{"id":1601982,"date":"2022-08-11T18:47:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T22:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1601982"},"modified":"2022-08-11T18:47:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T22:47:59","slug":"boston-childrens-hospital-offering-gender-affirming-hysterectomies-to-kids-who-cant-even-drink-legally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boston-childrens-hospital-offering-gender-affirming-hysterectomies-to-kids-who-cant-even-drink-legally\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Children\u2019s Hospital Offering Gender-Affirming Hysterectomies To Kids Who Can\u2019t Even Drink Legally"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fboston-childrens-hospital-offering-gender-affirming-hysterectomies-to-kids-who-cant-even-drink-legally%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1601982&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Boston Children\u2019s Hospital (BCH), ranked the number one children\u2019s hospital in the United States, is offering \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/does-gender-affirming-care-for-trans-kids-actually-prevent-suicide-heres-what-the-data-say\/\">gender-affirming hysterectomies<\/a>\u201d to children who aren\u2019t even old enough to legally purchase alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>According to the hospital\u2019s website, BCH offers comprehensive medical care for children from birth to age 21 \u2014 and that includes \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/desantis-administration-fighting-against-transgender-surgery-for-minors\/\">gender affirming<\/a>\u201d care for transgender youths as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Center for Gender Surgery at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital offers gender affirmation surgery services to eligible adolescents and young adults who are ready to take this step in their journey,\u201d the hospital\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.childrenshospital.org\/programs\/center-gender-surgery-program\">website<\/a> reads. \u201cIt is the first center of its kind in the U.S. in a major pediatric hospital setting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pediatric gynecologist Frances Grimstad, MD, MS \u2014 who specializes in transgender reproductive health at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital \u2014 explained in a video what a \u201cgender-affirming hysterectomy\u201d entailed.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Boston Children\u2019s Hospital (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BostonChildrens?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BostonChildrens<\/a>) is now offering \u201cgender affirming hysterectomies\u201d for young girls <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JOH5fFtGJ0\">pic.twitter.com\/JOH5fFtGJ0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1557775959217950725?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA gender-affirming hysterectomy is very similar to most hysterectomies that occur,\u201d she began. \u201cA hysterectomy itself is the removal of the uterus, the cervix (which is the opening of the uterus) and the fallopian tubes which are attached to the sides of the uterus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome gender-affirming hysterectomies will also include the removal of the ovaries but that\u2019s technically a separate procedure called a bilateral oophorectomy. And not every gender-affirming hysterectomy includes that, and people who are having gender-affirming hysterectomies do not have to have their ovaries removed,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Hysterectomies \u2014 whether for gender-affirming reasons or not \u2014 are not reversible and will render the patient permanently unable to bear children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA world renown pediatric facility proudly talking about removing the uteruses of healthy young girls in the name of gender affirming care is terrifying,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/nation-world\/childrens-hospital-offers-gender-affirming-hysterectomies-to-gender-confused-youth\">Erika Sanzi<\/a>, director of outreach at nonprofit Parents Defending Education, told The National Desk.<\/p>\n<p>According to the BCH website, children as young as 15 can go under the knife for breast augmentations or double mastectomies in the name of gender affirmation \u2014 with parental consent. At 17, a trans woman can receive a vaginoplasty \u2014 and at 18, a trans man can receive metoidioplasty or phalloplasty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Gender-affirming care\u2019 is newspeak for permanently altering the bodies of kids &#038; adults through drugs and surgery,\u201d Delano Squires <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DelanoSquires\/status\/1557837691412176897\">responded<\/a> to the BCH video. \u201cIf you watch the vid with no sound, you\u2019d assume this lady was talking about her love of classic literature. I\u2019ll take a bulldog over a \u2018winsome\u2019 butcher any day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another Twitter user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Transgendertrd\/status\/1557829342662725632\">added<\/a>, \u201cYou can be upbeat, enthusiastic and smiley when it\u2019s a \u2018gender affirming\u2019 hysterectomy you\u2019re describing. A major operation that will leave you infertile is promoted as if it\u2019s a fun makeover.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Children\u2019s Hospital (BCH), ranked the number one children\u2019s hospital in the United States, is offering \u201cgender-affirming hysterectomies\u201d to children who aren\u2019t even old enough to legally purchase alcohol. According to the hospital\u2019s website, BCH offers comprehensive medical care for children from birth to age 21 \u2014 and that includes \u201cgender affirming\u201d care for transgender &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1602097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1602097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}