Quote (Goomshill @ Sep 21 2022 07:06am)
Vanderbilt opened up a transgender clinic which performs chemical castrations and sex reassignment surgeries on children, starting as young as 13.
Can you find a source for this?
In the meantime, it appears that:
1. Tennessee has banned hormone blockers for prepubescent youth since 2021; however, it's also important to note that virtually no doctors were doing this to begin with as world professional standards for transgender care state that hormone blockers should start at the onset of puberty and not prior to.
Source:
https://fox17.com/news/local/tennessee-governor-oks-transgender-youth-treatment-ban-bill-lee-lgbtq-law2. Vast majority of gender clinics follow the World Professional Association for Transgender Health's Standard of Care, which is on the 7th edition and in relation to transgender surgeries states:
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Genital surgery should not be carried out until (i) patients reach the legal age of majority to give consent for medical procedures in a given country, and (ii) patients have lived continuously for at least 12 months in the gender role that is congruent with their gender identity. The age threshold should be seen as a minimum criterion and not an indication in and of itself for active intervention.
Chest surgery in FtM patients could be carried out earlier, preferably after ample time of living in the desired gender role and after one year of testosterone treatment. The intent of this suggested sequence is to give adolescents sufficient opportunity to experience and socially adjust in a more masculine gender role, before undergoing irreversible surgery. However, different approaches may be more suitable, depending on an adolescent’s specific clinical situation and goals for gender identity expression.
Source:
https://www.wpath.org/media/cms/Documents/SOC%20v7/SOC%20V7_English2012.pdf?_t=1613669341The age of medical consent in Tennessee is 16 (and I believe, can be as young as 14 under specific 'mature minor' circumstances; however, pretty much every gender clinic I've ever heard of uses 18 as their major age of consent for major transgender surgeries. Vanderbilt also had the following to say about transgender care for anyone under the age of 18:
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VUMC requires parental consent to treat a minor patient who is to be seen for issues related to transgender care, and never refuses parental involvement in the care of transgender youth who are under age 18.
They also had the following to say about the conscientious objective protections their employees have:
Our policies allow employees to decline to participate in care they find morally objectionable, and do not permit discrimination against employees who choose to do so. This includes employees whose personal or religious beliefs do not support gender-affirming care for transgender persons.
Sources:
https://news.vumc.org/2022/09/21/statement-about-transgender-health-care-at-vumc/https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/mentalhealth/documents/Pages_from_CY_BPGs_363-366.pdf.
This post was edited by Handcuffs on Sep 21 2022 07:22pm