New Report Finds U.S. More Lenient On Child Sex Changes Than European Countries

According to a new study, the U.S. has a more relaxed policy on chemical and surgical sexchange services for children than any European nation.

The new Policy review Do No Harm, a medical watchdog group, found that the United States uses the least amount child safeguarding in relation to medical transition services compared to 11 European countries.

“Overall, our policy review reveals the United States is the most permissive country when it comes to the legal and medical gender transition of children,” The report was completed.

The study looked at the laws in Europe and found that the United States has greater access to legal and medical services for gender transition services. These include gender clinics, hormones, surgeries, and cross-sex hormones.

The majority of the United States has laws that require consent from a parent or guardian before puberty blocking drugs can be prescribed to children. This includes states starting at eight years of age. Oregon, however, is an exception to the rule. It allows anyone aged 15 and older to access puberty blocking drugs without parental consent.

According to the study, puberty blocking drugs are not legally available in most European countries until age 18. They can however be obtained with parental consent at 16 years of age if they are approved by the parents. However, in Sweden, consent is required at 12 years old to access puberty blocking drugs. In Finland, consent can be obtained at 13 years of age. Denmark and Ireland permit it at 15.

Review of 11 countries in Northern and Western Europe reveals that cross-sex hormone use is almost completely restricted until 16 years of age, after which they are subject to psychotherapy sessions. Cross-sex hormones can be administered to children in America at 13 or younger, depending on whether they are participating in clinical trials.

Due to policies adopted by national health care systems, European countries don’t allow minors to have surgery without their consent. The review found that every country in the Western and Northern Europe has banned gender-related surgery for minors under 16 years of age. The United States has Documented cases Minors as young 12 years old can have their breasts removed by a surgeon.

Contrary to Europe where only one to three clinics are available for trans-identified youths, the U.S. has more. 60 Pediatric Gender Clinics There are at least 300 additional clinics and medical offices that offer chemical and surgical sexchange treatments for minors.

Do No Harm’s chairman, Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, that radical gender ideology is to blame for the United States’ departure from the growing international consensus. Sweden, FinlandAnd England As has been done, the evidence review was completed. Florida’s Boards of MedicineEach concludes that the risks associated with pediatric medical transition outweigh any potential benefits. It resulted in the closing of prominent gender clinics, tight restrictions on the use cross-sex hormonal therapy, and the ban of minor gender-related surgeries.

“The evidence supports such caution,” Goldfarb penned In an article in the New York Post, co-written and edited by Dr. Miriam Grossman (child psychiatrist). “There’s an extremely high likelihood — confirmed by almost a dozen studies — that childhood-onset gender incongruence will resolve on its own by adolescence or adulthood.”

“And the sudden rise of transgender identification in youth, especially teen girls, has occurred too fast to properly study, rendering it too new to properly understand, much less medicalize,” He added.

Do No Harm has launched a new initiative. Initiative, “Protecting Minors from Gender Ideology,” To inform policymakers and the general public about the “disastrous consequences of the unproven and often harmful practice known as ‘gender-affirming care.’”