House of Horrors: “Gender-Affirming Care” at Texas Children’s Hospital
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- Опубликовано: 25 май 2023
- Last year, executives at Texas Children’s Hospital said they would shut down their child sex-change program. But I’ve obtained evidence from whistleblowers proving that they restarted the program three days later- and continued to provide puberty blockers and other hormones to children as young as 11 years old. This video is a summary of my investigation, which has exposed, in the words of one whistleblower, a “house of horrors.”
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I'm experimenting with new formats for the videos. What do you think of this style with animations and music?
Honestly? The music makes it sound manipulative. Should one need to appear manipulative when telling the truth? Especially as it was being played continually. Music would be okay as an introduction and ending.
Images are a great idea, especially verifiable documents or pictures that support your argument. It gives us more confidence in refuting these crazy ideological stances because we know that we have seen evidence and we are not just relying on hearsay.
@@justaminute3111 Agree. Music ok at into & outdo, otherwise, not needed.
I do like the animation.
Sorry, I liked your old version.
The music is a bit creepy, and is overdramatic. As some others have said, maybe intro/outro, but not during the meat of the message. Animations are better, just make sure they are not distracting, maybe tone them down a little. A few sound effects (NOT overly dramatic) at logical subject transitions (ooops- bad word!) are appropriate, but not continuously. My $.02.
Music is too loud.
When your pediatrician asks you if they can talk with your child alone, tell them no.
It is high time some of these 'doctors' were prosecuted for child abuse. Funds need to be available for this.
No one did anything to stop them when they did conversion therapy which was the same thing. If you’re giving a boy or a girl testosterone to make them more masculine you’re the same monster. Only in conversion therapy they’d punish the boys for showing feminine behaviors. If you are about these over aggressive transition stories but didn’t care about the abusive conversation therapies that led to suicides you’re a hypocrite.
Okay, so share your GoFundMe link for it.
Everyone involved needs to get into trouble 😊
They should all be put in prison for their crimes against humanity.
And face some time in prison...
My wife is a surgeon and you can not believe the arrogance of some of her colleagues. They can be actual drug addicts and they still think they are God-like. It’s really scary.
Terrifying.
Not just surgeons. A lot of regular doctors are arrogant jerks.
@@simonesmit6708 yes, I've met lots of them. I looked up the doctors when I was a kid. There were many in the neighborhood I lived in. Some of them were heroes to me. mature, intelligent, educated, moral men who were dedicated to relieving human suffering and making life better for people.
It definitely f****** changed
There is a saying that I have found to be consistently true. "Evil never rests; it focuses on the innocence of children." The saying is true for every part of the world, for every nation and for every point in history.
Innocence is destroyed to leave only sin
There is also a saying "Don't trust this dickhead Chris Rufo"
Shouldn't they be arrested for child abuse? Why are they so committed to mutilation, its like a cult.
No. Because medical care is not abuse and no one is being "mutilated". That is drama queen histrionic nonsense from people who certainly haven't gone to medical school. Transgender Dysphoria is a medical condition in the DSM-5. Do you even know what that is?
Yup
Yes, they should be arrested for child abuse..and it starts with the parents.
@@moosehead1183 Providing medical care for children with a medical condition is not child abuse. However, neglecting to provide them with medical care IS child neglect and abuse. Transgender Dysphoria is a medical condition in the DSM-5 with accepted medical treatments and interventions.
@@nsbd90now yes body dysphoria is very real and a difficult disorder to live with. It is fantastic that sufferers can be treated now. HOWEVER what is being discussed hear isn't body dysphoria. It is child abuse that is most like munchausen by proxy. The adults are pushing it.
These "doctors" really are the CUTTING EDGE of their profession. Slashing away body parts and the sanity, well-being and future of many children and their parents.
The worst part is that many of their patients don't seem to understand that the changes to their bodies are permanent. One example I saw was one woman who was de-transitioning (Going from a man back to being a woman) and she was wondering if her breasts will grow back after she had a mastectomy.
