Sat Oct 1, 2022 – 3:45 pm EDTSat Oct 1, 2022 – 3:50 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — “Transgender top surgeries,” in which a female’s breasts are amputated to relieve distress due to their womanly appearance, have reportedly “exploded” among minors in recent years.
While there are “no official statistics on how many minors receive double mastectomy ‘transgender top surgeries’ each year in the U.S., the numbers that are available indicate that such operations have skyrocketed over the past few years,” according to a New York Times article published on Monday.
The Times cited, as an example, numbers from Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in California, which reportedly performed 70 “top surgeries” on teenagers in 2019, a dramatic increase from its five teenage “top surgeries” in 2013.
“I can’t honestly think of another field where the volume has exploded like that,” Dr. Karen Yokoo, a retired plastic surgeon at the hospital, told the Times.
A NYT survey of 26 “leading pediatric gender clinics” in the U.S. found that “many reported long waiting lists” for adolescent “top surgeries.” Eleven clinics reported a total of 203 procedures on minors in 2021, but this is only a fraction of the
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