When It Comes to Transgender Children, Doctors are Choosing Politics Over Patients

(Standing For Freedom Center) Earlier this year, a young woman named Chloe Cole, who underwent a medical gender transition as a young teen and who now regrets her transition, told the Daily Caller News Foundation that doctors ignored the fact that she displayed autistic spectrum traits and instead focused on treating her gender dysphoria in isolation.

Cole argued that it is “common” for girls who are on the autism spectrum to present as more traditionally masculine, with tomboyish characteristics. But now, instead of recognizing that, medical professionals are rushing to “treat” these children and teens with off-label drugs and mutilating surgeries.

[…]Cole, now 18, is suing the Kaiser Foundation Hospital and associated medical professionals who facilitated her gender transition, arguing that doctors should have offered her therapy to address her autism spectrum symptoms and related co-morbidities rather than make her gender dysphoria the top, and only, priority.  (Read More)

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