"You need tissue, genital tissue, to create that vagina. And if we are taking an 11-year-old boy, who does not have a lot of genital tissue and blocking puberty right there, we’re preventing the growth of the vagina for down the road."
On calcium deficiency:
"The puberty blockers slow that calcium accrual back into the bones quite a bit, back to the prepubertal level."
"This is a concern that not everybody is getting their piggy bank completely filled up with calcium.”
On the unknown impact of puberty suppression on brain development:
“They seem to do reasonably the same as their friends but we’re not looking at their IQ and their learning ability and lots of other things.”
On Puberty Blockers being more invasive than portrayed in media:
“Oh puberty blockers are just reversible and it’s a very noninvasive treatment,’ I would say it’s more invasive than often times the media makes it out to be or other people.”
🧵This year, the @DailyCaller News Foundation has uncovered how the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has been captured by transgender ideology through a series of public records requests.
Here is round up what we found:
1. EXCLUSIVE: Top Doctors Complain Detransitioners Posed ‘Harm’ To Trans Members At Medical Conference
Top gender doctors complained that transgender attendees at the AAP conference in 2023 felt unsafe because of “anti-trans activists” and detransitioners at the event, according to emails exclusively obtained by the DCNF.
🧵EXCLUSIVE: Here’s How A Small Band Of Pediatricians Pushed Medical Org Into Nixing Age Minimums For Sex Changes
Based on the four doctors’ review, the AAP strong-armed WPATH into removing sex-change surgery age minimums from the SOC-8. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Emails reveal the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) asked just four doctors — all of whom are considered leaders in the field of pediatric sex changes and have performed various transgender procedures — to review and provide feedback on an embargoed copy of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health’s (WPATH) clinical guidance, called the Standards of Care version 8 (SOC-8), weeks before its expected publication.
In an amicus brief submitted in the upcoming Supreme Court case United States v. Skrmetti, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall explains that Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine — who is openly transgender — had unsuccessfully pressured WPATH to remove the surgical age minimums, but the pressure from the AAP “tipped the scales,” causing WPATH to remove the child sex-change surgery age minimums.
🧵The Biden-Harris Administration ‘War On Families’
The Biden-Harris embrace of transgender ideology puts parents who don’t affirm their child’s gender confusion at risk of being labeled ‘abusive.’
Across the country ‘non-affirming’ parents are losing custody of their kids.
In December, @katesrichardson reported on a document I discovered on a federal government website.
A federally funded “home visiting” program advised service providers to watch for signs of abuse against “gender-diverse children” like not letting a young child cross-dress.
The document was guidance for the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program which is intended to combat abuse and neglect while promoting “positive parenting” and school readiness among “pregnant people and families.”
EXCLUSIVE: Child Services Dept Working With Biden Harris-Admin Tracked ‘Trans Kids’ On Secret Database
Shocking story and the 4th installment of the @DailyCaller News Foundation's series on how child welfare systems are embracing gender ideology.
An Ohio child welfare agency created a “confidential spreadsheet” tracking the sexual orientation and transgender identity of children as young as 5, according to a document exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The Cuyahoga County Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS) created a database tracking the sexual orientation, transgender identity and pronouns of children that interacted with the child welfare system.
The spreadsheet was part of their ‘Safe Identification’ program, which teaches social services staff how to collect information about the sexuality and gender identity of children.
🧵Transgender Ideology: The intersection of religious freedom and parental rights.
While spending 10+ months researching how gender ideology is transforming the child welfare system, one thing that stood out was a focus on changing the minds of religious parents.
For many religions, a binary male-female view of sex is not only a matter of biology, it’s a matter of faith.
For example, for Christians gender ideology is a violation of religious conscience as the Bible clearly states “God created them male and female."
One of the interventions the @DailyCaller News Foundation covered in our report was the Youth Acceptance Project (YAP), which can be implemented by social workers to persuade hesitant parents to affirm their child’s gender dysphoria.