It has long been my position that adults can and should be able to do anything they want with their own bodies. With exceptions that would need to be extraordinary, rare and carefully considered in light of a detailed psychological analysis, I have simultaneously opposed irreversible transgender medical surgeries and injections done to minors that will make them sterile, prevent them from ever achieving orgasm and a host of other harmful physical outcomes. This is my position even if these procedures are supposedly done with the “consent” of minors (who are prohibited by age from getting a tattoo or voting).
In light of new evidence of the dangers of these surgeries, two major medical organizations have now voiced their concerns.
Nicolas Hauser’s article is titled “Major Medical Organizations Retreat on Irreversible Gender Surgeries for Minors: The American Medical Association and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons move to defer irreversible gender surgeries in minors days after $2 million malpractice verdict for teen detransitioner.” Excerpt:
This week, the American Medical Association (AMA) endorsed delaying gender-affirming surgeries until adulthood, just one day after the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) recommended postponing breast/chest, genital, and facial surgeries until at least age 19. While framed as recommendations rather than binding clinical guidelines, the signal is unmistakable: irreversible surgical alteration of minors is facing growing resistance.
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How did the rapid change in attitude regarding transgender surgeries and medication come about. Based on this post by “Gays Against Groomers,” it wasn’t organic. Excerpt:
The public is taught to look for “grassroots.” What they rarely look for is the plumbing. The gender industry did not build itself on homemade bake sales and handmade zines. It is the blueprint for every modern political machine: through quiet money, professionalized “movement” infrastructure, and a web of NGO power that can outlast elections and cultural hiccups. A major junction in that system is the Arcus Foundation.
A billionaire-funded pharmaceutical racket does not need everyone to participate. It just needs the gatekeepers to comply with their demands. It funds the layers around the endpoint that make the endpoint feel inevitable: credential factories, legal pressure, “research” legitimacy, PR framing, international advocacy networks, and pass-through grant engines that turn billionaire priorities into what gets marketed as “community demand.” Public filings show Arcus operating at a scale that can distort an entire issue area, year after year. The simplest snapshot sits in Arcus Foundation’s nonprofit filing profile, and the underlying reconstructed return text in the full filing. Arcus packages its agenda into annual materials designed for donors and partners.
