Boston Children’s Hospital
Wait what?
Hysterectomies at a children’s hospital???
No joke.
Meet the Center for Gender Surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital:
Gender dysphoria occurs when there is a conflict between the gender you were assigned at birth and the gender with which you identity. This can create significant distress, and you may feel uncomfortable in your body. The Center for Gender Surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital offers gender affirmation surgery services to eligible adolescents and young adults who are ready to take this step in their journey. It is the first center of its kind in the U.S. in a major pediatric hospital setting.
Well isn’t that just lovely. Congratulations on your first.
As the first pediatric center in the country dedicated to the surgical care of transgender patients, we take an interdisciplinary approach from the start to ensure exceptional patient care. Our skilled team includes specialists in plastic surgery, urology, endocrinology, nursing, gender management, and social work, who collaborate to provide a full suite of surgical options for transgender teens and young adults. Our experienced anesthesia team works to provide culturally sensitive care to the gender-diverse community. By partnering with the hospital’s nationally recognized Gender Management Service (GeMS), which provides a range of medical options for transgender youth, we help young people with gender identity concerns transfer seamlessly to surgical care if and when they are ready.
The Center currently offers vaginoplasty, metoidioplasty, phalloplasty, chest reconstruction, breast augmentation, facial harmonization and other gender affirmation surgeries to eligible patients. We follow the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) guidelines to surgically treat people who are stable in their gender identity and have documentation of persistent gender dysphoria. You do not need to be a GeMS patient to have surgery at the Center.
The Center’s setting in an academic medical center means that our clinicians are able to benefit from Boston Children’s rich community of scientific and clinical resources. As the Center grows, we hope to further expand our understanding of gender concerns and surgical techniques by leading and participating in various research projects. Our areas of interest include access improvements to gender-affirming surgery, fertility intentions and concerns of transgender young adults, and educational interventions regarding post-surgical self-care.
What could possibly go wrong…
That is utterly horrifying; and, what makes it even more disturbing to me, is the little girl they used as a model at the top of those pages.
Is that where Stonewall got the idea for transing two-year-olds?
The one service I don’t see listed is therapy, to determine why a child wants to be permanently disfigured and sterilized.
Mike, all therapists at or associated with Boston Children’s are required to tell kids identified to have gender dysphoria they should go to their gender clinic. They might even do this behind the parents’ backs. Therapy that questions the reality of opposite-sex identification is illegal in Massachusetts.
But you ain’t felt nuthin’ yet. Just wait until we’re finished with you. In fact we’ll never be finished with you, because this “journey” we’re sending you on is going to last the rest of your life. No “one-and-done” from us! We’re promising something we can never deliver, and when we don’t, we’ll tell you it’s your fault.
What the fuck is that?
And how exactly do anesthesiologists work differently with “gender-diverse” patients as opposed to boring cis ones? Do they paint them with rainbow sparkles while they’re knocked out cold, and tell them they were visited by the Gender Fairy? FFS!
Except for the ones that say that humans can’t change sex. But we’re stocked with the collected works of Judith Butler.
Does that include watching what’s happening in the UK? You might want to consider putting a good lawyer on speed-dial. And start saving money for the damage payouts.
Papito @ 3 – whaaaaat? Literally?
Ophelia, I thought you knew about this. I know there was a big ruckus trying to prevent it in the UK. In many American states (I haven’t added up which ones lately), therapy for kids identified as suffering from gender dysphoria, which does not affirm their transition, is considered to be “conversion therapy,” and is illegal.
In Massachusetts, the law is HR 140, passed in 2019.
https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H140
The law has specific exceptions for therapists who are encouraging children to change their gender identification to the opposite gender. It only prohibits providing therapy to children that affirms their actual sex.
This law, similar to laws in dozens of other states, all passed in the last decade, makes it possible that a therapist could not only lose his license to practice, but be sued or prosecuted for providing therapy to a child that does not confirm and cement the child’s stated belief of being transgender.
In practice, this means that almost no therapists want to go anywhere near kids with gender issues, except for those therapists who most enthusiastically “affirm,” such as the ideologues hired by gender clinics. It’s hot potato with these kids until they get to a place like Children’s, which fits them in the surgical disassembly line.
I probably did know about it. My memory is crap.
What a draconian law, clearly not in the best interest of kids. It was so clever to tie it to the truly heinous gay conversion therapy.
Clever indeed. Clever and evil. Forced teaming, coat-tail riding, host and parasite….
Given that law usually depends on precise terms and definitions, it’s a wonder that this sort of unholy mashup could make it through. One wonders if it could survive appeal.We have two quite different things being called “conversion therapy.” One of them is about exploring treatment avenues that do not result in carving away healthy tissues and organs from minors.
Bruce, you’re not wrong. It’s remarkable, and will seem remarkable to many people after the fever passes, that these two things have been sewed together. All these laws – affecting about half of the states – have been passed in the last decade. They all use almost identical language. It’s clearly coordinated.
Like in other realms, gays are used as the cover. It’s not like there’s been some kind of boom in gay conversion therapy in the twenty-teens. That’s not really happening anywhere; it was already illegal as child abuse, and also discredited because it doesn’t even work. These laws are all about the trans, and about preventing therapists from working with children to explore why they suddenly think they’re trans.
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I didn’t think so either. It was old news as far as I could tell.
Isn’t it strange that exactly the same case can be made for medical “transitioning.” Never mind that minors can’t give meaningful consent. What “information” are they being given? Do they ever tell their
victimspatients that humans can’t change sex? Are they told that the “genitalia” being carved into or grafted onto them will only ever be non-functioning approximations of those of their target sex?And there’s the evil part.
Gender is not assigned at birth. And in most cases, neither is sex. Sex is reported at birth.
Boston Children’s Hospital claims to follow WPATH guidelines, does its guidelines allow for performing double mastectomies on 12 year olds?