It’s sick how disgusting some of the minds of america are. Just wait until we become the next rome, because we didn’t stick to our godly roots.

This doctor is nuts and i don’t care what anyone says you have to let these kids at least grow up to adults to make such a big choice.

This is complete garbage and another example of what has happened since the medical community continues to try to soldier on without God!!! Humanism = man is the measure of all things. This is what they want and adhere to.

These are some really sick and perverted Doctors. The physician who thinks that the twins prove that this is a medical concern sounds like a complete fool. I feel sad for these children when they are adults and realize that physicians with a political view butchered them.

It is disgusting, degrading, and just plain wrong yo’.

some people need to understand that some things are just wrong even if there are no laws against it.

This disgusts me!

Its just cosmetic surgery. If a kid isnt happy with its gender, and its OK with the parents, who are we to tell them what to do? Naturally some would say this is wrong and abusive. As long as no laws are being broken….live and let live. I personally think its an atrocity!!!

They can say what they want, transgenderism is a birth defect. A girl is born who’s body should’ve been a boy and vice versa. I’m happy to see medical science finally recognizing this and doing something about it. I know someone personally who has felt that he has been in the wrong body all his life. Since his earliest memories. He is 11 years old now and having a great deal of difficulty fitting in to the life his parents, particularly his father feels he should belong. “He” is a beautiful little girl, but in a year or two “he” is going to be a troubled young man. Children don’t make this stuff up.

Transgender is hard to understand in adults, much less in children. I don’t know if a sex change is appropriate for those who are cognitively not fully developed - which does not come until mid-20s for many - but to allow a child to live in the role of the opposite gender should not be a problem. And delaying the onset of puberty can benefit these children, giving them time to make up their minds. The sex change may not be appropriate, but delaying puberty can help. To discriminate against transgendered people in general or children specifically is exactly that - discrimination!

you have got to be fu&*(( kidding….

Minors cannot consent to a legal contract, drive a car or be married and have no business acting out about their born gender. It is evil that these same kids are being permanently maimed by parents and doctors who wish to suspend reality because of their own psychoses.

This article made my heart ache. Our children already face almost insurmountable odds with all the negative external, evil forces. Now there is someone who offers a totally barbaric option to a child who seems to not “fit in.” Where is God in all this? I think this physician is playing God. I am not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, but families do not treat their children “identically.” I just hope this physician and any parent who would even consider this option will come to their senses before they create even deeper problems for our precious children. I know that for eternity they will have to answer for their choices.

i’m always amazed by the number of people who truely believe that God’s works can somehow be ‘improved’ by humans….hehehe.

Clearly the 2nd coming of Christ is near

Doesn’t the test with identical twins, one of which thought she was a boy, DISPROVE that it’s an innate gene? If they’re identical, it means genetically identical. So even if they grew up in the same environment (something that cannot be guaranteed - since no one can prevent absolutely neglect, verbal, emotional or sexual abuse which would disrupt the natural development of sexual integration) it can’t be an innate cause since one identical twin developed this identity disorder and the other didn’t.

My seven year old thinks he is a fire engine. I hear there is a garage that does a procedure…..

How horrible!!! How many of us wanted to be the opposite gender when we were kids? What about all the tomboys out there who grew up to be beautiful, graceful women? The sissy boys who grew up to be great, sensitive, men? This is a sin against God Almighty, and these kids will be the victims.

Any idiot who contends its all in the mind and society in cross gendered people is either blind or in massive denial. A 5 yr old doesn’t choose to be different, the same 10 year old doesn’t choose to be different, they just are; at that point their sexuality isn’t mandated by what is around them. Science has proven cross gendering is genetic whether the nay-sayers believe it or not. And trying to brainwash someone into believing they are something they are not is just abusive.
As to the treatments, I don’t think it is a good choice. Children are growing and learing and changing and sometimes, they do change. But forcing the issue one way of the other (treatment to prevent puberty or brainwashing to convince them they are wrong) shouldn’t be done until they are adults. Be supportive of your childrens feelings, don’t judge and don’t treat; just help them and they will make the right choice for themselve when they are able, as adults

I hope this goes no farther than a story. How barbaric and sick have humans become that we think we can take the place of God in altering the human body of which God gave us. These children need love and counseling, not surgery. This doctor will pay his dues on judgement day….

