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One of the first studies into the side effects of transgender surgeries has revealed alarmingly high rates of post-op pain, aching during intercourse, and bladder problems, raising troubling questions for this new frontier of medicine. A huge majority - 81 percent - of those who had surgery on their genitals in the past five years said they endured pain simply from moving around in the weeks and months after going under the knife. Researchers from the University of Florida and Brooks Rehabilitation, a health non-profit, showed that more than half of trans surgery patients endured pain during sex, and nearly...

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A man who transitioned to become a woman when he was just 19 has laid bare his pain and heartbreak following the decision that 'destroyed' his life. Daniel Black, who is now 23, says he 'misses his genitals every day' after he took the drastic step to have transgender surgery before he had even reached 20 years old. The salon-owner is one of a growing number of people who have decided to detransition after life-changing surgery or hormone drugs. Daniel decided to become a woman after bullies at school made him doubt his masculinity and sexual orientation. He claims that...

Daniel Black says he started making plans with his doctor to surgically remove his penis just 30 minutes into a consultation concerning his struggles with gender identity when he was 17. Black left the appointment with a prescription for hormonal replacement therapy. At 19, the Czech Republic citizen had his penis surgically removed and received breast implants. Now 23, he is detransitoning, the Daily Mail reported. In a Twitter post, Black said one would have to be “insane to believe bottom surgeries are good for patients.” The surgeons removed Black’s testicles and created a “neovagina.” “The whole experience was horrible...

It’s a rare day when we get to say something nice about Europe when it comes to social issues, particularly when comparing those nations to the United States. But there is one area where they are leading the way and leaving America in the dust. Multiple European countries over the past year or more have conducted thorough scientific research resulting in policies that largely ban transgender “medical care” for children. The latest to join the crowd was Norway. They have now ruled that professional guidance encouraging puberty blockers or sex-change surgery for children should be “restricted to research settings only.”...

Reality dysphoria raids taxpayers and privileges criminals. Cristina Nichol Iglesias, also known as Christian Noel Iglesias and Kenneth R. West, may become the first federal prisoner to receive “gender-affirming surgery.” That invites a comparison with fellow criminal Shiloh Heavenly Quine, previously known as Rodney Quine, the first state prsion inmate in the United States to receive such surgery, all paid for by taxpayers. In 1980, Quine and accomplice Jerry Naylor abducted Shahid Ali Baig, 33. Quine drove to a deserted area and “while the victim begged for his life, Quine shot the victim twice in the head.” Quine and Naylor...

Protects Catholic sisters, doctors from covering transgender surgeryBISMARCK, N.D. (ChurchMilitant.com) - On the day before self-identifying Catholic Joe Biden was inaugurated president, a federal court came down on the side of a Catholic religious order seeking to do its work in alignment with its faith. On Monday, the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota blocked an Obama-era requirement known as the Transgender Mandate, part of Obamacare, which forced doctors to perform gender transition procedures on patients, including children, even if the doctor believes the treatment or hormone therapy could harm the patient. The term "gender-transition procedures" in...

The idea that one’s sex is a feeling, not a fact, has permeated our culture and is leaving casualties in its wake. Gender dysphoria should be treated with psychotherapy, not surgery. For forty years as the University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School—twenty-six of which were also spent as Psychiatrist in Chief of Johns Hopkins Hospital—I’ve been studying people who claim to be transgender. Over that time, I’ve watched the phenomenon change and expand in remarkable ways. A rare issue of a few men—both homosexual and heterosexual men, including some who sought sex-change surgery because they...

Government employees who receive their health insurance coverage through Aetna will be eligible for sex-change operations next year, the company has announced. […] “Aetna has long been supportive of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community,” the company said last month. Aetna is among the first carriers in the federal insurance program that offers coverage for the surgeries. In addition, Kaiser, which enrolled some 240,000 federal workers last year, and the Foreign Service Benefit plan, covering members of the American Foreign Service Protective Association, also cover transgender services. …