The Gender Transition Clinic at Childrens Mercy Hospital in Kansas City

https://heartlandernews.com/2022/12/13/childrens-mercy-kansas-city-hospital-offers-gender-affirming-care-apparently-to-children-as-young-as-2/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Many of you have heard about gender transition hospitals across the country who are performing gender alterations to kids younger than age 12.  Puberty blockers, surgery in some cases (primarily removal of breasts from females).  Vanderbilt University had a clinic that was treating very young children and thanks to the work of Tennessee residents and their state government, that clinic has been shut down.

Many may not know that we have one of those same “gender transition” clinics right in our backyard here in Kansas City.

“The hospital’s website proudly advertises children and adolescents may receive what it calls “gender affirming” care, including diagnostic evaluations and treatment recommendations for gender dysphoria; puberty-blocking and gender-affirming hormones; psychiatric medications; assistance with menstrual suppression; gender-affirming support from a board-certified chaplain; and gender-affirming voice coaching referrals, all through its gender pathway services team.

Here is the website for the gender pathways service team:

https://www.childrensmercy.org/departments-and-clinics/endocrinology/gender-pathway-services/

They are happy to offer your kid endocrinology services for puberty blocking hormones, pro-gender transitioning psychiatry care and medication prescribing for those concerns, and speech therapy to help with voice coaching.

They use “evidence based guidelines” from WPATH: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/26895269.2022.2100644

Their goals are educating prepubescent “gender diverse children” on potential medical interventions for puberty.  And for adolescents, WPATH recommends AGAINST “offering reparative and conversion therapy aimed at trying to change a person’s gender and lived gender expression to become more congruent with the sex assigned at birth.” AKA they don’t want you to discuss staying the gender you were born, they want to encourage discussion about transitioning only.  The standards also recommend health care professionals educated adolescents about “chest binding and genital tucking,” and “consider prescribing menstrual suppression agents.” 

The GUIDE team webpage indicates it treats children from birth through adolescence, including comprehensive care for children as young as 2 through 6 who “may begin to express identity for one gender or another through play or expression.”  

For children aged 7 through pre-adolescence the GUIDE team suggests “gender identity is usually firmly established and can be stated by your child.” For adolescents it suggests, “Your child should be participating in making decisions about all aspects of their treatment.” Some of the resources readily available for children and families via the Gender Pathways Services page include links to the video “Growing Up Trans: a FRONTLINE Documentary”; the WPATH website; and sites called Gender Spectrum, The Trevor Project and Trans Youth Equality Foundation. 

Children’s Mercy has apparently produced its own video. A “webisode” called “Changing lives with Gender Pathway Services: Alex’s story” is embedded near the bottom of the Gender Pathways Services page.  A child who wanted to wear his dads tie at age 3, and per his mom, without “childrens mercy gender affirming care, we would not have been able to transition Alex so quickly”.

This is not ok.  Children’s Mercy is firmly woke.  And they will gladly medically mutilate and hormone block your kid.  Interesting enough, it takes over a year to get a neuropsych assessment for ADHD from them, but open arms and welcome in when its for gender affirming care.  I would avoid that place like the plague.