Urgent Request to the US Surgeon General: Protect Young People from Irreversible Medical Harm

Please don't let kids go through harmful treatment to "cure" a temporary mental health issue. It is more of a cult brainwashing that needs to be stopped!! Please save our kids!!

Dear Dr Adams, I am adding more information about my son in the hope that it will help you in your investigation. I would be happy to be contacted directly. When our son entered college, he was an active young man who took no prescription medication. He had a series of tough experiences in college, including (1) a classmate and friend committed suicide. (2) his room was burglarized, his computer and phone stolen. (3) he suffered a testicular torsion, a painful condition, and underwent emergency surgery. In the weeks following surgery, our son went to the college health center complaining of insomnia. They prescribed Seroquel, an antipsychotic drug (!) In 2012 The New York Times published an article reporting on the dangerous and widespread off-target prescription of Seroquel and other anti-psychotics: < https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/health/a-call-for-caution-in-the-use-of-antipsychotic-drugs.html > Why did the college give Seroquel to our son, who had just had painful and traumatic surgery? Seroquel has serious side effects, including “trouble thinking” and “hormonal changes”. In the weeks following the prescription for Seroquel, our son returned to college health services with the “self- diagnosis” that he was transgender. He was referred to doctors who wrote an affirming letter and prescribed estrogen, without our knowledge. When we picked up our son from college in after his third year, he seemed robotic and disengaged. His thinking was disoriented. The first weekend home, he told us that he was transgender and that he had been taking estrogen for two weeks. We asked him to stop the estrogen so that we could try to understand what was going on. He agreed. We took him to a new physician, who was horrified that our son was on Seroquel and switched him to another drug. We insisted that our son take a year leave of absence from college. It took him six months to resume normal sleep and become engaged and alert. He returned to college the followi

As a retired endocrinology nurse I cannot believe this is happening. This is not 'healthcare.' These young people are being harmed. Please check out the website 4thwavenow.com for lots of excellent articles around gender politics. Some of their posts that I think should not be missed are 'Gender Dysphoria is not One Thing," "Queering the Student Body," and an excellent post on the harms of testosterone. Please do something about this ASAP!

a first world problem devasting our children.

Please protect our children from being life long medical patients for a condition that likely could be treated with psychotherapy.

Humans cannot change sex.

Please do not support medical experimentation on children.

As someone who was a child, who dreamed of being a boy, who chose a boy's name I wanted to switch to, who told others I wanted to "cut off my boobs when I got them" I have to say.. it's not always good to let kids choose these things. I was in my twenties before I felt right being a girl. I'm 41 now and I'm SO glad I never took any action to change that when I so badly wanted to.

Save our kids from themselves!

Shame on you for performing surgeries based on feelings. Where did you get your medical degree, a jr. college? God will hold you accountable.

Dear Dr. Adams, I wish you had known my daughter. She was quite amazing and really poised for success after her high school education where she received top honors and many accolades. There is literally nothing that could have prepared my wife and I for the year that followed high school when she suddenly claimed a transgender identity while away at college and severed ties with us. My wife has done an amazing job as the family historian and has saved many of her school papers, photographs and the like assuming at some point she would pass these on to our daughter to enjoy. Now we dream of the day when these documents, all 18 years of them, might be used in the court of law as evidence that only coercion and undue influence could lead to such a drastic dissociation from her reality and to the medical harms that have been enacted upon her. Her voice is deep, her chin is bearded, her breasts are gone, her uterus is shriveling, her heart is being stressed, and this list continues as the time on cross-sex hormones is allowed to continue. The documents we have tell a different story of the daughter we love and as the father of this truly amazing young woman, I am heartbroken. Our daughter, like countless other young people, joined what has come to be known as a ‘trans cluster’ where most, if not all friends in the group, claim they have gender dysphoria and then seek services for this condition. It is then off to the races and parents are at a loss to stop the medical ‘care’ our children have sought. Practically every major children’s hospital has a gender clinic today where ‘children’ up thru age 21 or 25 can seek services. The aids clinics from years past have jumped into this revenue producing business as has Planned Parenthood, college campus clinics and telemedicine clinics. I would love to have the opportunity to share the details of my own daughter’s university and the clinic where she is being seen to turn her into to a robot of the transgender movement.

Stop this sick junk being taught to our poor children...

Please consider investigating this hasty approach. Children are being permanently damaged.

Claiming to be transgender has become the go-to coping mechanism for kids who have suffered trauma or sexual abuse, who are on the autism spectrum or are ADHD/OCD, have been bullied or are same-sex attracted, to name some of the more common problems which send kids on a quest to escape their current self and become someone new. Clinicians, rather than exploring the child's psychological and medical histories, are immediately taking these kids' self-diagnoses as absolute fact and then putting the kids on the path toward medical transition, despite their being no long-term studies on the safety or efficacy of these medical treatments, many of which are permanent and can include permanent sterility as a side effect. It is NOT conversion therapy to explore reasons why a child or teen might wish to become the opposite sex. Kids deserve evidence-based care, not short-sighted, activist-driven demands for total capitulation.

Crisis with children and young people

Abortions kill babies and steal both parenthood and mental health from citizens. Let's stop the harm being done to our society.

Stop the harm of children.

This is the heartbreaking reality in which I am losing my daughter. I believe in tolerance and understanding, however, I do not believe in blind acceptance. We need the science to make truly informed decisions. We need to question. The medical and therapy communities have failed our children. I say this as one who has been part of those communities. "When all think alike, no one thinks very much." – Walter Lippmann

Please help our children by reviewing the facts with a Call to Action. Puberty blockers and cross sex hormones: 1) have never been studied in controlled trials, 2) are off label indications for these drug, 3) are NOT reversible, and have significant known side effects / complications, and 4) have NOT been proven to impact long term positive outcomes in this at-risk population. We need common sense treatments from our providers. Primum non nocere.

As a retired nurse, I feel action is needed.