EXCLUSIVE: ‘No basis in science or data… just ideology’: Critics slam Harvard children’s hospital for claiming babies know in the WOMB if they’re transgender
A Harvard-affiliated children’s hospital has sparked outrage after claiming some babies know they are transgender ‘from the womb’.
In a now-deleted video, the Boston Children’s Hospital suggested an even larger number of minors know ‘as soon as they can talk’.
Critics told DailyMail.com the claim was was not based on science and suggested medics at the clinic are unwilling to question children who are often vulnerable.
The hospital, part of the Harvard University medical system, also faces claims it rushed under-18s into life-altering sex change surgery.
In the clip posted to the Boston hospital’s official YouTube page in August, psychologist Dr Kerry McGregor explains the type of patients she sees.
She says: ‘So most of the patients we have in the clinic actually know their gender, usually around the age of puberty.
‘But 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… kids know very, very early.’
It comes as several states begin to clamp down on puberty blockers being prescribed to children. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has previously likened it to ‘child abuse’.
The Boston clinic sees children as young as two and three usually up to the age of nine. New patients come to the clinic and meet with psychologists to discuss their issues with the sex they were born into
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Unbelievable! My mouth dropped open reading this but then I had to half chuckle to myself for these idiots writing this!!! What next?
Or parents make a wild stab that their child will want to be “the other” gender as soon as the womb. Maybe before they even get pregnant.
It is NOT up to the parents to choose. If a child at 18 , without crazy constant battering (‘err encouragement) from the parents AND ARE OLD ENOUGH TO CHOOSE then it should be carefully looked into.
You are right. It is life altering. But children want to please their parents so badly they make the decision their parents coerced them into.
(If those parents loved their children as much as they loved themselves they would respect the gender at birth until their babies grow up enough to choose.)
omg,,r u kidding me???more $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$,,,FOR THOSE surgeries at 5 years old,,wth is going on w/our healthcare???maryw