{"id":1678713,"date":"2022-10-07T18:21:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T22:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1678713"},"modified":"2022-10-07T18:23:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T22:23:19","slug":"detransitioners-pen-plea-to-doj-after-doctors-seek-to-silence-critics-of-trans-treatments-for-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/detransitioners-pen-plea-to-doj-after-doctors-seek-to-silence-critics-of-trans-treatments-for-minors\/","title":{"rendered":"Detransitioners Pen Plea To DOJ After Doctors Seek To Silence Critics Of Trans Treatments For Minors"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fdetransitioners-pen-plea-to-doj-after-doctors-seek-to-silence-critics-of-trans-treatments-for-minors%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=1678713&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>A group of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/i-sank-into-a-deep-depression-detransitioner-loses-natural-singing-voice-after-gender-affirming-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">formerly transgender<\/a> young adults wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/you-must-testify-under-oath-hawley-demands-answers-rips-merrick-garland-for-targeting-of-pro-life-activist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Attorney General Merrick Garland<\/a> to counter top American medical institutions who aim to silence critics of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-vanderbilt-pediatric-gender-clinic-pausing-transgender-surgeries-on-minors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">radical transgender procedures<\/a> carried out on minors.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realityslaststand.com\/p\/detransitioners-respond-a-letter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> from seven so-called \u201cdetransitioners\u201d followed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/american-medical-association-pushes-doj-to-investigate-and-prosecute-those-who-call-out-gender-surgeries-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one sent Monday<\/a> by\u00a0the American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, and Children\u2019s Hospital Association that\u00a0urged the Department of Justice to \u201cinvestigate and prosecute all organizations, individuals, and entities\u201d that they claimed were \u201ccoordinating\u201d and \u201cprovoking\u201d outrage in response to those providing the controversial gender-related treatments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recent letter by these groups calling on the DOJ to put pressure on social media companies to censor who they portray as \u2018high-profile users on social media\u2019 sharing \u2018false and misleading information\u2019 is nothing more than an attempt to silence the reasonable voices of concerned critics calling for a more cautious approach to experimental medical practices impacting vulnerable children,\u201d read the letter, signed by a group led by activist detransitioner\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/detransitioner-chloe-cole-gives-powerful-testimony-against-gender-affirming-care-at-white-house\">Chloe Cole<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cole was joined in the letter by Helena Kerschner, Cat Cattison, Sin\u00e9ad Watson, Grace Lidinsky-Smith, Prisha Mosley and a detransitioned male who goes by Ritchie.<\/p>\n<p>They asked Garland to\u00a0consider their perspectives as former transgender minors and young adults who were negatively affected by the puberty blocking drugs, cross-sex hormones and surgeries they received. They noted that they were young and confused when they transitioned under the guidance of\u00a0medical \u201cexperts\u201d who prescribed irreversible hormone treatments and surgeries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of us had extensive histories of mental illness,\u201d the letter stated. \u201cMany of us had experienced significant childhood trauma. But all of this was ignored because we uttered the word \u2018gender.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Side effects of puberty blocking drugs prescribed to children include a diminished bone density, neurological and psychiatric problems and stunted genital development. When combined with cross-sex hormones, which also have permanent side effects, they can cause sterility and irreversibly damaged sexual function. As part of the \u201cgender affirming\u201d model of care, puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones may be prescribed at the first signs of puberty, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/leading-transgender-health-association-releases-new-guidelines\">according<\/a> to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). For girls, that is as young as age 9, and for boys 11.<\/p>\n<p>Even more damaging for those who later detransition are surgeries, include breast amputations, or \u201ctop surgeries\u201d and genital surgeries. A recent investigation by Reuters found that between 2019 and 2021, there were at least 776 double mastectomies performed on children between the ages of 13 and 17 in the U.S. Genital surgeries are becoming increasingly common as well for trans-identified minors. Reuters counted 56 genital surgeries on youth aged 13 to 17 during that three year period.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The medical associations that wrote Garland are strong proponents the \u201cgender affirmation\u201d model of care, which prevents caregivers from questioning a child\u2019s self-reported transgender identity or exploring other factors that may be causing their dysphoria. They claimed that criticism of the controversial treatment can lead to threats and violence against medical professionals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe condemn all violence, threats of violence, and intimidation directed at physicians and hospital staff without caveat, and anyone who engages in such behavior should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,\u201d Cole\u2019s group said. \u201cBut we also cannot ignore the harms being carried out against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/detrans\/\">countless children<\/a> in the name of \u2018gender affirmation\u2019 that constitute much more than mere threats\u2014we bear the literal scars of this medical violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChildren deserve the best evidence-based medical care available. Silencing the victims and critics of \u2018gender affirming\u2019 practices is not a pathway to truth and justice, but to ignorance and harm,\u201d the letter ended.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Several of the signatories also formed a support network called Detrans United, the first advocacy group of its kind \u201ccreated by detransitioners, for detransitioners.\u201d According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/detransunited.com\/\">website<\/a>, their goals include helping to \u201cconnect detransitioners with each other, mental health professionals, medical malpractice lawyers, and others who can provide support.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of formerly transgender young adults wrote Attorney General Merrick Garland to counter top American medical institutions who aim to silence critics of radical transgender procedures carried out on minors. The letter from seven so-called \u201cdetransitioners\u201d followed one sent Monday by\u00a0the American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, and Children\u2019s Hospital Association that\u00a0urged the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1678717,"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-1678713","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\/1678713","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=1678713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1678717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}