{"id":1729193,"date":"2022-11-08T06:05:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T11:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1729193"},"modified":"2022-11-08T07:33:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T12:33:20","slug":"childrens-minnesota-gender-clinic-treats-pre-verbal-toddlers-for-gender-dysphoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/childrens-minnesota-gender-clinic-treats-pre-verbal-toddlers-for-gender-dysphoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s Minnesota Gender Clinic Treats Pre-Verbal Toddlers for Gender Dysphoria"},"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\">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%2Fchildrens-minnesota-gender-clinic-treats-pre-verbal-toddlers-for-gender-dysphoria%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=1729193&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/article_TEDx_Goepferd.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The director of the Gender Health Program at Minnesota Children\u2019s Hospital believes children can know that they are transgender from as young as age three, and that some boys don\u2019t have penises and some girls don\u2019t have vaginas.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.childrensmn.org\/services\/care-specialties-departments\/gender-health\/services\/\">Children\u2019s Minnesota website<\/a>\u00a0states that \u201ctransgender youth deserve to grow up happy, healthy, safe, and strong,\u201d while at the same time advertising that they offer puberty blockers <a href=\"http:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/puberty-blockers-revealed-to-be-dangerous-for-minors-study\">which have been shown to cause bone-density<\/a> and joint issues, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/fda-warns-of-brain-swelling-and-permanent-vision-loss-found-in-children-taking-puberty-blockers\">more serious side effects such as brain swelling<\/a>; cross-sex hormones, which come with a possible elevated risk of cancer, and fertility preservation services for children who are being allowed to consent to signing away their fertility before they are even old enough to know what that means.<\/p>\n<p>In a clip shared by Libs of TikTok, director Angela Kade Goepferd tells the audience of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=knNjvX6eoBI\">her TEDx Minneapolis talk in Oct 2020<\/a> that children begin to understand gender differences at around age 2, and that by age 3 or 4, they begin to develop a more \u201csophisticated understanding of physical characteristics and anatomy.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Goepferd says it shouldn\u2019t surprise people that \u201ctransgender kids are also claiming their identities as young as 3 or 4\u201d because children at that age know how they \u201cshould feel inside based on their anatomy, and they also know that they way that they see themselves doesn\u2019t line up with other people\u2019s expectations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This appears to be the accepted narrative in Minnesota. In September, <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/watch-trans-health-providers-for-littles-explain-why-kids-should-be-transitioned-without-mental-health-treatment\">The Post Millennial reported on a session<\/a> given at the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) annual conference by a consultation team of Minnesota mental health professionals that treat <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/gender-affirming-surgeon-admits-children-who-undergo-transition-before-puberty-never-attain-sexual-satisfaction\">pre-pubescent children<\/a> who have been led to believe they are transgender. The panel was moderated by an employee at Children\u2019s Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>During the session, the team discussed the various therapeutic approaches to dealing with gender-confused children, often as young as three years old, whom they referred to as \u201cthe littles.\u201d The general consensus of the panel was that these children who believe themselves to be members of the opposite sex because they like the \u201cwrong\u201d toys or clothing don\u2019t need therapy because \u201cthe pathology is not being trans; the pathology is the transphobia that the kids and their families are winding through the world with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One psychologist commented on how she sees \u201cearly bloomers\u201d who are already on puberty blockers but who clearly don\u2019t understand the risks of puberty suppression because, in her words, they are \u201cin so many ways \u2026 still developmentally children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another Minnesota outpatient therapist told of giving out medical advice he is not qualified to dispense, suggesting to a mother: \u201cyou could just try blockers; you could kind of hit the pause button while your kid thinks about it.\u201d To which the mother reportedly replied: \u201cYou can do what? OMG. Perfect!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The experimental drugs known as puberty blockers were once thought to be a fully reversible pause that would give the child time to figure things out, but <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/trans-children-given-puberty-blockers-prior-to-medical-consultation-due-to-high-demand\">recent research has shown that 99 percent of children<\/a> put on blockers go on to take cross-sex hormones, meaning these drugs are not a pause but rather a start switch that make cross-sex hormones almost a foregone conclusion. Therefore, the decision to put a child on this irreversible pathway is not one to be made on a whim on the advice of a therapist with they\/them pronouns and no medical training.<\/p>\n<p>Children\u2019s Minnesota was not happy with the article reporting what goes on inside these gender-affirming clinics. The <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-clinic-featured-at-child-trans-summit-sends-legal-demand-to-post-millennial-to-censor-our-reporting\">Post Millennial received a legal demand<\/a> from the hospital that the article be deleted.<\/p>\n<p>Goepferd, who has three children but claims to be neither their mother nor their father but rather their \u201cmapa\u201d, presumably because of sartorial choices such as the bowtie chosen for the TEDx talk and the short hair, describes leaving \u201copen the possibility that biology isn\u2019t destiny\u201d for her children by telling them when they were young that \u201cmost boys have penises, and most girls have vaginas.\u201d This is followed up by an amusing anecdote about how one of her sons identified himself as a \u201cmost boy\u201d because he has a penis.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to justify lying to young children about one of the most fundamental facts of human existence, Goepferd uses a crayon analogy. The audience is asked to imagine children being asked to draw themselves, but only being given the choice of a pink or a blue crayon. This is apparently the equivalent of telling children there are only boys and girls. Lying to children and telling them they can change sex, or be neither boys nor girls, or both boys and girls, is the equivalent of handing them a box of 64 different colours because \u201cif we open the box of crayons, they will tell us who they are.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director of the Gender Health Program at Minnesota Children\u2019s Hospital believes children can know that they are transgender from as young as age three, and that some boys don\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1729196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1729193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729193","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=1729193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1729196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}