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Fox News Channel reported yesterday that “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.’”
The news about the Boston hospital prompted me to wonder whether or not the highly-rated Children’s Hospital of St. Louis had allowed any of its doctors to perform “sex change” or “gender reassignment” procedures on minors. So I contacted the media relations folks at the hospital and asked them to confirm or deny whether such procedures had been performed in the Gateway City.
Within 24 hours, I received a response from Jackie Ferman-Grothe, a senior media relations specialist at the St. Louis facility. Via e-mail, she wrote: “I was able to confirm last night that we have never done a gender reassignment procedure.”
That, my friends, is good news.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Matthew // Jul 8, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Out of pure curiousity, what would make such a procedure deemed ‘barbaric?’
If you truly knew and understood for one moment what a child with gender identity issues were going through – you may repeal your thoughts. “That, my friends, is good news.”
How could you be so sure?
I am a Missouri native, born and bred a conservative farm-family Catholic. But what I do realize is that no matter what you believe, keeping an open mind and attempting to understand the world around you – and what other people experience, feel, etc. – are far more important. And can often change how you feel on an issue.
Whether I believe you are “right” or “wrong” is not the point; rather, it is to ask you simply to try and walk a couple blocks in the shoes of a kid with a gender identity disorder.
I welcome your commentary.
2 hotoffthepress2 // Jul 8, 2009 at 2:13 pm
I believe strongly that God doesn’t make mistakes and that so-called “gender identity issues’ are products of doctors, sociologists and others who see in them opportunities to benefit financially. I need not walk a couple of blocks in those shoes.
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