{"id":1756211,"date":"2022-11-30T08:47:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T13:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1756211"},"modified":"2022-11-30T08:47:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T13:47:34","slug":"politico-ignores-huge-risks-of-child-transition-to-push-kids-toward-castration-instead-of-real-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politico-ignores-huge-risks-of-child-transition-to-push-kids-toward-castration-instead-of-real-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Politico Ignores Huge Risks Of Child \u2018Transition\u2019 To Push Kids Toward Castration Instead Of Real Care"},"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%2Fpolitico-ignores-huge-risks-of-child-transition-to-push-kids-toward-castration-instead-of-real-care%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=1756211&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>Politico published what it called a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/11\/27\/trans-medical-care-red-states-families-00064394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Special Report<\/a>\u201d over the weekend, chronicling the experiences of families with transgender-identifying youths who have moved because of state laws that place restrictions on wrong-sex treatments for underage children. As when reading all corporate media coverage, readers should ask: What narrative is this writer pushing? But in this one-sided, pro-trans, and anti-science article, Politico leaves no doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Underpinning the story lies the premise that encouraging children to undergo complicated medical procedures to attempt to change their sex (impossible) provides unalloyed benefits to the youths in question. But just because Politico says something doesn\u2019t necessarily make it so.<\/p>\n<p> Glaring Omissions <\/p>\n<p>I should preface my comments by stating that I do not have a medical background in endocrinology or otherwise. I won\u2019t pretend to know the \u201cright\u201d way or \u201cwrong\u201d way to treat someone with gender dysphoria, although I hope that all God\u2019s children get treated with dignity and respect.<\/p>\n<p>But as someone who works in health policy, I have noticed several instances in recent months in which high-profile people have begun questioning the effects of puberty blockers and treatments that involve extensive hormone therapies and gratuitous surgeries that irreversibly damage people. Having come across these data points during my health policy work, I found the Politico piece striking for what it excluded.<\/p>\n<p>While the section of Politico\u2019s story discussing (or, more accurately, promoting) the medical merits of wrong-sex therapeutics began by referencing one recent expose in another national publication, it quickly minimized the concerns that story raised: \u201cEven though the New York Times reported that some research suggests the treatment could seriously weaken bone health in youths, multiple mainstream medical organizations \u2026 have taken the position that gender-affirming care is a medical necessity.\u201d By dismissing the Times article as solely related to \u201cbone health,\u201d Politico omitted discussion of other topics addressed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/14\/health\/puberty-blockers-transgender.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">story<\/a>, including growing concerns in Europe regarding transgender interventions, and the lack of Food and Drug Administration approval for using puberty blockers on children.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Times piece, Reuters in October published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/investigates\/special-report\/usa-transyouth-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nearly 8,000-word article<\/a> on the growth of cross-sex procedures and the lack of research into these interventions\u2019 long-term effects. Reuters noted that of the 39 parents it spoke with about their experiences seeking transgender procedures and drugs for their children, more than two-thirds (28) \u201csaid they felt pressured or rushed to pursue treatment.\u201d Politico did not mention this in-depth investigation at all.<\/p>\n<p>The story quoted three individuals \u2014 two doctors and the director of transgender justice at the ACLU \u2014 all of whom spoke favorably of the processes involved with transitioning children; one of the doctors claimed there was \u201cundertreatment\u201d of transgender youth. By contrast, the Times and Reuters stories quoted at least nine separate medical experts who showed some degree of skepticism toward puberty blockers or other types of cross-sex treatment. Politico did not quote these skeptics nor any other doctors questioning the procedures involved in transitioning children in its self-proclaimed \u201cSpecial Report.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico should have done far better than stating opinion as fact and blithely ignoring concerns that medical experts have raised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":1756214,"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":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1756211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"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\/1756211","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\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1756214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}