As a society, we are hearing more and more from young adults who are de-transitioning. We listen to their stories at hearings, on Youtube and TikTok. The National Institute of Health states that about 8 percent of people de-transition temporarily or permanently at some point. That seems like a cause for a lot of regret. For those of us listening to their stories, we wonder, “Why are kids allowed to have sex-reassignment surgery at such a young age when it is so permanent?”

My last post touched on the gender ideology that the kids are being exposed to at schools, but another big promoter of gender transition and sex-reassignment surgery is the medical industry. In August 0f 2022, the New York Post estimated that the market for this kind of surgery was about 1.9 billion the year before. Yes, that’s right…billion with a B. With that kind of profit margin, we find ourselves in an environment where those who should be speaking out to protect our children (doctors, psychiatrists, and hospitals) are not.

In an April 18, 2024 article on Fox News, Jamie Reed, a whistleblower who worked at Washington University Transgender Center of St. Louis Children’s Hospital, wrote an expose about her experiences while working there. Lest you think she is some kind of radical conservative, Ms. Reed is queer and married to a transgender person herself. She was previously in favor of sex-reassignment surgery for minors, but after working at the Center, she has since changed her mind. When asked why she changed her mind, she stated, “We started to see patients who were experiencing very significant medical harms being rushed to the emergency room with lacerations requiring stitches. We had patients contact us who were begging to have body parts put back on within months of having surgeries.” When she stated her concerns to her superiors, she was told, “This is how the industry works. If a child says they’re trans, there’s no questioning it.” No wonder she finds the industry “morally and medically appalling.”

I could go on and on with statistics about how the medical industry is profiting financially off our kids but what moves me the most are the young adults who are speaking out about what has happened to them. We are now listening to the first generation of young people who have gone through this experience and what it has done to them. This is a hot-button issue in our culture but as I see it, no child should be able to make permanent surgical decisions about their bodies that they may someday come to regret. If they still want to transition when they become adults, that is their right; but to not protect them from those who would profit from their youthful decisions is morally wrong.

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