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By Laurel Duggan, DCNF
- Boston Children’s Hospital performs mastectomies on transgender minors as young as 15, and previous guidance allowed vaginoplasty to be performed on 17-year-olds, according to documents reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
- The hospital updated its guidance with a minimum age requirement of 18 for all “gender-affirming” genital surgeries and hysterectomies after being subject to criticism and threats related to its online promotion of sex change procedures, although it still allows mastectomies at 15.
- “We know that until recently, almost all young kids with gender dysphoria reconciled with their sexed bodies after they get through puberty. The effect of ‘gender affirmation’ and early social transition, in contrast, is to put kids on a fast track to surgical intervention and sterilization,” Dr. Jay Richards, senior research fellow at the DeVos Center, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Several media outlets have downplayed the prevalence of transgender surgeries for minors amid controversy surrounding Boston Children’s Hospital’s gender center, but the hospital’s own publicly available documents show that doctors are performing sex change surgeries on children.
The hospital has performed at least 65 transgender chest surgeries on minors, the vast majority of whom were biologically female and identified as transgender males. The hospital’s guidance allowed vaginoplasty at 17 and did not list an age limit for “gender-affirming” hysterectomies until online activists shared the hospital’s videos promoting the procedures, sparking outrage.
