{"id":1710781,"date":"2022-10-25T17:03:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T21:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1710781"},"modified":"2022-10-25T17:04:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T21:04:09","slug":"adolescent-chest-reconstruction-surgeries-increase-nearly-400-in-us-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/adolescent-chest-reconstruction-surgeries-increase-nearly-400-in-us-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Adolescent Chest Reconstruction Surgeries Increase Nearly 400% in US: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fadolescent-chest-reconstruction-surgeries-increase-nearly-400-in-us-report%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=1710781&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>Chest reconstruction surgeries performed on minors across the United States increased by approximately 400% during a three-year span, according to a new <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamapediatrics\/fullarticle\/2797439?guestAccessKey=a85ea7b3-150e-42d8-b9b0-34000f2d681e\">report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Journal of the American Medical Association, an international peer-reviewed general medical journal, published that researchers from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, reported that 1130 chest mutilating surgeries were performed on children younger than 18 years old from 2016 to 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Of those encounters, 1114 were mastectomies, while 16 were augmentation mammaplasties \u2014 bringing the annual number of child mutilations during the reported years to a 389% increase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo our knowledge, this study is the largest investigation to date of gender-affirming chest reconstruction in a pediatric population,\u201d the study noted. \u201cThe results demonstrate substantial increases in gender-affirming chest reconstruction for adolescents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report noted, \u201creconstructive genital surgery is typically not performed in adolescents, but masculinizing chest reconstruction (e.g., mastectomy) and feminizing chest reconstruction (e.g., augmentation mammaplasty) may be performed in outpatient and ambulatory surgery settings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, some of the children who underwent the surgeries during the study had psychiatric conditions, such as anxiety and depression. And about 20% of the children were using so-called gender-affirming hormone therapies.<\/p>\n<p>Daily Wire host Matt Walsh recently obtained footage showing a Vanderbilt doctor emphasizing the money such surgeries can bring in. \u201cChest reconstruction\u201d surgeries \u2014 which can be performed on minors \u2014 can generate $40,000, and \u201cfemale-to-male bottom surgeries\u201d can produce $100,000. Another Vanderbilt doctor called religious objections \u201cproblematic\u201d and said that medical professionals who refuse to perform such surgeries should face \u201cconsequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Video and archived webpages from the medical center detail a doctor\u2019s promotion of the \u201cbig money maker\u201d transgender therapies and surgeries and apparent threats against medical professionals who dare object for religious reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a lot of money,\u201d VUMC Clinic for Transgender Health\u2019s Dr. Shayne Sebold Taylor said at one Medicine Grand Rounds lecture, the video reveals. \u201cThese surgeries make a lot of money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tennessee-looking-at-child-gender-transition-legislation-after-vanderbilt-transgender-videos-released\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vanderbilt Pediatric Gender Clinic<\/a> has since agreed to pause all gender transition surgeries on minors, but insiders with the clinic told The Daily Wire they fear transgender surgeries on minors would eventually resume unless laws were established banning such operations.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) recently sent a letter to the Federal Drug Administration calling for an investigation of the pharmaceutical companies conducting clinical trials using puberty blockers on children.<\/p>\n<p>Blackburn has joined other Tennessee officials in calling for an investigation into Vanderbilt University Medical in the wake of Walsh\u2019s reporting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is just very sad that we would hear from medical professionals as they were putting profit in front of children,\u201d Blackburn told The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>A recent report from Grand View Research said the industry surrounding transgender surgeries saw a $1.9 billion valuation last year and is forecast to expand at a compound annual growth rate of more than 11%, bringing the industry to $5 billion by the end of the decade.<\/p>\n<p>Studies indicate that as many as 90% of young people who claim a transgender identity but are not encouraged to socially or medically transition will no longer call themselves transgender in adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>According to the JAMA Pediatrics study, at least 35 state legislatures have introduced more than 100 bills that limit or prohibit access to \u201cmedically necessary gender-affirming care for transgender and gender-diverse youth, resulting in poor mental and physical health outcomes,\u201d adding approximately 300,000 adolescents between 13 and 17 years of age identify as transgender.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ben Zeisloft and Amanda Prestigiacomo contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chest reconstruction surgeries performed on minors across the United States increased by approximately 400% during a three-year span, according to a new report. 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