Penn Medicine Will No Longer Perform ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Surgeries on Minors
“This is a difficult decision that we know impacts patients and families who place their trust in our care teams”
One day, the whole world will look back on this practice in shame.
Campus Reform reports:
Penn Medicine ends ‘gender-affirming care’ surgeries on minors
The health system of the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) will no longer perform “gender-affirming” surgeries on minors, falling in line with an executive order signed by President Donald Trump earlier this year.
Penn Medicine announced last week that it would halt such procedures for persons under the age of 19, according to a Thursday report by The Daily Pennsylvanian.
A spokesman pointed to federal directives as the cause of the policy change, while emphasizing that the institution still supports transgender-identifying people.
“This is a difficult decision that we know impacts patients and families who place their trust in our care teams,” Penn Medicine Chief Medical Officer Patrick Brennan told The Philadelphia Inquirer in a statement.
“We remain deeply committed to ensuring a respectful and welcoming environment for all members of the communities we serve and providing comprehensive medical and behavioral healthcare and psychosocial support for LGBTQ+ individuals while complying with federal government requirements,” continued Brennan.
Trump’s Jan. 28 executive order, titled “Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,” requires federal agencies to “ensure that institutions receiving Federal research or education grants end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children.”
“This phrase sometimes is referred to as ‘gender affirming care,’” the order continues.
As of publication, Penn Medicine maintains a web page dedicated to “LGBTQ+ health.” The listed services include plastic surgery to help “align with patients’ gender identity and aesthetic goals” and “Voice gender reassignment surgery.”
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same way docs say they wont perform abortions….unless females life is in danger
there will always be ways around the rhetoric
I’m surprised any doctors can get malpractice insurance that covers castrating and neutering minors. The kids can’t give legal permission for the surgery, and some of them are going to grow up and wish they could still have kids rather than having their hoo-hoos cut off.
It will probably be 8-10 years for a “critical” mass of adults who were mutilated as non-consenting children for lawyers to end this. The financial judgements against health networks, hospitals and doctors are going to be huge. Hopefully criminal/felony charges will also be involved.
This will not be over until at least one or two physicians/surgeons are given a life sentence for abuse of a minor
Why not cut off child’s arms and sew on wings?
As a general rule, in most states, the children have until age 18 to discover that they have been subject to medical malpractice.
Starting at 18, the usual statute of limitations for filing your lawsuit starts tolling.
Here in Florida that is three years.
It seems that these lawsuits will be starting in 10 years or so.
As several here have already pointed out, the risk for massive malpractice payouts will increase substantially, and eventually put an end to this debacle. Any child subjected to this mutilation will have attorneys begging them to sue for big bucks once they turn 18. I.would not be at all surprised if this becomes a class action situation that will force some insurers and medical systems into bankruptcy.