"Gender-affirming" should actually be "yes, you are a girl. You were born as a girl. Every cell in your body is female. You are in the right body. It just feels different and weird to you now, and it's extremely uncomfortable. All girls suffer from that to one degree or another, I can guarantee you. But once you get to know this person that you are, you will see that you are in the right body, and you will be glad you're in it. It's great being you!" (I can't speak to that same affirmation in men, because I'm not one, so I am not sure what I'd say, because my intuition tells me that for boys its 's far more connected with being uncomfortable with assuming a masculine role, or it's a deep-seated sexual thing, a fetish if you will, AGP....or something only a guy could feel...) No, instead they are talked into what I like to call "gender-appropriation." They are persuading kids to pretend to be something they aren't. That is like the people in Heaven's Gate, who were persuaded that a UFO was hiding behind the Hale-Bopp comet and it was there to pick them up and so they had to shed their bodies so they could ascend to the UFO and get into a new body. People used to call this "pretending" or just your unique personality....
Here the first person who the gender-affirming care was applied to, John Money's twin boy patients, who actually DID commit suicide, as opposed to them being happy as transgender clams at high tide.....
I just wish I knew which globalists are behind this, because it's clearly wealthy ideologues who are pulling the strings for some strange revolutionary notion of disconnecting our minds from our physical bodies. Like Dr Frankenstein, they want to eliminate the need to create life by using two different sexes. They clearly dislike one and would prefer to replace that one half essential to the reproduction of the species and replace her with a man-made race, as Dr Frankenstein would say it....get rid of all the complications of love and relationships and childbirth and narrow it down to a test tube and growing a baby in a tank, and have sex for only personal pleasure. That's my POV anyway.
I think you hit the nail on the head......big, secret powers at play....
definitely worth checking out Jennifer Bilek's work on this. 11th Hour Blog. Also K. Yang- "The Deprogrammer." They both get into the big money ideologues at the top of this insanity.
That’s what I originally thought it meant when I heard the term!
Well put!
You're definitely NOT the only person seeing this stark parallel to the troubling phenomenon of cults and cult leaders/followers.
I live in Houston. Thanks for exposing what's going on at TCH.
Thank you for doing the hard work! And thank you for being brave enough to expose those would do their work in the dark.
Thanks for watching!
Lol this jabroni is paid to bully kids and students. David you need to WAKE up lmao
It wasn't too long ago that people were horrified by female circumcision. What a sick world the demonic left has made.
Follow the money.
Who’s manufacturing, producing and promoting these hormone pills?
Who is incentivizing these physicians into writing the prescriptions?
Job security? Aren’t these hormone pills a lifetime cost to the recipient?
Does Obama care cover these procedures?
Is this why I lost my PPO for the insane ACA?
Money? Sure.
But it goes much deeper than that, to truly evil.
Yes the Evil one's want to corrupt anything that God made Innocent and pure...
Also find out what is being taught in schools. The curriculum has changed greatly. Gender ideology.
It's too risky to even take a child to the doctor, to school, and even church.
Christopher, I also could do without the music and animations. The music is too loud and makes it seems less professional and credible. Let your message and content speak for themselves. Keep doing the good work you're doing. I am grateful for who you are and what you are doing.
Thanks for your work in exposing this surreal and disturbing situation - it makes me think of a kind of post modern child sacrifice ritual 😢 I’m in New Zealand where rates of GnRHa use in adolescents is near 10x that of the UK (NZ was around 88 per 100,000 in 2020) according to research by Simon Tegg of Fully Informed.
Great work as always.
Just some friendly constructive criticism: The ominous synths in the background are way too loud. They should be barely noticeable.
100% AGREE. Horror-film soundtracks suggest a fictional horror story, when we KNOW this is stone-cold REALITY. Love and respect Rufus' work (!) but I wish his team would lose the soundtrack (not just the volume, which was crazy-high).
Thanks for the feedback. I'm experimenting with some different styles and approaches.
Agreed. Subliminal please ❤️
Agreed. Subliminal please ❤️
Governor DeSantis signed a law extending the death penalty for child abuse. This psychological, physiological and metaphysical manipulation is child abuse without a doubt. Does the law criminalize these action in Florida with the possible maximum sentence of the death penalty? Because I think it should. Not just in Florida but all over the US.
Don’t forget, it is not just at the moment of birth that sex is assigned, this happens at contraception. This buys in to the Queer Theory argument that your doctor assigns you sex at birth. If “the moment of conception” is controversial, at least “even before the moment of birth” is more accurate.
