Politically Unstable: The dangers of child sex changes

Washington Times Commentary Editor Kelly Sadler interviews Dr. Roy Eappen about the health dangers of sex-change procedures for children.

The Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s ban on transitioning minor children with different drugs and puberty blockers. But there has also been some recent research on how harmful this is for young children, and for parents to engage their young children along this transitioning process. 

Dr. Roy Eappen wrote a column at the Washington Times. Could you give us a summary of medical research that has come out showing how dangerous these procedures are on young kids? 

I work with the Do No Harm people, and we have seen for some time that there are major risks to treating these children with gender dysphoria with puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. There have been multiple systematic reviews done all over the world; in Sweden, in the United Kingdom, in Canada, and even in the United States, showing that there is very little benefit to these procedures. And if there’s no benefit — and risk of substantial harm — you shouldn’t be doing them. 

Unfortunately, the medical field has been taken over to some extent by an activist class who has decided that, in spite of the fact that I think they themselves acknowledge there’s no benefit, they should go ahead. 

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