Another nine clinics declined to respond, and six said that they referred patients to surgeons in private practice.”
AND;
”One hospital, Kaiser Permanente Oakland, carried out 70 top surgeries in 2019 on teenagers age 13 to 18, up from five in 2013, according to researchers who led a recent study.
“I can’t honestly think of another field where the volume has exploded like that,” said Dr. Karen Yokoo, a retired plastic surgeon at the hospital.”
A quick search using DuckDuckGo for “gender-affirming surgical centers” returned a list of 15 major hospitals including Johns Hopkins, the Cleveland Clinic, Bringham and Women’s Hospital, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Kentucky, and Boston Children’s Hospital all of which perform gender-affirming surgeries.
Why are so many hospitals performing these surgeries? Pure economics.
According to Grand View Research:
”The U.S. sex reassignment surgery market size was valued at USD 1.9 billion in 2021 and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.23% from 2022 to 2030. The rising incidences of gender dysphoria and the increasing number of people opting for gender confirmation surgeries are expected to boost the growth during the forecast period. According to a study conducted by Cedars Sinai in June 2020, approximately 78% of transgender males experienced gender dysphoria by the age of 7. The mean age to experience gender dysphoria was less in transgender males, which is about 6.2 years.”
That 11.23% Compound Annual Growth Rate will turn the practice of “gender-affirming” surgeries into a $5 Billion per year industry by 2030. Keep in mind that even if all goes well during “gender-affirming” surgery it is not a “one and done” proposition. As Richards writes:
”And this is to say nothing of the life-long need for cross-sex hormones. You see, even after a woman has had her breasts, uterus, and fallopian tubes removed, and the skin, nerves, and muscle from her forearm stripped and refashioned in a neo-penis, every cell of her body is going to go right on thinking it’s female. That’s hard on the patient, but if she lives to be 70 or 80, can you imagine the revenue from exogenous testosterone alone?”
This, of course, also applies to a male who has had his penis and testicles removed, and vulva and breasts created.
For an industry with a profit margin of 3% or less “gender affirming” surgeries are a gold mine for the Nation’s more than 5,000 hospitals.
Then there is: Philadelphia Children’s Hospital which until a bright light was shone on it was forced to remove this page from its website. The page included information on how to overcome parental resistance to “gender-affirming” pediatric surgery.
And that promise from Vanderbilt to “seek advice from local and national experts”? Here is one of those “local experts” - Rishub Karan Das, BA a Vanderbilt employee. Mr. Das is the principal author of a Research Letter to JAMAPediatrics.com (Journal of the America Medical Association). Mr. Das is the principal author of this research letter.
Mr. Das writes: “Thirty-five state legislatures have introduced more than 100 bills that limit or prohibit access to medically necessary gender-affirming care for transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) youth, resulting in poor mental and physical health outcomes.”
In other words, according to Mr. Das and Vanderbilt these “gender-affirming” surgeries are necessary to prevent “poor mental and physical health outcomes.” Mr. Das supports this claim by another article in JAMAPediatrics which he co-authored. Mr. Das and colleagues write: “Since 2015, coordinated attacks against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights have escalated in an unprecedented fashion. The targets of these attacks have shifted from marriage equality, bathroom access, and sports participation to the most recent attacks on transgender youths and their bodies.”
Is there any doubt about the outcome of Vanderbilt’s “advice seeking”?
A word about WPATH, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health
”Chapter 7. Children
This chapter employs the term “gender diverse” given that gender trajectories in prepubescent children cannot be predicted and may evolve over time (Steensma, Kreukels et al., 2013). At the same time, this chapter recognizes some children will remain stable in a gender identity they articulate early in life that is discrepant from the sex assigned at birth (Olson et al., 2022). The term, “gender diverse” includes transgender binary and nonbinary children, as well as gender diverse children who will ultimately not identify as trans- gender later in life. Terminology is inherently culturally bound and evolves over time. Thus, it is possible terms used here may become outdated and we will find better descriptors. “
Before WPATH was met with great opposition they advocated “gender-affirming” surgery for children as young as 15 years of age. Though they have backed off of this position do not be surprised if they revisit it in the near future.
WPATH has also stated that “eunuch” should be a “gender”.
A Final Word
The information that is presented here is just a fraction of what has been going on to steal childhood and adulthood from our children. It is, as Jay Richards wrote, “a grim line of work” to delve into the world of “gender-affirming” care in children.
Of all that I have learned, all that I have read the most disturbing, the most stomach churning is that all of this is being encouraged by and conducted by adults.
When I started this series I asked a dear friend who is a Baptist Pastor for a bit of scripture that would be appropriate this topic. I will close with those same pieces.
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27
But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ ” Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use? Romans 9:20-21
Union, Kentucky
23 October 2022