Wed Dec 21, 2022 – 5:47 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is getting out of the underage puberty-blocking business after public scrutiny brought to bear by the conservative state legislators of the South Carolina Freedom Caucus (SCFC).
The issue was first raised in September, when the conservative American Accountability Foundation highlighted a MUSC booklet revealing that the university’s Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic received patients as young as four years old for “endocrine gender affirming therapy.” Among a patient pool age 18 and younger, “20% of patients received pubertal suppression and 50% received hormone affirming therapy.”
The booklet does not break down the exact ages at which patients received puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones, but it does express hope that in the future “more patients and at younger ages will be referred to affirming providers so that medical options such as pubertal suppression and mental health support can be discussed with patients and families.”
The @MUSCkids has four year olds coming through its transgender hormone clinic.
And hopes: “In the future, hopefully more patients and at younger ages will be referred to affirming providers so that medical options such as
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