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

Please end this madness against our youth!!

Stop this child abuse. This is a medical scandal!

This is serious child abuse of the highest order! It is being done by parents and health officials alike - all being normalised and done in the guise of medical care and inclusivity. Let confused or gender non-conforming children get through the tempestuous tumult of puberty and adolescence unadulterated by medical or surgical intervention - then, once they are fully grown adults and their hormones and brain neurons have rebalanced, they can decide for themselves.

Sterilizing children based solely on their often changing and ill-informed self-diagnosis is so very irresponsible of our medical community. Although intentions may be well-meant, the outcome is criminal.

Please don't let them use children as guinea pigs.

Please don’t mutilate the body of young children. Children can’t analyze and as a doctor you should know that. They can’t drive and drink till much older but they can decide to cut their bodies? This is child abuse, and the parents who agree to it are abusuve parents. Please stop this insanity for the sake of children! Please say no. It’s a medical doctors duty to be ethical. Is this ethical? It’s immoral dear doctor. We demand the butchering of innocent children to stop

I'm a medical journal copy editor and familiar with these mutilating "treatments" that make healthy children and adults into medical cripples. Viciously unconscionable.

The assault on children has no limits

common sense would suggest we should slow down and hold off making life changing decisions when we are young

This child abuse have to stop! Stop medically and surgically transitioning children. I wanted to be a boy as a child and I never played with girl's toys. I am a woman and more than happy with my sex.

Please stop this madness.

Dear Dr.Adams, I am writing as a detransitioning woman. I was 6 years and 9 months on testosterone. I was not given the adequate psychological and medical help as I was also suffering from mental health issues unrelated to transitioning. I was also never informed of the side effects and changes on T. I suffered a lot of side effects on T, without knowing that my health went backwards due to T even though I was completely healthy pre-T. I suffered from: severe hair loss, cutis verticis gyrata, seboherric dermatitis, acne (face, chest, tummy), red spots on my arms and chest, itching especially where sweat stays, looking way older for my age, diarrhoea, urge to vomit but almost always failing to do so, excessive sweat, weight gain (around 30 kgs), shortness of breath, chest pains, having to drink more and as a result having to pee more but a lot of times I went to pee often, having to "push" to pee even when having a full bladder, fatigue, changes in liver test results (still waiting for ultrasound results to confirm if I have any damage, and no, I don't drink or smoke), anxiety, depression, some memory loss and inability to concentrate. Now I am stuck in a body I hate for ever. My hair was very dear to me as it was very thick. I was not warned about the changes, even this one. Had somebody told me that hair loss is a side effect of T, I wouldn't have taken it, besides the other side effects. I would like to add that since weight gain seems to be a side effect of both artificial oestrogen and testosterone, nobody should even be given these hormones for this one reason as obesity leads to a vast range of serious health problems. Furthermore, I believe that people with mental health problems should be helped in other ways. Hormonal therapy is never the answer, as in my case and those of other people, taking hormones resulted in a destroyed body, which we will have to live in for the rest of our lives. Secondly I want you to think about the large possibi

Please do not allow children to be abused in this way!

I can't even understand why this is happening.

Please protect our children! My child declared she was transgender at 12; right in the middle of the trauma of puberty. If allowed she would choose full mastectomy and hysterectomy at 12. This is horrifying to me! Children in Oregon can start hormone therapy and surgeries at 15 without parental consent or knowledge; why?! A child in Ohio was taken from her parents when they asked their daughter to wait…no signs of abuse other than NOT agreeing with hormone therapy and a sex change for their child! Dr Ray Blanchard, PHD Psychologist was banned on twitter when he stated in his lifetime of research (he is an expert in trans/Canada) Blanchard explained his clinically-informed opinion that "sex change” surgery should not be considered for any patient until that patient has reached the age of 21 years and has lived for at least two years in the desired gender role." Dr Blanchard was suspended for hateful conduct for expressing a lifetime of research in a tweet that went against the trans activists narrative. While activists may find this offensive, Blanchard correctly referenced the true statistics on gender dysphoria. Although the Ph.D. psychologist supported sex-change surgery for 21-year-old adults whose gender dysphoria has persisted against other forms of treatment, he acknowledged that even post-operative transgender individuals are still biologically male or female beneath the surgical changes. No matter how good transgender surgery gets, a biological male still has X and Y chromosomes in virtually every cell of his body and a biological female still has two X chromosomes. No surgery or identity can alter this. Children 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! Please help us!

I'm a detransitioned woman. I got a double mastectomy and was on hormones for 9 months. I regret it every day of my life. It was the worst thing that ever happened to me.

We, the founders of Parents of ROGD Kids, urge the Surgeon General to act quickly to protect our most vulnerable youth from undergoing unnecessary and dangerous medical procedures which have little to no evidence of benefit. To date, we have received over 1,000 emails from parents desperate to protect their children from medical professionals who are eager to medically transition their children without taking the time to explore underlying issues or to try to find less-invasive solutions. Please visit our website, ParentsofROGDKids.com, and read some of our parents' stories to get an idea of the magnitude of the tragedies that are unfolding in our families at the hands of members of your profession.

I am a detransitioned woman, meaning I identified as transgender and transitioned, later realizing my gender dysphoria stemmed from a complex series of emotional issues that could not be resolved by changing my outward appearance. I identified as a trans man from the ages of 15-19, and was on testosterone for nearly 2 years. While I was desiring to transition, I spoke with multiple therapists and other adults at my school, and community members who affirmed my identity in a way that did not encourage critical thought and self examination. While I was transitioning, I began to see a new therapist and had life experiences, such as moving away from my family and living on my own, that helped me to emotionally mature and examine my emotional distress in a new light, and I slowly began to realize that my dysphoria, discomfort with my female sex, was caused by a destructive family dynamic in my upbringing, feelings of depression, low self worth, hopelessness, and my eating disorder. By this time, however, I had already been on testosterone for 17 months when I realized with horror that I had been led down the wrong path, away from healthy self exploration and growth and towards a very surface level, highly invasive medicalized reality that has left me with a changed body and health complications I am yet to fully understand due to the dearth of research on cross sex hormone usage. As the petition describes, we are currently looking at a global upsurge of adolescent females looking to transition and the current model of care focuses on “affirmation” and medical transition. My own experience of starting testosterone was through “informed consent” where I was given my prescription after only a <1hr appointment at a clinic. There needs to be an emergency investigation into the exponential growth of youth seeking to medically transition, as well as the striking demographic change of those wishing to do so. Nothing can be lost from taking the time to work with a competent thera

I was severely gender dysphoric as a child to the point where sometimes suicide seemed like the only option. But I was fortunate that I had a great source of emotional and psychological support, and he helped me to discover the root of my dysphoria and to accept myself. I'm so grateful that I had someone willing to actually help me find the causes of my dysphoria so that we could cure it, instead of rushing into making modifications to my body when it was my mind, not my body, that was the problem

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