And yes, there are a tiny fraction of people who are either mosaics (have both XX and XY cells) or are genetically male but due to genetic issues develop feminized sex organs. None of these groups are represented in the Trans movement.
As far as payment for these puberty blockers and sex change surgeries, are insurance companies covering them?
For the most part, yes.
If he wants to be taken seriously, he should not use scary music to frighten us.
that 'doctor' needs to be arrested and jailed
Do an informative show on this where you cover the side effects in more detail. The weak bones, how long are you on testorterone or estrogen before your sexual organs (testes,sperm, ovaries, eggs, fallopian tubes, shrink off) are destroyed permanently? Losing hair -girls to men. Dilation -to keep your bottom open, men to women...etc...
My Grandpa told us in all seriousness “all Doctors are quacks.” I think that is a good starting assumption with any Doc. Always get a second opinion before any major medical decision, and maybe a third.
If all doctors are quacks, a second and third opinion is superfluous, isn't it?
7:07 Not given at birth, recognized at birth.
Given at birth by God. In that sense.
@@christopherrufo
A lot earlier than that.
Don't give up any ground.
It was predetermined at conception.
7:03 Chris, don't fall for their language trap, the word wizards use words like, " sex given or assigned at birth". To break and reject their framing or Hermetic spell, you can't let them get away with pretending that sex is given or assigned.
The objective language is to say something like, a doctor identified the individual's sexual dimorphic characteristics at birth and through the recognition of the individuals binary sexual characteristics, the doctor then recorded his findings.
Don't get stuck in the word wizards framing, like all Marxists, they use these word spells to mystify and confuse you to subvert arguments.
Spot on regarding how they use manipulative language tactics to meet their goals; definitely Marxist. 👍😉
I like saying that sex is permanently and immutably established at conception and recorded at birth.
@@rampage241 100% accurate!
"The Clinic of Dr. Moreau." H.G. Wells was born too soon.
It's good to see more and more is coming out and more are speaking out against this outrageous dangerous and historically one of the greatest "medical" scandals ever.
There were scandals like this in ,ww2
Thank you God for exposing their Lies and Deception!
Thank you for taking on this challenge.
Chris is going to fail lol
At the end of the day this anti-woke bs that Chris and Ron are dying for, will end because it is WRONG.
I just discovered you as a result from a recommendation from another channel. Excellent content and style!! Thanks so much for your work
You are doing very important work. The music and animations make it seem manipulative. The different camera angles add interest and helps to hold attention, but the other stuff can go.
If these physicians told the truth, they would say your child is much less likely to die by suicide IN THE NEXT YEAR if we push that back with "gender affirming care."
First, "they" start to undermine our language starting back in the late '70s with political correctness. That sets the stage for "them" to begin changing the meanings of words, edit biology and substitute "their" ideological verbiage instead.
This is all in service of the unrelenting Marxist goal of bringing down the U.S. and other Western countries to make us more malleable, or sheep-like, in order to herd us all under a New World Order umbrella.
This particular battle has been dubbed Woke. First, it's bad English grammar. Second, it's nothing more than the latest iteration of Marxism.
*They, them and their refers to the Marxist Left.
I hate the term "top surgery". It makes it seem less horrible.
Agreed, Like "top surgery", "gender assigned at birth" and "gender-affirming care" these are all euphemistic lies meant to make it al seem innocent and harmless. Activists learn how to abuse language like this as epistemological weapons for defining the terms of debate before the vast majority of people even realize what's at stake. Lets call these things what they are.
I agree .
They should call it what it is..double mastectomy.
It's because they can't say 'breast removal' because it triggers the person who has breasts who want them removed. The language is skewed in favour of the gender dysphoria. They have to cater to them and that is why all of our language is being changed. Everytime you afffirm the truth and say 'breast removal' they get triggered and have suicide and self harm ideation as they hate their breasts so much that the language acts as though they have already had their breasts removed and they don't actually exist at all. They have to do this as they know that women have breasts so to use the words breast removal is actually labelling that person as a woman (which is the truth) but they desperately don't want to be a woman so the language itself actually removes reality from them so they won't be triggered. What should be the solution is to work on the triggers so they no longer feel them about their own natural bodies. Instead the whole of our language on this is forced to change so a few very mentally sick individuals are not triggered.