We’re a nation where unborn children are murdered for convenience, for “woman’s right to choose”, and for a lack of faith that God has a bigger plan in mind. So, I am in no way surprised that a liberal city such as Boston (whose liberal citizens have since perverted the national history & original intent of the founding fathers) is now resorting to such child abuse under the guise of “medical treatment.”

There is NO proof that “transgenderism” is a genetic trait. It, along with homosexuality, is a choice made by an individual, who after many choices to deny reality and blame everyone but themselves, has resigned themselves to the excuse that they were born this way.

To say that a child, as young as 3 years old, has the frame of mind to want a sex-change operation, and then to permit such operation/therapy as a parent or so called “medical professional” (one who is out for personal gain and notoriety), is simply ungodly, barbaric, and downright demonic.

Go ahead…prove me wrong. I dare you.

I just wonder, how many of these so called transgendered children are from same sex couple homes? Could it just be possible, that these parents are using their children as pawns to further their deviant lifestyles?

All I can say is wow!!!!

Most normal children have coping issues with the reality of puberty. But if the definition of psychosis is beleiving that which is not real, changing these poor mentally disabled kids is not treatment but a capitulation to their disorder.
These children can’t buy a car, sign a contract or vote, but they get to make this kind of permanent decision? Their parents and doctors SHOULD be brought up on abuse charges….the behavior is so much more evil than drugs or polygamy!

It is not up to a parent or a doctor to decide what sex a child “should” be, the decision is in God’s hands. Maybe instead of introducing new drugs and hormones to these confused children, we should be introducing the Word of God to them.

Sorry, but having quotes from Mat Staver in a news article on a health/medical topic is a bit absurd. Providing the insight of doctors, psychiatrist, or patients is helpful - commentary by some fundie lawyer is just a distraction.

good for them!! this has been a stigma too long!! these people need a good hospital and doctor they can go to and people know what sex they really are at a young age..and it should be addressed early instead of suffering in the wrong body into their 30’s or older

This is crazy. How can we permit a child who is 7 years old to make a decision that will change his life. I’m a Christian and believe that God created man and woman. If a child is not permitted to vote or drink at a certain age. How can we permit a child to make a decision to change his sex. Which I am against at any age. We are messing with the creation that God created.

I think the parents and the doctor performing these acts are sick. This needs to be stopped and these children need help quick! We need to bring up a generation that is secure about their identity and that is devoted to our Father God. God has given us these children to raise and to show them the way back to our Father God. God made you a male, then I believe you are intended to be a male. God has a purpose for all of us and if we don’t wake up and see the truth on what it is the enemy will steal our generation. God Bless.

My children were not old enough at age 14 to decide which parent they would live with, and this was established in a court of law. How can you say a child of 7 is old enough to determine their entire sexual future? I wanted to be a boy when I was little, some of us were tomboys and boy stuff was much more fun. I out grew that and am quite happy being a woman. Thank God you weren’t around or I might have been turned into a boy and never have known the fufillment of being a Mom.

What kind of sick freak would take thier child for a sex change?
I think this doctor should be jailed as a threat to children!

NOW THE HOMOSEXUAL MOFIA IS OUT TO TURN OUR CHILDREN INTO TRANSVESTITE FREAKS!
ITS A SICK AND DISTURBING WORLD THESE PEOPLE LIVE IN!

I’d say the homosexualization of children has gone a tad far now. Not only are they pushing adult sex on five year olds; now they are chopping their giblets at seven years old.

