I was sent this yesterday. It is interesting that the OLD Guard is refusing to die! Well, They do not have to die but I wish they would just go away!!!! Read for yourselves.

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Boston's Children's Hospital bills itself as the hospital for
children – and now it's also the hospital for children who want a sex
change, a procedure some critics are calling "barbaric."

Dr. Norman Spack, a pediatric specialist at the hospital, has
launched a clinic for transgendered kids – boys who feel like girls,
girls who want to be boys – and he's opening his doors to patients as
young as 7.

Spack offers his younger patients counseling and drugs that delay the
onset of puberty. The drugs stop the natural flood of hormones that
would make it difficult to have a sex alteration later in life,
allowing patients more time to decide whether they want to make the
change.

Spack also offers some teenagers hormone therapy, a drastic step that
changes the way they grow and develop. While the effects of drug
treatments can be stopped, long-term hormone therapy can be
irreversible, causing permanent infertility in both sexes.

For some, that trade-off is worth it. Transgendered children are
deeply troubled and have a "high level of suicide attempts," Spack
told the Boston Globe. "I've never seen any patient make [a suicide
attempt] after they've started hormonal treatment," he said.

Spack would not grant an interview to FOXNews.com.

But not all doctors are convinced, and some say the treatments do
much more harm than good.

"Treating these children with hormones does considerable harm and it
compounds their confusion," said Dr. Paul McHugh, University
Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at John Hopkins
University. "Trying to delay puberty or change someone's gender is a
rejection of the lawfulness of nature."

McHugh said gender reassignment for children harkens back to the dark
ages, when choir boys were castrated to retain their high-pitched
voices. "It's barbaric," he said.

Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, a legal charity
affiliated with the late Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, says
that transgender disorder is a mental disorder, not a medical one,
and that it should be treated with behavior modification, not
hormones or surgery.

"Just as you don't give liposuction to an anorexic, you don't do
sexual reassignment surgery on men who think that they are women and
vice versa," Staver said.

"At some point in childhood," McHugh said, "many children role play
as the opposite sex, but it is a social, not a medical issue."

But other doctors say there is a transgender "gene."

Dr. Irene Sills, an physician and Senior Professor of Pediatrics at
the State University of New York, has treated 15 transgender children
in the last 6 years, and considers the condition innate as a result
of her study.

"We have had a case of identical twins that seems to disprove [other]
theories," she told FOXNews.com. "The twin girls were brought up in
exactly the same environment, but by the age of 3, one of them kept
insisting that she was a boy and kept mimicking masculine dress and
behavior."

Sills reported that her patients and their families have all been
pleased with her therapy and support. She said she never asks
families to sign a waiver before treating their children. "I trust
our procedures and I trust my patients," she said in an interview.

But some experts expect legal challenges to mount in the face of
further treatment. According to Austin Nimocks, senior legal counsel
for the conservative Alliance Defense, parents and doctors may not be
safe from litigation if children are made sterile due to hormonal
treatments – even if they do sign waivers.

"We will eventually start to see such parents and doctors sued and
possibly arrested for what is essentially child abuse," Nimocks told
FOXNews.com.

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