Is President Trump pushing gender-confused kids to commit suicide?
This shocking claim hit mainstream and social media within minutes of the president’s Jan. 28 executive order banning federal funding for child sex-change treatments, among other strong policies that will make those treatments less likely.
The way the argument goes, if kids can’t get puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries, their mental health will deteriorate to the point of no return.
But as I’ve seen while working with more than 1,000 such kids, there are deeper reasons why they’re so unhappy — and giving them powerful experimental drugs and irreversible surgeries is more likely to worsen their condition.
As a lifelong Democrat who has many reservations about Donald Trump, I can still admit that these kids need the protections he just announced.
Now, he needs to make sure his order is fully enacted and vigorously enforced.
From 2018 to 2022, I worked as a case manager for the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.
My responsibilities included both patient intake and oversight of their medical journey, so I worked with virtually all the young...
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