I recommend that this sort of medical intervention ought to be labeled criminal sterilization, because that's what it is.
Thank you for keeping our children and grandchildren safe.👌
Thank you for your videos exposing the sex changing of children. It's shocking how quickly this agenda is being pushed everywhere. The format with animation and music is very good. I'm sharing this widely.
I dont understand how people who have a mental disorder are allowed to treat other people with the same mental disorder? This is not happening with other mental issues like depression, bipolar and similar disorders, and yet people who suffer from gender dysphoria themselves and become trans are allowed to become licenced gender doctors and surgeons. How is this possible??
The reason why conservatives aren’t winning, aside from losing almost all institutions of influence, is they at best only advocate for reforms to address the symptoms of societies problems, never the core cause. For two great examples see the conservative opposition to child transition, and the recent conservative push for tough on crime policies. Even if conservatives not only got their way but their reforms worked, they’d at best only marginal help the situation. Even if child gender procedures are banned everywhere, that doesn’t touch the problem that we have a entire generation of doctors, academics, and journalists so deluded as to do and defend something like this in the first place. Even if every state implements stricter laws and more police funding, that doesn’t change the fact that nearly half of kids (and among lower income blacks upwards of 70%) are raised with almost no healthy adult male influence as they have no fathers or male teachers, and they are marinated in media, music, and political messaging actively encouraging law breaking and immoral behavior.
Exactly. Most social problems are often just symptoms of deeper spiritual malady. Esp rebellion against God . We treat cancer with band aids. Secular godless education, Scientism continue to fuel decline.
What you are actually saying then is the deception is so inbuilt and wired into every fabric of our daily lives that it would be impossible for mere humans to stop it. I would agree, not just on this issue but all the other issues that are plaguing us today. It is like whack-a-mole. Every problem has hundreds of root causes and even the root causes have bigger root causes. You would literally have to wipe out the whole of the West and start again at this point, like hitting a reset button. The problem is human free will. As long as some people have the free will to live in truth, others will use it to live in deception, whatever that deception is. I am a Christian and I know these are the years proceeding the end times, the seven years of worldwide tribulation know as the time of 'Jacobs trouble' as prophesied in the Book of Revelation and Daniel.
Only God Himself (Jesus Christ) can sort this mess out. Feel overwhelmed yet? We are all meant to get to the point of feeling overwhelmed, that we can't go on on our own anymore but we need external help to our problems, BIG help for our problems. I turned to Jesus Christ 6 years ago for help with my big problems and I have never looked back. Now I have strength, purpose and comfort no matter what life throws at me. God changes everything around me through faith in Him. God is allowing this to happen so that everyone will turn to him for help, that we all see that life is pointless and futile without Him. Also we do have a spiritual enemy here who fights ruthlessly against us and is the mastermind behind transgenderism, his name is Satan.
Great video, please keep up the good work
I’ve worked as a nurse for 40 - plus years in psychiatry. My dad was a doctor, my mother was a nurse. My grandfather was a doctor. I even have a relative who was a doctor back in the 1700’s in America. I have NEVER once heard a doctor say, “I know what’s best for your child”. BIG red flag!!!! DANGER! DANGER! DANGER!
Similar to my family but my physician relatives very mistrusting now of the medical system, the corruption rife in the Board Certification systems and hospital and physician greed.
This is bananas! When I went through puberty, I hated the attention I was receiving from my ever growing boobs. It felt really dirty and hated being leared at in this manner. Plus, I grew up in a very oppressive old school style Italian household. The boys had all the freedom. I wanted to be one of them just to breathe. Thank God, these weren't choices, then.
I’m sorry how you were made to feel growing up. Several women I know had a similar experience. Any advice you wish family/people around you at the time would have taken to heart?
It would have been helpful to talk to an Aunt, or any adult for that matter. It was very difficult to share these feelings at 12 yrs with my peers. There's an element of shame etc. That you don't want to make yourself feel even more vulnerable with the very ppl I needed to fit in with at this critical time in development. An empathetic, trust worthy teacher anyone would've completely changed my young world for the better.
Thank God for men like Christopher Rufo for continuing his quest for justice for the innocent in our country.
I've just shared this onto my Facebook page. Bless you, young man...
Parents are literally in the room for every, baby, “well visit “, but not allowed in a room with a doctor who may alter their lives forever? Odd, isn’t it?
