A psychologist at Boston Children’s Hospital claimed many kids know their gender ‘seemingly from the womb’
While most children who present in Boston Children’s Hospital’s gender clinic know their gender “usually around the age of puberty,”In a video that was uploaded in August by Harvard-affiliated medical center, Kerry McGregor describes how many people are unaware they were born to the wrong body. It was again aired this week and has drawn more attention to the scandal-plagued hospital.
“A good portion of children do know as early as seemingly from the womb and they will usually express their gender identity as very young children, some as soon as they can talk,”McGregor comments in the video that they see children starting at age 5. “ages two and three up to the age of nine”How to instruct parents “just be supportive”They are reputed to be able to “gender-diverse” children by “giving them the space and support to explore their gender.”
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Bomb threat at controversial children’s clinic investigated
While Boston Children’s is not the only hospital to offer gender transition services from counseling to surgery to kids – as of August, some 13 US hospitals perform gender transition surgeries on minors – the Harvard-affiliated facility attracted unwanted attention in August after it was called out by conservatives for its videos advertising those services. Blaming the other “right-wing misinformation campaign” for what it claimed was an avalanche of death threats and bomb scares, the clinic attempted to memory-hole evidence it provided such procedures to children, deleting dozens of videos – including the “babies know they’re trans” clip – from its YouTube account
However, while Boston Children’s now claims to only perform the procedures on patients over 18 years of age, 65 of the 204 gender-affirmation surgeries performed by its Center for Gender Surgery from January 2017 to August 2020 were done on patients under 18, according to a peer-reviewed study published earlier this year in the Journal on Clinical Medicine. According to the paper, Harvard is described as “the first pediatric center in the United States to offer gender-affirming chest surgeries for individuals over 15-years-old and genital surgeries for those over 17 years of age.”
