Friday, May 18, 2007

Susan Stanton makes D.C. debut

©Washington Blade  -  Susan Stanton made her Washington debut this week after garnering national media attention two months ago when Largo, Fla., officials fired her for coming out as transgender. (Blade photo by Henry Linser)
Susan Stanton made her Washington debut this week after garnering national media attention two months ago when Largo, Fla., officials fired her for coming out as transgender. (Blade photo by Henry Linser)

Transgender / Transsexual Men on the Maury Show / Lando FTM

Here's a video with Lando Thomas et al educating the masses on Maury's talk show.

Boy, 12, Given Questionable Sex-Change Therapy after “Diagnosed” as Transsexual

Leading US psychiatric researcher strongly criticizes such procedures
By Gudrun Schultz

VIENNA, Austria, January 29, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A boy of 12 began receiving radical hormone treatment to stop the natural development of male puberty and prepare his body for a sex-change operation, after doctors and psychiatrists diagnosed him as transsexual.

The boy, now 14--called Kim instead of his original name of Tim--convinced his parents and medical professionals that he was “in the wrong body” and needed to receive treatment to prevent him from developing into an adult male, the UK Telegraph reported earlier today. His parents said they initially assumed their son’s desire to be a girl was a temporary phase, but after psychiatrists supported the child’s request for therapy, they accepted the decision to pursue physical treatment for a desire they said had been expressed by their son since he was a toddler. . . .

Boston Children’s Hospital Opens “Transgender” Children’s Clinic

Will reportedly offer the treatments to children as young as seven years old
By Gudrun Schultz

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A new clinic at Children’s Hospital Boston is offering hormone treatment to young children identified as “transgender” to facilitate eventual surgery for a gender switch, according to a report by MassResistance May 17.

Led by endocrinologist Dr. Norman Spack, the Gender Management Service Clinic is the first U.S. clinic to initiate medical intervention for healthy children on the basis of a “transgender” identification. A 12-year-old German boy who began receiving puberty-blocking hormone treatments last winter in preparation for sex-change “transition” surgery was believed to be the youngest child to receive the treatment at the time.

The Boston clinic will reportedly offer the treatments to children as young as seven years old, according to researcher Ari Taube for MassResistance.

Hormone treatment of pre-pubescent children is intended to prevent normal development of gender characterization in order to ease eventual surgical procedures to complete a change of gender, which can take place once the child is about 16.

On a MassResistance radio report, Taube emphasized that transgender procedures can only achieve the outward appearance of the opposite gender. . . .