US - Children's hospital launches sex change for kids program...

US - Children's hospital launches sex change for kids program... 

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Children's hospital launches sex change for kids program

'This isn't conjecture, it's happening now'

April 19, 2008

By Bob Unruh

A doctor at the renowned Children's Hospital Boston has launched a new 

program to drug children to delay puberty so they can decide whether 

they want a male or a female body, according to a report today in the 

Boston Globe.

Pediatric endocrinologist Norman Spack, 64, says he started the Gender 

Management Service Clinic because he found himself encountering 20- somethings who were "transgendered" and in good shape socially, "but 

they were having trouble getting their physique to conform to their 

identity.

"I knew the 20-somethings could have better chances of passing if they 

were treated earlier," he said.

"We don't think that demonic is too strong a word to describe this," 

said a statement from the pro-family Mass Resistance organization. "It 

brings us thoughts of the Nazi doctors who thought they were doing 

good things."

WND has reported previously on some of the controversies prompted by 

the belief that a man can be born in a woman's body, or vice versa, 

including in Montgomery County, Md., where county officials have 

adopted a law that precludes those who provide public accommodations 

from discriminating based on that "gender identity."

Voters there have petitioned to have a vote on that law because they 

fear men who "decide" they are female walking into women's restrooms 

and locker rooms.

"Is this our future?" asked Mass Resistance in a commentary. "Dr. 

Norman Spack runs a clinic for young children who've 'decided' they 

are transgendered. Among other things, the clinic administers powerful 

hormones to delay (or even stop) puberty in order that the children 

more easily undergo operations that mutilate their bodies to 'change' 

them to the opposite sex."

"This is going on at the world-renowned Children's Hospital in Boston 

­ not some backwater clinic. This is the elite of the medical 

profession," the organization said.

In a question-and-answer session with Globe columnist Pagan Kennedy, 

she starts the apologetic for doing surgery on children by saying, 

"Little boys sob unless they're allowed to wear dresses. The girls 

want to be called Luke, Ted, or James."

"Until recently, children with cross-gender feelings rarely received 

modern medical care ­ and certainly not hormone shots. After all, who 

would allow a child to redesign his or her body?" she asks.

But Spack, she wrote, has started a clinic that "is one of the few in 

the world to give children treatments that change their bodies."

She reports he uses drugs to delay puberty, "granting them a few more 

years before they develop bodies that are decidedly male or female."

Spack tells the interviewer he's seen "preadolescents" who have been 

dressing in underwear of the opposite sex "for years."

"The puberty-blocking drugs work best at the beginning of the pubital 

process, typically age 10 to 12 for a girl and 12 to 14 for a boy," he 

said. He's based some of his work on a Dutch model for sex-change, and 

said the recommendations there are age 16 for hormones that forever 

change a child's body.

But "for others," he wrote, "you lose opportunities if you wait. [One 

of my patients, a] transgendered girl from the UK, was destined to be 

a 6-foot-4 male. With treatment, she's going to end up 5-foot-10."

He said such treatments not only change the physical characteristics 

of the growing children, but also could leave them sterile for life.

"You have to explain to the patients that if they go ahead, they may 

not be able to have children. … But if you don't start treatment, they 

will always have trouble fitting in," he said.

"This isn't conjecture," Mass Resistance' commentary said. "It's 

happening now. And 'transgenderism' is being promoted to kids by 

homosexual/transgender activists in the public schools."

Children as young as 12 already have been given the treatment.

Meanwhile, LifeSiteNews has reported that Spack previously 

acknowledged that only about 20 percent of children who claim to have 

a confusion over their gender hold those feelings in adulthood.

The hospital itself calls the program "unique in the Western 

hemisphere."

"This will be the first major program in the country that … [is] also 

welcoming young people who appear to be transgendered and are 

considering medical protocols that might help them," Spack said.

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Bob Unruh is a news editor for WorldNetDaily.com.

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