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Comments by US Commissioner of Food and Drugs Dr Marty Makary, speaking at December 18’s Washington DC announcement of measures against “sex-rejecting procedures”—
“One of the most barbaric features of a society is the genital mutilation of its children. It’s based on a medical dogma, sadly, that the normal, sometimes stressful experiences of boys and girls growing up is a pathology that requires medical intervention.
“Parents are told, if they don’t agree to these disfiguring and permanently sterilizing procedures, they’re putting their child at increased risk of suicide, a baseless claim that has never been supported with good data.
“Pushing transgender ideology in children is predatory. It’s wrong, and it needs to stop. This ideology is a belief system that some teachers, some pediatricians and others are selling to children without their parents knowing sometimes, or with a deliberate attempt to remove parents from the decision making.
“Puberty can be stressful, and for all of history, being a kid and interacting with kids from the opposite gender can be awkward, even confusing at times. But to see a society putting kids on a path of chest binders, drugs, castration, mastectomies and other procedures is a path that now many kids regret.
“Let me be clear about something, and this is an important distinction. We’re not talking about medically treating kids with a biological basis for what used to be called ‘intersex’. We’re not talking about children with 5-alpha reductase deficiency, Klinefelter syndrome, Turner syndrome or other sex chromosome abnormalities.
“We’re talking about an ideology that is supported by flawed science, that every child as young as four years of age should pick from an array of genders. We’ve got high schools now where half the kids don’t identify as a boy or girl. What’s going on?
“To American hospitals and clinics, do not ask parents to leave the room in order to sell your transgender ideology to America’s children.”