I live in Texas and I am outraged at this brutalizing of children.
Excellent information. Please don't add music to cue emotion. It's unnecessary and makes it difficult to hear the words. Thank you.
I have a young American granddaughter who married a trans-woman. Without giving away too much, she has turned into a radical "Lesbian" trans-activist. I was totally shut up. I'm not talking to her anymore. Keep it up. Well done.
It is a hollow reed that she is leaning on and it will snap and collapse under her. I hope you will be willing to be there for her when it all falls apart. Not if but when.
Thank you. May God raise other valiant generals in this war.
I have found this channel after watching your interview with Dr. Peterson, liked and subscribed; greetings from Croatia
Lock every single groomer up now or this will not end.
It starts with your President Biden, who supports this horrendous corruption
Consider cutting the boppy sound track beginning around 2:00 as it disttactsand subverts your message. In other places the ominous music is over the top. You dont need this. The content is strong enough.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm experimenting with some different styles and approaches.
@@christopherrufoIt's ok in parts like the beginning and the end. Or maybe faded in whenever you introduce a new slide/graphic
I thought FGM was illegal?! Hmmmmm...????😢
"Cutting edge." Literally!
You're doing good work. Don't neglect the problem of gender-bending chemicals we are subject to in our daily lives, which contribute to childrens' vulnerability to these predatory organizations.
Appreciate all your hard work, Chris. Wish you would look into exposing the legislature in Nevada. We are up against a load of bills and resolutions to make Nevada an abortion tourist state along with BS "gender" garbage. Even though most of the public opposes these things based on input found on the NELIS website, the legislature still insists on moving forward to get these things signed into law. One of the bills even seeks to change the state Constitution so that the governor CANNOT overturn or veto what comes out of the legislature regarding this. Forever binding the hands of the governor, any governor, to right this horrendous wrong.
I hope you would consider looking into this.
I hope you’re loudly voicing your opinion as a voter and encouraging others to do the same. That veto bill deserves massive public protests, too. 😳😬
Christopher, you do not need these visualizations added to your video and the plucky music. It distracts from the important issue at hand.
It's good to see my man, Rufo. 👍
If he the doctor used they them for himself then he has a mental illness himself. The last person you should be seeking help from.
My son had an extreme underbite at 8. Advised for braces. Waited till age 11 to gain his consent. Braces fitted. Pain and teasing followed. Difficult adolescence around this. At 37, we both agree, it should have waited until he was an adult!!! And that was TEETH! Teeth continue to move in the jaw for life, but the orthodontist got his dollars.
i needed braces as a child. i refused. got them when i was 20 years old. best thing i ever did tho.
important work
Hospitals are getting government funded money to do this. Why are parents allowing this.
For the same reason they continue to send their children to the schools that promote it.
Because usually they are lazy parents who are so focused on an idol in their lives that they want everything else to be easy. Usually they are too busy chasing careers, money and status (or maybe unfortunately extra marital affairs) to really care about what the children are up to. People have children now as a sort of fashion accessory. They don't see them as a responsibility or an obligation. They don't see them as a labour of love. They are a bit like those people who buy a puppy at Christmas and then get bored and stressed when they realise what they have taken on board, another life that has needs and wants that threaten their own needs and wants. Parenthood is a beautiful time but it is a time of self sacrifice and selflessness. Most people can't do that as they are already too selfish to make good parents.
I find the music intrusive.
Loving this new formatting!
What are the lawyer waiting for? This will be a bonanza for them.
Gender Denying Care.
Thanks for exposing this practice. How widespread is it? I live in KCK
Launch an investigation into the private hardrives of these abuser's.
DR MENGELE😡😡😡
Thank you for being willing to stare into the abyss.
These kids weren't really trans? They were talked into believing they were trans by activist doctors?
Nope. That is paranoid delusional nonsense. No physician in the world does anything like that. Chris Rufo is not a person of good intentions or good faith.
They're adolescents. You can talk adults into just about anything. It's called advertising. Political parties spend vast amounts of money on it for a reason. Imagine what you can do with an adolescent's immature brain and need to belong to a group. A whole bunch of psychologists go into the field of advertising. It's very lucrative. (The best advertisements are embedded in the culture / movie, not in the ad break.)
