Despite the recent findings concerning the dangers of gender-altering surgical procedures, Boston Children's Hospital – a nationally ranked medical facility affiliated with Harvard Medical School – is calling for a drastic increase in "gender-affirming care," including surgeries, for children.
Proponents say gender-affirming care is necessary to battle severe distress, anxiety, and depression in youth. But Dr. Michelle Cretella, a pediatrician on the advisory board of Advocates Protecting Children, says easily available documentation clearly counters that argument.
"The drugs, the chemicals, sex-impersonating interventions, the puberty blockers, and the cross-sex hormones – all you have to do is pull the package inserts [for those products]," she tells AFN. "They all cause a worsening of mental illness."
The children's advocate quotes from some of those inserts: "May cause depression … may cause new onset mental illness … worsening of current mental illness.'"
Cretella accuses a group of physicians at the hospital of being part of "Big Medicine" and personally benefiting financially from the push behind gender-affirming care. "They're exploiting vulnerable children to line their pockets with money. I mean, this is criminal," she states.
More than a dozen states have either restricted or banned gender-manipulation procedures for minors, Indiana being the most recent just this week. In addition, the governor of Idaho on Tuesday signed into law a bill criminalizing gender manipulation procedures for youth.