If US families continue to let social engineering radicals get away with this sexual abuse of kids in the name of homosexual adults, it is really going to be a road of sorrow and regret ten years from now when we have to face the aftermath. Being called bad names by radicals for standing up against the radicals’ child sex agenda is nothing compared to what the kids are going to suffer at the hands of these radicals.

Wake up! Doctors are now sexually mutulating manipulated children in the name of mainstreaming and normalizing adult gender bending! Having been a mom, I know that I had the power to influence my kids to think and do just about anything. I know the power of influence that activist school teachers have on kids as well. Families better protect them - NOW!

This is barbaric, evil & unChristian.

There are people out there who fantasize about being some sort of amputee. They want limbs or parts of limbs amputated because that’s how they would feel better about themselves.
These people are immediately prescribed heavy drugs, counseling and other “Re-education” of their brain to accept they way they look and feel good about themselves. IOW, they’re treated like mental patients.
Yet, if you want to cut off your penis or remove your uterus, and alter your body with hormone injections to make you feel better, the doctors are all with you. Apparently, drastically transforming your body from the molecular level up is perfectly acceptable, but asking the doctor to remove a leg, well… you’re just being crazy!!! WHY?
The gay lifestyle is shoved down our throat (pun intended) every turn because a small minority thinks that it’s all normal.
Everything living has only one common goal: to procreate. If it can’t it dies, becomes extinct. So being homosexual is UNNATURAL and WRONG.

I guess these children should be albe to drink, smoke, vote and what else an adult could decide, why do we even parents. This Doctor is sick children cannot even explain what sex is let alone determine if they want to a girl or boy. He should be jailed as well as the parents.

This is outrageous.

Poor little boys & girls that “feel” like the opposite sex simple need confident, self assured parents to come alongside them, tell them they love them, and inform them that in fact they are a boy/girl. The biology is there. All the rest of the sexuality-oriented mindgames people force-feed kids are a pile of PC garbage that the depraved push on everyone else in order to try to make themselves feel better about their own depravity.

Any parent or physician that participates in this should be charged with a crime. Call it child abuse of assult, either way it’s harmful and damaging. In Massachusetts you even can’t get a Tattoo until your 18 years old, even if a parent gives consent. But, it’s okay for a physician to perform a sex change, chemical or physicial, without restirctions. This is insane!

This is absolutely OUTRAGEOUS!!! A child at seven years of age has no idea at all what they “want” to be sexually, or in any other realm of life. How many times in a year does a child change their idea of what they want to be in a job when they grow up?

This doctor is a quack and only in it for the money; surely he doesn’t have any child’s best interest at heart. For ANY parent to even allow a child under the age of eighteen to consider this is unfit. I was a severe tomboy as a girl (and still am!). I am so glad this wasn’t an issue when I was young - I might have been mutilated into a man, and not have the fabulous husband I have.

This is SICK.

When I was a kid, I wasn’t confused- I knew I liked girls. But the boy who, in kindergarten, wanted to play super heros as wonder woman is… surprise… gay! People are what they are. What’s barbaric is not letting them accept who they are and live as such. Bless those doctors for fixing those kids! Your god must have taken a sick day when they were born.

This is the result of Atheism. Is this not the same state that has been electing Ted Kennedy for what, 40 years? Hey Ted give someone else in your district a chance.

TERM LIMITS would revolutionize the political system.

