By Natalie Sandoval
Ira Savetsky, a plastic surgeon who trained at NYU Langone Health, is apologizing for his failure to condemn the hospital’s so-called “gender-affirming” surgeries on minors.
“As a father to three young children, and as a physician who took an oath to do no harm, I failed to speak up,” Savetsky said Thursday on “Fox & Friends.” (RELATED: California Blocked From Secretly Transitioning Kids In School)
Savetsky added that he “just want[s] to thank President Trump for having moral clarity on this. And our society finally came out strongly against this … You’re at the number one plastic surgery program. You’re just grateful to be there. There’s no room to speak up. You’re a soldier.”
“You work so hard to get there, you’re not gonna, you don’t want to make waves.”
One assumes that scores of physicians harbored the same objections as Savetsky, but remained quiet for fear of retribution. Hence the importance of a president willing to fight “culture war” battles.
NYU Langone Health shuttered their Transgender Youth Health Program on Tuesday. A spokesman cited “the current regulatory environment” as contributing to the decision, according to The New York Times (NYT). The Trump administration has threatened to revoke federal funding from hospitals which mutilate children in this manner.
“I can only imagine what the parents were going through. I mean, they’re told that their child is going to kill themselves if they don’t have these surgeries,” Savetsky said, according to Fox News. “They’re pressured, and what are you supposed to do? You’ve dropped everything to do the right thing for your child, and I think that, unfortunately, there was a lot of financial motivation with these institutions.” (RELATED: New School Gender Identity Rules Will Put UK Far Ahead Of US On Parental Rights)
The claim that these surgeries will keep kids from killing themselves is simply false, as even defenders of these surgeries later admitted. The lawyer challenging Tennessee’s ban on certain transgender treatments for minors, Chase Strangio, conceded to the Supreme Court that “completed suicide is thankfully and admittedly rare” among transgender youth, even those not given gender-affirming treatment, and that “there is no evidence…that this treatment reduces completed suicide.”
Yet doctors who did sex changes often falsely told parents that they needed to give their kids a sex change to keep them from committing suicide, even though this isn’t true. One of America’s most prominent gender doctors, “Dr. Olson-Kennedy disclosed to how she speaks with parents of gender dysphoric patients: ‘We often ask parents, “Would you rather have a dead son than a live daughter?”‘”
Social pressure has facilitated the trans craze like nothing else. It moves young girls seeking approval and attention and friends to identify as boys. It cows parents into going along. It pushes physicians to ignore their nagging conscience.
Thankfully, that pressure appears to be lifting.
A gender transition can lead to a lifetime of pain, discomfort, and medications. As Britain’s National Health Service explains, hormones “need to be taken for the rest of your life, even if you have gender surgery.” An FDA official who supported giving minors puberty blockers conceded that they actually increase suicidality. Indeed, the “FDA knew ‘gender affirming’ puberty blockers increase ‘suicidality’ in 2017,” reported Just the News.
95% of young transgender people on testosterone develop pelvic floor dysfunction; most have bowel issues and sexual dysfunction. As the Telegraph reported, “Around 87 per cent…had urinary symptoms such as incontinence, frequent toilet visits and bed-wetting, while 74 per cent had bowel issues including constipation or being unable to hold stools or wind in. Some 53 per cent suffered from sexual dysfunction…Almost half had an ‘orgasm disorder’, while a quarter suffered from pain during sexual intercourse.”
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