Thousands of children have undergone gender transition surgeries in recent years, following a trend that has 'increased significantly,' according to the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Nearly 4,000 of those were between the ages of 12 and 18. The reasoning for including 18-year-olds, the age of adulthood, in the younger cohort was not explained, so it is unclear by the study how many who are legally children were given the surgeries.found that 489 children between the ages of 12 and 17, with a median age of 16, had gotten their breasts removed in a double mastectomy in 2019 alone.
"Breast and chest procedures made up a greater percentage of the surgical interventions in younger patients, while genital surgical procedures were greater in older patients," the study noted. "The fact that they are asking children to consent to something that they clearly can’t understand and will change lives irrevocably is extremely unfortunate and is the reason European countries have decided to severely curtail this practice," Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of the Do No Harm medical advocacy group, told theThe overall number of encounters health systems have experienced for gender dysphoria of all ages skyrocketed nearly 278% from 2016 to 2020, going from 13,855 to...
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