In a stunning rebuke to the predatory medical industry profiting from child mutilation, a leading U.S. association of surgeons has officially declared its opposition to so-called "gender transition" surgeries for minors. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), representing over 11,000 surgeons, issued guidance in January, finally acknowledging the substantial uncertainty and irreversible harm of these procedures on vulnerable youth. This landmark shift exposes the crumbling facade of a medical scandal that has seen institutions like Duke University target toddlers for gender dysphoria, all while data reveals catastrophic mental health outcomes for those who undergo irreversible surgeries. The move signals a growing revolt within the medical community against an ideology that has sacrificed children's well-being for profit and political games.
Key points:
- The American Society of Plastic Surgeons now advises delaying all gender transition surgeries until patients are at least 19, citing insufficient evidence of benefit and irreversible consequences.
- A groundbreaking Oxford study confirms transgender surgeries are linked to drastically higher rates of suicide, depression, anxiety, and substance abuse.
- Elite medical institutions, including Duke Health, have been exposed for targeting children as young as two years old for social transition, grooming them for future medical interventions.
- Financial motives are driving the push for these procedures, with undercover investigations revealing doctors admit they are "huge money makers."
- Political and cultural shifts are underway, with legislative efforts to criminalize these procedures for minors and a documented decline in transgender identification among youth.
The devastating data: Surgery escalates suffering, does not cure it
For years, activists and compliant media have pushed a singular, dangerous narrative: that irreversible surgical mutilation is a necessary and life-saving treatment for gender-confused youth. This narrative is now collapsing under the weight of hard data. A pivotal study published in the Oxford Academic Journal of Sexual Medicine analyzed over 107,000 patients and delivered a verdict that shatters activist dogma. The research found that adults who underwent sex-change surgeries faced a significantly elevated risk of mental health disorders—including depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and substance abuse—compared to those who did not.
This is not a minor correlation. U.S. data shows a shocking reality: 3.47% of post-surgery patients were treated for suicide attempts, compared to just 0.29% of non-surgical patients. These individuals are 12 times more likely to attempt suicide than the general population. The promised "cure" is, in fact, a catalyst for deeper despair. The study’s authors explicitly state that their findings "call for a reevaluation of surgical interventions," highlighting that cutting healthy body parts away does not address the complex psychological roots of distress. This evidence reveals a medical experiment that has failed its patients, leaving a trail of broken lives and escalating mental health crises in its wake.
From toddler grooming to lifetime patients: The predatory pipeline
While the ASPS's new stance protects some older teens, a more insidious machine continues to operate, targeting ever-younger children. Prestigious institutions are the epicenters of this child abuse. Duke University established its "gender clinic" in 2015, claiming to provide treatment for children as young as two years old. This is not healthcare; it is the systematic grooming of toddlers for a lifetime of medical dependency and the deconstruction of their inherent gender identity and value as a human being.
Dr. Deanna Adkins, the LGBT activist and director of Duke’s program, testified in court that for pre-pubertal children, treatment is limited to "social transition." This includes coercing a child to adopt a new name, pronouns, and clothing opposite to their biological sex. Adkins argues that "medical science should prioritize self-identified gender over biological factors like chromosomes." In practice, this means a toddler's fleeting feeling is given more weight than biological reality, setting the child on a path where any later hesitation is framed as a suicide risk, locking them into the medical pipeline. As Dr. Colby Dendy of ECU Health’s Pride Clinic admitted, they target children from age four, using school tele-psychiatry programs to recruit and affirm them. This creates a captive pipeline: confuse a child, affirm their confusion, and then present drugs and surgery as the only solution to the distress the ideology itself helped create.
The financial incentives are grotesquely clear. An undercover investigation at Vanderbilt University exposed doctors admitting these procedures are "huge money makers." Children are not patients; they are cash cows. With studies showing over 80% of kids naturally outgrow gender dysphoria without intervention, the rush to irreversible surgery is not just medically negligent—it is a profitable betrayal of the Hippocratic Oath. The courageous stand by the ASPS is a giant step toward dismantling this predatory system. It is a long-overdue admission that protecting children from irreversible harm must forever come before ideology and profit.
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