The only problem with ending gender-affirming surgeries for minors is that this should never have gone on in the first place. So, while it’s a step in the right direction that Penn Medicine “will no longer provide gender-affirming surgery to patients under age 19,” it should not have taken federal executive orders to make this come to fruition.

According to the Union-Bulletin:

Penn Medicine will no longer provide gender-affirming surgery to patients under age 19, effective this week, citing new federal orders targeting such procedures among transgender minors.

President Donald Trump issued in January an executive order that bars federal funding for gender-affirming care, including hormone therapy, puberty blockers or surgeries for transgender patients under age 19. Such care helps patients to have a body that matches their gender identity and has wide acceptance within the medical community.

The change is specific to gender-affirming surgical procedures in plastic surgery, gynecology, urology, and otorhinolaryngology. Transgender individuals may seek surgery to make changes to their voice, facial features, chest and breasts or genitals.

So, in other words, minors may still be able to permanently alter their bodies forever, despite them claiming otherwise.

If Penn Medicine is stopping these procedures, why aren't they stopping these procedures? All irreversible and even psychological treatment for minors in regards to medical transition should be banned. And the fact that federal agencies have to send a letter recommending that is a scandal in itself.

While these procedures are bad for nearly every person, it’s especially reprehensible to commit them on minors, while it’s even more deranged that the “adults” who are meant to protect them couldn't care less about them.

You don’t commit double mastectomies on a 16-year-old with healthy tissue because you are on the “compassionate” side, and it’s deeply deranged that this would still be going on, had America voted differently in November.

Nonetheless, America is slowly but surely regaining its sanity, though the pace is undeniably slow.

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