Children who receive transgender drugs face the real likelihood of infertility, a prominent US ‘sex-swap’ advocate has said.
The admission was made by Dr Kathryn Lowe, an executive committee member of the LGBT Health and Wellness Section of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
Last year, paediatricians in the US challenged the AAP – their own professional body – over its ‘affirming’ approach to transgenderism.
‘Big issue’
In a video posted by the ‘Libs of TikTok’ platform, Lowe told an online meeting of the AAP Wisconsin chapter that “infertility concerns” were ‘a big issue’ for children taking transgender drugs.
She explained that children between the ages of 8 and 15 “who go on a blocker” and then “add in gender affirming hormone therapy” will “probably” be infertile.
She also admitted that dangerous puberty blockers and sex-swap hormones were being prescribed despite there being a lack of research “out there”.
Egg banking
Lowe claimed that “talking with these youth and their families about infertility concerns” was “one the trickiest parts of gender affirming hormone therapy”.
She went on to suggest that clinicians discussed with their clients the option of having children “aside from having biological kids”.
She added: “there’s some early research being done on sperm and egg banking prior to going on gender affirming hormone therapy”.
Opposition
In September, medics called on the AAP to conduct a rigorous and systematic review of the evidence for, and its guidelines on, gender dysphoria.
Members accused the Academy of blocking a formal resolution on the issue by changing procedural rules and preventing comment.
At the time, Dr Julia Mason – an advisor for the Society of Evidence-based Gender Medicine and one of the authors of the resolution – said she was disappointed that the AAP was “being driven by ideology rather than evidence”.
The resolution pointed out that national health organisations in many countries are expressing “deep concerns” about medical and surgical interventions, and are reconsidering their approach.
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