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

Administering hormones to children, adolescents & teens is a dangerous practice that can cause irreparable harm physically and emotionally. Hormone therapy for sexual identity confusion should never be utilized in developing children and young persons, esp as the majority reverse their confusion and select their birth sex when they reach maturity.

Medicine should be driven by evidence based practice, not social agendas or pressure. I am astounded as a medical professional to see this happening. What has happened to you all?

Stop medical child abuse!!

There are more and more young women (and men) who have gone through these medical procedures only to realize later that they were not transgender and that the gender clinics, doctors and therapists didn't screen them thoroughly enough to realize their underlying issues. Now they are left with bodies that are much worse off then before (or even sterilized) and many don't know how to face their futures. These types of hormonal and surgical interventions should not be allowed to be done on anyone under the age of 25.

Young people should not be offered life-altering hormonal and surgical interventions that are not supported by rigorous studies establishing long-term efficacy and safety. The risks of irreparable harm and regret are too great.

It is appalling that these experimental treatments are being given to younger and younger children. The best evidence says that almost all children presenting with gender dysphoria have it resolve on its own without medical intervention.

What is being done to kids to day is barbaric.

Please stop the insanity.

Stop this. This is child abuse.

What if they are wrong? What if that child is not really transgender? What if they are confused and suffering from other mental health issues? Is persistent, insistent and consistent really a good screening test? What if people's good intentions are pushing kids towards medicalization and driving kids towards thinking that they are transgender by providing positive reinforcement to support that theory? Whst if these kids go thru irreversible medical treatments only to realize several years later that they really were not transgender? What then? How are those adults and medical professionals going to be held responsible for what they have done to those kids? There is a reason why doctors make those kids and young adults sign those informed consent forms. Because they don't want to be held accountable for what they are doing to these kids. Well they should be held accountable!

The potential risks to these children are enormous. They and their futures must be protected.

I had gender dysphoria in the 1980s. Puberty resolved the dysphoria for me and I went on to find fulfilment and be a productive member of society. I live in fear that children today won't have that opportunity to become at peace with their sexed bodies and will instead suffer preventable harms from unnecessary medicalisation. No medicalisation of children's healthy bodies please.

Fortunately, though I had gender dysphoria, I never transitioned. Please protect children from serious surgical harm.

Protect children from this agenda.

Protect children from this agenda.

Child abuse!

Dr are trained to save lives and heal not inflct harm

Abortion is murder. Period.

When I began litigating in this area I was astonished to find the science so lacking on these “gender affirmation” treatments, and blatantly so. The VA admitted not being able to find a single controlled, randomizes study showing that such treatments were safe or effective in the long term. Then it spent a dozen or so pages saying how it would dose and slice American vets with unproven treatments. Shameful.

The legitimate desire to recognize and support children struggling with identity and social issues is to be commended. But the rush to offer unproven, long lasting and dangerous procedures and drugs is worse than ignoring the issues our children are going through. It is therefore of vital importance to pause and hold restraint in our support of these procedures until proven safe and appropriate for the individual child