{"id":1748666,"date":"2022-11-22T18:47:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T23:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748666"},"modified":"2022-11-22T18:47:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T23:47:55","slug":"td-bank-quietly-donated-500000-to-gender-affirming-procedures-for-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/td-bank-quietly-donated-500000-to-gender-affirming-procedures-for-minors\/","title":{"rendered":"TD Bank Quietly Donated $500,000 To \u2018Gender Affirming\u2019 Procedures 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\">22<\/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%2Ftd-bank-quietly-donated-500000-to-gender-affirming-procedures-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=1748666&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>Canadian financial corporation TD Bank quietly donated half a million dollars to a program earlier this year that conducts so-called \u201cgender-affirming\u201d irreversible procedures on minors.<\/p>\n<p>According to a May 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/stories.td.com\/ca\/en\/article\/pediatric-gender-diversity-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">newsletter<\/a>, the financial institution funded $500,000 through Canada\u2019s Children\u2019s Hospital Foundations to support \u201cgender transitions\u201d through the McMaster Pediatric Gender Diversity Program, which provides medical and mental health services for \u201ctrans and gender diverse youth\u201d at the McMaster Children\u2019s Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are aware that adolescent physical and mental health remains a pressing issue,\u201d Sarah Colley, community relations manager for TD, said. \u201cThat\u2019s why we are so pleased to provide support to the McMaster Pediatric Gender Diversity Program through the TD Ready Commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Current laws do not have an age of consent required for gender reassignment surgery, according to a report by True North.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no general age of consent to treatment or counseling,\u201d Canadian Mental Health Association <a href=\"https:\/\/ontario.cmha.ca\/documents\/mental-health-services-for-gender-diverse-and-sexual-minority-youth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writes<\/a>. \u201cInstead, the issue depends on whether the young person is capable of consenting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a True North <a href=\"https:\/\/tnc.news\/2022\/06\/26\/aaron-kimberly-transition-oped\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">op-ed<\/a>, Aaron Kimberly, a transexual man and mental health nurse, wrote that misinformation drives transgender people into transition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou would think that today\u2019s gender revolution would make things easier on kids like me, who are now often identified as trans. In fact, I did transition when I was 33 and, though it did help me feel more congruent, that decision was largely based on misinformation,\u201d Kimberly wrote.<\/p>\n<p>According to the website, the program \u201caims to provide medical and mental health services to trans and gender diverse youth as part of a comprehensive program that includes adolescent medicine\u201d and endocrinology \u2014 a practice that transgender individuals require to administer hormone treatments such as puberty blockers and testosterone injections.<\/p>\n<p>Other services include \u201ccomplete medical referrals and legal referrals such as changing gender markers and a person\u2019s legal name on identification.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TD Bank\u2014one of the ten largest banks in the United States\u2014established the program In 2016 when the demand for transitioning children had not reached the levels seen today. However, program officials say that when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, it began receiving three to four weekly referrals.<\/p>\n<p>Funding for the program will provide so-called care to 30 children under 18 to undergo \u201cgender-affirming\u201d services each year, adding to the 60 to 70 minors the program treats yearly.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the number of minors seeking out such services has reached approximately 150 on the waitlist, who reportedly have to wait an estimated time of 24 months to receive an initial assessment.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Rosheen Grady, a pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist at the children\u2019s hospital, said in the newsletter she had encountered a parent whose child was \u201cdrowning in depression\u201d before finding the program.<\/p>\n<p>Grady\u2019s statement shows that the child entered the program as male and left as female.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey realized they have a daughter now, and they\u2019re grateful for the resources and support that the program provided to them,\u201d Grady said. \u201cIt can be so rewarding to hear that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grady believes intervening in the lives of \u201cgender-diverse\u201d adolescents could \u201chelp support youths to be their healthiest selves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian financial corporation TD Bank quietly donated half a million dollars to a program earlier this year that conducts so-called \u201cgender-affirming\u201d irreversible procedures on minors. According to a May 2022 newsletter, the financial institution funded $500,000 through Canada\u2019s Children\u2019s Hospital Foundations to support \u201cgender transitions\u201d through the McMaster Pediatric Gender Diversity Program, which provides medical &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1748669,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1748666","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\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1748669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}