Welcome to a Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a follow-up report

on the medical dangers posed by transgender so-called therapy on children.

This report, which supplements an original that was released in May,

comes in at an additional 240 pages. According to the Child and Parents Rights Campaign,

it is, and I quote, the most comprehensive review in the world to date of the evidence and systematic

reviews regarding the benefits and harms of treatment for children and adolescents

with gender dysphoria."

As the press release put it, and I quote again, the report released through the Office of the

Assistant Secretary for Health finds that harms from sex-rejecting procedures, including

puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical operations are significant,

long-term, and too often ignored or inadequately tracked.

Quoting Dr. Brian Christine, the press release continued,

What are we going to tell young people who can't have children because the medical profession

stole that from them?

Our report is an urgent wake-up call to doctors and parents

about the clear dangers of trying to turn girls into boys and vice versa, end quote. The report

described how too often medical consultations have been a, and I quote, child-led process in which

comprehensive mental health assessments are often minimized or omitted.

Some of these assessments were as abrupt as a single two-hour session.

With no other procedure, especially any with consequences as extreme as castration or amputation

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