Hospital Pushes Children Into Gender Transition Treatments: Documents
Seattle Children’s Hospital strongly motivates medical professionals to provide transgender medical treatments for young patients with gender identity issues, even when treatments are risky and patients question the side effects, according to documents published by the hospital.
The hospital published multiple guides to instruct medical professionals on their treatment decisions regarding “gender-affirming medical care” for youth.
The procedures that medical professionals are recommended to provide for transgender youth include puberty blockers and menstrual suppression drugs and do not list mental health screenings as a necessary step before medications are administered to patients.
Puberty blockers can cause menopausal symptoms, decreased bone density, limited growth including height, and, when followed by cross-sex hormones, limited fertility, according to the protocols (pdf)….