As a father of a child with gender identity issues it has been crystal clear from around age 3 that my child was made differently. He is one of 3 sons, all of which have been raised in a loving Christian and conservative home with loving parents and never any neglect of any form. Two of my three sons act completely normal and masculine while the third is completely a girl in every way. The Christian community seems to, and probably always will, have the hardest time with this issue, but their assessments and recommendations are harmful, out of date and out of touch. To listen to a simpleton like Falwell’s group or James Dobson, I could cure this if I only rough housed with my son more or if he had stronger male role models. In our case this is totally and completely false and I worry the life my son will endure because of the misinformation of the religious right and closed minded people from all backgrounds who will subject him to ridicule and worse. He didn’t ask to be made like this, so the least we can do as a society is to be open minded, educate ourselves and find ways to help him, not make him feel like a monster. My wife and I have chosen to wait until our son gets a little older to explore options and I think age 7 seems a little too young for a child to make any kind of rational decision on an extreme transformation like this but I clearly think this Doctor is providing a service that is necessary in some cases and at some ages.

Please! We don’t let children vote, drink or smoke cigarettes because they are too young to make that kind of decision.
Most states don’t allow a child to get a piercing or a tattoo until they are 18 without parental consent.

Next thing you know if a 12 year old wants to start becoming a prostitute of his or her own choice somebody will try to make it legal.

How many times does a kid decide, I want to be a fireman, just to change their mind in a year and become an astronaut, then when they are 15 they want to be a rockstar, skateboard hero or a sniper in the Corps.

Get real doctor “lets make a name for myself”…..

How amusing and politically correct.
The funniest thing will be the good doctor, his lawyership and the little patients’ parents standing before the White Throne and trying to justify their actions. Love to be around to hear that. Hope they pack their asbestos underwear.
The “adults” supposedly know the difference between right and wrong. Their problem. The kids…collateral damage.
Lass’ ihn, Lass’ ihn.
The books will balance.

I find this Doctor to be very disturbing. Shouldn’t he be helping them to find out why they feel the way they do, instead to giving them sex changing medications!!!!! This is quite disgusting!!!!!!!!!!

up till age 7 or 8 my daughter wanted to be a boy, she dressed like a boy, acted like a boy, tried to tell people she was a boy. She’s now 12 and she’s alllllllllllllllll girl. It’s a phase they go through and to put kids on drugs for every little thing in thier lives rather than teach them to cope is assinine. WTF. I wanted to be a duck when I was a kid, good thing my parents have the brains the good Lord gave them. That Dr. is a $$$ monger and nothing more, he should be ashamed of himself.

This is absolutely OUTRAGEOUS!!! A child at seven years of age has no idea at all what they “want” to be sexually, or in any other realm of life. How many times in a year does a child change their idea of what they want to be in a job when they grow up?

This doctor is a quack and only in it for the money; surely he doesn’t have any child’s best interest at heart. For ANY parent to even allow a child under the age of eighteen to consider this is unfit. I was a severe tomboy as a girl (and still am!). I am so glad this wasn’t an issue when I was young - I might have been mutilated into a man, and not have the fabulous husband I have.

By the way - a person can’t decide whether they are a Democrat or a Republican until the age of eighteen, they can’t enlist in the military until the age of eighteen, they can’t drink until the age of nineteen or twenty-one, why the hell should they be able to pick a sex change until the age of eighteen.

This is SICK.

Well society has finally revived the lost cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, the most ludicrous idea. Why not human cloning now, it’s only the logical next step, build kids in the laboratory, make sure they’re the right sex they are supposed to be. It seems modern medicine has advanced to the Deity level. Unbelievable!

and Nero stroked his fiddle bow as Rome slowly burned

This article has made me sick. A wonderful hospital like Children’s allows this garbage to go on? This forces me to seriously reconsider my annual donation. Surely there are more worthy institutions.

We are a sad and sick society that just keeps getting sadder and sicker.
God help us!!

I feel it is totally wrong for doctors and parents to play God. God does NOT make mistakes. Who are parents and doctors to think God has made a mistake by giving a child the wrong gender!!!

This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard all day. My preschool aged boy talks about how he is “mommy”, and my toddler girl is a tomboy at times. Should I take them to Boston and start their treatment right away? This is sick, disgusting, wrong on so many levels. God made my boy a boy and my girl a girl. I’m pretty sure He knew what he was doing.

