Lauren C. Moye, FISM News
Hundreds of minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria underwent permanent body-altering surgeries in the U.S. between 2019 and 2021, despite countless claims by those on the left that children are not undergoing these procedures.
The data, first released as a Reuters investigation with the assistance of health technology firm Komodo Health Inc., also shows that gender dysphoria diagnoses in the U.S. are rapidly accelerating.
From 2017 to 2021, the insurance claim analysis shows there was a 177.9% increase in diagnoses of gender dysphoria in children aged six to 17. In 2021, there was a total of 42,167 new diagnoses. That’s a massive surge, eclipsing the 2020 number of 24,867 and an even bigger leap from the 15,172 children diagnosed in 2017.
Using this cross-section of gender dysphoric youth, Reuters then asked Komodo to investigate how many had received treatment of some kind. The report reads, “The Komodo analysis of insurance claims found 56 genital surgeries among patients ages 13 to 17 with a prior gender dysphoria diagnosis from 2019 to 2021. Among teens, ‘top surgery’ to remove breasts is more common.”
The investigation shows that in addition to genital mutilation, a total of 776 mastectomies were performed on gender dysphoric girls ages 13 to 17 during this period.
However, transgender activists have long downplayed or outright denied that these surgeries are happening.
Which state allows gender affirming surgery for minors? I'll save you a search. 0 out of 50. You're calling for laws on something in which laws already exist in every state.
— Kevin Cattell (@cattell84) August 14, 2022
“1. Children are not having surgeries. 2. Gender-affirming surgery is not mutilation,” outspoken LGTB+ advocate Alejandra Caraballo stated before breaking into obscenities towards those who would argue otherwise.
Research data also showed an acceleration in the annual performance of these surgeries, though less than the rate of diagnoses. There were 238 mastectomies performed in 2019, 256 in 2020, and 282 in 2021. This makes for an 18% increase between 2019 and 2021.
Notably, the data is limited only to those with an official gender dysphoria diagnosis, which means the numbers do not reflect the actual number of children who underwent body mutilation during these years.
In all, Reuters “found that at least 121,882 children ages 6 to 17 were diagnosed with gender dysphoria from 2017 through 2021.” Over 12% of them began hormone therapy to encourage opposite-sex characteristics to develop.
Parents of teenage girls should be particularly alarmed as some researchers like Lisa Littman warn that gender dysphoria is “catching,” or that exposure to transgender conversations encourages children to identify as another gender without any previous warning signs. Littman calls it “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria.”
In 2021, she published a synopsis of 100 interviews with gender dysphoric individuals who regretted transitioning processes. These interviews back up concerns that LGTB advocates may be creating an epidemic of transgender youth who will experience later regrets and heartache.
Teenage girls are facing a particular threat. Of Littman’s study participants, 69% were biologically female. Of those, 55% of females described the onset of dysphoria as beginning with puberty or later.
This paper also described how over one-third of the de-transitioners had begun transitioning after watching a friend go through it (36.4%), while one-fifth also gained a boost in popularity after announcing transition plans (19.6%). An additional 22.2% reported being in a “friendship group that mocked people who were not transgender.”
Liberals go further than simply rejecting the reality of adolescent transgender transition. The American Medical Association petitioned the Department of Justice to crack down on critics of transgender treatments earlier this week.
Meanwhile, California just passed legislation that made it a sanctuary state for transgender minors and stripped parental rights from interfering with a child who wants transitioning services.
According to Reuters, California saw one of the steepest increases in minor gender dysphoria diagnoses, from just over 1,000 in 2016 to nearly 3,000 in 2021.