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

Please consider the future of these youth. Their brains still need to develop, and the DNA they are born with is who they truly are. Think about what everyone is saying on this petition, please.

I’m terrified for our young people and what the schools are “teaching “ them.

The whole transgender phenomenon is a cruel sham that is causing huge damage to lots of people. By refusing to acknowledge facts and reality, it’s hurtful to millions of young people’s mental and emotional health. By interfering with the body’s natural balance and production of hormones, it is also damaging to physical health. And, surgery? That’s insane. The charlatans who “guide” young people through this poisonous swamp are not worthy of public trust. They are not placing any troubled individual’s personal health first, but instead their own interests. Transgenderism is a foolish refuge for people who want to feel they have important issues. It has been hammered into the mainstream by angry, unqualified, and hypocritical activists enabled and strengthened by self-serving media and entertainment figures and spineless politicians. The issue is pure nuts. It’s time for the medical establishment, all levels of government, and responsible media outlets to stand up and do what makes sense and is right. Too many people are SUFFERING.

This is politically motivated cruelty premised upon a lie, and must stop.

This is a travesty and is totally wrong! Stop helping these young kids possibly destroy their life’s

Please do not perform any body altering surgery on children and young people under 25. Most of these people will grow out of or learn to accept their biological , intact, bodies.

Dear Dr. Adams, I am in full support of this petition. As founder of ‘Lupron Victims Hub’ (“Lupron” being the most commonly prescribed ‘puberty blocker’), I have received untold numbers of emails over the decades detailing the physical and mental health adverse effects that Lupron has caused women, children, and men for ‘treatment’ of various indications such as endometriosis, IVF (including egg donors and surrogates), prostate cancer, precocious puberty, and fibroids. I have yet to receive contact from a transgender Lupron victim - but I’m afraid that I will. If women, children, and men, receiving Lupron for a multitude of reasons report serious health problems post-lupron, why would the transgender population be any different? A number of concerned parents of gender dysphoric youth (children who are seeking to start Lupron) have contacted me, and all these parents report they were told “Lupron is safe”, “Lupron is reversible”, “only minor side effects” - assertions that are blatantly false. One mother stated she and her daughter were told “Lupron is 100% safe, and has been well studied”. Knowing that nothing can be 100% safe this mother did her own research, and was shocked by what she read on my website. Lupron’s risks are well documented in the medical literature (i.e., see: http://lupronvictimshub.com/risks.html), and patients and parents are not being provided honest and accurate information. As Surgeon General, you should be concerned about the disinformation campaign (suppression of Lupron’s risks) by the ubiquitous proponents of such hazardous ‘treatment’, and you should also be concerned about the lack of compliance to NIOSH guidelines for proper handling and administration of the “hazardous drug” Lupron (please see https://www.hormonesmatter.com/nightmare-lupron-street/) - these are matters of public health. And most of all, as Surgeon General, you must protect children and the youth (and women and men) from human experimentation without

Dear Dr. Adams, I am in full support of this petition. As founder of ‘Lupron Victims Hub’ (“Lupron” being the most commonly prescribed ‘puberty blocker’), I have received untold numbers of emails over the decades detailing the physical and mental health adverse effects that Lupron has caused women, children, and men for ‘treatment’ of various indications such as endometriosis, IVF (including egg donors and surrogates), prostate cancer, precocious puberty, and fibroids. I have yet to receive contact from a transgender Lupron victim - but I’m afraid that I will. If women, children, and men, receiving Lupron for a multitude of reasons report serious health problems post-lupron, why would the transgender population be any different? A number of concerned parents of gender dysphoric youth (children who are seeking to start Lupron) have contacted me, and all these parents report they were told “Lupron is safe”, “Lupron is reversible”, “only minor side effects” - assertions that are blatantly false. One mother stated she and her daughter were told “Lupron is 100% safe, and has been well studied”. Knowing that nothing can be 100% safe this mother did her own research, and was shocked by what she read on my website. Lupron’s risks are well documented in the medical literature (i.e., see: http://lupronvictimshub.com/risks.html), and patients and parents are not being provided honest and accurate information. As Surgeon General, you should be concerned about the disinformation campaign (suppression of Lupron’s risks) by the ubiquitous proponents of such hazardous ‘treatment’, and you should also be concerned about the lack of compliance to NIOSH guidelines for proper handling and administration of the “hazardous drug” Lupron (please see https://www.hormonesmatter.com/nightmare-lupron-street/) - these are matters of public health. And most of all, as Surgeon General, you must protect children and the youth (and women and men) from human experimentation without

I think it goes against the practice of evidenced based medicine to offer these medicines and surgeries, without significant studies, to children for non-life threatening conditions.

I have a Urgent Request to the US Surgeon General to Protect Young People from Irreversible Medical Harm

I work for a health insurance company in utilization management. There are requests for gender dysphoria procedures that are generally approved per a healthplan policy. Yet, requests for plastic surgery to minimize the impact of a port wine stain, large protruding pinnae or other congenital anomalies are denied because they are ‘cosmetic’ and do not improve the function of the individual. This practice of denying procedures that would restore confidence in pediatric patients while allowing gender altering procedures for the same reason is hypocritical and favoring one subset of patients above all others. This is wrong and needs to stop!

Let kids be kids, as you and I were. Grow up and sort it out, of course. Our kids are test subjects. Media is all about sexual issues of LGBTQ but makes “normal” kids feel outside of this new “norm”. Put it away until puberty has passed at least.

When I came out as a trans man at 17, I knew that I wanted to take testosterone and have top surgery (double mastectomy). Every day I wished to be a man, but mental health issues prevented me from transitioning until I was 25 years old. I changed my name legally and after 8 months on testosterone, I had top surgery. I'm now 28 years old and have been detransitioned for a little over a year. After more than a decade of dysphoria so crippling I could hardly leave my house, something very strange happened to me: I realized that I would never become male and I had learned to be okay with that. This happened to coincide with starting treatment for depression, something which was not attempted with me prior to transition. There was little attempt to explore any sort of trauma or underlying issues I may have had, and the nature of my issues meant that I did not recognize them for what they were. It's scary to me that children are being allowed to transition. We don't know the full impact transition has on adult bodies, much less bodies that are still growing. Puberty blockers, hormones, and surgical interventions are not neutral acts that are "easily reversed" as some would suggest. As a woman who now has a flat chest, my options for reconstruction are limited and the risks associated with more surgery are not appealing to me. Furthermore, I will never be able to breastfeed, as the actual breast tissue cannot ever be replaced. My own gender dysphoria has become so manageable, something that I was told was impossible. I am afraid that many people of all ages will be given unnecessary medical interventions instead of receiving social support, proper education, and mental health care. I believe that transition should be limited to rational-minded adults who have been through rigorous therapy, and that is simply not happening at this time. Thank you, Andy

First Do No Harm.

As a physician, I strongly support this. We are medically experimenting on children and it is dangerous.

Please don't allow political correctness and a motivated lobby disregard medical science in making these decisions. In Maine and many states, just not showing full support to an adolescent who is considering this change could cause me to lose my license. Something is very wrong when stating medical studies is not allowed.

I was diagnosed with gender identity disorder at age 18. I was given hormones and surgeries that I regret just a few years later, because not one of the providers I saw told me I had other options. If a 20 year old isn’t capable of understanding a complex mental illness like gender dysphoria then why do we expect children to?

Protect children

This extreme ideology is child abuse and needs to be rigorously challenged, tested and debated, globally, before more lives are ruined.

There is no scientific evidence to support the medical transitioning of children and young adults who are gender non-conforming. It is unethical and harmful to prey on this vulnerable population.