Good gracious, I wondered how long it would be until the knuckle dragging religious nuts would come out and post their Dogma and ignorance . . . obviously it didn’t take long. Please evolve. And while your at it, read the whole Bible and live by every barbaric word in it (slavery, rape, murder, torture, etc.) or keep your unsophisticated opinions to yourself. “God please save me from your people”

The doc is no-doubt more troubled than his patients.

A shining example of why this country may get Barry Hussein Obama as president.

Who are doctors or parents in thinking that God has made a mistake is the gender He gave these children and that they can fix it. I think this is totally wrong because God does NOT make mistakes.

Wow. What IS this world coming to? As a professional in the field of psychology I am amazed and disappointed in this man. Where have this country’s eithics and morals gone? All I can say right now is…wow.

PURELY BARBARIC!!!! What parent would even entertain such an idea is beyond human comprehension!

Supposing that these youths are prepared to “decide” their gender for themselves, is it time to allow them to choose whether to enter the military, drink alcohol, vote in election? If the child is prepared mentally and physically to “decide” their gender, is it time to let them judge whether or not to attend school? Should they ever have curfews? Should we resist their joining gangs?

Were the children in Hitler’s Juniors allowed to freely choose for themselves? Were they fully informed about the political and social view of their beloved dictator? Had they the emotional and mental experience which only years of life can bring?

Does anyone remember what happened in Nazi Germany? The evil doctor experimented on children as young as 2yrs of age. The barbaric surgery and experiments this evil doctor did to those children were beyond comprehension.
I do not remember this doctor’s name, but someone needs to study history and what was happening in Nazi Germany before the allies invaded. I believe this evil doctor escaped to either Argentina or Brazil, changed his name, and was living a quiet life with his family and grandchildren. It took years to finally find this evil man and bring him to justice. Why would anyone calling themself a doctor want to even consider doing a sex change on a child? For the love of humanity, let these children have a childhood. Yea, when I was 7, I wanted to be a boy. I was a tomboy, but thank God, I outgrew my tomboy ways. I met my ex-husband while I was stationed in the Army at Ft. Sam Houston, TX. I have 4 grown children and 9 grandchildren. I’m glad I’m a woman.
Doctor, don’t you dare touch these children. Maybe someone needs to perform a sex change on you and see how you like it.

It is bad enough that the media is already influencing our kids… “You have to be thin to be popular,” “pretty to get attention,” “all grown up in pictures to sell a song, etc., ” but now, to have someone influencing the future of a child in such a way that they may be confused for the rest of their lives, is crazy. How on earth can we play God with such an important decision? IF, and I say that cautiously, IF a child becomes an adult, and is questoning their gender, then by all means, they should get counceling, etc. But, I honestly don’t think the majority of our kids would ever even question such a thing, if the “choices, options, etc.” weren’t portrayed all over the media. When you plant ideas/thoughts/options into a kids’ mind, of coarse they may think about and question their being… you’re telling them in a sense that “hey, there might be a better option for you, in case you hadn’t already thought about it.” LOL

The Chinese will love this, isn’t it preferred to have only one child and that it be male. Will the parents be allowed to make this decision? Screwing around with mother nature has never been a good idea.

here’s a “doctor” that obviously needs to be found floating in a river. where is his office?

There is biological backing to transgender, it’s not always just something in someone’s mind. Most people who are transgender and go through the procedure are monitored by doctors and psychologists for years to see if this is a manifestation of a mental problem or has biological roots. A girl who is exposed to a lot of testosterone in the womb will take on male characteristics in their development but otherwise look like a normal girl.

To say that transgender is wrong is to say that hermaphidites are unnatural. These procedures are nothing like the one mentioned in the article about choir boys in the dark ages because that was not always done voluntarily. This procedure would be done under close scrutiny because of the nature of the operation and the vulnerability of the patient.

