Tue Oct 4, 2022 – 4:00 pm EDT
PORTLAND, Maine (LifeSiteNews) – A gender clinic at Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital offers a guide for “transgender” children instructing boys how to “tuck” their genitals in order to appear “smoother and flatter” and teaching girls how to bind their chests to attempt to appear more masculine, as part of its so-called “gender affirming” services.
The “tucking” and chest binding guides were shared by the conservative Libs of Tik Tok Twitter account on Sunday in a thread highlighting the story of a then-9-year-old boy who socially “transitioned” to a “girl,” with the help of the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital Gender Clinic, named after the now-deceased wife of former president George H. W. Bush.
Practices such as “tucking” and chest binding are increasingly being promoted in children’s gender clinics across the nation, including in a children’s hospital in Oregon, despite the potentially serious risks of both practices.
The McLean Clinic in Mississauga, Ontario, which specializes in “top surgery,” hosts an entire warning section on their website about the “health consequences of chest binding,” which include compressed or broken ribs, collapsed lungs, and back problems.
Tucking is not without risks, either,
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