A new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services shows that sex changes for young people have not been proven to be “beneficial.”
This is often called “gender-affirming” care but it’s not. It’s a sex change.
Anyone who has studied this knows that. Children who go through gender transition do not report to be happier and have higher suicide rates than children who don’t. The report is also one of the first times that the U.S. government has admitted that “gender-affirming care” carries risk of “significant harms including infertility/sterility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density accrual, adverse cognitive impacts, cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders, psychiatric disorders, surgical complications, and regret.”
The report is a review of the current literature around sex changes for minors and concludes that more research is clearly needed and that gender transition is a dangerous thing to do. Duh.
And yet…if your child finds their way to Character.AI, they can chat with a transitioned version of themselves. Researcher Eliza Mondegreen chatted with it as a 16 year-old girl and found all sorts of shocking things that AI could be telling your child too! It said that breast removal was easy and great and that there is almost no risk of regret! None of those things are true!
