Most, if not all, of us have grown up with the clear understanding that our doctor, the person that we look to and trust implicitly for treating us when we are ill and providing advice when we are well on how to stay well … that person … our doctor was being guided by an oath, the Hippocratic Oath, an oath taken upon completion of medical school. A sacred oath … the most profound directive of which is that the physician “FIRST, DO NO HARM”!
Now, this might come as a bit of a surprise to you … but in today’s world, most medical schools and their graduates no longer take the original Hippocratic Oath. However, despite its ancient age, increasing level of irrelevancy, and overall non-applicability of its original concepts to the modern world, the Oath and its core ideas still have a profound presence in today’s society.
With this in mind, we must now ask the question: Why are medical professionals all over the country promoting and sanctioning the administration of drugs that are popularly referred to as “hormone or puberty blockers” to young people who have been convinced that that they have been born in the wrong body?
The doctors at Children’s Hospital in St. Louis provide the following on their website: Puberty can be confusing or difficult for a child who is transgender, genderqueer, nonbinary or questioning their gender. Puberty blockers, also called hormone blockers, help delay unwanted physical changes that don’t match someone’s gender identity. Delaying these changes can be an important step in a young person’s transition. It can also give your child more time to explore their options before deciding whether or how to transition.
Now, you are probably scratching your head and saying to yourself --- what did I just read? Well, the information on the website goes on to clarify for us: How Do Puberty Blockers Work? Using puberty blockers is like hitting a pause button. By blocking the sex hormones testosterone and estrogen, puberty blockers delay changes that can affect gender expression, including:
· Breast growth
· Facial hair growth
· Periods
· Voice deepening
· Widening hips
So, it appears that my young grandchildren and others can simply delay their development into adulthood by taking these drugs --- Swell, but now you ask, “Are they safe?” If we believe Children’s Hospital of St. Louis: Most experts, including our team, believe that puberty blockers are safe. The Endocrine Society and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health support the use of puberty blockers for kids who want to delay or prevent unwanted physical changes. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved puberty blockers for children who start puberty at a young age.
So, doctors the world over are telling us it’s safe … except maybe, perhaps there are some side effects: Possible long-term side effects of puberty blockers:
· Lower bone density. Delayed growth plate closure, leading to slightly taller adult height.
· Less development of genital tissue, which may limit options for gender affirming surgery (bottom surgery) later in life.
· OTHER POSSIBLE LONG-TERM EFFECTS THAT ARE NOT YET KNOWN. What? This can’t be. No doctor would sign on to this --- or would they? But the list goes on …
Possible short-term side effects of puberty blockers:
· Headache, fatigue, insomnia and muscle aches.
· Changes in weight, mood or breast tissue.
· Spotting or irregular periods (in menstruating patients whose periods are not completely suppressed by puberty blockers).
So, now we are left with the thought: Why are we even having this discussion? We have all grown up in a country that allowed you to be the healthy, functioning adult man or woman that you were designed and intended to be.
Why now is it vital to the youth of this country to have the endorsement and encouragement of so many medical professionals … if you want to experiment with changing the sex you were born with, then we are here to assist. How twisted is this? I’ll tell you – it is as twisted as the unwanted experiments conducted by the famous Dr. Mangala in the Nazi concentration camps. And there are medical facilities in the US willing to participate in this kind of perversion:
· University of Maryland Children’s Hospital
· Seattle Children's Hospital
· NYC Health + Hospitals
· Boston Children’s Hospital
· Vanderbilt University Medical System
The list goes on and so do the services --- going well beyond just the puberty blockers to offering gender reassignment surgery – clearly not in the original intelligent design of man.
There can be no doubt that there are some in society who feel that they very well may be assigned to the wrong body. But the size and scope of efforts underway in this country lead to the conclusion that this must have a financial component to it --- making it “worthwhile” to the “providers” while being highly detrimental to the “consumers”.
Whatever the motivation, the practice of widespread application across the medical profession must be halted and a good sense of balance and decorum returned to our society. The alternative is not acceptable for the continued existence of our Republic. FIRST, DO NO HARM!