It’s find out time for Seattle Children’s Hospital. Despite initially ceasing gender services in February after President Trump’s executive order banning chemical and surgical mutilation of minors, the hospital found loopholes to exploit: one of them is marrying their autism clinic to the gender clinic, counseling autistic youth that their sex is what’s wrong with them. Attorney Erin Friday outlines the consequences of this.
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“What’s going on at @seattlechildren?
“I want to spotlight one particularly dangerous gender clinic and that is Seattle Children’s Hospital. Not only does it state that gender interventions are life saving and puberty blockers are reversible, but it partners with its Autism Center.
“Youth with autistic traits are overly represented in the exploding cohort of children and young adults adopting trans identities. They tend not to conform to rigid sex stereotypes, leaving them vulnerable to believing that there’s something wrong with them.
“Combining the autism and pediatric gender centers provides a steady stream of patients for expensive and lifelong gender treatments. Seattle Children’s is not alone in this marketing scheme.
“Seattle’s Gender Clinic authored and the AAP published a perspective advancing the notion that refusing to modify a child’s sex traits constitutes medical and emotional abuse.
“Parents who refuse to consent to have their daughters removed or sexual function destroyed are seen as abusers by the largest pediatric medical society in the United States. And if I recall correctly, Seattle Children’s had one of the most prominent booths at the AAP convention this year, where some detransitioners and I were escorted out from our paid-for booth because we dared to try to educate pediatricians.
“”So yes, the AAP knows of the harms, but continues to support gender procedures.”
– Attorney Erin Friday