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I am a physician and a mother of a child with ROGD. After this gender tsunami blind sided our family earlier this summer, I did a informal poll of my MD colleagues—many of whom are professors at a large research institution in our coastal progressive state. Like me, all were shocked to learn that children were provided puberty blockers and cross sex hormones with no long term outcome data. ALL were horrified to learn that surgical procedures like double mastectomies and hysterectomies (not without inherent risk and potential lifelong complications) were also being performed on children, again with scant data to justify a ‘sledgehammer’ intervention. Like me, they assumed that these drastic measures were only offered to adults and after significant time and therapy to proceed any consideration of drugs or surgery.

Word needs to reach the medical community—after the horrors of the opioid epidemic and historical tragedies like thalidomide and Tuskegee, physicians cannot be complicit in another ‘experiment’ on a vulnerable population.

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The only way things will ever change is to make people who are not directly impacted by gender ideology aware of the regressive, illogical, unscientific basis for the medically scandalous, harmful treatments being pushed on confused young people under the false guise of helping them to be their "true selves." Bravo to the people at Pitt and Genspect.

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I’m not a parent dealing personally with this issue, but I know a few who are. The voices here and the stories told are powerful and important to the conversation on sex, gender, and health in our society. It’s wonderful you’ve found support from Genspect. May your audience continue expanding and your shared pain make a positive difference in the lives of many.

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