@@carolynbrightfield8911 No one is "talking" anyone into thinking they have Transgender Dysphoria any more than anyone is "talked into" having diabetes or depression or schizophrenia or any other medical condition.
@@nsbd90now are you not watching that video? lol
@@debbiehoyt9018 I'd bet despite your name you're actually a boy, Debbie.
Chris you're doing AMAZING work. thank you
Thanks for doing such good work and exposing these liars and butchers
Mutilation, that's what it is ... not only is this about the physical mutilation of children, but also the psycological mutilation of the minds of parents and children!
We do not know 10 and 20 year results of this experimentation
As a surgeon it would be malpractice for me to do operations like these
I feel bad for those children, they might be happy right now because it's trendy and they are too young and stupid to understand what really have they done to themselves. There will be 20s and 30s and 40s when others from their age group will have more or less normal lives while those kids who fell for this scam will deal with early aging, health issues, cancers and other stuff and they will be lifetime medical patients. It's already hard for normal peoples to find love and who will want those Frankenstein experiments so they most likely won't have family of their own and definitely no children. Lifetime of regret and sorrow for mistakes just because their parents were too weak and predators in school, Tiktok, psychologists, medical cartel used them.
thanks for your work
The Horror…..the Horror….
There are a number of trans RUclipsrs who are adamantly against transitioning minors. These are happily transitioned adults who recognize that young people have discomfort with their changing bodies and experience some version of gender dysphoria, usually for transient reasons.
For people with chronic gender dysphoria that persists into adulthood, transition can make all the difference for the better in that person being able to enjoy their lives. It *can* be a lifesaving thing. But for the many whose dysphoria will not persist (and you can't be sure when a kid is still in adolescence), transition, and even just puberty blockers, can turn out to be a disaster in the longer run, and then you have the danger of suicide over *that* disaster.
If anyone reading this has a child or grandchild or a friend struggling with a child who is begging to go on puberty blockers or to transition, I recommend a few of these Trans RUclipsrs that may well change their minds. Look up Buck Angel, Blair White, and Marcus Dib (The Offensive Tranny) and let the young person explore those channels. Also, Benjamin Boyce has interviewed many transitioners and detransitioners on his channel.
I don't think there's any more effective way to help a child intent on transitioning to face reality and wait for adulthood. Hearing from people with actual experience is the most convincing. These RUclipsrs not only make good arguments but they all interview people who are living proof that not waiting can result in a heap of painful regret.
Thank you for the informative video! Great job! 👍😉❤️
That's why Ken is being impeached.....
That is physical and mental abuse of a child, concretely. No way around that. At all.
Is there a connection between Paxton's impeachment and an investigation of Texas Children's Hospital?
Congratulations! Your child is now an "IT".
May God our FATHER and Jesus Christ our Lord and SAVIOR guide bless and protect us from them within our own GOVERNMENTS and these entities that exist as we fulfill our lifes MISSIONS I pray Amen
Speaking of reality............I don't know one gay person who chose to be gay,
This man is a Hero. 🙏
Every man and woman that resists this nonsense and corruption is a hero
I'm wetnessing the rise of a true renegade in modern western society. Good for you, I wish you the best.
( much better than the daily wire, in my opinion)
that doctor in the beginning saying “i know through research that kids are more likely to dië by süïcïde if you dont blah blah blah” WHAT RESEARCH!? because the only long term research done showed that it’s actually horrible for anyone especially kids and also the de transition rate is higher than you think…
👍 investigation Mr. Rufo, you are right on by noting our understanding of ourselves is found in Genesis and the natural order.
They should their medical licenses.
They absolutely should lose the liscence to practice... FOREVER!
Good video, thank you
Good information in this video
I await Houston residents raising a tremendous stink about this but we are not hearing it yet.
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Is this why Ken Paxton was impeached?
You know why they do this they do this so that they spend their life converting and then constantly correcting the problem .. they spend all their time concentrating on this switch they have no other tile to see was happening around them .. not to mention preying on their weakness making them feel that it’s normal that people have control over their body that they know best that the person themself do t know what they are doing they need help and guidance this is insane
Monsters making monsters.
If the doctor is claiming research proves. People should ask for the links and references to check this so called research
These people are SICK...
Why would a child need a sex change?
To please the munchausen parent, and line the doctors pockets.