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The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) released new guidance on Tuesday cautioning physicians against performing gender-transition surgeries on minors, marking a significant breakthrough for critics of the procedures who have long called on major medical associations to be transparent about the harms associated with medicalizing gender dysphoric children.
The new ASPS guidance acknowledges that there is insufficient evidence to prove that irreversible gender-related surgical interventions have longterm benefits for adolescents and therefore recommends that surgeons delay gender-related breast, genital, and facial surgery until “a patient is at least 19 years old. The association has “substantial uncertainty” about the longterm benefits of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
Surgeons should maintain responsibility for “determining whether a minor is developmentally able to understand the nature, irreversibility, and long-term implications of the proposed surgical intervention,” the guidance says. Critics of gender-related surgeries have long doubted an adolescent’s ability to make well-informed decisions about life-altering surgeries.
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The new ASPS guidance acknowledges that there is insufficient evidence to prove that irreversible gender-related surgical interventions have longterm benefits for adolescents and therefore recommends that surgeons delay gender-related breast, genital, and facial surgery until “a patient is at least 19 years old. The association has “substantial uncertainty” about the longterm benefits of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
Surgeons should maintain responsibility for “determining whether a minor is developmentally able to understand the nature, irreversibility, and long-term implications of the proposed surgical intervention,” the guidance says. Critics of gender-related surgeries have long doubted an adolescent’s ability to make well-informed decisions about life-altering surgeries.
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First Major Medical Org Comes Out Against Trans Surgeries for Minors | National Review
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons now recommends that surgeons wait until patients are at least 19 before subjecting them to transition surgeries.
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