Finally, those who want to treat psychological issues in children rather than exploit them to advance LGBTism have a voice in the government. The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a report stating that children imagining themselves to be members of the opposite sex should receive psychotherapy rather than be subjected to life-ruining sex change procedures:

“The evidence for benefit of pediatric medical transition is very uncertain, while the evidence for harm is less uncertain. When medical interventions pose unnecessary, disproportionate risks of harm, healthcare providers should refuse to offer them even when they are preferred, requested, or demanded by patients,” the report reads. “Failure to do so increases the risk of iatrogenic harm and reduces medicine to consumerism, threatening the integrity of the profession and undermining trust in medical authority.” …

The report noted that a number of U.S. medical organizations support children receiving cross-sex hormones and other “gender-affirming care,” and that the World Professional Association for Transgender Health standards, followed by a number of U.S. facilities, recommend treatments as early as age 8 and procedures before a child becomes an adult.

Other “gender-affirming care” sometimes entails the surgical removal of healthy body parts.

Helping troubled children who have been caught up in the bizarre transgender fad has been labeled “conversion therapy” and is illegal under state law where liberals prevail.

On a tip from Mike B.

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