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“The most important thing is to avoid suicide,” Diaz said.
Before transitioning, Victorino Marti, a 19-year-old whom Diaz has treated, was bullied. At school, his head was constantly shoved into lockers, and boys would slam stacks of textbooks against his head, he said.
“After transitioning, I’m no longer suicidal,” Marti said. “I see myself the way I’m supposed to look.”
As pediatricians become more aware of transgender issues and gender programs at hospitals are starting up, doctors are seeing younger children as patients.
“I have kids who are 4, 5, 6 years old coming in,” Diaz said. “Pediatricians know I’m doing this program and they send them here.”
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Patients usually can get top surgery around age 16 and bottom surgery at 18 at UHealth.
“Before, 10 percent of our patients were children under the age of 16,” Salgado said. “Now we see about 30 percent under 16.”
Youth-friendly programs are extremely important for transgender children, said Landon Woolston, MSW, the homeless youth programs and services manager at Pridelines, which works with Miami’s LGBTQ community.
“Medical transitions at younger ages can prevent trans children from developing secondary sex characteristics that may cause additional dysphoria,” he said.
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Salgado says that a crucial aspect of a gender-variant child’s happiness is the support of the parents. Parents often don’t realize how much their child is suffering, and professionals can help them understand that and get through this together.
“Every seven times an adult is misgendered, there is a suicide attempt,” Salgado said.
If the parent understands the issues and is sensitive to — and accepts — the child as he or she is going through this, then the chance of suicide is greatly reduced, experts say.
“Far too often trans youth are told that they are confused about their gender, while this is something that cisgender children don’t face,” Woodston said. “Just as cisgender children know who they are at very young ages, often it’s the same for trans kids.”
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These are plastic surgeons telling lies about suicide in order to emotionally blackmail parents into making irreversible medical decisions for their children.
Is there any, any reason this shouldn't be grounds for complaint? Surely even people who believe 100% in trans ideology can see this for what it is: a money grab by a greedy doctor who doesn't care about the children's lives that he claims hang in the balance?