Also, those invoking God in all this: Where does it talk about transgender in the Bible? I must have missed that every Sunday of my life. Also, think about Job, God allowed Satan to test him and change his life, who says that having a child born physically as a boy but the soul of a girl make it God’s work?

Which is the worse ’sin’ in your eyes: to commit suicide because they’re unhappy with their physical appearance and unable to get help or to change what they look like on the outside and be happy? To me it’s all in God’s hands and not for me or any of you to judge.

This is just another example of the direction our society is going-further downhill- and some in the medical profession are pushing it along bigtime. This is absolutely perverted medicine.

This is absurd! Kids are kids, and cannot make a choice like this as a child. This is an excuse that disgruntled parents who “never got that son” can brainwash their girls into thinking they are ‘really boys’ and can turn nature’s plan into garbage. I’m glad there a some of us out in the world who are willing to raise our kids normal at least.

With the inability to reproduce, this is the best way to grow the gay community.

Ridiculous…. absolutely absurd!

I think some people are confusing gender disorder, which is a mental issue, with children who are born with a gene that makes them either male or female, but with the wrong genitalia, a true medical condition. What these Doctors are talking about is changing the sex of a child because it feels a certain way. Shame on them!

I feel that we are forgetting who created us “God” if we all had “GOD” in our lives this would not be happening!!

And one wonders why this country is so screwed up! Sometimes you have to deal with the cards your delt with!

God help us! This is truly a sign of the end times. We’re a physician family and this is horrifying. This is about $$$$ for Boston Children’s, up till now, a first class facility. Letters of disgust should be written to this hospital.

This is just wrong and definitely child abuse. A very small percentage of children are born with an indeterminate gender. They used to be called hermaphrodytes. The medical profession would then assign the most likely or most obvious gender and handle medical procedures to reinforce that gender appropriately. But that is so very, very rare.

Many children go through phases of thinking about being or wishing they were the opposite sex but pass through them to be completely normal. What adults do about gender switching is bad enough, but to do that to a child is heinous. Legislation should be enacted to prevent it.

This world gets sicker every day. Doctors who became doctors to play God should be thrown out of the medical profession.

I am very encouraged by the amount of outrage this story has stirred up. I was beginning to worry that fewer and fewer people understood the reality behind sex changes.

Keri,

Don’t misquote the Bible. Obviously you need to re-read the Bible since you never caught the point that God does not make mistakes. If he put a soul in a girls body, then He meant it to be a girl. To say that He put the soul in the wrong body would be saying that He makes mistakes, which would say that He is not perfect. Thus all of Christianity would be undermined. Boys are boys, and girls are girls. My daughter barks like a puppy, but that does not mean I am going to allow her to live outside and eat dog food and hire a doctor to affix dog ears to her. Insane!

Take heed! Jesus said in regards to harming children “It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.” (Luke 17:2). Woe unto these doctors, parents, and supporters of these perversions to God’s gifts to us - our children, who we are commanded to protect!

there is no god…humans should be allowed to do whatever they want. god is a fiction that has been created over time to make people believe they can attempt to understand what they do not. quit hiding behind god because you fear something. i will say that i think this procedure shoudl be done after 18 and of legal age

Didn’y Hitler’s doctors do experiments like these during WWII?

Reckless, irresponsible, out of control, insane! This quack should have his license revoked! God, please save us from this insanity.

Wow, posters on this site - stop sounding off about something you don’t know anything about and get educated about gender dysphoria. It’s not new, it’s been studied extensively, it isn’t the product of deviant homes, it doesn’t go away in those who have it; it’s almost certainly genetic or biochemical in origin (male children begin as females in the womb and require chemical triggers to become male) and it’s not a matter of choice. Children who have this condition are not simply play-acting and going through a phase; they are going through torture. Open your minds, read the medical literature, acquire some sympathy - and that especially goes for those of you posting on this site who invoke religion at the drop of the hat to tell everyone else how to live.