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Friend,
In 1966, Johns Hopkins Hospital became the first in the nation to provide “sex-reassignment surgeries” for adults.
But it shut down its Gender Identity Clinic in 1979, after patient data proved these surgeries were a failure and the patients had poorer mental health outcomes than prior to surgery.
But while Johns Hopkins shut down its clinic, Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) took a different, more profitable tack.
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In 2007, BCH opened its “Gender Multispecialty Service,” billing its “Center for Gender Surgery” as “the first major program in the US to focus on gender diverse and transgender adolescents.”
Since then, a rash of other greedy doctors and hospitals from coast to coast have popped up offering these barbaric surgeries, including UCLA Medical Center; Stanford Medicine Children’s Health; Connecticut Children’s Hospital; St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital of Boise, ID; University of Illinois Children’s Hospital; Boston Medical Center; NYU Langone’s Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital; Golisano Children’s Hospital of Rochester, NY; Doernbecher Children’s Hospital of Portland, OR; Seattle Children’s Hospital; Children’s Hospital Wisconsin; The Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago; and the Seattle Children’s Hospital, which brags it has performed its dark arts on children as young as nine.
Every one of the hospitals mentioned above and their doctors are in active violation of existing federal, state, and even international law.
But if HR 15 passes, those protective laws will be overturned, and these hospitals will be allowed to continue butchering children unhindered.
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Child “sex-reassignment surgeries” are, by definition, “Female Genital Mutilation” or “FGM,” a practice banned in America and around the world.
Federal law defines FGM as “any procedure performed for non-medical reasons that involves partial or total removal of, or other injury to, the external female genitalia.”
Even the World Health Organization opposes FGM.
The WHO website defines FGM as “all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.”
The WHO states: “The practice of FGM is recognized internationally as a violation of the human rights of girls and women.”
Forty-one states have banned FGM. In Virginia, for instance, FGM practitioners face up to 100,000 dollars in fines and life in prison.
Federal law prohibits Female Genital Mutilation. 18 US Code Sec. 116 makes it a felony, punishable by fines and up to 10 years in prison for aiding and abetting genital mutilation or removal surgery in girls under age 18.
The law specifically notes that hospitals, doctors, people who transport a minor to surgery, and even parents who authorize the surgery are guilty of a felony, punishable by fines and prison.
Federal law states: “It shall not be a defense to a prosecution under this section that female genital mutilation is required as a matter of religion, custom, tradition, ritual, or standard practice.”
The ONLY exception is if FGM is “necessary to the health of the person on whom it is performed.”
Parents are often pressured to consent to expensive experimental procedures.
Many of the “detransitioning” patients report that doctors use deception and coercion.
Parents are told a similar theme: “Better to have a trans child than a dead child.”
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New studies show exactly the same problems that caused Johns Hopkins to shut down its clinic in 1979.
Studies show that recipients of these surgeries are MORE likely to commit suicide than those who did not receive the surgery.
The largest and longest study on transgender outcomes to date proves that post-surgery patients have markedly higher suicide rates.
The “sex-reassignment" pushers cannot substantiate their abuse based on science; now they seek to have the U.S. government give them a free pass to mutilate children by passing HR 15.
If passed, HR 15 will overturn FGM bans and revoke religious freedom rights.
That’s because HR 15 compels even religious hospitals and medical professionals to promote, facilitate, and perform child sex-change surgeries or face “civil rights abuse” penalties.
It is not surprising that BCH supports HR 15.
And Johns Hopkins just couldn’t resist the money train. It's back to performing mutilating surgeries.
Matthew 18:6 warns that if anyone causes these little ones to stumble, it would be better to have a millstone hung round their neck and be drowned in the sea. We must protect children by ensuring that HR 15 with its genital-mutilating mandates NEVER becomes law.
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Arnold, Joshua. “At Least 13 U.S. Hospitals Perform Gender Transition Surgeries on Minors.” The Washington Stand, August 25, 2022. Washingtonstand.com/commentary/at-least-13-us-hospitals-perform-gender-transition-surgeries-on-minors.
Billauer, Barbara Pfeffer. “Trans, Detrans, & Lawsuits Determining the Standard of Care.” American Council on Science and Health, April 13, 2023. Acsh.org/news/2023/04/13/trans-detrans-lawsuits-determining-standard-care-16986.
“Center for Gender Surgery Program.” Boston Children’s Hospital, Accessed August 9, 2023. Childrenshospital.org/programs/center-gender-surgery-program.
Cook, Michael. “California Teen Sues Doctors over Breast-Removal Surgery at 13.” BioEdge, April 4, 2023. Bioedge.org/featured/california-teen-sues-doctors-over-breast-removal-surgery-at-13/.
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“U.S. Government Fact Sheet on Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting (FGM/C).” U.S. Department of State — Bureau of Consular Affairs. Accessed August 9, 2023. Travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/fact-sheet-on-female-genital-mutilation-or-cutting.html.
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