'Gender-affirming care' is the new lobotomy

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There is no difference in my mind between insane asylums of the past and today’s “gender clinics,” where impressionable and confused children are being sterilized and mutilated routinely. Young children are walking into these clinics — there are more than 100 across the country — with anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and sometimes nothing more than a desire to fit in and walking out with permanently altered bodies, severe medical complications, and mental despair.

A whistleblower who worked inside one of these gender clinics documented its abuses in a piece for the Free Press . Jamie Reed worked as a case manager for the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital in Missouri for several years. She’s been a liberal all her life and is married to a woman who identifies as a man. But what she saw in Missouri’s gender clinic was so revolting, so horrifying, that she is now advocating a moratorium on all “gender-affirming” care for confused minors.

Reed said that most of the children who came through the clinic had other comorbidities, such as autism or ADHD, and that they rarely fit the bill for diagnosable gender dysphoria. Instead, they seemed to be enthralled with the idea of transgenderism because of its supposed social benefits.

Yet the doctors at the clinic refused to admit that this sudden surge in gender confusion among young adolescents, most of whom were girls, was part of a social contagion. [...]

Indeed. Just as the mentally ill were numbed and lobotomized, confused children are being turned into permanent patients and having their brains and bodies permanently distorted in today’s gender clinics. There is no justification for these houses of horrors. They serve no purpose other than to line the pockets of the hospitals that stand to benefit financially from the repetitive, costly treatments.

They must be shut down — permanently. And the doctors and medical professionals who participated in the chemical castration and physical mutilation of children must be stripped of their licenses and prohibited from stepping foot near a medical facility ever again.