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

We fight for children and that they are not forced to change their sex. I also fight for the case James. visit savejames.com this is a precedent case and that we have to win. So that we have a good chance to save other kids that are similar.

No one is born in the wrong body. Please stop surgeons and pharmaceutical companies from targeting kids who are different. Health is about taking care of the body, not annihilating it in the name of a faith-based postmodernist theory about perfect, sexed souls in punishable flesh. This is a medical cult that preys on kids, and it needs to stop.

We can no longer try to pretend this does not happen. Our children are being brainwashed into searching identity in someone else's reality, instead of trying to find the reasons for their "gender dysphoria". Girls' healthy bodies are being devastated by the irreversible operations and hormones, and the future of these mutulated kids is terrible. Please open your eyes to see how barbaric this tendency is!!

My daughter had her breasts removed as a teenager and hormones that made her sterile - and now she´s fallen in love with a man who loves women. Noone should do such things to people who have yet NO experience of a Life after teenage!!

Dear Dr. Adams, I support the comments made by my colleagues in this petition. In addition, I want to follow up the many points about lack of evidence. There is NO evidence whatsoever that transgender identification is a medical condition. In fact, it is a example of a contagious moral panic, of which there are many historical precursors, such as burning witches, alien abductions, recovered memories. Please use your position to end this madness and to hold the physicians causing reprehensible harm responsible. Thank you.

The explosion of teens identifying “out of the blue” as transgender is an emerging public health threat that is in desperate need of federal guidance. This is a new cohort of transgender people who are being treated with guidelines developed for those with standard presentations of gender incongruence with grave consequences. This new presentation needs to be studied and needs to be treated with scientifically backed protocols. This population is composed of some of our most vulnerable teens. Teens who have much higher presentations of anxiety, depression, self harm, suicidal ideation, ADHD and autism. Many well meaning pediatricians assume that mental health issues are addressed when they refer children to Gender Identity Clinics but this is simply not the case in many instances. There is a rush to medical transition adolescents that defies common understandings of adolescent psychology. Psychologists have long held that adolescence is the time of identity formation; that teens cycle through and “try on” various identities. It’s well understood that much of this experimentation is discarded as the teen continues into adulthood. Yet, the medical establishment is making permanent changes to the bodies of teenagers during this very time. Our teens deserve our support as they progress through adolescence. They deserve our calm and measured thinking and advice. They deserve to have the time to explore various identities without having their temporary identity permanently etched onto their bodies. No 17 year old should ever be in the situation where they decide to reidentify with their biological sex but unfortunately have already had a mastectomy and a hysterectomy. The medical establishment often urges adult women to not have hysterectomies incase they change their minds and want children in the future. Why are we allowing teens to voluntarily sterilize themselves?

Stop the madness!

The pathologisingof children based on the way they dress and want toys they like. Let kids be kids.

Please stop this madness!

Please stop this madness of gender changing surgeries in our young innocent children. Leave our children alone. You doctors should be ashamed of yourselves. You take an oath to save and protect your patience. Stand up to what's right. Don't make your practice about money...but saving our children. We beg you to STOP HURTING OUR CHILDREN.

This is a developing crisis that needs your urgent attention.

Please stop this harmful practice of surgery on kids just to try and become something they will never be! Let common sense prevail!!

My daughter has been physically mutilated by US doctors after suddenly deciding she was transgender in college. Now she is a doped up, breast -less, college dropout and will not associate with anyone that questions her newfound identity. She was so rapidly indoctrinated into this massive groupthink of gender ideology and isolated from her family that I am terrified for other young women today. Her doctors, therapist, and university staff- literally none of them would engage with us when we shared our concerns. When she crashes, things are going to be bad. Who is going to help these young people when they realize the bag of lies that was fed to them under the veil of medicine? This situation is a dire US medical crisis. Our young people and their families need help.

My daughter has been physically mutilated by US doctors after suddenly deciding she was transgender in college. Now she is a doped up, breast -less, college dropout and will not associate with anyone that questions her newfound identity. She was so rapidly indoctrinated into this massive groupthink of gender ideology and isolated from her family that I am terrified for other young women today. Her doctors, therapist, and university staff- literally no one would engage with us when we shared our concerns. When she crashes, things are going to be bad. Who is going to help these young people when they realize the bag of lies that was fed to them under the veil of medicine? This situation is a dire US medical crisis. Our young people and their families need help.

I have lost a daughter to this madness. There is absolutely no gate-keeping in the medical community. This is a trend socially--and medically. I do not want other young people to close doors to their futures. Voice: unrecognizable. Breasts: gone. Fertility: may be lost. Uterus: If testosterone continues, a hysterectomy will be unavoidable. Why are we medicializing a fad? Where were these young people ten years ago? They didn't exist.

After a childhood with no gender dysphoria or discomfort (beyond what's normal when going through puberty), my daughter mistook her later-developing bipolar symptoms & extreme anxiety as evidence of really being transgender. Internet bingeing was a direct trigger, as she admitted. She dropped out of college due to poor mental health, and resumed psychiatric treatment & counseling from two different professionals, each of whom recognized the trans identity as a maladaptive coping mechanism. Alas, she went to Planned Parenthood and got a testosterone prescription after one visit, a blood test, and another visit where they instructed her on how to inject herself. Fortunately, she didn't like the way testosterone made her feel and has begun the process of reconciling herself to her female sex. Incredibly, though, she has two female roommates who also got T from Planned Parenthood and whose voices are now permanently deepened and whose lovely faces sport the beginnings of little beards. From my observation over the past year, their mental health has worsened. This medical scandal must be fully researched, and unless and until the data support instantly medicalizing these young people instead of offering them thoughtful counseling to unearth the sources of their gender unease, a national moratorium should be declared on puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones, and surgeries designed to give the appearance of the opposite sex. Please help.

Please see the article I authored at https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2019/04/51024/

Children aren’t born in the wrong body , Body modification should be an option for adults only with proper informed consent and more research. Until then, psychotherapy and distress tolerance is the best bet for kids unhappy with their bodies and or sex.

End the eugenics.

Gender ideology is harming our young people. Need science and common sense.