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Critics Slam Boston Doctor Who Offers Sex Change Treatment to Kids:

Boston’s Children’s Hospital bills itself as the hospital for children — and now it’s also the hospital for children who want a sex change, a procedure some critics are calling “barbaric.”

Dr. Norman Spack, a pediatric specialist at the hospital, has launched a clinic for transgendered kids — boys who feel like girls, girls who want to be boys — and he’s opening his doors to patients as young as 7.

Spack offers his younger patients counseling and drugs that delay the onset of puberty. The drugs stop the natural flood of hormones that would make it difficult to have a sex alteration later in life, allowing patients more time to decide whether they want to make the change.

Spack also offers some teenagers hormone therapy, a drastic step that changes the way they grow and develop. While the effects of drug treatments can be stopped, long-term hormone therapy can be irreversible, causing permanent infertility in both sexes.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356592,00.html

This is not science! This is human experimentation on children to try and force the idea that there is a transgender gene responsible for gender confusion in children, which of course would then justify adult transgender operations at state expense. These patients are too young to make the decision for themselves, their parents may force a decision that later causes great emotional, physical and spiritual harm to the child; and IMO science should resort first to psychotherapy to help the child live in the world as is, until such time as they have the maturity to make this life changing decision.

Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, a legal charity affiliated with the late Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University, says that transgender disorder is a mental disorder, not a medical one, and that it should be treated with behavior modification, not hormones or surgery.

“Just as you don’t give liposuction to an anorexic, you don’t do sexual reassignment surgery on men who think that they are women and vice versa,” Staver said.

“At some point in childhood,” McHugh said, “many children role play as the opposite sex, but it is a social, not a medical issue.”

This is the result of science placing itself upon God’s Throne in the mistaken idea that every perversion of design in nature is normal and that science, playing God, must be proactive and make that perversion (abnormality) permanent. Why, if a gene does exist, wouldn’t science be trying to find a way to shut off that gene and thus allow these patients to live normal lives according to their outward, physical gender. No, for some odd reason they prefer to leave the gene alone and through chemical and surgical intervention change the outward physical nature to match some mental picture of themselves, living a life that by all reasonable definitions is a lie.